To what extent could you expect to be damned? Truth is an absolute defence to any defamation action. If it is the person that your audience thinks it is, I would also argue that there is a public interst rationale for running the name too.
However, while the prospect of Prescott being taken down is throroughly appealing, if this were to damage Blair to the extent that we then enter a nuclear winter under our Lord Protector Gordon then please keep it quiet.....
Meanwhile, Iain D is being a tease about another senior cabinet minister - fancy dropping a hint or two?
April 27, 2006 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous
said...
Are the clues in the questions?
April 27, 2006 at 12:01 PM
Anonymous
said...
Anyone would have to be pretty daft to have read your blog yesterday and not worked out who its upposed to be.
April 27, 2006 at 12:09 PM
Anonymous
said...
Tell me what you know or risk the rack...
Come on Guido, in the words of Meat magazine: PUBLISH OR PERISH!
April 27, 2006 at 12:12 PM
Anonymous
said...
euro_trash:
Ya, I do :P
April 27, 2006 at 12:14 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido, the poll is a stroke of genius. I don't think for a minute that your decision will be based on the result - you know your own mind - but I like it all the same ;)
April 27, 2006 at 12:15 PM
Anonymous
said...
What Jack Straw and OOooona?
April 27, 2006 at 12:17 PM
Anonymous
said...
forget jack straw and condi, what about oona?
April 27, 2006 at 12:17 PM
Anonymous
said...
ha, that's a coincidence....
:)
April 27, 2006 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous
said...
The raison d'etre of this site is to publish this sort of tittle tattle!
Stop teasing us Guido!
April 27, 2006 at 12:27 PM
Anonymous
said...
Slightly nonsensical, this. There's no cover-up. If anybody in the press had evidence - or testimony - of the affair, they'd publish it. Nobody does. There's just a widespread and probably true rumour.
April 27, 2006 at 12:31 PM
Anonymous
said...
Don't publish it because then everyone will know and I won't be able to feel smug for already knowing!
April 27, 2006 at 12:32 PM
Anonymous
said...
See if its Margaret Beckett and they di it in her caravan I will become seriously damaged.
April 27, 2006 at 12:38 PM
Anonymous
said...
Someone I know just joked it was Harriet Harman...!
April 27, 2006 at 12:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
Would it not be timely for one of our parliamentarians to ask Prescott the 'Profumo question': Is there any impropriety in his relationship with you know who?
April 27, 2006 at 12:43 PM
Anonymous
said...
Anyone fancy joining me for a pint or two of cider after work tonight?
April 27, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
Don't do it. "Three Shags" doesn't quite have the right ring to it...
April 27, 2006 at 12:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
Publish. If only so the tabloids can go with the inevitable "Two Shags" headline...
I would probably publish, but only God can determine damnation.
As you deliberate, consider:
i) God may want rid of Prescott and Labour, which publishing would hasten, and so be in accordance with his divine will.
ii) Since, like me, you are dead, you must already be aware that you went to hell, in which case further damnation is simply more of the same, and you don't seem to phased by your present predicament.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
April 27, 2006 at 1:37 PM
Anonymous
said...
No, no, no Edward. This is a British blog. Innuendo is the name of the game. You can't just come out and say it, you need to nurse people's suspicions. That's why Guido had to doctor your comment...
April 27, 2006 at 1:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
Guido - If I'm right then I believe that today's Telegraph has a huge whopping clue on back page:
3(rd) down : Head movement is back to sit at the bottom of mountain.
Or am I completely off track?
April 27, 2006 at 1:55 PM
Anonymous
said...
Winter Gardens? Doncaster? There seems to be a lot of references to South Yorkshire ...
April 27, 2006 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous
said...
I wonder whether Prezza is steeling himself for the revelation? I guess he should just set his face like...
no doubt they both attended one of the great universities... "Oxford, Cambrdige, or Hull"
April 27, 2006 at 2:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
It is HELEN KELLER
O B V I O U S L Y
Stowboi
April 27, 2006 at 2:48 PM
Anonymous
said...
Oxford's a complete dump!
April 27, 2006 at 2:52 PM
Anonymous
said...
I think you'll find, great British comedy not withstanding, that it's Cambridge the dump.
Shoe those Tabs...
April 27, 2006 at 3:07 PM
Anonymous
said...
I was forced to vomit this morning after overhearing a rumour that it was Sir Nicholas Winterton.
May have misheard slightly though.
April 27, 2006 at 3:44 PM
Anonymous
said...
Heavy hints and a quick visit to the Department of Health website soon gives the game away...
April 27, 2006 at 3:51 PM
Anonymous
said...
