Bravo to Top Gear BBC for exposing this (example of a) Phony Pompous Labour Hypocrite - John Prescott Becomes Lord Prescott 08july10

I saw this newly minted peer on Top Gear BBC and found him to be the one of the most self important, climate hoax dictating, arrogant SOB fat headed, fat ass bastards I've seen this side of Ted Kennedy. He needs to stay inside his two Jags and stop ruining the lives of Brits. He is the embodiment of government pompous arrogance, bolstered either by by absolute fraudulent ignorance and , more likely, outright lies. [Mooserider]

Hypocrite John Prescott Becomes Lord Prescott 08july10

Clarkson on: John Prescott

Earlier this month, I wrote a column for The Sunday Times in which I might perhaps have said motorcyclists were a tiny bit gay. Certainly I claimed that they liked to look at photographs of other men's bottoms.

Well, there's been an awful lot of fuss and bother with e-mails flying hither and thither, flicked V-signs in traffic jams and a piece in Motorcycle News which said I was being deliberately controversial. As opposed to what, I wondered? Accidentally controversial?

It also said that I only wrote the column to annoy the Road Test Editor of Top Gear magazine. "A tad wasteful", they suggested, to devote an entire column in a national organ to one man.

Oh really? Well they devoted a whole column to me, and now I'm going to devote what's left of this one to John Prescott, who has a brilliant new wheeze. Basically, if Railtrack don't get the trains to run on time, they'll be fined £40 million. Which is more than you get for urinating in a public place.

I find myself wondering what good this will possibly do. Certainly, it'll ensure that money, which could be spent making the network better, goes to the government, where it will be spent on a few more focus groups. And big penalties like this will scare away investors. So, the trains will get worse. And then they'll get fined again.

I wouldn't mind, but it's not like the people at Railtrack sit around every morning thinking up new and exciting ways to bugger up the network. I'm sure they're doing their best and the last thing they want is Jabba the Hutt and his ginger-haired, rhubard-shaped sidekick at the Rail Regulator acting like a brace of school bullies.

I should have thought it would have been more helpful if Taffy Two Jags had said: ‘Look, if you can't do anything to make the trains better, we'll give you £40 million to spend on new signals or better coffee or something.'

But oh no. Chopper Prescott has decided to spend all his money on another lunch. And a diving holiday in the Maldives. And a helicopter to get to the grand prix where he cheered wildly for someone called "Damien". And what little there is left over, is being spent on turning the road network into a giant f****** bus lane.

"He doesn’t seem to understand that no-one will buy a car, tax it, insure it, pay to park it somewhere and then use the bus to go to work"

Now look. Trains are a good idea. They help alleviate the pressure on Britain's roads and work well in tandem with the car and truck. Buses don't. Buses are stupid.

With the power of hindsight, everyone can see that Beeching was wrong to rip up the railways in 1963. It may have seemed like a wise move at the time, what with the coming of the car, but now, we can all see it was madness. And I will bet everything I own that in 30 years' time, we'll all be sitting around saying: "Prescott was an arse when he made all the roads buses-only."

Actually, I'm saying it now. It's all very well claiming that each bus is full of 50 smiling motorists who've left their cars at home, but that's simply not the case. If you look at a bus after, say, ten o'clock in the morning, it is almost always empty. And if there is someone on it, you can just tell they've never owned a car in their lives - not with that hair-do. And that coat.

Prescott doesn't seem to understand that no-one will buy a car, tax it, insure it, pay to park it somewhere and then use the bus to go to work. But then we should remember that he failed his 11-plus and was described by his mother as "not very bright".

But even he, surely, can see that a car is far more comfortable and far more convenient than a bus. A car goes where you want it to go and comes home when you're good and ready. A car offers you peace and Terry Wogan. A bus offers you nothing more exciting than the opportunity to sit on someone else's discarded chewing gum.

And buses are not fast. All the coach operators who use it say the new M4 bus lane has made no discernible difference to their journey times. And one operator, in Reading, even cut services after it was opened because there was "insufficient demand".

