RIP November

RIP John Prescott

Me and a couple of mates got chatting to John late one night, about 36 years ago, on Leeds City station. Well before he became a household figure. He came across to us as a decent, funny, witty ,chatty bloke..I liked him. Also, in his Merchant Navy union days, I heard that he represented my cousin Mike when he went AWOL off a ship in Vancouver.
 
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back in the early 1990s i was working in leeds and going daily on train. made more sense (and easier to park) to go from brough..one day after an earlier london-bound train pulled in, i walked past a first class coach and he was in their with a ton of papers spread across a table, working away. no idea whether he commuted from hull every day, but i'd've found all that extra travel a miserable burden.
 
Whatever your political persuasion, you have to admire John and a politician and a person. This clip is wonderful and just shows how the politicians of today couldn't hold a candle to the likes of John P, RIP John

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It just shows what a farce British politics was and still is. Scripted like a comedy sketch, reading witty lines written by someone else, and as for all the others cheering, jeering like a bunch of idiots at the appropriate times.
 
21st: ray smith (harold raymond smith), footballer, aged 90.

born in hull, played 23 times for hull city 1952-1956, scoring twice.

played for peterborough from 1956 to 1962 including their inaugural record-setting first season in the football league when they scored a record 134 goals and topped division 4. striker terry bly scored 52 of those goals and smith contributed 33 in the 1960-61 and 1961-62 seasons.
he'd scored ;75 goals in 115 games in the midland league for them and ended with 108 goals in 207 matches,.
he ended his career with a season each at northampton and luton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Smith_(English_footballer,_born_1934)