Shapps (or his pseudonym) once had a side gig selling $497 eBooks that promised to earn you $20k in weeks and scraping software for SEO spammers, so he definitely is tech-savvy and cynical enough to at least ask someone else to Photoshop Boris out...
He forgot about using a pseudonym and having a side business when asked too.
Not to defend him[0], but humans in general have fairly flawed memories and can often end up with false memories after seeing fake photos of themselves.
[0] course he should've known, the photo is framed in a way that only works with the missing PM, and is a bad enough photoshop job that I can still see BJ's elbow.
> Every time they get caught out they miraculously forget everything.
There's no cost to this, because tomorrow the media and your supporters will forget everything as well. Unless the media really want to use it against you.
Even if it's true that he was unaware, that just shows how bad the people he employs are. It's farcical, you are your team, if his team are crap it's because of him.
He forgot about using a pseudonym and having a side business when asked too.