Exposed: Boris’s key adviser’s links with extreme group!
Just joking!
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.
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Our ambition at the Manifesto Club is to start to develop the theory and substance of a new progressive politics.
Sounds like you should be joining forces.
What is your complaint exactly, Dave?
That the wrong ES journalist wrote the story?
Has the wrong person been covering BJ’s holiday too?
How galling it must be to see that the ES is not in fact the BJ house journal.
What is your complaint exactly, Dave?
Erm, isn’t it obvious what his point is cjcjc?
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