26 April, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Looks like “America’s special friend” should have gone on holiday this week. The scandals just keep piling up for Blair. From BBC analyst Nick Assinder: “The sense of a government that is unravelling, with the prime minister attempting to fight one forest fire after another, is hard to escape.”

Here are the latest two scandals, the first of which is extremely serious:

Home Secretary Charles Clarke is facing calls for his resignation after it was revealed that over 1,000 foreign nationals locked up in British prisons, many for serious crimes such as rape and murder, were released back into society rather than being deported to their home countries. (Why many of these criminals were even released from prison in the first place is beyond me.) Blair is so far standing by Clarke, but you know that ain’t gonna last.

In less serious but more entertaining news, Blair’s deputy PM and close ally John Prescott is all over the tabloids after a 2-year affair with his secretary was revealed. Prescott’s wife of 44 years is “devastated,” as is the truck driver beau of the secretary in question. “I just can’t believe that my darling Tracey has been sleeping with John Prescott behind my back,” he said.

I can’t believe it either, buddy. Looking at this photo of Mr. Prescott, it’s impossible to imagine how he persuaded one woman to sleep with him, let alone two:

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1. korova Says:

   April 26th, 2006 at 6:09 pm

   glad clarke is under pressure…just wish it was for the other things that he has instigated…id cards…detentions etc etc. still i suppose we should be grateful for this!!

2. TJ Says:

   April 30th, 2006 at 9:05 pm

   We’re reaching end of a cycle - it’s that point where we realise “these chump are no good, lets vote for someone else”, much as it was in 1997. In another ten years we’ll realise the next lot are rubbish as well, and on and on and on.

3. Anglofille » The Scarlet Prescott Says:

   May 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 am

   [...] Last week I wrote about the scandal surrounding Tony Blair’s deputy, John Prescott, whose affair with a secretary is the toast of the tabloids. Over the weekend, Prescott’s former lover Tracey Temple went public with all sorts of lurid allegations about their two-year affair. She claims she’s been the victim of lies and wanted to tell her side of the story. Memo to Tracey: If you want to salvage your reputation, try talking to a legitimate journalist, not selling your story to the tabs for over £100,000. [...]

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