Prezz A Manger
Prezza’s spending wasn’t confined to the land of Oz. Guido has now seen Prescott’s government credit card bill from 2004 through to 2006. It seems he was a big fan of upmarket Westminster canteen Shepherds and has spent £2,073 in Pret a Manger, including £240 in one sitting. Prezza enjoyed the high and low life, with The Cinnamon Club and Clacket Lane Service Station all featuring. What government business was the Deputy Prime Minister doing in a Morrisons supermarket cafe? Three hundred quid steak dinners on the taxpayer? Why not…
How anyone managed to spend £400 in Mr Chus Chinese in Hull beggars belief…
UPDATE: You can see the food and drink section of the bill here. Next up leisure activities…
The taxpayers pay, so why not?
Get out – that’s Billy Bowden’s seat!
I assume the lardy one was feeding his staff, but why Pret a Manger? Surely there are better (and cheaper) butty shops around?
Ahh, I think I got the wrong idea when Prezza said he fancied a nosh – never been keen on chipolatas myself.
All above bloody board, everybody was doin’ it, you can’t prove ‘owt.
No style or substance – typical overweight and overbearing Labour Lord.
Well done Guido – so obsessed with trying to discredit an ex MP, you missed the real story:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/news/2011/10/27/tory-government-credit-cards-used-to-buy-doughnuts-and-pizzas-115875-23519376/
“You’re either in front of Guido, or standing still…”
Prezza is Great, He hates Murdeocracy. I mean Murdoch. And in my book if you need to eat a load of food to do that. Great. Murdoch empire and his like are the greatest threat to Democracy filling the once Great british people with S–t. Turned a great people into a curtain twitching frightened bunch of yellow knackers that have lost their freedom for a bunch of self interested fraudsters.
No-one is forced to buy Sky tv, the BBC however…..
Yes Billy. Also one’s £120 a year and includes watching on every medium possible, and the other is £50 a month for the channels worth having, extra to watch it in a 2nd room, extra to watch online, extra to watch on xbox…
But hey, at least your subscription’s going to a good cause – Milly Dowler’s parents.
You just don’t get it do you. It’s about having the CHOICE to spend your own money on what YOU want, not what the State Broadcaster demands that you pay on pain of going to PRISON. And I thought Murdoch was paying the Dowlers out of his own pocket. Unless you know different, of course?
It’s still a hell of a lot of bacon sarnies and hemust have been a very generous employer !
Was One Ton, wanton with the wontons?
Excessive, even for a recovering anorexic.
One Ton Watson?
Guido – we need to know how many politicians have become addicted to free food on the taxpayer.
There could be liability for the taxpayer for allowing these calore addicts unfettered access to their drug.
He’s a thieving bastard. When are the police investigating this porker? Why are we paying for his food? Didn’t he also claim £400 a month for food on his expenses?
You wonder when he found time to do any work. How much time did he spend stuffing all that food down his gob?
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BenfordsLaw.html
Be interesting to apply that here to see if anyone has been cheating.
I believe auditors use it to discover if there have been any shenanigans…
Far too many round numbers and same amounts from the same establishment (different dates). When I was signing off expenses, these would have raised my suspicions as to the validity of the claims.
Exactly, he goes in, gets a receipt for £ 150 and they give him £ 75 cash. Surprisingly common.
If you can buy items that add up to round figues in the first place.
No – adding cash is obvious. £3.33 becomes £53.33.
It’s more likely to be rounding up for a tip.
As a friend many years ago was told when fiddling his expenses, ‘When I was your age, Rodney, I used to fiddle my expenses, but at least I had the sense not use consecutively numbered receipts off the pad I’d got from the stationers !’
Absolutely, and £240 on sandwiches – the chain doesn’t sell booze – is just a snack for Prezza.
I once saw “mange tout” on the menu back when I were stewardin’ on the boats.
After some ponce explained what it meant, it struck me as a right brilliant idea, so I made it me way o’ life.
Bugger! Got curry sauce on me ermine now.
Southern bastards!
This is the fat bastards way of helping to provide funding to small and medium sized enterprises. Horrible corrupt socialist fcker.
