I've had the misfortune of being present at a meeting where Billy was leading the negotiations at a meeting with the acting GS of the GMB, Paul Kenny, and i have to state the guy was a lightweight in every sense. He cut a pathetic sight during the meeting heaping compliment upon compliment on Kenny without ever cutting to the chase concerning what it was we were after.norbert wrote:Big Daz wrote:norbert wrote:my fault for taking something on a Anarchists forum as read , it wasn't my cup of tea but interesting and enlightening all the same .linkinpark wrote:edinburghsteve wrote:
Hayes only got to DGS by making tub thumping speeches about Copperas Hill , Liverpool being closed and the work being moved to Warrington as he'd the backing of a large branch and not being Keggie .
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Billy has never been DGS he went straight to GS from outdoor secretary
The meeting took place at GMB HQ situated in Worple Rd, Wimbledon, not far from CWU HQ. Before the meeting we agreed a strategy among ourselves with Billy leading the line. Things quickly deteriorated when Billy got himself into such a muddle that he was barely coherent. A member of the PEC who was in attendance took over the meeting thankfully sparing us all further embarrassment at Billy’s expense. The guy was without doubt a liability.
We left the meeting having secured a number of action points which were to be initiated within defined timescales.
I was also present during a phone call between these 2 GS’ at Conference and was shocked to hear Billy singing down the phone to Paul Kenny.
A number of months later another meeting took place with the same people in attendance this time during a lobby of parliament, Westminster that is, (not Stormont) and during an aside with Paul Kenny he said in reference to Billy, “that guy’s a clownâ€