Exposed: Boris's Key Adviser's Links With Secret Extreme Group!

I'm out of town at the moment, visiting my mum, hence the recent paucity of posts. My time in the tiny internet shop I presently share with three Warcraft junkies and their loud crunchy sweets is mercifully short. But I've had a quick read of this Evening Standard piece pointing out the misalignment between Mayor Johnson's Tube booze ban and those of the Manifesto Club, which his culture director Munira Mirza was a found member of. Imagine if she had been Ken Livingstone's adviser. Far from being a mere news story this information would have been seized on by a member of the Standard's Get-Ken squad - especially the "lefties" among them - and inflated into a massive, oversold expose of a "key associate" having "links" with a "front organisation" for a "secretive libertarian cult" with roots in the far-Left Revolutionary Communist Party which supported Serb extremists during the Balkan wars and whose, erm, "shadowy leaders" have a 40 year history of assuming false identities and engaging in subversive political activities in an attempt to undermine the British state. In fact, it would all be true, but not really terribly important - which is, ironically, what the Manifesto Club clique is so terrifically anxious to be.

Comments

[Adam]

I suppose 'Boris disagrees with Muslim advisor' works out all right for both Boris and the Evening Standard. Probably doesn't do Mirza much harm either. Less harm than working for Boris anyway.