Excuse me Guido Fawkes, yer great Southern Blouse….we’s real men up North and I can beat yer any day to a pie eating contest….and without none of yer Right Wing Gravy to boot, laddie my boy.
I’m a working class hero, I am, I am. I eats blokes like youse for breakfast and then I starts on me full English plus faggots and lard.
Watch it, sonny.
£400 quidaroonies for a poor hardworking Chinaman. Yer heartless, you, you Tory scum. I bought it to improve the lot of the working coolies and donated the rest to the brave anticapitalists forced to live in tents on the streets of Boris the Bounders London Town.
What’s my Chinese takeaway got to do with you….when it costs trillions to pay off the local Greek……
If ever Guido were to publish the best comments in this blog…this has to be a classic…..well done Lord L…so funny!
Faggots, too? Plenty of those in the guvmint.
He possibly tips heavy. Isn’t that how ships waiters earn a crust?
See Guido, an actual story, with actual public interest and not some half-baked comparison between 2 completely uncomparable voting records
Well done
You’ve already been enlightened about Twatson’s client votes and the subcontinental postal vote bloc. so piss off.
Electoral fraud would be another public interest story, I didn’t see one of those.
Can’t wait to see this unpleasant odious chump to get his comeuppance!
Laws against being a fat twat haven’t been passed yet.
Don’t oppress the differently sized!
*creak*
Pees & riice!
He might have to prove it was “on business”.
But it is about his reputation. As a minister he was infamous for backing wasteful projects like the silly Fire Brigade call centre fiasco.
Now we learn that he wastes money even when buying a sandwich.
given his ‘Rosie’ history of shagging around I’m pretty sure he was ‘on the job’ or about to be when he was shelling out for these meals!
MPs are chauffeur driven in fucking Jags, and you’re worried about a couple of thousand of food bills over a few years?!
Jesus wept…
You must be a socialist – the word ‘accountability’ obviously means nothing to you (as long as it isn’t YOUR money he’s spending, of course.)
lots of very similar and almost round figures at Pret a Manger.
Looks like Pret a Man Ger.
A cover?
I’m surprised he knew it was a food shop – I bet it’s the only French he knows.
I’m a ’round figure’ man.
Is there a lampost strong enough?
Greedy troughing bastard.
I’m sick
afterof all this.What’s he on about?
(Reminds me why I don’t use Twitter)
Lord Prezza was as mad as a Hatter
He thought his food bills didn’t matter
But when they came out
Up went the shout
‘Now we know why you are getting fatter’
….
It would look bigger if dipped in batter
That’s £4 for the food and £236 as compensation for groping the staff and smashing up the display.
He really is a despicable fat bastard, I hate him.
Ey up!
I see you got the laptop (definitely not on expenses) working again Pauline.
What we got for us tea?
A lard sandwich on white with Tomato Ketchup.
A bit poncy like, but ok.
As long as you get yer hair nice and fluffed up like, and as long as I can have Wagon Wheels ‘n custard for pud, I’m well ‘appy.
I think a full review of every transaction made by every MP between 1990 and 2010, funded by the said MP’s should be implemented.
Any wrongdoing uncovered would have to be prosecuted.
Perhaps it was for ‘soup and a roll’?
Roly poly or mud pie?
A roll with whom?
How the fuck do you spend £240 at Pret? Just one of their sandwiches are big enough. The man’s not greedy, he’s a fucking disgusting glutton.
I was just going to post the same question. Seriously, how do you spend a round £240 on sandwiches?
take yer cronies along?
Do they give cashback?
Feeding his bulimic habit, no doubt!
He must have filled up several bags to take away. Probably sicked them up on his carpet like a blubbery labrador as well.
Coffee/keyboard incident!
It’s an absolute disgrace. Has Vince got one of these?
very likely.
Greedy, useless, lackwit!
Makes Monsieur Creosote and his waafferrr thin mint look positively anorexic. I think the question regarding Mr Chus (and other expenditure) was whether the recipients of such taxpayer largesse were entitled to such entertainment. Follow the money trail always. Mr Chus is a favourite venue for dining East Hull labour party mates.
If he was ‘entertaining’ and those who were entertained receiving taxable benefit in kind? Or does that rule only apply to those of us in the private sector?
Doesn’t he have a business interest in Mr Chu’s? Would check that rumour out.
