Every time I see or hear him on TV or radio, I find myself agreeing with him on pretty much everything. Do I take it that he is hiding some skeletons in the closet, lets down his members greatly somehow or is he just a sensible bloke?

I realise that this isn't likely to be the most critical forum of someone like him but I am more likely to get a balanced view than that of the media's

Bob is a dirty bastard in five a side football and has been kicked out of the Euston flyer (pub near his London office) after drunken revels.

He also interviwed and appointed his wife to a PR job with the union. When accused of nepotism, he was unapologetic- "she was the only facking candidate!"...

Actually, if she was genuinely the only candidate, he had a point

The story is probably exaggerated, possibly invented. E10 may know.

Interviewing your partner, relative or debtor/ creditor for a job is generally agreed to be bad HR practice even where the relationship is declared and open.

Although it's widespread, of course.

I don't know, I have had, at least, three jobs due to my wife.

You nepotistee

I know of Bob's tough-tackling footballing ways but not of how his wife got her job, if she did.

He's a good bloke, is Bob, though not always the smartest at PR. A mate of mine is their political officer (and one of the smartest people I know on the left) and he does at times get over-worried about what Bob's gonna say whenever he goes on the telly.

I'll leave it to others to go on about what a cunt they think he is. As they usually do.

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Bob is a dirty bastard in five a side football and has been kicked out of the Euston flyer (pub near his London office) after drunken revels.

Also banned from the Somertown Coffee House (a pub in Euston) for the heineous crime of singing.