John Prescott

[flip-flop]

Is there a stupider MP than this buffoon?

[Drusilla]

Fatty Soames for the Tories has always seemed an equally 'Big Joke' to me. I always gets the impression he believes working people and women in particular should never have been given the vote.

[gary baldy]

Trust me there are many.
Traditionally in upper class households the clever ones went into the clery and the thick ones went into the army whilst the really thick ones went into politics.
Neil Hamilton springs to mind.
I have many problems with Prescott and he may be a bit thick but he has least seen the real world unlike many pampered Oxbridge lawyers who fill the benches (on all sides i might add)

[andy-hughes]

I don't think JP is thick - i think he has a very poor presentation and personal image, which neither he nor his party seek to address. The idea that assaulting a member of the public is 'just John's way ...' was utterly unacceptable, as is his inability to deliver more than to coherent consecutive sentences.

What JP needs is either to improve his image, both for his own good, and especially the good of the party, or move over and put someone else in his position.

With Cameron in place, and Kennedy jetisoned, the public's patience with 'lovable men-of-the-people' is over - it's time to shape up, or, in the best traditions of JP's former maritime career - ship out.

[jno]

I don't know that inability to deliver coherent sentences is really 'unacceptable' andy - it may well normally be a liability in politics, but he seems to have got by (as has George Bush). There are worse things than being tongue-tied. And whatever he is, I don't think he's stupid.

[don1]

Boris Johnson?

[flip-flop]

Boris Johnson may appear to be a stereotypical bumbling toff, but he is immensly intelligent and his writing is brilliantly structured and incisive: plus he's damn funny to boot.

Whereas JP is just a plank.

[don1]

flip flop are you a tory voter by any chance?

[logman]

John Prescot often pops into my cafe and asks for a full English breakfast,he's actually quite a nice chap, for some reason he always skips the egg ?

[andy-hughes]

Subtle logman ..... very subtle!

[BigMac]

Not sure if he's still there, but the Tories' Terry Dicks MP was once described by the (sadly now, late) Tony Banks as being "living proof that a bladder on a stick can be elected".

There are many MPs more stupid then JP (degrees from Hull University and Ruskin College, Oxford, I believe). If academic achievement is a criterion, then the Rt Hon John Major, who served as Prime Minister, was one such.

Perhaps the terms of the debate should be clarified?

[campbellking]

Patrick Hall, our local M.P. Not called Tony's Crony ' for nothing...

[Lonnie]

A very intelligent man, our John Prescott, I think he;s following orders, and takes notice away from our leader,

[redhand]

change that to pm and you get blair.

he picks people who cannot do their job

blunkett twice

mandelson twice

now kelly

he has not got a clue ,look at europe rebate ,what a farce. and the pub hours ,along with smoking toal **** up .

cannibis will have to be reclassified

blair ,new labour are so pc they have lost their way