We love John. He keeps us in business.
鴨肉類 DUCK DISHES
香橙鴨件
26
Roasted Cantonese Duck with Orange Sauce
￡10.90
紫羅鴨件
27
Roasted Duck with Ginger and Pineapple
￡10.90
梅子鴨
28
Roasted Duck with Plum Sauce
￡10.90
百花鴨
29
Roasted Duck with Prawn Meat Stuffing
￡11.90
明爐叉鴨
30
Roasted Cantonese Duck & Pork
￡10.90
[£400 buys a lot of dinners.....I wonder if he shared them with anyone else?]
All I got was a chipolata…
and chlamydia ? just wondering……
Give me a ring Tracey, I’ve got more than a chipolata.
He and pauline and his mates have take-away virtually every night of the week, then he comes in to settle about once a month, hence the 400 quid meal.
Average of £110 to £130 per week on eating out? that’s a 2.5 kid family shopping bill! £26 at Moto Catering on New Years Eve 2004 … what was he doing?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4138509.stm
Suspiciously round totals – cash back, sir?
Maybe, but you’d still have the pennies from the real bill.
Is more likely to be rounding up for the ‘tip’?
Rowlocks.
No! You mean rissoles.
This is theft from the taxpayer.
No way can he claim that this expenditure was necessary.
Typical socialist – burning other peoples money.
He seems to be above the law – how many times has he escaped legitmate prosecution?
PAY IT ALL BACK YOU HYPOCRIT!
How about an e-petition for a review of prescot’s expenses with a recommendation for prosecution when found fraudulently stealing taxpayers money.
Prescot, Mandelson and Martin should all swing ttogether + another few hundred troughing Lords and Ladies.
It would receive many more than 100,000 signatures
Well, someone who knows how, set it up then and let’s get going.
and crash the Internet.
And all this food and drink money was on top of the maximum monthly MP’s expenses claim for groceries which he made sure he also got.
God, yes – of course! I’d almost forgotten about that!
I expect that most of it’s still repeating on Prescott, though…
*burp*
Send a gutter-grubber round to Chu’s – Quick!!
It wan’t just a chippolata he had. The had the Full Monty with me.
Am sure that all of those present correctly declared any benefit in kind and paid the appropriate tax – wouldnt be good is a minister of the crown and his civil servants were feeding themselves on our taxes and not paying any tax due would it?
Multiple posts about this fat fuckers eating habits on the taxpayer but not even the slightest mention of Stephen Crouch, the defence lobbyist who donated £20K to Mr Werrity under a false name just before Mr Fox granted him a meeting with a defence minister.
hmmm……….
It was his own money, was it not? He can piss his own cash away if he likes, its when they pan handle me for that makes me cross.
Think about all those trips to Pret next time you look at the deductions side of your payslip.
Do be quiet
It was his own money so moody donations in a fake name to a fake adviser to our Defence secretary on behalf of someone who makes a great deal of money on Defence contracts in Iraq is perfectly OK and not worthy of discussion?
Spending too much money on sandwiches and fast food is perfectly good grounds for complaint and outraged discussion but I’m not sure it outranks very murky donations from Defence lobbyists to our Defence Secretary’s ‘special friend’.
Ans yet you think that theft and deception by a Mp and lord is not worthy of discussion ?? so much for morals ?
Sorry, but are you incapable of reading?
Look again at my post
“Spending too much money on sandwiches and fast food is perfectly good grounds for complaint and outraged discussion”
cretin.
One good thing to come out of this will be the fact that prezza will go down in history as one of the worst moneygrubbing, troughing politicians of all times.
Personally spe@king I think they should erect one of those little blue plaques on one of these restaurants in London saying ‘ john prescott got fat overeating here on taxpayers money’
Or one for me saying “Handycock got his leg over here.’
How come there are so many round figures in the receipts? Cash back?
I think a Police investigation is needed – this multi millionaire Lord cannot get away with this blatant theft.
Bet he will though.
Round figures, round tum.
How do you spend £88.00 on food at Express Holiday Inn? Just asking.
That portly secretary he was banging at the time ate half of it.
That explains why there’s only two inches left. (Allegedly.)
You order from the ludicrously overpriced menu?
