I note - with no real sense of sympathy - that John Prescott has revealed he was bulimic. This comes a few weeks after the release of details of MP's expenses showed that he munched through a gut-busting £4,000 of groceries in one year.
So, in summary, Prescott threw (up) tax payers' money quite literally down the toilet.
Hmmm, shame. If only the Government had known at the time, it could have cut out the bloated middle man altogether and simply thrown a pile of cash down a sewer.