I'M disappointed that John Prescott has decided to step down as an MP... no, really.
He's a real character (and how many MPs are that anymore?) who has cruelly been ripped apart by the southern-biased media who would prefer to make fun out of him rather than salute his achievements.
Make no mistake, without Prezza there's no way Labour would have accepted Tony Blair and his Clause 4 tinkerings.
Without Prezza, the 2001 election would have been the most boring in history and without Prezza the Daily Mail's snobby columnists would have been unemployed for the past 10 years, thus adding themselves to the millions of people their colleagues attack day-in, day-out for being 'benefits scroungers'.
Sure, history will judge Prescott by his misdemeanours (Two Jags, illicit affair with secretary etc...) but he'll be remembered by more serious people who paved the way to making Labour electable for the first time in 18 years.
And after the shambles that went beforehand, that was no mean feat.
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