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Week 19: Prat – David Cameron

May 13, 2012

For the Second Week in a row, the Allthatsleft Prat of the Week, step forward the Prime Minister, Mr David Cameron It wasn’t so long ago that we on these pages (and me in particular) considered David Cameron to be an evil political genius and by some way the most impressive political leader around.    That [...]

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Week 18: Prat – David Cameron

May 6, 2012

This week, our award for the biggest prat of the last seven days goes to the Prime Minister.  Again. When we started this blog and our hero/villain/prat awards, we anticipated that a shrewd David Cameron would probably feature fairly regularly as villain (three to date) but not often as prat.  How wrong we were: this [...]

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Week 17: Prat – The Government of Kyrgyzstan

April 29, 2012

This Week’s Prat of the Week Award goes to the government of the  central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan Every 9th of May in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, there is a major military parade which ends at the monument to the thousands of Second World War dead of this former Soviet Republic.  The top military brass [...]

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Week 16: Prat – Rt Hon Theresa May MP

April 22, 2012

This week the Allthatsleft Prat of The Week Award goes to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Theresa May. We at Allthatsleft are in favour of grown up politics (no really we are).  And part of grown up politics is accepting that all governments, whatever their political colours, make mistakes. It is an [...]

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Week 15: Prat – Tim Montgomerie

April 15, 2012

This week the Allthatsleft Prat of The Week Award goes to the founder of Conservative Home, Tim Montgomerie I quite like and admire Tim Montgomerie.   In Conservative Home he has created the most influential blog in the UK political blogosphere and he is a thoughtful and intelligent contributor to the political debate.   He has consistently been [...]

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Week 14: Prat – Nick Clegg

April 8, 2012

This Week’s Prat of The Week (like so many other weeks) is…Nick Clegg Last Monday the papers were full of the news that the government is going to include in the Queen’s speech legislation to require Internet Service Providers and telecommunications’ companies to retain everyone’s full internet browsing, email and telephone history.   The proposal looks [...]

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Week 13: Prat – Francis Maude MP

April 1, 2012

This week’s winner of the Allthatsleft Prat of the Week Award is……. Rt Hon. Francis Maude MP. Francis Maude won hands down this week – his advice to the nation to ‘fill a jerrycan with petrol and store it in the garage,’ was just appalling – I mean, what was he thinking: on one level, [...]

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Week 12: Prat – Asian Shooting Federation

March 25, 2012

This week’s Prat of the Week Award goes to the Asian Shooting Federation. Before last week, the Asian Shooting Federation were 1,000,000 – 1 against picking up the prized AllthatsleftPrat of the Week Award – but, fair play to them, they came from nowhere to pull it out of the bag, with a tremendous performance [...]

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Week 11: Prat – Vladimir Putin

March 18, 2012

This week, our much coveted award for the biggest prat of the last seven days goes to Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, former president and president elect. Vladimir Putin is a pretty scary guy, but there are times where his public demonstrations of his masculinity come across as comically preposterous.  There was the bare-chested fishing [...]

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Week 10: Prat – David Cameron

March 11, 2012

This week, our ward for the biggest prat of the last seven days goes to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP In a week when posh actor Dominic West bizarrely commented that being posh had almost the same stigma attached to it as being a paedophile, our award for Prat of the [...]

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Week 9: Prat – Kevin Rudd

March 4, 2012

Our award for the biggest prat of the last week goes to The Honourable Kevin Rudd MP, the former Prime Minister of Australia I quite like Kevin Rudd: after all,  he brought the Australian Labor Party back to power after almost twelve years in opposition, getting rid of the loathsome John Howard in the process.  He [...]

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Week 8: Prat – Eric Joyce MP

February 26, 2012

This week’s winner of the coveted Allthatsleft Prat of the Week Award is the MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce. Alright, let’s face it, which one of us has never been tempted to punch a Tory at one time or another, or indeed, one of your friends after an argument gets a little heated. Indeed, I [...]

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Week 7: Prat – Baroness Warsi

February 19, 2012

This week, our award for the biggest prat of the last seven days goes to The Rt Hon Baroness Sayeeda Warsi of Dewsbury On her visit to the Vatican on Tuesday, Baroness Warsi used St Valentine’s Day to tell us all who she definitely didn’t love, the people she termed as believing in “intolerant secularism”. [...]

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Week 6: Prat – Fabio Capello

February 12, 2012

This Week’s Prat of the Week goes to former England Manager Fabio Capello for showing how not to do a resignation There are two good ways of resigning.  There is the ‘I accept I fucked up, it’s time for someone else to have a go resignation’ – think Lord Carrington as ForeignSecretary over the Falklands [...]

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Week 5: Prat – David Lammy MP

February 5, 2012

This week, our award for the biggest Prat of the last seven days goes to David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, for identifying the lack of smacking as a principal cause for the August riots There are many reasons why the August riots happened.  We discussed some of them in our posts at the [...]

