That he chose instead to take the title of deputy mayor for young people and the £124,000 salary tells one all about his naivety and, to be charitable, about his determination to find out whether the philosophies developed at that Eastside Young Leaders Academy could be successfully applied across the capital.
Richard Barnes, the deputy mayor of London and former deputy chairman of the police authority, said: "What I get incredibly disturbed about is the naivety of the management of the Met.
She's still a reluctant spokesperson, she says, still worried about her naivety, but it is clear she knows what she is talking about.
They're playing a very clever game, and it's all about the naivety of shoppers.
This email doesn't reveal the hypocrisy of British politicians - but it tells us a lot about the naivety of many voters.
He talks about his naivety in thinking if you get the ethos and the curriculum of a school right, then everything else will fall into place.
Huston is ambivalent about the way privacy filters have changed, making a point we'll return to – about the naivety of celebrities who expect their naked photos to stay private.
There is something appalling about the naivety of a man who could hang around the Adlon hotel in Berlin - a place where, as McCrum points out, you were liable to run into Admiral Dönitz and William Joyce Lordd Haw-Haw) on the same day.
In another, he describes Germany beating Brazil 7 1, thwarting a chance for a Brazil-vs.-Argentina final, by writing, "Yesterday a large dark cloud appeared in the World Cup sky, our — your and my — 'heaven' and our dream of a final between Brazil and Argentina, and that cloud says a lot about my naivety".
There will be sneering about tactical naivety, no doubt, but surely it can only be good to think there will have been be youngsters at the King Power Stadium inspired by the artistry and attitude on display, the skill and speed of thought, as well as of movement and, marvellously, the lack of cynicism.
