Hot Pants Go On Show At London’s V&A Museum
Crowds cheered Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott as he arrived at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London for the opening of an exhibition detailing his glittering career in politics.
Pride of place at the centre of the collection are a pair of Y-fronts that Prescott wore throughout his celebrated carnal relationship with diary secretary, Tracy Temple. The sixty-eight inch wide pants are in the same condition as when they were discovered stuck behind a Downing Street filing cabinet. Now enclosed in a bullet proof glass case, the pants have be priced by independent assessors as being worth ‘nearly a pound’ and are expected to tour the country before being burned in a secure incinerator.
Touring the exhibits, Mr. Prescott quipped to reporters: ‘This is a marvellous exhibition and shows of why I am worth every single penny to this country which has given me so much and for which I am as grateful as it is possible to be, given the current economic and social environment of this country which is still, I hasten to add, suffering all the problems associated with nearly twenty years of mismanagement by a Tory government and all the problems entailed therein and only solved through a proper New Labour agenda of more money for schools and hospitals.’
Entrance to collection is free to all, but visitors are advised that some of the content is not suitable for those who suffer from high blood pressure. The exhibition runs until tomorrow.
February 7th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
What an excellent piece you have here today David, meanwhile Up North David Cameron is making an exhibition of himself trying to win votes!
February 7th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Good link, Curly. Interesting article.
As somebody who like to see more of a battle in elections up in this part of the world, this is saying exactly what I’ve been saying for years. The Tories just don’t understand northern working class culture. They make much of promoting minority candidates but miss out on one of the biggest ‘minorities’ of all. Those of us who don’t speak with a London accent. There are quite a few of us.
February 7th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I think I’m going to be violently ill!
February 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Bird flu!!!
Oh, Atyllah! Why did it have to happen to you! Why Lord? Why???!!!!!
February 7th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I hope admission to
sniffsee (some of ), Prezza’s dirty laundry is limited to (at bare minimum), entry to minors only if accompanied by consenting adults.February 7th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
I didn’t miss the story (I think), but I’m glad you agree with the sentiments. There would have been many good candidates in place had it not been for the silly “A” list!
February 10th, 2007 at 1:23 am
Very entertaining. I wonder if they have been washed.
I was interested in the article about the Tories lack of traction in the North and in Scotland. I know that from my Scottish upbringing, voting Tory is for toffs and the mentally ill only. Scottish people can be quite broadminded on some things, but not on voting Tory. My grandmother was sure Maggie and Ronnie were conspiring to blow up the world.
February 10th, 2007 at 1:59 am
I think that’s pretty much the case still, Colin. The Tories tend to do very poorly in Scotland, but even here in the north of England, they’re still remembered for what they did to the coal industry. Even a generation on, you can still hear schoolchildren say ‘You’re can’t vote Tory!’ simply because within families the Conservative Party represent something dark and malevolent, though the children are clearly too young to remember any Tory government.
It tends to make elections very very boring…