[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:31 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] FW: Voters take Prescott and Blair to task BBC. 16 May 2001, 23:20 GMT 00:20 UK. Election turns ugly. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been involved in an angry scuffle in which punches were thrown - only hours after the launch of the Labour manifesto. Mr Prescott appeared to hit out after being pelted with eggs outside a Labour Party rally in North Wales. A 29-year-old man has been arrested. The trouble followed angry scenes in Birmingham where Prime Minister Tony Blair was confronted by a cancer patient's partner complaining about health spending. John Prescott said in a statement on Wednesday night: "I got off my bus into an already hostile crowd. "I walked through all the jostling and I was attacked by an individual. Eggs were thrown at Mr Prescott as he arrived at the Little Theatre, in Rhyl, North Wales, to address a Labour Party rally. One eyewitness, farm labourer Ron Ingram, said: "Somebody threw an egg and Prescott just turned around and thumped them... We were just protesting. The egg hit him and he hit out. There was pushing and shoving going on something terrible. It got quite nasty." Mr Prescott was trapped against a wall before party supporters intervened. Earlier, Mr Blair faced the wrath of a cancer patient's distraught partner at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham. Sharron Storer, 38, was outraged that no bed had been available on Monday in the hospital's bone marrow unit for her partner, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymphatic cancer. "Would you like to tell me what you are going to do to give these people better facilities?," she asked the prime minister. The BBC's political editor Andrew Marr said: "I cannot remember Labour having such a single bad day of election campaigning in my time reporting politics." SPAM TO FOLLOW Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
