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Louise Mensch’s social media website Menshn — previously touted as a “rival to Twitter” — is to close in the wake of her co-founder’s widely-publicised arrest on suspicion of viewing indecent images of children.

Luke Bozier writes:

It was widely publicised in the days following the hacking of my private email account that I had resigned from menshn, the company I founded and co-own with Louise Mensch. It wasn’t the case that I had resigned as a shareholder, and continue to retain my 50% of the shares in MenschBozier Ltd. However, Louise and I no longer have anything resembling a working relationship, and she no longer wishes to run a company in which I own shares.

I think we call this sort of business practice summary justice. Louise is judge, jury and god all rolled into one, and made a sweeping knee-jerk business decision based on something written online by a malicious hacker. Alas, I am forced to agree that we don’t have a basis for a working relationship, and frankly no longer wish to hold shares in a company she runs.

Statement to follow, presumably.

More: Mensch’s passive-aggressive response to Bozier »

Nearly a year after Scrapbook challenged Luke Bozier’s somewhat dubious CV claims, yesterday’s Sunday Times showed the penny may finally be dropping when it comes to the “senior Blairite adviser”. In a break with the media’s previous lack of curiosity regarding the claimed Blair links of Bozier, who was recently arrested over child porn allegations, the paper reported:

“The Sunday Times has established that far from being a senior aide to Blair, Bozier … held a junior position at Labour’s headquarters at Millbank for just eight months.”

It wasn’t long before the Mail jumped on the bandwagon of enlightenment with a similar piece crediting the Sunday Times for the discovery of Bozier’s bogus claims. Newspapers and onine outlets have spent months describing variously as a “Blairite former Labour official”, “former aide to Blair” and “e-campaigns manager for Tony Blair” with no qualification whatsoever.

Yesterday’s Sunday Times piece did bring fresh amusement, however, forcing the sometimes business partner of Louise Mensch to concede in public that his “Silicon Valley-backed start-up company Municipo” had, errr, received no investment from Silicon Valley. He told the paper:

“Silicon Valley backing comes in various forms, one of which is mentorship and support”

It seems Bozier’s determination to become famous has finally paid off, though perhaps not in the way he had hoped.

Luke Bozier has been arrested on suspicion of viewing or possessing indecent images of children after being reported to the police by his business partner, former Tory MP Louise Mensch.

. @kernelmag saw this story yesterday with great shock and sadness and immediately filed a report with the police. He resigned from company.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) December 7, 2012

Bozier was arrested at 1pm on Friday — some hours before correspondence and images allegedly from his email account were uploaded to Bozier’s personal and business web domains, which had been taken over by a computer hacker.

The material published includes screengrabs which the hacker alleges show attempts to access material on a web forum used to share explicit images of young girls.

When Mensch and Bozier launched their joint company, MenschBozier Ltd, back in March, Scrapbook remarked that “This won’t end well”.

Prescient isn’t the word.

In accepting an appointment as “Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead” (a procedural appointment used by MPs who want to ditch parliament) yesterday, Louise Mensch can celebrate her achievement of being an MP for … errrr … less than half the parliament her constituents elected her to serve.

Becoming MP for Corby on 6 May 2010, she quits 847 days into her term as MP — just 46% of a parliament scheduled to last until 7 May 2015. She was selected as for the seat in October 2006, meaning she actually spent longer as a candidate than an MP.

Meanwhile, her business partner Luke Bozier is continuing his excellent run of comedy form. Having quit Twitter with the words “Fuck. You. All. Losers.”, the self-styled “adviser to Tony Blair” is now threatening to take legal action against a website … for calling him “inept”.

Failing to register the domain lukebozier.com, the web address now hosts something of an anonymous tribute to his recent travails. Suffice it to say Luke is not best pleased:

Though Mensch has quit parliament and Bozer has quit Twitter, Scrapbook very much doubts we have heard the last from this unlikely pairing.