These Lilliputians make even Prescott look like a fat-gutted Gulliver
Read Mick Hume, in The Times (London), on the contest for the deputy leadership of the UK Labour Party.
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2 March 2007:
‘Words you never expected to see: we may soon be feeling nostalgic about John Prescott. Of course the Deputy Prime Minister is a buffoon. But he looks like a history-making heavyweight compared with the gormless generation competing to be Labour’s next deputy leader….’
27 February 2007:
‘The crusaders running the “war on obesity” are toying with a new weapon: interning children without trial. Eight-year-old Connor McCreaddie weighs 89kg – about 14st. Today his mother and grandmother are due to face a child protection conference in North Tyneside, which will decide whether Connor should be placed on the at-risk register, or even placed in care, for being too fat….’
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