I think it's bedtime .... I think what you are saying above is opinionated and not factual .... time to give it a rest. Be specific in crticisms of things you have found in his ways or in his writing and comment on them by all means ... I'm no acolyte of RP but what you are spewing forth is not criticism .. it's verbal diaorrhea ..
Advocating the use of 48 hour old larvae in grafting. These make poor quality queens. He did this on a webinar a week ago.
He was indeed on the board of the BBKA for 8-9 years, He was part of the management that sold out to pesticide giants and did nothing to change the BBKA. He was refused access to the education system and threw a mardy.
He advises using nucs that produce queens with crumpled wings, it isn't dwv it is chilled queen cells. They are too small.
He does not now and has never kept AMM he says his area is too diverse to do so. This is why BIBBA is now about locally adapted bees.
If you read beowulf's book the village beekeepers was never set up to be a confrontational group, dogmatism begets counter dogmatism and it is self perpetuating, like hive wars in the press. Now BIBBA is dictating to the BBKA and trying to dictate to government.
He does ridicule the BBKA at every talk. I have seen many but he made his fame there.
He ridiculed the bee inspectors at the first event at the eden project, I was there. he got a short exchange from SBI's in the audience.
His favorite saying when he asks a question that he has nothing more than an opinion on is " i'm only asking "
He suggests people challenge what is in books or what they are told, if you challenge what he says he gets mardy and upset and walks away.
Without 10 people behind him the man is nothing. He has nothing to say without backup. All leylines and divining.
Verbal diarrhea it isn't.
I know the guy and have seen him in action for a long time.