Prescott injured in ’sprint’ race
Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has sprained his ankle while running with youngsters at an athletics track.
Mr Prescott, 67, told onlookers in Carlisle: “I’ve pulled a bloody muscle. I feel a right bloody twit.”
Aides put an ice-pack on his swollen ankle before he limped away to his official chauffeur-driven Jaguar.
As he was led away, Mr Prescott, a schoolboy boxer, said of his 10 and 11-year-old competitors: “I thought I was going to beat these beggars.”
I mean the words ‘Prescott’ and ’sprint’ in the same sentence…
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I love “chauffeur-driven Jaguar” there. Others may see evidence of a persistent BBC animus against the War Party (as ministers have never driven themselves, and at least the car is British-made), but Prescott deserves it. (Anyway, every story about this I could find on Google news said the same thing — probably because they were all sourced from the one stringer.)
Comment by Backword Dave 01.27.06 @ 10:17 pm