Bloody hell he’s gonna have a coronary if he doesnt calm down. Look at his face at the end, his eyes are about to pop out his head.
Police swooped this evening on Chu’s restaurant and caught Lord Grub-Grab helping himself to more taxpayer largesse. He is expected to plead that it was simply a gut reaction.
That’ll get a belly laugh….
That Croquet mus be really knackering
It’s the bog-seats and sewers I feel sorry for.
I got through 10 shovels and 3 pairs of waders in 2005 alone dealing with his fucking clog-ups.
How many starving kids in Africa could have been fed with this money?
I don’t think there are that many restaurants taking Visa in Africa, are there?
We all know Prescott was up to.
His breathtaking incompetence was such that he was probably encouraged to get out and about and stuff his fat fucking face on the taxpayer as it would have been the significantly cheaper option given the damage done by most of his ‘decisions’.
£400 at Mr Chu’s? Guido is forgetting his Prezza trivia!
Explaining his bulimia, John Prescott said in 2008: “Whenever I go to Mr Chu’s in Hull, my favourite Chinese restaurant in the whole world . . . I could eat my way through the entire menu.”
Lucky it’s not an “All you can eat for £10″ place then, he’d be broke in just one sitting!
So would China!
and I thought it was just a figure of speech …
The tapayer is an easy touch, and its even easier if the regime has no controls and allows the feckless, unfettered free rein to the credit card.
So, we own Prezza’s gut. Perhaps we should reclaim it as reparations for his gross over-spending.
Or perform a second party Hari Kari job on it
The Lard Basket Prezza and his fellow trougher Twatson could replace all those methane producing pigs in the Thunderdome complex, no need for windfarms!!
Prescott is a one man windfarm.
Haven’t you proles worked it out yet? When we do something, it’s alright. When baby eating Tories do it, it’s wrong. War with Iraq, dealing with the private sector, support of the Murdoch papers etc are all wrong under the Tories. But under Labour, they’re ok. If a Tory had spent so much on food, we’d be foaming at the mouth. But as our messiah Tony once said, John’s John. Which is also what he said when female staff complained about John sexually harassing them. Labour pretends to care about women but when one of our own is guilty of perving on female staff, we don’t give a shit.
That’s the beauty of being a bulimic – you can eat and drink a shitload, spew it up and start again.
Shame the taxpayer had to pay for his “disease”.
That’s what I don’t get, with Bulimia you throw up food you binge on and get thin, has Presclott got reverse Bulimia?
Presclotts not got Bulimia, if he has I have the Flaming Fandango Syndrome!
I think he kept the last sitting down.
He only had half the illness: The Binging. He was cured of the second half early in his diagnosis!
Prescott is a two faced hypocritical lying thick socialist bastard ,and he should
be held to account for all the gross incompetence that he displayed when
he was deputy prime minister .
If only! Maybe a petition to Parliament? It need not stop at Prescott.
In defence of Mr. Prescott, at least he didn’t bill the taxpayer for moat-cleaning, or a trouser-press or oak beams or … oh wait …
Fat arsed thieving Hunt
I did offer to have your paperwork shredded “by accident” along with mine, John. You should have taken me up on it.
Sic transit gloria mundi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7357008.stm
Gloria’s been sick in the Transit again! Must be oneof Prezza’s bacon sarnies.
Hi, Skippy.
Were you a fan of Mad Magazine back in the Sixties, too?
kcuf me ! How do you spend 240 quid in Pret a Manger ? No wonder the bstrd is so fat.
Stop picking on the fat bully…….
So, is the greedy fat fucking Hunt still troughing his way thorough tonnes of ‘food’ on the taxpayers expense?
5th Dec 2005 – Browns – is that the strip bar down in Shoreditch?
Prescott has said that it was only comfort food, and all the fault of Cameron for hiring Andy Coulson.
I wonder, between Watson and Prescott, who eats the most.
A replacement for Big Brother could be Big Muncher, Prescott and Watson could be the first contestants. Bring on the pies!
Come on jog on nothing to see here, we were working up a strategy to tackle obesity and decided a two prong attack was needed so we brought Cheecky Jamie in to do the school dinners and I was required to do the dirty work, get out amonst the people and see what went into those bellies. OK I had some mates along to help Bob Crow was a great help with the research. So Jamies recipies for schools let us down the policy fell apart – we learnt about fat cats though and now theres no money left the coalition look very trim.
