Hello,
Danielle Bragg, one of my Facebook friends, sent this to me and I thought I'd fill it out and pass it on.
Apparently, once you've been 'tagged' you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you and then send it on to 25 other people.
I've already sent it back to Danielle but thought I'd let you all see it.
1. My favourite film is Billy Elliot. I have seen it more than six times and it’s the only film that’s made me cry.
2. My middle name is Leslie as my mother was a big fan of the movie star Leslie Howard.
3. For the first time in my life I now own Two Jags. I bought them both second hand on the internet and the most I’ve ever paid for a car is £4,500.
4. I once swam the Thames in 1983 to protest against the dumping of nuclear waste. Pauline refused to kiss me in front of the photographers when I came out.
5. Though I’ve spent most of my life in Yorkshire, I’m actually Welsh. I was actually born in Prestatyn, Wales.
6. When I first became an MP in 1970 my Tory opponent was Norman Lamont – I kept referring to him as ‘that merchant banker from London.’
7. My favourite food is Chinese – no surprises there!
8. I gave Peter Mandelson his first job politics as a researcher in my shadow transport team. I also gave him a reference to become Labour’s Director of Communications.
9. I was one of the first Euro MEPs when I was co-opted as an MP back in the 1970s.
10. I’ve used my battle bus in the last three elections in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
11. When someone through the egg at me, I thought I’d been stabbed and that I was bleeding. It was actually egg yolk.
12. To secure the signing of the Kyoto agreement on climate change I kept the delegates up all night.
13. Prescott means ‘priest’s cottage.’
14. After my TV series on Class people now call me Mr Pauline Prescott.
15. I brought in the legislation that allowed congestion charging.
16. My biggest regret in my political career is that we didn’t get elected regional assemblies in the North East, the North West or Yorkshire and the Humber. But they will come.
17. I have 2,501 friends on Facebook but Alastair Campbell is catching up quickly. He’s very competitive!
18. I sometime leave posts on Tory blogs and appreciated Tim Montgomerie’s advice on the Politics Show.
19. I spent less than £10,000 on my Deputy Leadership campaign in 1994 – a tenth of what some Deputy Leadership candidates spent in 2007.
20. I’m still in touch with my staff who worked for me. I always say you never stop working for me, I just stop paying you.
21. I once bought Tony Blair a singing fish to cheer him up. It sang, ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy!’
22. I’m standing down at the next election after what could be 40 years as an MP.
23. Pauline claims she’s better at croquet than me. I beg to differ.
24. I’ve been nominated for two awards at the Channel 4 Political Awards – best political biography for ‘Prezza – Pulling No Punches’ and best documentary for ‘Prescott on Class.’ If I win, Pauline will go up and collect it.
25. I’ve not had a weekend off in a month but I love what I do.
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haha thats great
2. I went to the Morris Secondary Modern School in Skegness from 1981 to 1986.
3. I first got into trouble at school by doing a moonshine out of the rear of a coach full of fellow school rats on the M1!
4. I first entered politics in June 1987 as a delivery boy for the Liberal Party.
5. I did a two year apprenticeship in print finishing at East Lindsey District Council between 1987 and 1989.
5. I first joined the Conservatives in November 1987.
6. My first full time paid job was as a Bingo Caller for the Coral Bingo in Crawley in November 1989.
7. I once had a chinese at a restaurant next to the Bournemouth International Centre even though I had left my wallet and credit card back at my hotel - I still managed to pay the bill though.
8. For five years between 1992 and 1997 I ran my own sports consulting business based in Plymouth where I was snooker writer for the Western Morning News, an odds compiler for Stan James Bookmakers, and later in time, albeit briefly, a darts tipster for the Sporting Life and a magazine called Odds On Monthly.
9. Harry Findlay, who currently jointly owns the Cheltenham Gold Cup winning horse Denman, once praised me in his collumn in the Racing Post in 1997 for keeping him up to date with all the stats and information at the BDO World Darts Championship whilst he was at home in bed with flu.
10. I was successful at first attempt at becoming a Conservative member of Colney Heath Parish Council in Hertfordshire from 2002 to 2003.
11. Dover PPC Charles Elphicke once bought me an ice cream for campaigning with him when he was Conservative PPC in St Albans in 2001.
12. I studied politics at the University of Lincoln in 2003 after completing an Access Course at Oaklands Independent College in St Albans.
13. I was once hit on the head with a load of leaflets by a rather fired up ex Labour councillor during the 2005 General Election Campaign - it was quite a "Grim" experience!
14. I nearly caused a riot during a debate at the University of Lincoln by calling Gillian Merron "the tea lady in the whips office!"
15. I have so far lived in fourteen towns and cities namely Blackpool, Crawley, Guildford, Lincoln, London, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Reading, Skegness, St Albans, Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City.
16. I have written over 1,000 letters to the media attacking Labour since 2001 in all sorts of local papers in the towns and cities where I have lived.
17. I once minded Ronnie O'Sullivan at a Darts Tournament.
18. I had the enormous privilege of attending John Higgins' private party after he won his first ranking snooker title.
19. I love RnB Music, Rhianna, and All Saints.
20. A Labour councillor from Skegness last year reported me to police for putting a photo of his car on this blog when he illegally parked it in a disabled bay.
21. Lincoln Conservatives kindly awarded me the President's Cup in 2005 and the Chairman's Cup in 2007 for services to letter-writing.
22. I once wrote a true story about the St. Giles estate in Lincoln and have been castigated for it ever since.
23. I once got barred from Vote 2007 for telling a few home truths about a Lib Dem MP called Mike Hancock.
24. I am proud to have played my part in bringing down New Labour but as you can tell I tend to get carried away with my blogging every now and again.
25. I currently live in the Milton area of Hampshire and run my own distribution business in Southsea.
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Missed the point are you bragging or complaining?