With the launch of his chat room site Menshn, political scenester Luke Bozier has spent the week living out his wildest fantasies, described (incorrectly) on numerous websites as a former “aide to Tony Blair”. The media push continued this afternoon on the Daily Politics — where Bozier was billed as a “Social Media Expert”.
But a blog post on Apple’s launch of the iPhone may undermine claims that he is some form of digital sage:
“The ‘iPhone’ is a beast, and I really can’t imagine it having anywhere NEAR the popular demand that the iPod currently enjoys. I have a feeling that the iPhone will be popular only with geeks, nerds and Apple sycophants worldwide”
Staring at his crystal ball, Mystic Luke concluded:
“I think this may be the start of a long, major downturn in Apple’s fortunes. And that friends, will be justice.”
Since Bozier wrote this, the iPhone has sold more than 200 million units, Apple became the most valuable company in the world and currently has a market capitalisation of $540 billion. Meanwhile, the stock of Bozier-favoured BlackBerry manufacturers Research in Motion has crashed by 80%.
Inverse Midas touch.
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I think this revelation may be the start of a long, major downturn in Menschn’s fortunes.
And that friends, will be justice.
Every business he’s run so far has failed.
None of his business ideas show any kind of originality and his comments on the iPhone just show that he has no vision at all.
All he has are media contacts, and spin fuelled by delusion and ambition without the talent to back it up.
There appears to be steam coming out of his ears on the photo above.
I’ll never really understand the mania amongst some of the more virulent political commentators on all sides of the spectrum to constant pick holes in comments made years in the past.
Presumably Bill Gates should be mocked as a failure as well for once saying “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
That tendency is why politicians are now so terrified of giving a clear concise answer to any question – in case they turn out later to be wrong and some idiot tries to make a petty political point with it.
As Tony Blair was wont to say, “let’s move on”.
@Ian: Perhaps that should be “As Tony was wont to say to me …”
Luke is mocked as a failure because he has not succeeded in business but works very hard to promote himself as an ‘expert’. Through contributions to Labourlist and then to the ‘Labour’s Business’ paper he has cultivated a reputation built on nothing but having professional looking Twitter photos, a network of sympathetic media contacts and a willingness to post ill-informed deliberately provocative articles.
The vitriol comes from the fact that he has no body of work to show that he is an expert in anything other than shameless self-promotion.
He describes himself as an entrepreneur but there are no examples of business success to back that up. He described himself as Tony Blair’s aide and we know that’s not even close to being true.
In January he launched yet another business and timed the launch to coincide with his ‘defection’ to get a few column inches to promote it and where is that business now? He’s already excised it from his Twitter bio, he’s not blogged on that site in months. It joins the long list of his business ventures that went nowhere. And yet the myth persists, the legend continues: tech visionary, entrepreneur, political consultant and all-round Walter Mitty-style fantasist.
He is the CEO of two things- Jack and Shit… and Jack left town.
He’s an idiot. https://twitpic.com/9ylqge
He also misuses the word sycophant. Go look it up.
So, PS is just a hacky website that runs articles devoid of any info with the sole intention of attacking someone personally?
Great stuff. No, really, superb. Really great to see PS go down the pan.