Charlie Kimber - SWP National Secretary

[solidyeoman]

Anyone know anything about Charlie Kimber. I have heard he is descended from Sir Henry Kimber the baronet and may have gone to Eton? Maybe rubbish but there's surprisingly little info about him on gthe net and nothing on his background?

 

[butchersapron]

He was attacked on the socilaist unity site for being a public schoolboy a few years back...true or not don't know...

 

[solidyeoman]

Current best bet is that he is the brother of Sir timothy Kimber (or possibly son) of Lazards merchant bankers and Old Etonian. If his brother/daddy went to Eton its a safe bet that Charlie did too. Still need that killer fact though. All trace of Charlie's background seems to have vanished off the net. Strange.

 

[belboid]

christ almighty, who gives a flying fuck? Some stupid cunt makes up a rumour (most likely) to see what prat bites. Even if its true, attack his fucking politics, not some supposed accident of birth.

 

[butchersapron]

Come on b. you know the bloody point!

 

[belboid]

yeah, its an anti-political one (or its a 'lets see what we can get some anarchs to believe' one)

 

[treelover]

no, its indicative of the nature of these sort of politics, it informs how they treat people, their ideology, methods of work, etc...

the posts on public schools outlined how all this can have an impact on how these people dominate the far left.

 

[belboid]

Well, if thats the case you will undoubtedly be able to pull out innumerable examples of how CK has already displayed his background in his writings. If you cant do that, then you are full of shit.

 

[treelover]

actually I think i met him in Prague in the 90's, while on holiday, seemed a nice guy..

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Actually he's an ex-miner from the Kent coalfields, his family were massively politicised during the eighties, and his dad was an NUM branch officer and steward. Charlie himself worked as a driver for the Coal Board.

 

[audiotech]

Jeez, I could imagine some here in any revolutionary situation taking pot-shots at well dressed passers-by, or feeling the hands of people to see if they had any callouses to confirm if they were a son of a gnarled working man of toil.

Remind me again, what was the percentage of those voting in the recent poll here who went to a private school?

 

[SpineyNorman]

He was industrial organiser or whatever they call it when I was in the SWP. Always seemed like one of the better ones on the CC IMO.

 

[The39thStep]

Actually he's an ex-miner from the Kent coalfields, his family were massively politicised during the eighties, and his dad was an NUM branch officer and steward. Charlie himself worked as a driver for the Coal Board.

This is what I remember of him, heart is in the right place , decent committed sort of bloke but is stuck in the cobweb left.

 

[cogg]

Actually he's an ex-miner from the Kent coalfields, his family were massively politicised during the eighties, and his dad was an NUM branch officer and steward. Charlie himself worked as a driver for the Coal Board.

Are you sure about that? I don't subscibe to this idea that he's a scion of the ruling class but he was doing a teaching course in Liverpool about 1986/7 so it doesn't seem right to me.

 

[past caring]

I think we are having our legs pulled with that one....