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mchops said:

I do like the 'was ' in this quote

Mr Harris, who was a popular figure on the internet

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You can stick his name into the GoFundMe website and there are still quite a few of his on there. To be fair, most of them have that little green tick so I think that means he never accesses the money. But not all of them.

Obviously the big ones we know about, McDonald’s and Formula but there are others that picked up a few grand here and there, and who knows where the money went.

To be honest I think the GFM stuff is the least of his worries. My gut is telling me that the bigger fish is the £484k and the dodgy awards of public sector contracts. Almost half a million quid to admin some local Facebook groups where he’s lucky to get 2 likes per post, allegedly awarded by his mate who gave the contract to a company that she owns which is a phoenix from the flames of another company that was struck off for not submitting accounts, 9 days before the new one was formed with basically the same name. The whole thing STINKS and I reckon that’s what has him shitting his pants.

The Twitter account to keep an eye now is his mate Kirsty. Hopefully she gets dragged into the net of the investigation but I wouldn’t be surprised to see her go private or disappear in the same way Harris has.

Gutted the Mail didn't use our other descriptions eg 'fat unfunny cunt'.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if anyone reads this who feels like chiming in on doxing his personal address on twitter needs to back down. What's needed here is the slow, uncertain imposition of justice and if there is a case to answer, the consequences, and not just in respect to him but the others that may be involved. More than anything though, it may well engender a degree of sympathy from the rozzers, which will just get in the way of them doing their job properly. Those who have had their eye on this for a long time (years actually) have learned to be patient - we now need to let things take their natural course, but can, of course, talk about it in the meantime.

From my experience working in marketing/advertising/PR, £500k in the private sector will often give global companies a team of around 5-6 from an agency, who perform 'full-function' activities of social media, press office, thought leadership and event management for a year.

For the same amount to be spent in the public sector on ONE GUY to run some FB groups alone is gob-smacking.

MavisBeacon said:

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he came from Essex he had a thirst for knowledge
He embezzled council funds and now he’s eating porridge

i ended up watching all 4 episodes of the post office tv thing last night. Mr Laz was out and i was gripped by it so kept watching. i'd loosely followed the story over the past year/18m.
Seeing what those people went through, i simply can't believe he thought the best thing he should do was monetise this for his own publicity by raising funds through him, rather than directing people to the charity.

i am in disbelief at what a poor lack of judgement this was, on his part.

lilykestrel said:

Just occurred to me that that trustee guy clearly has his head screwed on, or has done his due diligence. Because his opening salvo was "don't give him your money, you don't know where it's going"

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Nick Wallis is very much a details-oriented journalist, and with good reason. The scandal was all about 'misappropriation of funds' (false accusations, in the case of the subpostmasters). Given that it has taken a long time and a very, very hard struggle for the people involved to get where they are today, everyone involved is going to be HYPERsenstive to details, to paper trails and to full probity.

Harris has dropped a major bollock here. And it makes me wonder what Nick Wallis might have said to him privately in addition to his public disavowal.

And here’s the problem with all of these left wing grifters… As soon as they’re found out, the cry goes up that they must be secret Tories. They aren’t. They’re just left wing grifters. The equation in some stupid people’s heads that being left wing automatically equates to them being the good guys shows why, as an audience, they are so vulnerable to these scams.

Excellent

Has written for The Times, used to be part of Money Saving Expert (*), edits a Student Money Saving publication

(*) MARTIIIIIIIIIN

It's Teemill and the Trussell Trust all over again!

is it too early for a

Happy Christmas everyone. Credit to Private Eye for the idea

A whole full page spread in the Southend Echo, gutted
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A Labour councillor from Hampshire

Yesweknowyouhavekids said:

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He embezzled council funds and now he’s eating porridge

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She told me that the council was loaded
I said in that case I’ll have £500k and a Coca Cola tshirt. She said fine.

It's always the slightest random little thing that gets these types in the end.

In this case, 8+ years of 'work' is undone by jumping on publicity from an ITV drama of all things.

Like Capone for tax evasion.

Even The Cat from Red Dwarf is asking questions about Si.

Recap:

Well, we were all just puttering along in the doldrums of the New Year, when Mr Bates vs the Post Office aired on ITV. And Simon, in his infinite wisdom, decided what better opportunity to start a new GoFundMe, for the Horizon Scandal Fund (which provides grants to those affected by the Horizon Scandal (post office accounting system Kafkaesque nightmare)). Thing is, the Horizon Scandal Fund aren't registered as a charity on GoFundMe, so Simon got together with the folks at GoFundMe UK and decided that they would have the fundraiser for the GoFundMe UK Charity, who would then give the Horizon Scandal Fund a 'grant' (inverted commas Simon's own).

But the Horizon Scandal Fund do have a fully functioning website with donation function (GiftAid included).

When questioned about this, Simon said it was preferable because his high profile would mean it got promoted further by GoFundMe.

Enter the investigative journalist who wrote the book and numerous articles about the Horizon scandal, who is a trustee of the charity. (January 5th)



This rippled out into the corners of the Internet. Simon then promptly closed the fundraiser 'because it reached a £1000" (the original target was set to 10k).

Then the talk of the £500,000 payments from Essex County Council to run Facebook pages (possibly authorised by someone who is possibly Simon's mate and/or business partner) rippled out into the corners of the Internet.

On the night of the 5th, Simon deleted everything. Man Behaving Dadly Twitter, Man Behaving Dadly Facebook page, Southend News Network. Gone. Locked down his personal Facebook account which is used to run the Essex Council Facebook pages.

Oh and it hit the nationals, and Lee Anderson got to stick the boot in.



Essex County Council and then Simon released statements which only muddied the waters further, the key point being "payments were made to Simon Harris for expediency".

Oh and Jackie Weaver defended him on TalkTV, mysteriously without mentioning that she was one of the 'very famous people' that provided content for the ECC groups.

ETA oh and there's 24k sitting unaccounted for in the baby formula GoFundMe.