The RCP brings down the PM?

In today’s news it’s announced that the RCP’s agent in 10 Downing Street, Munira Murza, has quit, the media describing this is a major blow to the Prime Minister seeing as she’d worked with Boris Johnson (aka Bozo) for donkey’s years. Ostensibly she’s quit in a dudgeon of high-mindedness over Bozo’s slur against the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, but this just isn’t credible to RCP Watch or, indeed, to anyone familiar with the RCP and its ‘robust’ methods. Imagine if, say, an aide to Starmer had packed it in for similar reasons, you can just imagine the RCP rottweiler Brendan O’Neill mocking them for being a ‘snowflake’.

It seems pretty likely that Mirza knows a sinking ship when she’s on one, and has decided to jump before the waters reach the gunwales, and to put the boot into Bozo as she leaps for safety. There’s little point in remaining an aide to a clearly lame duck PM, and plenty point in positioning yourself, and by association your sect, as a must-have adviser for the next PM. That Mirza’s public quitting will likely bring down the Bozo regime is a real feather in the cap for the RCP and shows how close to the levers of power it’s reached. Uncle Frank will be quietly proud.

Boris Johnson’s policy chief Munira Mirza resigns over PM’s Savile remarks. BBC News, 3/2/22

Why Boris Johnson’s Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs. Andy Beckett, the Guardian, 1/8/20

The RCP writes the Tory manifesto. This blog passim, 1/11/19, outlining Mirza’s history and positions, particularly over racism (spoiler: it no longer exists).

The RCP writes the Tory manifesto

That’s a sensational post title, but strangely true. Munira Mirza, ex-scion of the RCP going back to the early days, is now co-writing the Tory manifesto for the December 2019 general election. This was unearthed by Otto English, correspondent for the liberal monthly investigative journalism title Byline Times, and spread by Tweet on his feed at @Otto_English:

“The RCP/Spiked bunch shouldn’t be allowed near a hamster let alone government policy. But there you go – Mirza is writing the manifesto ” (tweet on 30/10/19)

He continued, in another tweet:

“Mirza became an adviser to Johnson in his Mayoral days she remains very tight with that libertarian and ex RCP mob even appearing very recently in one of their videos.”

So it’s not just that she was in the old RCP, but that she’s in with Spiked and LM and currently writing for Spiked. No ‘youthful dalliance’ this.

English’s tweets led to the writing of a sharp post on the Zelo Street blog which seriously puts the boot into the RCP/LM/Spiked:

“Ms Mirza has now moved with Bozo The Clown from City Hall to 10 Downing Street, where she is director of the Policy Unit. Some may find having one of the Spiked alumni in that role a frightening prospect, but now has come the news that will fall as manna from heaven for anyone opposed to the Tory Party: she is to co-author its election manifesto.“

Interestingly, her colleague and co-writer of the manifesto, Rachel Wolf, is a fracking lobbyist, which rather holes Bozo’s greenwash project below the waterline.

That’s the RCP now advising at the highest levels of the Tory Party, and if Bozo Johnson wins the election they’ll be in or around 10 Downing Street working on policy. Back in the 80s the RCP held summer ‘conferences’ entitled “Preparing for Power”. Oh, how we laughed at their pretentions, a cultlet of 150 members talking of power, but it looks like their strategy is paying off after all these decades. As written about here previously, the RCP is running many Brexit Party parliamentary candidates, and given the organisation and serious money behind Farrago’s project there’s a better than evens chance that there’ll be RCP MPs in the next Parliament. Uncle Frank must be very proud indeed.

Mirza and the ‘race report’

An interesting postscript is that Mirza was involved in the writing of the recent (31/3/21) ‘race report’ whitewashing the UK of racism, according to the BBC:

There was further unease among anti-racism groups at the reported involvement of Number 10 policy advisor Munira Mirza in setting up the commission, because she had previously written of how institutional racism was “a perception more than a reality”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56590791

If true, Uncle Frank’s protegée is doing very well indeed. The RCP has long been ‘sceptical’ of the existence of racism (see this blog passim, RCP/LM as a far Right group) at any level, societal or institutional. Brendan O’Neill of Spiked infamy has regularly claimed that the battles against racism have been done and dusted, not least by the RCP itself via its front organisation Workers Against Racism.

References

Wikipedia: Munira Mirza.

Spiked to write Tory manifesto. Zelo Street.

Fracking lobbyist to write Tory manifesto. The Guardian, 30/10/19

Powerbase: Munira Mirza.