Someone called James Chapman has been in the news recently, making noises about Brexit being a calamity and various political figures of both left and right being interested in forming a new party. It seems that he's been 'tweeting' prolifically and giving assorted interviews to anyone who'll listen. Such mouthings from a largely unknown personage would probably have been ignored except for the fact that Mr Chapman was on the staff of David Davis, the Conservative Brexit Secretary, until June this year.
The media has leapt on Mr Chapman's remarks as if they're of real moment. Sadly, the same media has said little if anything about Mr Chapman's history or current occupation.
Before taking on his role with David Davis, Chapman was a 'PR' man and spin doctor for that arch-Europhile, George Osborne, apparently being a committed 'Remainer' himself; why he ever took a job with an arch-Eurosceptic such as Davis raises questions. Now, after only a few months in post with Mr Davis, he has taken on a lucrative job with a PR company, Bell Pottinger, in the City of London, specifically to cater for clients with political axes to grind.
He took up his new role on 26th June and one has difficulty believing that his outbursts in the last 2 or 3 days are anything but moves on his part to promote the Europhile views of certain customers of his new employer; for all we know, he may even be dancing to the tune of his former master, George Osborne, again.
It's hard to conclude that this man is anything more than a mouthpiece for whomever happens to be paying his wages at any particular time and his 'twitterings' should be treated with the contempt that all such PR outpourings deserve.
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