Only 50 buses an hour use the M4 between Heathrow and London - that's less than one a minute - and they now have a lane all to themselves. While the 16,000 cars that use the same stretch are hemmed into the remainder. It's idiotic. It's insane. It's the product of a damaged mind.

And it gets worse because a quick survey of the 50 buses using the new lane reveals a nasty surprise. Most are airline coaches ferrying flight crews into central London for a little light sex.

And then we have the 350 taxis. Well that's really helping the road network and its overtaxed users. Sitting there watching American businessmen whizz past you into town at 50mph while you just sit there and sweat.

History, I assure you, will not be kind to Mr Prescott and I suggest that history starts right now. So drop him a line, explaining exactly why next time round, you'll be voting for... well anyone really, just so long as he goes back to serving gin and tonics on the QE2.

Clarkson on: John Prescott

Last weekend, and for the first time in years, I found myself in church. And I have to say that not once, not even in an Audi press conference, have I ever been subjected to such a mountain of nonsense. People who write hymns praising the Lord seem to forget that if He created everything, then He must be responsible for war, famine and caravans.

And then you have the psalms. They tell us that the cornerstone of Christianity is forgiveness, but will the vicar marry you in a church if you've been divorced? Not a chance, matey.

I stumbled into the sunshine after an hour and thought that no-one would ever beat Hector the Rector in the mumbo jumbo stakes. But I was reckoning without John Prescott.

To be honest, I don't mind the Church. If a bunch of people in hats wants to have a sing-song on a Sunday morning, that's fine. And anyway, selling jam is pretty harmless.

Prescott, however, is not harmless at all. I've made no secret in the past that I loathe new Labour. The idea that people could join a party which stood for one thing and then, in the quest for power, completely change their minds, is utterly abhorrent.

But it worked and now Prescott is lording it about, saying he wants to see the end of the two car family. He thinks that the day will come when buses and trains provide such a regular, clean and reliable alternative that there is simply no need for that secondary set of wheels.

Well, now look fatty; we laugh at the attempts of Canute to stop something as trivial as the tide, yet we take seriously a man who is trying to halt the advance of technology. People stopped using horses when steam power was invented, and people stopped using steam when internal combustion took over. The train was a good idea but for about a billion reasons, all of which are patently obvious, the car has superseded it.

"We're being manipulated - told that things are horrific and getting worse so that we will swallow increased costs without complaining"

Last month, one of the newly privatised rail companies asked if I'd front an advertising campaign boasting that 90 per cent of their services arrived on time. Wow. This means that if you commute to and from work, the train will only be late one day a week. Not even Land Rover crows about how its cars only break down once a week, even though a lot of them do.

Now I'm not daft. Trains are needed for getting people into London during rush hour - but for going to the shops, taking the kids to school, popping out to see Granny or any other damn thing, the car leaves public transport standing.

They counter this by saying that in the next 20 years, traffic levels will grow by 57 per cent and that the country will grind to a halt. But this is drivel. There are 25 million motorists in Britain and 22 million vehicles, which means we're already close to saturation point. Traffic will only grow by 57 per cent if people devise a way to drive two cars at once.

The fact of the matter is that things right now are as bad as they'll ever be, and to be honest, they're not that bad. Sure, the M6 north of Birmingham jams up a lot, the M25 is always busy, and on a Bank Holiday Monday the M5 slows up a lot. But I hardly think this is a good reason to sell your car and move into a bus shelter.

We're being manipulated - told that things are horrific and getting worse so that we will swallow increased costs without complaining. When they introduce road tolls, we'll be told it's for our own good.

And it just isn't. If you put £20 worth of fuel in your car, £16 goes to the government. Then there's VAT on the car itself, and tax on the insurance premium and tax on servicing, and that doesn't count the £145 vehicle excise duty. Every year, motorists give the government £25 billion. And they want us to pay tolls? Well they can f*** off.

