John Prescott, New Labour's key link to the party's old Labour roots, today became Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull, despite previously saying [at least according to the Scotsman ...] that he was opposed to becoming a peer.
"I tell you what. The Lords is a place of class, no doubt about that,
and I'd like to be in the battle there, like I am elsewhere."
This morning, before being sworn into the House of Lords, the former deputy prime minister rejected the charge of hypocrisy, and wrote on Twitter that he would use the position to hold the government to account, and as a platform to campaign for issues he believes in. "As the last week has shown with hiking up VAT, axing child tax credits and scrapping schools, there's a lot to hold this government to account for," he wrote.
When the dissolution honours list that included his name was announced on 28 May he blogged: "I welcome the opportunity to continue to campaign in parliament for jobs, social justice and the environment as well as to hold this Con-Lib government to account."
Prescott stood down from the House of Commons at the last general election, but continues to campaign on issues such as climate change and unemployment. He is pushing for a deal to be reached on global warming at the climate change summit to be held in Cancun, Mexico, in November; he helped negotiate the Kyoto protocol and was also involved in last year's Copenhagen conference.
LOL ya fat bastard.
LOL ya fat bastard.
