According to his speaker's biography on the agency website offering him up as after-dinner entertainment, he
"continues to advise the Chinese government on their plans to build a thousand new 'sustainable' cities"
Most UK observers would consider this a reckless move by the Chinese, but it seems to me to make sense. Any recent visitor to China will tell you of the bulldozing of the historic centres of urban areas (like the former Deputy PM's Pathfinder scheme), the rush to build hundreds of thousands of small, box-sized flats which are already falling to pieces (which characterised Prescott's regime as Secretary of State for the Environment) and the dreadful environmental problems caused by failing to prepare enough infrastructure for huge new developments.
I am hoping for the sake of the Chinese that this c.v. has been embellished by the speaker agency, but I ask this question: have any readers visited one of Prescott's 1,000 new Chinese cities?