At times like this, I like to call on the services of an imaginary Martian who has beamed down to assess the situation in a balanced way. He, I know, would say that the problem could be solved forever if we had just a few more roads - and that the £25 billion we give the government every year is easily enough to pay for them, with enough change left over to make the roof on the Greenwich Dome from solid gold n

FOOTNOTE - In the interests of balance, I'd like to make it plain that I hate all politicians with equal vigour.

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John Prescott booed by Top Gear audience as he clashes with presenter Jeremy Clarkson over his M4 bus lane idea

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John Prescott has not exactly proved to be the most popular political figure with the British public.

Something which was blatantly apparent when the former Deputy Prime Minister was a guest on Top Gear on Sunday.

Prescott, 72, was this week's Star In A Reasonably Price Car but was also in the studio to find out how he did and chat with host Jeremy Clarkson.

Grilling: John Prescott appeared on Top Gear this weekend and was asked about his 'daft' M4 bus lane idea and being egged by a protester in 2001

But his appearance on the BBC2 show didn't start off well, as he got a mixed reception from the audience when he walked onto the set, some of whom clapped but the boos were all too clear to hear over the applause.

Prescott said: 'Thanks for those that cheered. And those that booed, well, you know what you can do.'

After telling the former Deputy Prime Minister he didn't know where to start, Clarkson went straight for the political jugular and asked him: 'What in the name of all that's holy were you thinking when you said let's put a bus lane on the M4?'

Prescott said: 'I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow.'

Not backing down: Prescott wagged his finger at Clarkson as he tried to justify his motorway decisions

Don't question me: Prescott took a defensive stance as Clarkson gave him a grilling

Ignoring Clarkson's raised eyebrows, he continued: 'As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker.'

When Clarkson declared that wasn't possible, Prescott added: 'It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor. You just want to speed everywhere.

'In reality, what we've seen is that deaths on children and death...', to which Clarkson incredulously interrupted: 'There aren't any children on the M4 bus lane! It's a motorway! There aren't any schools there!'

Once the applause and laughter had died down, he continued: 'John, you used to be able to drive into London on three lanes, you made it two, put a speed camera, you made it 50 (mph). That was daft.'

Who's with me? Prescott looked to the audience for support as Clarkson asked him to sit down

Prescott replied: 'No, it meant the flow of the traffic was better because people aren't rushing from the two lane to three. I've heard motorists, don't you get annoyed when someone wants to push in?'

He then got up out of his seat and asked the audience: 'How many people get annoyed at that?' before Clarkson then demanded he sat down.

Clarkson then continued: 'Let me ask you this - if narrowing a motorway causes traffic flow to be improved, why did you widen the M25 and the M1?'

The audience then laughed and jeered before applauding Clarkson as Prescott got to his feet and said: 'From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you?

Sit down, John! Clarkson had to get to his feet to ask Prescott to take his seat for the second time

'So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway...' but the boos from the audience drowned him out as Clarkson urged him to be quiet and sit down for the second time.

Clarkson then referred to an incident in 2001 when a protester at an election meeting in Wales threw an egg at Prescott who responded by punching him.

To much laughter from the audience, Clarkson asked: 'Can you understand why someone threw an egg at you?'

Prescott explained that the protester did it because he was against fox-hunting and he thought Prescott was one of the MPs trying to keep the sport alive.

Back in the driving seat: Prescott was filmed as he went round the Top Gear track in a Kia cee'd

And he added that he lashed out at him because he thought he had been stabbed.

And getting his first laugh of the night, Prescott added: 'When Tony Blair asked me what had happened, I said I was carrying out his orders, you told us to connect with the electorate so I did.'

Grilling over, Clarkson then turned to the Star In A Reasonably Price Car segment of the show which this week saw Prescott take to the track in a Kia cee'd,which can be bought second-hand for about £6,000.

But unfortunately for the former MP, his Top Gear appearance ended as disappointingly as it had started after he ended up bottom of the leaderboard with a time of 1:56:7, the slowest lap Top Gear has ever had.

Two Jags - One Kia: Prescott ended up at the bottom of the leader board with a time of 1:56:7, the slowest lap Top Gear has ever had

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