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Topic Originator: buffy
Date: Thu 21 Nov 12:14
BBC reporting :
“Former Labour Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has died aged 86.
His family said he died peacefully on Wednesday to the sound of jazz music at his care home, where he had been living with Alzheimer`s.”
I didn’t realise he had this awful disease. RIP
”Buffy’s Buns are the finest in Fife”, J. Spence 2019”
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Topic Originator: hurricane_jimmy
Date: Thu 21 Nov 12:24
Honestly don`t know that much about the man but seems like he was a bit of a character!
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Thu 21 Nov 13:36
He was a proper political heavyweight from a time when people were in it for the right reasons. Played a huge role in making sure the unions were on board with the New Labour movement. RIP
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Thu 21 Nov 16:44
Were you on board with Tony Blair`s New Labour movement then?
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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Topic Originator: Andrew283
Date: Thu 21 Nov 19:01
Would run circles around the weak politicians we have now in Starmer, Sunak etc.
RIP
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Fri 22 Nov 17:47
Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Thu 21 Nov 16:44
Were you on board with Tony Blair`s New Labour movement then?
Towk .. with the greatest respect to you this is a post relating to the passing of John Prescott ..a great man .. Please keep your petty bickering with other posters for other threads .. just saying
RIP John .. thoughts and sympathy for all Family and Friends
We are forever shaped by the Children we once were
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Topic Originator: The One Who Knocks
Date: Fri 22 Nov 18:32
You are of course quite correct Buspass. I`m not sure if I`d go as far as saying he was a great man as that is indeed high praise but I think New Labour actually did a great deal of good for the nation (the NHS would be in a far sorrier state if not for the massive investment that took place in the 2000s, minimum wage etc) and the Iraq war was a lot more nuanced than the `not in my name` brigade made out and John Prescott was a huge part of the government during that era.
Very much a no nonsense character and, as much as a politician can be, a straight talking man.
And although my eyes were open
They just might as well be closed
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