WI/AHC PM John Prescott

I'm watching a Top Gear rerun and Sir Prescott is the guest on this episode. Just curious how he could've been PM, better the earlier.
 

Thande

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Sir John, not Sir Prescott.

It's not very likely he could be PM for any long period, but it is possible if (say) Blair's 2004 heart attack had been fatal, Prescott would have become PM temporarily while a leadership election was held. (Although this is debatable as there is no constitutionally codified succession procedure, as Meadow has noted in his Ted Short project).

You have to go a way back with PODs if you want someone like Prescott to be a credible figure for PM in his own right.
 
Sir John, not Sir Prescott.

It's not very likely he could be PM for any long period, but it is possible if (say) Blair's 2004 heart attack had been fatal, Prescott would have become PM temporarily while a leadership election was held. (Although this is debatable as there is no constitutionally codified succession procedure, as Meadow has noted in his Ted Short project).

You have to go a way back with PODs if you want someone like Prescott to be a credible figure for PM in his own right.

Sorry, ignorant yank :rolleyes:

So no way he could win leadership in '94?
 

Thande

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Not unless you killed off Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, and Margaret Beckett.

Indeed. And I should point out that I actually like Prescott. But someone like him wouldn't be seen as PM material anytime after the seventies.
 
Indeed. And I should point out that I actually like Prescott. But someone like him wouldn't be seen as PM material anytime after the seventies.

Me too, but I don't think he would ever have been viewed as PM material; it's hard to believe that when he was rebuffed twice as deputy leader before he made it. I think the only way you are going to get PM Prezza is as a caretaker. (Which in fairness would make him just as much PM as any other, though I don't think is what the OP wanted)
 
Indeed. And I should point out that I actually like Prescott. But someone like him wouldn't be seen as PM material anytime after the seventies.

I like him too, but I suppose that his blue collar style is something that doesn't play with inner party politics, whereas a more direct appeal to the people in a different nations political system. Any chance on the EU circuit?

Sigh... just tired of button-up PMs, etc...
 
Prescott as a President of the Commission or whatever is actually probably more realistic than him being PM.
 
Prescott as a President of the Commission or whatever is actually probably more realistic than him being PM.

He was a MEP in the 70s, yes? Maybe if he makes some more domestic, Shadow Cabinet foes he stays on the EU path? Want to work him in a TL somehow...
 
He has a long history of expertise in European affairs. Tone actually considered him as foreign secretary when Cook was having his marital difficulties and it looked like he might resign.
 
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