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Week 4: Prat – Newt Gingrich

January 29, 2012

Our award this week for the biggest prat of the last seven days goes to Newt Gingrich Last week, Newt Gingrich clinched our Villain of the Week award.  Newt has thrown away his lead of a week ago and now looks set to lose Florida on Tuesday.  And with that, it becomes almost impossible to [...]

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Week 3: Prat – Michael Gove

January 22, 2012

After an outstandingly Prattish week, this naturally gifted Prat, and Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, is awarded our Prat of the Week. This week unemployment rose to a staggering 2.8 million. Staggeringly – unemployment amongst the 16-22 age group is at over a million which equates to 22.3% of that demographic. They are [...]

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Week 2: Prat – Ed Balls

January 15, 2012

For the second week running, our Prat of the Week award regretfully goes to a Labour politician, in this case Ed Balls. Regular readers of this blog will have noted that we have previously been rather fond of Ed Balls.  He’s even been our Hero of the Week twice.  Rather than buy into the reducing-the-deficit-is-all twaddle, he had been [...]

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Week 1: Prat – Diane Abbott MP

January 8, 2012

The first Allthatsleft prat of the week for 2012 is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott To be honest I always used to find Diane Abbott a bit irritating.  The leftier than thou preachiness set along side her decision to send her own children to private schools was hard to take.  [...]

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Week 52: Prat – The Fighting Priests of Bethlehem

January 1, 2012

This Week’s Festive Prats are the….. the fighting Priests of Bethlehem. We all know the words, Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is quiet. We all have the images in our head of the baby Jesus snuggling noiselessly in his crib, as the Wisemen and assorted Shepherds and Angels bask in his deitific [...]

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Week 51: Prat(s) – The German Media

December 25, 2011

This Week’s Prat of the Week Award goes to the German media for proving South Park’s point – the Germans really are the least funny people on the planet South Park’s genius has always been the fact that it does not give a monkey’s who it offends. Indeed it positively revels in the offensive and [...]

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Week 50: Prat – Nick Clegg

December 18, 2011

This week’s Prat of the Week is seven-times winner, the Rt Hon Nicholas Clegg MP. Is there no end to this man’s prattishness? I was left a little gob-smacked this morning watching the Andrew Marr show.  In his chat with guest paper reviewer Fiona Shaw, Marr made the claim that the veto had made it a good week for [...]

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Week 49: Prat – Eric Bolling

December 11, 2011

This week’s Prat of the Week Award goes to another American Right-Wing Dullard, Fox News Political Commentator Eric Bolling. Eric Bolling is not, as far as I know a Republican candidate for the American Presidency, which is a shame, because he’s a big enough prat to make a very good go of it. For those [...]

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Week 48: Prat – Jeremy Clarkson

December 4, 2011

This week, we are giving Jeremy Clarkson our prat award There has been much outrage and gnashing of teeth following Jeremy Clarkson’s controversial appearance on The One Show this week.   Here at AllThatsLeft we think that this rather plays into his egotistical hands as he tries to flog his latest book for Christmas, so we [...]

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Week 47: Prat – Nick Clegg

November 27, 2011

This Week’s Prat of the Week is six times winner Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg This Award has come into a bit of criticism in recent weeks from our regular correspondent, Eddie Kaye.   Eddie asked why we kept giving the Award to American Presidential candidates when there are so many worthy prats on these shores.   [...]

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Week 46: Prat – Herman Cain

November 20, 2011

This week’s Prat of the Week Award goes to Republican Presidential candidate – Herman ‘the Hermanator’ Cain. Fair play to ‘the Hermanator’, his campaign to become President of the USA has been crap, but his campaign to get his hands on one the coveted Allthatsleft Prat of the Week Award has been a tour de [...]

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Week 45: Prat – Rick Perry

November 13, 2011

Rick Perry, Texan Governor and Republican presidential hopeful,  wins our award for being the biggest prat of the last seven days. It is three months ago today since Governor Rick Perry ended speculation and announced that he would seek nomination to become the Republican candidate in next year’s presidential elections.  At the time, many commentators (including George East [...]

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Week 44: Prat – Vince Cable

November 6, 2011

Yet again, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills wins our award for being the biggest prat of the last week. This week saw the latest step on the apparent unstoppable downward velocity of the Rt Hon Vince Cable MP.  Two years ago, he was the go-to economic pundit for Newsnight, so much [...]

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Week 43: Prat – Vince Cable MP

October 30, 2011

This weeks Prat of the Week is the Secretary of State for Industry and ballroom dancer – Vince Cable MP Its a warm welcome back to the podium for one time self-appointed saviour of the known world – Vince Cable. Now since becoming a Minister in the Coalition Government, Vincey has found being a prat [...]

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Week 42: Prat – Senator Marco Rubio

October 23, 2011

This Week’s Prat of The Week Award goes to the Republican Senator for Florida….Marco Rubio Amidst the successes of the Tea Party right in last November’s elections in the US, one of the most striking was the landslide victory of the 40 year old Marco Rubio.   Until his run for Senate Rubio had been the [...]

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