Guy is generally a scumbag. He voted against the 2nd Tyne tunnel and also against the Silverlink roundabout and A1 duelling.
Had the misfortune of meeting him once before. He's an extremely bitter bastard. Hates NUFC or anything north of the Tyne for that matter. Openly admits it as well.
Guy is a full blown Tosser.
He sent his son to Whitley Bay High school despite living right next to John Spence. He sent him there because John Spence doesn’t have a good reputation or OFSTED rating, or at least it didn’t at the time, where as Whitley Bay did.
If he was anyone else there is no way he would been able to send his kid to Whitley Bay over John Spence. Even if John Spence was full, he would have been required to send him to Marden, or Monkseaton ahead of Whitley Bay. It just so happens that both of those schools weren’t highly rated either.
He was a teacher at Whitley High when i was there. He started dating a sixth form student and then left the school under a bit of a cloud i seem to remember. Then they got married a few years later. He was a right arsehole.
Yes. He was born in 1957, left Whitley Bay High School in 1989 when he was 32. A sixth former would have been 18 when they left, so the scenario was he was 32 (or younger) and she was around 18 when they started seeing each other. Not a good look for an MP.
It must make for an uncomfortable moment when anyone asks him or his wife how they met.
I'm loathe to take this off topic, but what the fuck? I'm a teacher in Australia, and that guy would have his registration permanently cancelled and an investigation for historical child sex offences. And that's not hyperbole - I had a colleague whose 40 year old relationship with an 18yo consensual student saw him banned for life and a very rigorous police investigation (after it came to light).
It probably wouldn't be allowed to happen now, but around about the time that we're talking about (late 80s/early 90s) I was at a school in North Tyneside and a member of non teaching staff was getting away with fucking murder with 16 year old lasses (what was classed as year five at the time). I know that at least one parent challenged the school and was told that there was nothing that they could do as the guy wasn't a teacher and the girls were of legal age.