The comments on LabourHome say it all;

Surely somebody else could be put up to doing PMQS. Prescott has had most of his other jobs taken from him. Usually, it’s a laugh (mostly at him, but he can crack a good joke every now and then), but even by his own awful standards, it was an embarrassment.

I firmly believe that John Prescott should have been sacked and should not even be in the position.

JP had been encouraged to be “off sick”