Bush is "crap", says British Deputy Prime Minister Prescott

I think out of all of those, Moore is the sleaziest. You`ll always find him wearing that same shirt and jacket, and I mean going back years you`ll find him still wearing it. The only thing he changes is his hat. I can`t even imagine what that pig must smell like.

>>Mr. Prescott, one of our vice presidents once characterized the office as "not worth a bucket of warm spit" (or at least some body fluid, in any event). I'm not sure that the British deputy premiership even rises to that level.

Actually, in both cases, it depends. Dick Cheney is extremely influential, as was GHWB. There is no necessity for there to be a Deputy PM in Britain, but Willie Whitelaw, Margaret Thatcher's Deputy was very influential, as was Labour Leader Clem Attlee (later PM) when he was Deputy to Winston Churchill during the wartime coalition.

Prescott used to have a Department to run, but they gradually took it off him because he was completely hopeless. Unlike VPOTUS he doesn't even succeed to the premiership if the PM dies or resigns (though in the case of death he would hold the fort for a few weeks while the Party elects a new leader).

At least with VPOTUS you MIGHT end up being powerful.

Prescott stays in office, at inordinate public expense, for two reasons. He is Blair's Ambassador to the working class, but his obsession with being chauffeur driven everywhere and with playing croquet on the lawn of his country house is damaging his credibility there. The main reason is that if Prescott was sacked from his government job he would probably resign his party job - and that would lead to an internal election, which would be potentially embarrassing for Blair and his likely successor, Gordon Brown.

Unfortunately it looks like the residents of his Commie-lite country agree with Fat Bastid

Freep it (unfortunately, it is moderated, but they're more liberal about publishing than the Beeb)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=400978&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&ct=5

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