I was an attendant at Newcastle district assembly one year. Sidlick and his family / hanger on- ers came to my section during lunch and demanded to have a whole row just for them to watch the public talk and drama. It was the best view. Sidlick was doing the talk. I refused to move bags and books. After another attendant sent me to lunch, i came back to see that 2 families had had their belongings moved to lost property. One family had a newborn with them.
That family is now out because of that treatment. When they found out who had done it, the wife went home crying.
I still see the young guy, he works in a well known electrical store in Stockton on Tees.
Make of it what you will. People have dark sides etc. But you could tell that he had a disregard for the small people. He loved the adulation after he gave a talk, you should have seen the fawning over him when he came back ti his seat for the drama.
There was nothing "spiritual" or "humble" about that little performance. It was all about him. A rock star pope.