Pride comes before a fall
We spent all this week laughing at the lilly livered French, then what does John 'Jabba the hut' Prescott go and do?
Telegraph

We spent all this week laughing at the lilly livered French, then what does John 'Jabba the hut' Prescott go and do?
Ministers were accused last night of preparing to climb down over plans to scrap generous early retirement pension deals for council workers.
Unions representing hundreds of thousands of council employees said the Government and employers had "given ground" in a dispute over the right to retire at 60 on a full pension.
In return, unions called off strikes which would have shut schools and disrupted rubbish collections before next month's local elections.
Digby Jones, the director general of the CBI, issued a warning about the consequences of "craven surrender" in the face of "strong-arm union tactics".
Echoing fears among council leaders that failure to end the special pension rules for staff would bankrupt their pension schemes and lead to higher council tax bills, Sir Digby said: "The private sector has bitten the bullet. The public sector must do so too or the nation will end up paying the price."
He said the worst possible outcome would be if John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, who regulates local government pensions, decided to repeat a previous "capitulation" allowing civil servants to continue retiring at 60.
The Tories accused Mr Prescott of ducking the pensions crisis in the public sector to avoid political fall-out during the local elections in England.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative spokesman on local government, said: "This Government is obsessed with short-termism and spin and is not addressing the challenges that our nation faces.
"Last year John Prescott fudged public pensions to avoid embarrassment before the general election."
Unions representing hundreds of thousands of council employees said the Government and employers had "given ground" in a dispute over the right to retire at 60 on a full pension.
In return, unions called off strikes which would have shut schools and disrupted rubbish collections before next month's local elections.
Digby Jones, the director general of the CBI, issued a warning about the consequences of "craven surrender" in the face of "strong-arm union tactics".
Echoing fears among council leaders that failure to end the special pension rules for staff would bankrupt their pension schemes and lead to higher council tax bills, Sir Digby said: "The private sector has bitten the bullet. The public sector must do so too or the nation will end up paying the price."
He said the worst possible outcome would be if John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, who regulates local government pensions, decided to repeat a previous "capitulation" allowing civil servants to continue retiring at 60.
The Tories accused Mr Prescott of ducking the pensions crisis in the public sector to avoid political fall-out during the local elections in England.
Eric Pickles, the Conservative spokesman on local government, said: "This Government is obsessed with short-termism and spin and is not addressing the challenges that our nation faces.
"Last year John Prescott fudged public pensions to avoid embarrassment before the general election."