Not content with confessing to voting for Boris underage, calling me rude names, ringing up Boris/Ferrari LBC phone ins without declaring an interest, conducting unsolicited astroturfing for Oona King, threatening anyone who exposes her activities and then acting all innocent and hurt when the entire Internet called her out, Einy Shah has today apparently emerged as a Force in Boris’s 2012 election campaign. In a tweet at around 3pm today that shows he’s probably not aware of Einy’s jealously-guarded privacy, one Nicolas Clark, like Boris (and Einy, if memory serves) an Islington local and the top chap in Conservative Future in London, rather blows the gaff:
Had a good meeting with Einy Shah to discuss Boris & CF Campaigns @backboris2012 from @LondonCF angle #backboris2012
Now, the official Twitter account @backboris2012 certainly had our suspicions from the start, but not perhaps quite as much as @backborisagain, who started almost immediately Boris’s campaign first got going in private at the beginning of August*. The line in badly spelled baiting of London’s non-Tory politicians seems awfully familiar:
@GreenJennyJones the first thing i am going to do when re elected is to ensure that your groups budget is cut so u cant make any more vidoes
We’ll keep an eye on that, although surely even Einy wouldn’t stoop to actually impersonating her idol?:
@joederrett will you vote for me? I did keep you on the pay role for months after i deafted your mate Ken #backborisagain
So, why is Einy apparently involved in @backboris2012? Well, Boris usually uses the GLA account @MayorOfLondon but as we’ve seen before usage of this publicly-funded account for openly political as opposed to office-related communication is going to be potentially embarrassing. Therefore Boris will need a non-public-expense-employed resource to run his re-election Twitter account, and who better than the social media expert, trusted crony and now ex-Mayor’s Peer Outreach Team worker who is reported to hang around City Hall, according to informed sources, trying to get in the lift with Boris. Spies at the House of Commons, meanwhile, report that she no longer appears to be on Jo Johnson’s staff there, either, lending weight to the Back to Boris theory.
One tiny thing bothers me – is she *really* working for Boris 2012, or make believing it? Time will tell, but I suspect the story of Agent Einy, Labour’s greatest asset on the inside at City Hall, isn’t done yet.
* @backboris2012 was registered at this point
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