JOHN Prescott has again called Anne McIntosh a "twit", according to a newspaper report today.

The Deputy Prime Minister first used the playground insult earlier this month during a Commons debate on flooding.

Asked by the Vale of York Tory MP why he had failed to tell her he was coming to her constituency to see the floods, he responded: "I met you, you twit."

While twit is a word to make you titter, it is a childish term to be bandied about the House of Commons, supposedly a place of high debate.

Politicians should be able to open their mouths without uttering such silly words, shouldn't they?