Hartlepool is just the gift that keeps on giving. First there was Paul Williams’ love for older women of a conservative disposition and then there was the Northern Independence party’s meme-tastic bid for a Northumbrian republic. Now Reform UK have topped their ‘in out, shake it all about’ routine with Richard Tice by instead naming John Prescott as their candidate for the by election with polling day scheduled for 6 May.
Unfortunately their candidate is not the jaguar-driving, protestor-punching former deputy prime minister but a ‘proud father’ and ‘self-employed businessman’ who just happens to share the same name.
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