Peter, just some quotes from Blackadder, not an attack on any places!
April 27, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Anonymous
said...
Possibly a pledgebank moment, Guido?
April 27, 2006 at 4:23 PM
Anonymous
said...
From the Londoner's Diary, in today's Evening Standard page 15:
Special advisers
The Londoner had hoped that some of John Prescott's freinds might be willing to coment on his two-year affair with his secretary, Tracey Temple. Regrettably only one, health minister Rosie Winterton, who was Prezza's spectial adviser before she became an MP in 1997, returned my calls yesterday. And she refused to discuss the matter. What loyalty.
Sir Nicholas Winterton? I thought he looked as his face looked rosie at PMQs yesterday...
Better Peter?!
April 27, 2006 at 4:33 PM
Anonymous
said...
Yeah - there's just so many Health Ministers to choose from in South Yorkshire. My first guess was wrong, but only out by a few miles.
April 27, 2006 at 4:42 PM
Anonymous
said...
I think you ought to look at the Birthday Cake and reduce the odds to 50:50 - Patricia is more Tony's type - upper middle class background, Australian, re-wired Leftie (Tony knows how to reverse the polarity) and still lightweight and insincere - but ever so amenable.
Blair should look on thr bright side - his reputation is far better now than it will be after he leaves office and Gordie Brown cleans The Augean Stables with leaks galore to purge the party
April 27, 2006 at 4:46 PM
Anonymous
said...
Doesn't look too rosy for him does it? Are you going to run with this or not, Guido?
April 27, 2006 at 4:58 PM
Anonymous
said...
Iain Dale is reporting a rumour that Prezza will be gone by the weekend.
I guess that'll give him more time to take the lead role in Caberet. "Didddly, diddly dee, two ladies, and I'm the only man, ja!!"
April 27, 2006 at 4:58 PM
Anonymous
said...
Don't bother publishing, even the slowest reader of this blog (and I count myself among them) should know by now. Sorry to veer off course, but are there any clues going for the Lembit Opik Spring Forum story on here last month? I'm still stumped as to the identity of the two ladies in question.
April 27, 2006 at 5:00 PM
Anonymous
said...
"On the stump in Doncaster
As the afternoon sun shone, the political temperature rose at the next visit to Doncaster. Candidate Rosie Winterton, an old friend of John’s, met him off the bus."
Wanna tell you a story, 'Bout a woman I know When it comes to lovin', She steals the show She ain't exactly pretty, Ain't exactly small Forty-two thirty-nine fifty-six, You could say she's got it all!
Never had a woman, Never had a woman like you! Doin' all the things, Doin' all the things you do! Ain't no fairy story, Ain't no skin and bone! But ya give it all ya got, Weighin' in at nineteen stone!
REFRAIN You're a whole lotta woman! A whole lotta woman! Whole lotta Rosie! Whole lotta Rosie! Whole lotta Rosie! And you're a whole lotta woman! Yeah!
April 27, 2006 at 5:27 PM
Anonymous
said...
I misread the Telegraph Crossword clue when I reported it above. It was 3 down, though with the potential apparently to be 4, 5, 6 or even higher down. It actually went:
"Head movement backs under sofa to find seat"
Good, glad we've sorted that out.
Oh, it's also worth noting that Iain Dale reports that Ming's cheeks were looking ROSIE in WINTERTON (Norfolk - yeah, as if (work it out peeps)) this morning. Nothing to see there then. Move along, move along now.
Let me be honest - this is so much fun. I hope the official revelation doesn't come for another few hours as I think we've got much more ground to plough here.
April 27, 2006 at 5:36 PM
Anonymous
said...
Just heard that Secretary and Senior Politico aside, that there is a third mistress in Prezza-Gate.
Anyone know?
April 27, 2006 at 5:38 PM
Anonymous
said...
In the interests of blogosphere health I feel it my duty to warn residents that while this story is most entertaining continued study can produce some disturbing side effects.
Victims begin to suffer from recurring images of overweight plebs performing the wild monkey dance with assorted plump aunties.
This phenomenon is more unpleasant than serious but sufferers should refrain from reading more about Prezza's Ugandan affairs and retire to a darkened room. The consumption of large quantities of Bushmills also appears to offer temporary relief.
I think most of us are in shock that any woman would want to shag that oaf. After the initial shock; the number of mistresses is not that big a deal. The question is...has he shagged Edwina Currie?
It's most disturbing... I can't imagine 2 Jags even getting it up... surely he couldn't see his **** coz his fat belly gets in the way. But I like the Nickname a previous blogger posted:
One Jabs Two Jags Three Shags
Oh how the press are going to have a field day. Its time that fat oaf gets an almighty kick up the proverbial.
