Hmmm. As bad, maybe.

no, there aren't, he is an objectionable waste of flesh and bone.

maybe, but we're not talking about anyone else so that is irrelevant

Lord Prescott is a hypocritical,wife cheating,fat, greedy (two jags etc) ex MN seaman who should remember and respect his roots...

he wasn't really even a proper sailor was he, wasn't he a steward?

nah, not a real merchant seaman just a bar steward....

As opposed to a jolly Jack Tar, complete with bell-bottoms and whistling a hornpipe?

WTF is a "proper sailor"?

The ones willing to take their turn in the barrel.

Gone !!!

The navy is really bolloxed now, they've got a bird in charge of a big ship

When I met the Taffy tw@ I asked him if he used to work for Cunard, He said "Now listen 'ere son, I still work f'kin 'ard"

nah Coddy, that's only those poofs in the RN who ponce around Pompey dockyard !

a real sailor (like wot I woz) was a merchant seaman risking his his health with every whore he went through in whichever port in the world...

I don't support the idea of any kind of European currency regime, ERM or Euro, however in fairness to the Tories on this one, they were damned if they did and damned if they didn't, in terms of 'credibility'. They had made the decision to go into the ERM and had made a firm commitment in the election of May 1992 that the UK's economic policy would be run from within the ERM. That is a signal to businesses that the UK will be an ERM member.

When four months later, the pound comes under pressure - do they decide to quit the ERM at the first sign of trouble? With hindsight that would have saved us a lot of money that day, because we blew billions on ill fated interventions, but if we had quit early on in the day what would that have said about the UK government's 'credibility' for any future statements on its economic policy.

Once they made the decision that the UK would be in the ERM (the wrong one, IMO, as Mrs Thatcher warned), they had to pull out all the stops to try and keep us in when we came under pressure.

not a case of re writing history

Mr Kinnock was a staunch euro sceptic in his early days - he moderated somewhat when he saw the direction the party was heading

He took the party that way not the other way around.

he didn't have a choice - it was either that or remain in obscurity with the embarassment of the loony left and all their troublemakers bugging the british electorate

Kinnock did a good job to turn things around eventually but even a brilliantly masterminded election campaign by Brian Gould wasn't good enough to oust La Dame de Fer !