Prescott: £15k credit card spree 'wasn't me' ... ex-Hull East MP demands inquiry into smear

“Thanks Gerry you make it sound so simple,you would do well as a teacher, however you come across as a little angry, but passionate about what you believe in.”

“@wendyhere: yes, you are missing something. Try reading the article properly:

"Lord Prescott said it was normal for private secretaries in his department to use the credit card to pay for food and drink consumed during day-to-day business."

This is consistent with him saying:

"I have never held a Government credit card and never personally used one."

An awful lot of dimwits and ranters on here plainly believe in guilty until proven innocent, and in Prezza's case he could never be innocent in their eyes. Nice to see the usual standards of 'debate' on this board are being maintained. I carry no torch for the corpulent one and there's plenty he can be justifiably sl@gged off for, not least betraying his socialist heritage to sit on Blair's knee as a faithful doggie, but I can't see how he can be guilty of this credit card abuse when:

"Payments include six unexplained purchases totalling nearly £2,000 on the same day from a camera shop in China "

How likely is it that he goes into a "camera shop in China"? I'm not sure he's ever been to China.

Sl@g Prezza off all you like for things he is guilty of, like sh@gging his secretary, but in this case he's clearly innocent and, for a change, he's right about the Tories playing dirty tricks to smear him. Not that they're doing it right well...”

“I reckon Mandy did it”

“Whenever I am talking to friends and colleagues from out of town and Prescott's name comes into the converstion, I make sure that everyone is aware that he is Welsh and Hull-born but foisted on us by the political process”

“Can someone enlighten me here, JP said he does not have a government credit card and never has had one but what card was used at Mr Chu's how did he pay the bill or his part of the bill. Am I missing something?”

“Johnny boy when you do eventually go down heres a protip:
Don't patronise the other lags by saying your just like them. Unless of course surprise sex in the showers is what your looking for”

“W@nker111,

There is North / South divide, many in the south are emnployed or there employment rely on govermental jobs eg:- civil service

Having never been unemployed & being an employer I have worked as contractor all over the UK & further afield, prosperity is easily found in the south however it ain't only created there”

“If, as Prescott claims, numerous fraudulent charges have been made against his tax-payer funded credit card over a period two years then there is something seriously wrong with the government's expense reporting and auditing process.

I have a company credit card for business purposes and all transactions are automatically logged on a secure reporting website. Furthermore, i then must scan and submit receipts to support the expense claim. If i entertain business clients i must enter the names of all present and the companies they work for to prevent any allegations of corruption. The claim must then be approved by my line manager and even after that they are audited randomly by the finance department.

If our freeloading politicians applied the same rigorous standards perhaps there wouldn't be so many of them banged up in prison”

“JackRussel,

I think you will find that is most of those in the North, and in Scotland rel on the state for there income in one way or another.

There are large sections of the North where a larger % of people rely on the state for their income than in the old East Germany

Where it not for the wealth generated in in the London and the South East a lot of people up here would have the living standards of your average Albanian.

It is the North that by and large empties the purse of the South.”

“Splink

I have never had a problem with the Jocks Splink,in fact,just the opposite. They share the same views as we do in the North of England and are fed up having their pockets emptied by these ex public schoolboy Mafia in charge at WestMinster.”