Having attempted to attack another candidate in the forthcoming election, I thought I would have a look back at Driver's history, see what he was doing in yesteryear. Little did I know I would find myself laughing out loud at a clown who it seems has made a career from being an UTTER failure, not to mention traitor and turncoat against those who he purports to support (at least he's consistent!)
Having been a Labour member, he then joined the poisonous Militant Tendency (for those to young to know, that was a group within the Labour party which made it unelectable for over 15 years) not content that the Labour party represented his ultra left wing views properly, but not having the courage to stand outside the party that he had purported to support.
Having helped destroy Labour, he joined with that other ultra left wing clown, Arthur Scargill, who had succeeded only in destroying the mining industry and the NUM. Standing for election in 1997, coming a laughably piss poor 3rd with less than 1000 votes! Seems Driver is strikingly consistent thus far, then goes on to prove that he has always had traitorous leanings.
Not happy with the way that Scargill ran the party HE FOUNDED, he was unceremoniously kicked out on his arse, having lead an attempt to challenge Scargill, as it seems they weren't prepared to put up with such unprincipled clowns in their party, and Driver slunk away to hide.
A few years later, hoping no doubt to have escaped his appallingly dishonest political history, he popped up in Thanet, having rejoined the Labour party (you remember, the party he helped make unelectable for nearly 2 decades). Having been elected as a Labour councillor, he - true to form - turned on them again, simply to gain control of some committees by applying blackmail to the leader of the labour party he once purported to support.
Joining the "Thanet Independent Group" with homophobe finder general Worrow, he unbelievably even stabs him in that back, and deserts yet AGAIN, without a word to poor ole Worrow! See the heartfelt and anguised words of yet another colleague who had to learn Driver's traitourous personality the hard way;
"I was astounded to find out via the Thanet District Council public web site that Councillor Ian Driver has left the Thanet Independent Group
to join Cllr King’s Independent Group. I have been concerned for weeks,
due to Cllr Driver’s failure to respond to my emails and voice
messages, and I am both surprised and shocked that he has not had the
common courtesy to tender his resignation in writing - John Worrow"
He also ran for police commissioner, but without a party to dishonestly represent, the poor little clown couldn't even raise the deposit!
Seems Driver has been a consistently dishonest backstabber his entire career!
There is more, but I am laughing SO hard at Driver and his minions, I have to leave the rest for another day, I'm sure his little monkey has enough to console him over already.
You left out that SWP is IRA supportive.
ReplyDeleteAnd that the avowedly Marxist IRA terrorist plan included to infiltrate the trades union movement.
You also neglected the apparent betrayal of family. Having married some lady and describing himself as proud husband and dad, perhaps to enhance his claims at the time to TiggyWinkle membership, he comes 'out' on being bisexual. I think if I announced to my good lady and kids that I was now bisexual I would be out, straight through the front door.
ReplyDeleteLyndon, a timely reminder of the dark days of the late 60s, early 70s when the main plot was a socialist republic of Ireland creating an eastern bloc stronghold in the Atlantic between the then two major players in NATO. Political operatives in Ulster ranged in nationailty from American to Aussie to Italian to English, but a membership of the communist party was common to all frequently linked to an education at Turin and Moscow universities.
DeleteOne London print chapel, in the hands of the extreme left, regularly donated to the cause to my knowledge with a pick up house in Blackfen. It was all part of the cold war scene at the time with the far left, and quite a few even in the Labour party, on the Soviet side. Links between political extremists, trade unions, peace movements, CND and terrorist organisations were common place back then and continued until the collapse of the USSR. Some still have not got the message.
Very apt points Tom, it's easily forgotten just how poisonous the likes of Scargill and militant tendency was.
DeleteThat was what I was moving onto Tom, but laughing as hard as I was at Driver - whose close personal friend was jailed for grooming children on the internet - I just had to stop, I was having way to much fun!
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