you don't much like him, do you DT... but the reason they keep him on is widely known: he's the last link to the constituency of Old Labour voters, working people. The rest of his party are lawyers or career politicians, entirely without knowledge of real work. If he goes, who will these voters turn to? Ukip, probably. The trouble is, Prescott seems to be very New Labour in his love for the high life. I don't mean croquet, a game anyone can play, but hanging out with billionaires... and Blair isn't going to sack someone for hanging out with billionaires if he can help it, because it's just the sort of thing he loves to do himself. Me, I'd sack him for incompetence rather than corruption, but then I don't need the working class vote