That's ingenious, Carol. But the sentences all hang together much too grammatically for the ikes of Rumsfeld and Prescott.

John Prescott Old Labour? Old Labour was a combination of different elements, as all parties are. There was a pretty cynical Tammany Hall style party machine of people on the make, and there was also a mass of people with various ideals and enthusiasms and principles. (I say that as someone who was never even close to being a member.)

The New Labour project consisted of dumping the latter half, and holding onto the former, including of course John Prescott; and welding it to a filleted version of the policies of a self-destructing Conservative Party.