From Two jags to Twenty-Two jags ...
I was most amused to see on the front of the News and Star the other day a quote attributed to the Deputy Prime Minister to the effect that he felt a right twit.
Had someone slipped John “Two Jags” Prescott a truth drug ? Had he realised how daft it is to bulldoze thousands of houses in the North while simultaneously forcing councils in the South to build vastly more houses than the local infrastructure can support ?
Has he finally realised how daft it is to waste millions of pounds on unelected Regional Assemblies when the only area of the country he offered a chance to say whether they wanted an elected regional assembly voted massively against “more politicians” ?
Was he referring to the fact that he as minister for council tax had not paid his own ?
Was he referring to the fact that while he is proud of having two jags himself, his department’s policy of restricting the parking places provided with new houses means that anyone else with two cars will have trouble finding a house where they can be parked off the street without cluttering up the road and blocking emergency vehicles ?
No, he had merely had a slightly embarrassing accident while visiting a Cumbria school’s sports events. Oh well. Perhaps having admitted to looking a twit in one area he might eventually realise how he looks in the areas where he is doing real damage. The frightening thing is that such a man is not the most disastrous minister to serve in a government which has also included Margaret “foot and mouth” Beckett, Steve “pants on fire” Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Frank “dead-head” Dobson and Geoff Hoon.
And after two-jags, we now have twenty-two jags, this being the number of cabinet ministers who are offered an official jaguar. To be honest, if this decision had been made by government which was not so fond of bashing the motorist I probably wouldn’t object. But from advocates of “Modal shift” who are trying to persuade the rest of us to give up our cars it rather looks like “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Had someone slipped John “Two Jags” Prescott a truth drug ? Had he realised how daft it is to bulldoze thousands of houses in the North while simultaneously forcing councils in the South to build vastly more houses than the local infrastructure can support ?
Has he finally realised how daft it is to waste millions of pounds on unelected Regional Assemblies when the only area of the country he offered a chance to say whether they wanted an elected regional assembly voted massively against “more politicians” ?
Was he referring to the fact that he as minister for council tax had not paid his own ?
Was he referring to the fact that while he is proud of having two jags himself, his department’s policy of restricting the parking places provided with new houses means that anyone else with two cars will have trouble finding a house where they can be parked off the street without cluttering up the road and blocking emergency vehicles ?
No, he had merely had a slightly embarrassing accident while visiting a Cumbria school’s sports events. Oh well. Perhaps having admitted to looking a twit in one area he might eventually realise how he looks in the areas where he is doing real damage. The frightening thing is that such a man is not the most disastrous minister to serve in a government which has also included Margaret “foot and mouth” Beckett, Steve “pants on fire” Byers, Patricia Hewitt, Frank “dead-head” Dobson and Geoff Hoon.
And after two-jags, we now have twenty-two jags, this being the number of cabinet ministers who are offered an official jaguar. To be honest, if this decision had been made by government which was not so fond of bashing the motorist I probably wouldn’t object. But from advocates of “Modal shift” who are trying to persuade the rest of us to give up our cars it rather looks like “Do as I say, not as I do.”
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