Prescott On Self-Delusion

Via Mr Eugenides, I see that John Prescott is making a TV programme.

The BBC2 programme, with the working title Prescott On Class, will be a "thought-provoking and very personal exploration of the current state of the British class system" in which the former ship's steward "grapples with political apathy, middle-class syntax snobbery and the wealth gap in modern Britain".

Well that should be a hoot, shouldn't it?

I think we could rephrase the summary, though. Prescott On Class will not be thought provoking; it will be a personal exploration of why everyone hates John Prescott, during which he will blame the class system in the UK. And miss the point that the reason why everyone hates Prezza is because he is a corpulent, obese, ignorant fucking incompetent bastard who sponged off the taxpayer for the best part of a decade doing nothing other than gorging at the taxpayer's and then chucking that food back up in the most unlikely case of bulimia in the history of the human race.

The hatred that I, and many other people in this fair land, feel for John Prescott has nothing to do with class. It is down to the fact that he is, quite simply, gross. Although I would be surprised if that ends up being the conclusion of Prescott On Class...