John Prescott's son joins Greens
David Prescott decision to join the Greens comes as the party overtakes Labour for the first time in the polls.
Karl Turner, who succeeded John Prescott as the Labour MP for Hull East in the 2010 general election, told Sky News the defection was "hugely disappointing" but "no surprise."
He added: "I suspect John Prescott would be furious if he was around today.
"But his anger would be aimed at the Labour Party for allowing progressive voters to leave Labour and go to what they see as a left-wing, more progressive alternative to the party he worked all of his adult life to elect into government, to change the lives of the many, not the few, for the better."
Politicians eh? They play strange language games where words such as 'progressive' seem to mean no more than progressively totalitarian, benefitting the few, not the many.
Interesting times unfortunately.
4 comments:
They're going to get a whole lot worse, AKH, but we can be stoical.
James - I agree, not many reasons to be cheerful.
He will soon be " Call-me-Dave " Prescott. And he will have ordered two of those weird "green" Jaguars, the video advert for which caused so much ridicule. One charging while other being driven.
Raspberry (red on the outside, red on the inside) joins Watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside). Not a very big difference really
Penseivat
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