Prescott is the reason the word c*unt was invented.
Regarding the round numbers, Pret do offer a catering service – so presumably they charge round numbers for that
But look at the menu. Mr Chus is NOT that expensive. What did he eat? Or did he eat it with? And how many?
stop posting things like this at lunchtime – its making me hungry. can i get a prezza takeaway menu please?
The Dim son of Hull
Prawn Balls Mr Prescott?
“Fook me did she mention that as well?”
Jesus, how can you spend £240 in Pret a Manger ? I mean literally, how is it possible ? They don’t display that much stock at one time. Plus, of course, if you loaded every damn thing in their shop into your basket the total wouldn’t come out to the nearest £10 would it ?
now known as Pratt a Muncher
£400 for a Chu?????
I get them at t’office for nowt
Prezza, you’re welcome to stop by anytime you’re in the neighbourhood.
“Oh Guido, dontcha know I have an eating disorder. Can’t help meself. Scoffin’ is a disease. I claim my union rights to fair treatment and leeway for this cross I bear……etc etc”
Prezzley Prezza
They all look like sharing platter’s to me. Probably buying his team lunch, but don’t rule out the possibility that the fat bastard munched through the lot himself.
i dont event want to think what happened at Tantric Jazz…but it cost us taxpayers over£140!!
I have an awful vision in my mind, Lord Prescott in his cowboy outfit, sitting in his own vomit & excrement, gurgling & flatulent, surrounded by an eco warriors nightmare amount of cardboard packaging from Mr Chu’s.
The horror, the horror….
Pass the mindbleach Sophie.
In addition I can see him there as you describe, struggling to reach the telephone and pathetically trying to get his obese fingers to dial for a pizza.
It’s no vsion, Sophie – more of the reality
You need a hobby.
Mr Prescott, I’d like you to know this now :
On the day you die, I’ll be saying ‘and not before time’. How’s that for an epitaph? You and your socialist cohorts are an abomination.
we’ve been feeding the fattie to force feed himslef then vom? how many nurses could be employed for the amount he ate?
A lowlife glutton, whose fleshly and predatory instincts and habits have all been provided at taxpayer’s expense.
Corrupt systems and weak leadership have allowed this low intelligence opportunist to enrich and gorge himself throughout his wasteful career.
He continues to wear his ignorance and obesity as badges of pride.
The charitable amongst us might hazard that, after past secretarial excursions, the fare at Prescott Towers may have little to offer but cold shoulder & scrag end so compelling the rotund peer to dine elsewhere. However, the suspicious might wonder if an old expenses ploy might be regularly in operation. The assorted diners chip in with cash to cover the bill which the portly one pockets whilst putting the tab on his plastic.
“By why the subterfuge,” the doubter asks. “The ennobled one is hardly short of a few bob.” “Indeed, Indeed” comes the reply. ” But is it not likely that the Lady of the Manor is keeping a close eye on the family accounts, to spot signs of current dalliance outside the conjugal bedchamber. A source of unaccountable readies could be just what the troughing philander needs to pursue extra-marital objectives.”
What a disgusting slob. Our very own Idi Amin. Deputy Prime Minister (no less) of this God-forsaken country for how many years? We must really be in the proverbial.
Baron Prescott is precisely the type of greedy c unt the Labour party were set up to challenge and rid us of.
And it’s an even worse waste of taxpayers money when you consider he was throwing it all back up.
Of course he could he could ‘spend’ £400 in a chippy if he got £350 change!!! £350 for me and £50 for you less 2 quid for the chips!!!!! Do meafavour Guyo….you are a man of the world ain‘t yer? Greed knows no boundaries, until you get caught, of course.
And the revolting Jacqui is still filling her pockets at Sky News.
http://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/our-fraudulent-masters/
How did the Fat Fuck manage to spend 81 quid at pizza hut ?
Including that Pret a Manger bill of £240 he managed to spend £1,245.44 for that month.
Given the male median wage pre-tax for that period was £19,300 that would mean he (we?) spent just under a month’s net pay on food.