He is also a committed Trades Unionist. On the outbreak of war he took up the Communist banner, seeing the Socialist response to the rise of Fascism as wholly inadequate. He’s now an evangelical Leninist and has earned the nickname ‘Red Ken’. Solid, dependable, and with a keen eye on the value of the media and propaganda, he also has a serious character flaw. Kenneth is a whisky-soak. He drinks heavily and almost continuously when ‘off duty’, and when drunk he tends to be belligerent, outspoken and aggressive. Kenneth often wakes up on a Saturday morning in the police cells, nursing a hangover.