66 comments:
haven't you an Iain Dale already posted rather unsubtle hints already...
Just do it, don't be a wimp.
What's prezza going to do? Sue?
He's more likely to come around and punch you.
"Publish and be Damned" puts Prescott in the same frame as the Duke of Wellington. Surely shome mishtake?
To what extent could you expect to be damned? Truth is an absolute defence to any defamation action. If it is the person that your audience thinks it is, I would also argue that there is a public interst rationale for running the name too.
However, while the prospect of Prescott being taken down is throroughly appealing, if this were to damage Blair to the extent that we then enter a nuclear winter under our Lord Protector Gordon then please keep it quiet.....
Meanwhile, Iain D is being a tease about another senior cabinet minister - fancy dropping a hint or two?
Are the clues in the questions?
Anyone would have to be pretty daft to have read your blog yesterday and not worked out who its upposed to be.
Tell me what you know or risk the rack...
Come on Guido, in the words of Meat magazine: PUBLISH OR PERISH!
euro_trash:
Ya, I do :P
Guido, the poll is a stroke of genius. I don't think for a minute that your decision will be based on the result - you know your own mind - but I like it all the same ;)
What Jack Straw and OOooona?
forget jack straw and condi, what about oona?
ha, that's a coincidence....
:)
The raison d'etre of this site is to publish this sort of tittle tattle!
Stop teasing us Guido!
Slightly nonsensical, this. There's no cover-up. If anybody in the press had evidence - or testimony - of the affair, they'd publish it. Nobody does. There's just a widespread and probably true rumour.
Don't publish it because then everyone will know and I won't be able to feel smug for already knowing!
See if its Margaret Beckett and they di it in her caravan I will become seriously damaged.
Someone I know just joked it was Harriet Harman...!
Would it not be timely for one of our parliamentarians to ask Prescott the 'Profumo question': Is there any impropriety in his relationship with you know who?
Anyone fancy joining me for a pint or two of cider after work tonight?
Don't do it. "Three Shags" doesn't quite have the right ring to it...
Publish. If only so the tabloids can go with the inevitable "Two Shags" headline...
More like one jabs, two jags, and three shags
** CLAPS **
Very good.
Is it looking rosey in the winter gardens?
Do it. The tabs are bound to do it sooner or later anyway.
I would probably publish, but only God can determine damnation.
As you deliberate, consider:
i) God may want rid of Prescott and Labour, which publishing would hasten, and so be in accordance with his divine will.
ii) Since, like me, you are dead, you must already be aware that you went to hell, in which case further damnation is simply more of the same, and you don't seem to phased by your present predicament.
Ergo, publish.
just do it
or tell me and ill do it :)
i might just say anyway just to scoop ya
I think I have clocked it....has she known Prescott for many years.....like going back to the 1980's
No, no, no Edward. This is a British blog. Innuendo is the name of the game. You can't just come out and say it, you need to nurse people's suspicions. That's why Guido had to doctor your comment...
Guido - If I'm right then I believe that today's Telegraph has a huge whopping clue on back page:
3(rd) down : Head movement is back to sit at the bottom of mountain.
Or am I completely off track?
Winter Gardens? Doncaster? There seems to be a lot of references to South Yorkshire ...
I wonder whether Prezza is steeling himself for the revelation? I guess he should just set his face like...
Oh come on, just say it Guido!!!
They should be exposed for their terrible choice in men.
Wait it's not either Jordan or Ulrika Johnson AGAIN is it? Have they got a book out???
The rather grisly picture has just come unbidden to my mind of Prescott and Clarke engaged in a 3-some MFM. Save me from my nightmare.
Ha ha!
You think you know, but you can't know, it's just too terrible, I tell you, too jags terrible! A man, or at least I think it's a man and a....
no doubt they both attended one of the great universities... "Oxford, Cambrdige, or Hull"
It is
HELEN KELLER
O B V I O U S L Y
Stowboi
Oxford's a complete dump!
I think you'll find, great British comedy not withstanding, that it's Cambridge the dump.
Shoe those Tabs...
I was forced to vomit this morning after overhearing a rumour that it was Sir Nicholas Winterton.
May have misheard slightly though.
Heavy hints and a quick visit to the Department of Health website soon gives the game away...
Peter, just some quotes from Blackadder, not an attack on any places!
Possibly a pledgebank moment, Guido?
From the Londoner's Diary, in today's Evening Standard page 15:
Special advisers
The Londoner had hoped that some of John Prescott's freinds might be willing to coment on his two-year affair with his secretary, Tracey Temple.
