LibLink: Mark Pack advises the party to be more like John Prescott

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LibLink: Mark Pack advises the party to be more like John Prescott

By NewsHound | Thu 22nd September 2011 - 9:50 am

Writing for the New Statesman, The Voice’s Mark Pack has picked an unusual role model for the Liberal Democrats:

What Prescott managed to do very successfully as a backbencher in the last years of the Labour government was both be a member of a party in power and also be consistently anti-establishment, especially in his attacks on some in the financial sector – and his mobilising of public support behind his campaigns.

For a party such as the Liberal Democrats who have such a strong tradition of anti-establishment ideology and campaigning, pulling off that combination now is all the more important. Or as Party President Tim Farron put it in a debate later in the day, “Let us become the administration but never, ever the establishment”.

You can read Mark’s full post here.

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2 Comments

DunKhan 22nd Sep '11 - 12:57pm

That aspect of Prescott is good, but it’s worth remembering quite how ineffectual he was as a cabinet minister and quite how needlessly tribal he is. There are good aspects to that particular politician but there are even more negative ones.
Ian Sanderson (RM3) 23rd Sep '11 - 9:05am

Pretty effective too in going against his leader’s views on the AV question. I always thought that he was underestimated, often on snobbish grounds, as a politician.
Can’t forgive him for his part in the anti-AV campaign though.