Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull

Even though it shouldn't, the hypocrisy of politicians still manages to anger me.

John Prescott, New Labour's key link to the party's old Labour roots, today became Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull, despite previously saying he was opposed to becoming a peer.
The Guardian, 8 July 2010

Lord Prescott took the ermine at a ceremony in the Upper House yesterday morning - despite his previous insistence that he did not want a seat in the Lords.The Daily Mail, 9 July 2010

I guess the working class really can kiss his arse now then, because this is not just the foreman's job now, now he's moved on from being shop steward under Labour to being the full-time trougher he's always aspired to be.

A man who happily blamed his overeating on bulimia, his use of chauffeur cars to travel 200 hundred yards on his wife, when caught with his trousers down tried to claim the woman was after money, caught playing croquet (pastime of the the wealthy) puts out the line that it was his aides who wanted to play (though later claimed he'd played all his life) and now says he's went against his lifelong 'principles' because either his wife wanted to be a 'Lady' or because he wants to continue to serve the country.

Whatever the truth, I suspect there's a feeling inside him that he's earned it, deserves it and will claim the fullest possible expense and earnings through it, still buggering about in cars and planes while telling the rest of us that we need to cut back on our carbon footprint to save the planet.

Isn't that always the way with the most vocal proponents of environmentalism? Can anyone point me to just ONE high profile climate changer who has genuinely scaled down their own carbon footprint, who teleconferences instead of junkets, who eats local produce, who cycles or walks instead of drives, indeed who makes do with just the one house, because even this 'socialist' firebrand can't get by on less than two, uses a Jag instead of a Prius, flies all over the world and demands all the trappings of his role.

So when an awful man bares his hypocrisy for all to see, I still get angry, not through surprise, through disgust.