Fortunately for us all, Britain’s progressive  multiculturalists stopped short of making him “Lord” or “Baron” — which would be even more galling.
Ex-Labour minister Shahid Malik an adviser to Lutfur Rahman
This is a cross post from Trial By Jeory and Harry’s Place
I was sceptical at first, but a commenter called ‘dog in the street’ first raised it on this thread about Lutfur Rahman’s mayoral advisers here.
After finally getting it confirmed through a council source (Takki Sulaiman’s press office refused to comment), I wrote this in the Sunday Express’s Crossbencher diary column at the weekend.
OH, HOW the mighty are fallen. Labour’s former Justice and later Communities minister Shahid Malik, who lost his seat in Dewsbury in 2010 after it emerged he had claimed £730 on expenses for a massage chair and another £2,600 on a home cinema system, is now scrounging for work at Britain’s supposedly cash-starved councils.
Crossbencher has discovered he is working as an official “equalities” adviser for the controversial Independent mayor of Tower Hamlets, in east London, where he is being paid £200 a day. When we asked the council how he was appointed and for examples of his work, it refused to say, refusing even to confirm he existed.
So, there we are. An ex-Labour minister is advising Lutfur for one day a week on £200.
Here he is in his glory days, spitting the dummy:
  
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