New calls for Prescott resignation over 'sleep' allegations
1 Jun 2006
There were further calls for John Prescott to resign today after an alleged newspaper published photographs of the Deputy Prime Minister sleeping. The first of the pictures, splashed across five pages of the Daily Mail, shows Mr Prescott sleeping soundly and alone in a double bed at approximately 4am yesterday morning. Later pictures show him sitting up in bed and pointing at the camera, scowling, a dramatic dive towards the photographer and a cracked lens.Mr Prescott was unavailable for comment following the publication of the pictures, but it is understood that he reacted in a calm and reasonable manner by offering to open the front door of his flat for the departing photographer, who had an urgent appointment at the nearest hospital to get his nose fixed, rather than propel him through an upstairs window.
DeadBrain tracked the photographer down to a hospital bed in Westminster, where he declined to comment on his treatment at the hands of 'Two Jabs', except to say that he had been "merely passing" through the ministerial bedroom when he took the pictures and not deliberately intruding in the hope of getting a large amount of money from a tabloid newspaper.
Conservative former Chancellor Ken Clarke condemned Mr Prescott's actions. "I have known John Prescott for some time, but for him to be sleeping at a time when Tony Blair is out of the country is frankly disgraceful," he said. "His political career is quite obviously over."
Lib Dem nonentity Vince Cable was similarly appalled. "Scary things often happen in the middle of the night," he told a busker in Westminster station. "John Prescott should be awake and on the job at all times. Not like that, obviously."
Not to be outdone, the Daily Express today cleared one of its pages of Diana stories in order to publish a large photograph of John Prescott's wife, Pauline, leaving a supermarket. It was accompanied by the shocking revelation that she eats food and from time to time uses toilet paper.
