I’ll give you a moment to steady yourselves. What with the shock and all.
Ms Xahra Saleem, formerly Yvonne Maina, is a co-founder of the activist group All Black Lives Bristol, and was hailed by Rife magazine as one of Bristol’s “most influential under-30s.” Ms Saleem’s merry band of megaphone-waving statue-topplers have been the subject of endless gushing and deferential commentary, with the local university subsequently promising to “decolonise” All Of The Oppressive Things.
Discarded placards and assorted detritus from the group’s protests were fondled reverentially by staff of the local museum and stored for later worship as holy artefacts.
Ms Saleem’s trajectory of righteousness will, one assumes, also be a subject of study by tomorrow’s progressive devotees:
To borrow from Father Ted, the money was just resting in her account.
Those general lifestyle expenses included Uber taxi rides totalling £5,800, spent in a mere eleven months, and a remarkable amount of hairstyling. Readers may wish to ponder the degree to which disparities in life outcomes, which so animate Ms Saleem’s organisation, may be explained by Ms Saleem’s own frivolous spending choices and the mindset they imply.
At which point, as you’d imagine, some awkwardness ensued:
No laughing at the back.
Subsequently quizzed on her prodigious appropriation of other people’s money, Ms Saleem explained,
And, somewhat belatedly, apologies were offered.
Dramatic pause.
Ms Saleem can be seen here, suitably shrouded in piety, shortly before being sentenced to two and a half years in prison.
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