The Robin Taylor enigma
Reluctant as I am to boost Robin's ego by giving him a thread all to himself I did say I would share some "information", if it is that, that has come my way which might help to throw some light on what motivates this peculiar little fellow to relentlessly bombard residents of a borough in which he doesn't live with propaganda extolling the Party Line of an organisation to which, it would appear, he has committed his undying, not to mention unquestioning allegiance.First his interest in our borough. Word is that the Labour Party in his own borough has effectively told him he is a bloody nuisance. His attentions therefore are now solely focused upon neighbouring Hounslow, where he spams our local community forums unashamedly with his judgements upon people he has never even seen, let alone met, and explains to us all where we all stand on the "political spectrum" by which he measures and compares us all.But is he actually a member of the party for which he presumes to speak?Well, according to correspondence published in local newspapers a few years back he left the party in protest over its imperialist military policies. This alone should ring alarm bells as time and again he has demonstrated here that his philospophy is one of "My Party Right Or Wrong", and that it is unlikely that the lives of a few hundred thousand Bosnians, Serbs, Iraqis or Afghans would concern him enough to inspire him to criticise his own party, let alone to leave it. Obviously there was something more to his departure from the Labour Party back then than he would have us believe.But did he rejoin? Look closely at the wording of his posts and one will see that he has never actually claimed to have done. Moreover, when I have challenged him over the last week or so to tell us exactly where he is coming from he has sidestepped the issue every time.Now I am reliably informed that it is his wont to bombard Labour politicians in this borough with reams of unwanted and unsolicited "advice" as to how they should set about combating the dreaded ICG and the rise of community power in and around Isleworth. Much of this advice has called for a return to the tired old smear politics that has let them down so badly in the past. For some reason Robin still seems to believe this to be his party's secret weapon, and that his own party in Hounslow is somehow letting the side down by putting it onto a back burner, at least for now.Said Hounslow Labour politicians have, allegedly, attmepted to invite Robin to meet with them in person to discuss his interest in their work but it would appear that he is even too nervous of them to do so!Word has it (and I must declare that this is second-hand and, to me at least, unconfirmed) that Robin is not actually a member of the Labour Party. Whether this is through his own choice or because he has been encouraged to leave (or discouraged from rejoining) is not clear. But the bottom line is that the party for which he appears to speak on this forum doesn't want him.A couple of weeks ago I commented here about a scrappy Labour leaflet that appeared in Isleworth pleading how wonderful Ann Keen was and squealing about how badly maligned and misunderstood she truly is. My information was at the time that the leaflet was not sanctioned by the Labour Party, and I suggested that possibly Robin and his entourage may have produced it. However since typing those comments I have become aware that said leaflet has also been distributed in Hounslow South, and possibly other areas, suggesting either that I was being fed misinformation or that Robin's efforts to reinvent the object of his desire as a caring, selfless human being are even more serious than we here may first have realised.The unanswered question here is why, if Robin is acting as a freelance and is compromising his party's election campaign, the real local leadership of the party does not come onto this forum and others, even once, to publicly disown him.The answer, in my view, lies in the fact that some members of the local party who are officially endorsed would seem to accept Robin and insist upon working openly with him. Sue being the most obvious example.And so it is that the local Labour Party is in something of a quandry. Disown Robin and upset some of its own candidates and members, don't disown him and just hope and pray that he doesn't do anything really stupid to derail what it is supposed to be a serious political campaign.Who'd be a politician?
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