Prescott boosts croquet

The last laugh?

Sales of croquet equipment have gone up 40% since John Prescott was pictured playing the game. That was an incident which caused him embarrassment then, because he was in charge of the country at the time. Well, Macmillan read Trollope. Prescott played croquet.

Presco's been awarded a sort of "golden mallet" for services to the sport, having given it a new classless appeal.

I hope he's careful where he swings that mallet. He doesn't want to swipe any mullet haired countryside alliance folks, does he?