Newsflash: Prescott is PM
By Graham Davies

Congratulations to Gordon Brown. He wins the monthly John Prescott Memorial Prize for Unintelligible Speechmaking for the following sentence delivered yesterday:

"Or we could view the threats and challenges we face today as the difficult birth-pangs of a new global order, and our task now as nothing less than making the transition through a new internationalism to the benefits of an expanding global society, not muddling through as pessimists but making the necessary adjustment to a better future and setting the new rules for this new global order."

My Rules of Presentation Order state that the more complex the issue you are talking about, the more simple the speech has to be. Essentially: Say it, Support it, Shut it.

Not all of us have Gordon’s academic background. We shouldn’t need one to be able to follow what our Prime Minister is saying.