In 1228, James faced the sternest opposition yet from a vassal. One of the BUF's sternest critics locally was Roy Nicholls, chairman of the Young Socialists. Lord Byron admired Crabbe's poetry, and called him "nature's sternest painter, yet the best". Sweyn received the sternest judgement of them all, and was exiled for life. The debate continued with a reply by one of her sternest critics, Robert P. George. However, in taking on Blackrock, Glen Rovers were facing their sternest test.