Regrettably only one, health minister Rosie Winterton, who was Prezza's spectial adviser before she became an MP in 1997, returned my calls yesterday. And she refused to discuss the matter.
What loyalty.
What loyalty indeed.
Sir Nicholas Winterton? I thought he looked as his face looked rosie at PMQs yesterday...
Better Peter?!
Yeah - there's just so many Health Ministers to choose from in South Yorkshire. My first guess was wrong, but only out by a few miles.
I think you ought to look at the Birthday Cake and reduce the odds to 50:50 - Patricia is more Tony's type - upper middle class background, Australian, re-wired Leftie (Tony knows how to reverse the polarity) and still lightweight and insincere - but ever so amenable.
Blair should look on thr bright side - his reputation is far better now than it will be after he leaves office and Gordie Brown cleans The Augean Stables with leaks galore to purge the party
Doesn't look too rosy for him does it? Are you going to run with this or not, Guido?
Iain Dale is reporting a rumour that Prezza will be gone by the weekend.
I guess that'll give him more time to take the lead role in Caberet. "Didddly, diddly dee, two ladies, and I'm the only man, ja!!"
Don't bother publishing, even the slowest reader of this blog (and I count myself among them) should know by now. Sorry to veer off course, but are there any clues going for the Lembit Opik Spring Forum story on here last month? I'm still stumped as to the identity of the two ladies in question.
"On the stump in Doncaster
As the afternoon sun shone, the political temperature rose at the next visit to Doncaster. Candidate Rosie Winterton, an old friend of John’s, met him off the bus."
www.labour.org.uk/jpbattlebus
in light of Trevor Kavanagh's comments, someone is keeping a tally.
John Prescott shag counter
Wanna tell you a story,
'Bout a woman I know
When it comes to lovin',
She steals the show
She ain't exactly pretty,
Ain't exactly small
Forty-two thirty-nine fifty-six,
You could say she's got it all!
Never had a woman,
Never had a woman like you!
Doin' all the things,
Doin' all the things you do!
Ain't no fairy story,
Ain't no skin and bone!
But ya give it all ya got,
Weighin' in at nineteen stone!
REFRAIN
You're a whole lotta woman!
A whole lotta woman!
Whole lotta Rosie!
Whole lotta Rosie!
Whole lotta Rosie!
And you're a whole lotta woman!
Yeah!
I misread the Telegraph Crossword clue when I reported it above. It was 3 down, though with the potential apparently to be 4, 5, 6 or even higher down. It actually went:
"Head movement backs under sofa to find seat"
Good, glad we've sorted that out.
Oh, it's also worth noting that Iain Dale reports that Ming's cheeks were looking ROSIE in WINTERTON (Norfolk - yeah, as if (work it out peeps)) this morning. Nothing to see there then. Move along, move along now.
Let me be honest - this is so much fun. I hope the official revelation doesn't come for another few hours as I think we've got much more ground to plough here.
Just heard that Secretary and Senior Politico aside, that there is a third mistress in Prezza-Gate.
Anyone know?
In the interests of blogosphere health I feel it my duty to warn residents that while this story is most entertaining continued study can produce some disturbing side effects.
Victims begin to suffer from recurring images of overweight plebs performing the wild monkey dance with assorted plump aunties.
This phenomenon is more unpleasant than serious but sufferers should refrain from reading more about Prezza's Ugandan affairs and retire to a darkened room. The consumption of large quantities of Bushmills also appears to offer temporary relief.
Nurse Cindy
I love blood sport. Just look at my contorted face...
I'm told the third woman is form FCO. Thre shags allegedly helped her career progress
Popes,
What is the popbitch story?
Two Jags ! Two Mistresses ! This Prescott is sure one hell of a fella.
Does he have a routine with cigars like Bill Clinton ?
Thanks Popes. It won't because the current scandals are so much bigger.
Well done Guido for the mea culpa from Nick Robinson.
I think most of us are in shock that any woman would want to shag that oaf. After the initial shock; the number of mistresses is not that big a deal. The question is...has he shagged Edwina Currie?
Lagwolf - maybe all of his lady friends read far too much D.H.Lawrence at an impressionable age.
Can't see Edwina falling for that schtick somehow.
He punches like a kid. Publish.
It's most disturbing... I can't imagine 2 Jags even getting it up... surely he couldn't see his **** coz his fat belly gets in the way. But I like the Nickname a previous blogger posted:
One Jabs Two Jags Three Shags
Oh how the press are going to have a field day. Its time that fat oaf gets an almighty kick up the proverbial.