A warm welcome to John Prescott in the Mirror today with his debut column. He presumes to give Michael Gove a history lesson and claims that his government is “taking us back to the 1980s with high unemployment”.

We had a little Twitter spat as a consequence:

Welcome to @JohnPrescott in @TheSundayMirror, small fact check on claim government "taking us back to the 1980s with high unemployment".

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Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) January 06, 2013

Unemployment rate is now lower than it was under Gordon Brown @JohnPrescott

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Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) January 06, 2013

RT @GuidoFawkes Unemployment rate is now lower than it was under Brown @JohnPrescott < No. Down to 5.2% with GB. Cam took to 8.4%. Still 7.8

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John Prescott (@johnprescott) January 06, 2013

Disingenuously comparing the unemployment rate at its best under Brown with its worst under Cameron rather than the 8% rate that it was when Brown was voted out of office.

On the day Gordon Brown left office unemployment rate was higher than it is today. These are facts. Spin your readers not me. @johnprescott

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Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) January 06, 2013

Not to mention that unemployment is thankfully far lower than it was in the 80s and falling…

In Guido’s Daily Star Sunday column:

• Jim Davidson in the Carlton Club
• Lembit the “bizarre” cloakroom attendant
• Andrew Mitchell and scowling cops
• Farage mocks Cameron
• Francis Urquhart goes to Washington with a Hollywood star
• “Common Purpose” in Parliament
• Is Chuka too grand and too vain?

Plus, no Prezza!