John Prescott Drives 200 Yards In Jaguar To Speak On Global Warming

[hatrack]

TROUBLED John Prescott yesterday took a 200-yard trip in a chauffeur-driven Jag - to make a speech about the perils of global warming. The gas-guzzler shuttled him from his hotel to a conference centre a stone's throw away in Rhode Island, near New York.

As he clambered from the car Mr Prescott told bemused journalists he was "fully focused" on saving the planet. And he insisted they were the silly ones for questioning him about colleagues back home who appear to be jockeying for his job of Deputy PM.

Mr Prescott, on a four-day trip to discuss global warming with American and Canadian politicians, snapped: "Have you come all the way from the UK to ask daft questions like that? "I'm talking about climate change here."

But Prezza was last night blasted by Greenpeace over the car trip. A spokesman said: "What is daft is that despite years of criticism of his gas-guzzling cars, John Prescott still doesn't get the connection between people's personal behaviour and climate change."

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17176812&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=daft--name_page.html

[Kittycat]

1. Idiot. When will they learn

:(

[bowens43]

2. Damn . Can you believe this?

If he had only WALKED the 200 yards the problem would have been solved, no more global warming!!!!

[hatrack]

4. Did the dog step on your Snark-O-Meter and accidently crank it up?

Sheesh.

:eyes:

[phantom power]

3. The fact that he flubbed the optics...

shouldn't obscure the fact that he's also right.

[Dead_Parrot]

5. I remember the '99 incident...

What eventually came out was, that it was a Special Branch (Think Secret Service) "requirement" that he be carted around in his armoured Jag, in case any one wanted to take some potshots at him - lets face it, he's a big target in lots of ways.

Though I still think he's a useless fat fuck, this isn't going down as one of the reasons.

[Nihil]

6. Yep

And the beauty of the previous incident was that his wife also got
a 200 yard chauffered drive ... in a different Jag ...

The attempted fob-off re "Special Branch advice" was bollocks at
the time and remains so ... or do people seriously believe that
Prescott is a higher priority *terrorist* target than the Queen
or Prince Charles (both of whom regularly walk amongst the public).

The real reason? We can't risk having the public express their
disgust with the Blair government can we? Instead of reducing the
cause for the disgust, they just hide away ... wait for the UK to
introduce "Free Speech Zones" - you know Blair wants them ...

> Though I still think he's a useless fat fuck,

Give his recent history, I think that's even more appropriate!

[Dead_Parrot]

7. Autin Powers springs to mind...

"Literally, how could you do it? He's so fat, the sheer mechanics of it are mind-boggling." :)

Actually, there might be a third reason - to stop him laying into people as he passes. We need to check if the Jag's child-locks are on...