nothanksbabes
VIP Member
This post got a genuine laugh out of me, which is more than Simon has ever achieved.
Your local council should give you half a mil.
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Your local council should give you half a mil.
lilykestrel
VIP Member
At least we're not this time last year when Simon would've set up a GoFundMe to set up a conurbation of Christmas market sheds for rough sleepers
EvilJigglypuff
VIP Member
If they’re saying ten referrals in a year gets you a flag on their system, he can’t have had many to still be going undetected 
mchops
VIP Member
Every job I do I have a corruption and bribery course.
Jelly Bean
VIP Member
Oh fuck right off you twat. Constantly glueing himself like a large sticky turd to successful and prolific fund raising attempts.
Dreadful attention seeking individual.
lilykestrel
VIP Member
remember him and Gary are colleagues (*)
(*) Gary read out his tweet on The Rest Is Football (*)(*)
(*)(*) Gary read out his tweet and called him Man Behaving Badly
(*) Gary read out his tweet on The Rest Is Football (*)(*)
(*)(*) Gary read out his tweet and called him Man Behaving Badly
cokeyoakey
Well-known member
I'm two weeks late, but WHAT THE FUCK?!
He used to make jokes about Hillsborough???
I mean, even if you're too thick to understand the issues, surely only an absolute cunt would ever have made jokes about people dying in a horrific tragedy.
What a horrible vile cunt he is.
Pkershaw
VIP Member
I joined a new Facebook group this morning for a topic totally unrelated to fat boy Hawwis. I got accepted, had my first little scroll down the page and what do I find? They’ve shared one of the genius, barnstorming, hilarious masterpieces from our favourite truth-to-power satiwical legend that is Southend News Network.
Safe to say I was not long for that group. It’ll come as no surprise to hear that the engagement stats for that post were far lower than all the other content around it. Not sure how many views it had though. That of course is the real quiz, as they say.
Safe to say I was not long for that group. It’ll come as no surprise to hear that the engagement stats for that post were far lower than all the other content around it. Not sure how many views it had though. That of course is the real quiz, as they say.
CrackingOwlSanctuary
VIP Member
He was also taking the piss out of the commerative merchandise prices like he wasnt flogging tea towels for a tenner a while back.
Exactly. Keith, Barry and Clive, with their often bigoted opinions, are actually Simon, Simon and Simon
Itchy of Itchington
VIP Member
Nobody had heard of Alnwick until Simon went there. Totally unheard of, never visited by anybody kinda town. Nobody has ever heard of books in fact til Simon told us about them. We thought they were a very dry thin bread.
(It is a great book shop. I went there in 2018. In the summer and I didn't ignore a bunch of weather warnings to drive from one end of the country to the other just to act like an arsehole from a different latitude)
Pkershaw
VIP Member
Said this before and I’ll say it again. There’s a snowball in hells chance that Kirsty O’Scamaghan came up empty handed while dishing out what must now be running into millions of pounds to her friends. She needs to be in prison.
I know I’ve also said this before but it still makes me chuckle that the reason she got exposed was because dickhead Harris pissed off too many people and pushed his luck one step too far with the stupid Horizon scandal fundwaiser. If it wasn’t for that, she likely would’ve been able to keep her head down and would still be working the grift now at Suffolk Council. God she must curse the day she ever laid eyes on his stupid, fat, ugly, gormless, lobotomised meathead. I’m surprised she’s not on here with us slating him.
I know I’ve also said this before but it still makes me chuckle that the reason she got exposed was because dickhead Harris pissed off too many people and pushed his luck one step too far with the stupid Horizon scandal fundwaiser. If it wasn’t for that, she likely would’ve been able to keep her head down and would still be working the grift now at Suffolk Council. God she must curse the day she ever laid eyes on his stupid, fat, ugly, gormless, lobotomised meathead. I’m surprised she’s not on here with us slating him.
Pkershaw
VIP Member
The thing is, he was this repetitive long before Kirsty brought him aboard the ECC grifty gravy train. The old heady days when SNN was in its “pomp”, were just as bad.
I think it’s a need to show off, an overinflated opinion of how funny he is, and a need for validation that isn’t fulfilled by just running it once. In his head, the banana joke and that tedious, overwrought screed about expensive school uniforms, are examples of ingenious observational humour, and it doesn’t do them justice to post them once and let them be. More and more people just have to see the amazing funny that the great Simon Harris came up with. If Only Fools and Horses can be repeated over and over on U.K. Gold, then so can “Wheelie Bins and Storms”.
Ironically I’ve said this before on here but it’s also a profound sign of immaturity. Most children grow out of telling the same joke twice and learn that humour fades with every retelling. But Simon has the brain of a 5-year-old inside that fat, hairy, ugly meathead.
Lazarus
VIP Member
whilst i don't disagree with her, i still go back to the same point: is the grievance that Simon was paid more than her partner, or that he was paid too much? i am of the opinion she wouldn't be mouthing off if her partner was paid an eyewatering sum.
lilykestrel
VIP Member
yeah I felt really quite sad reading that. I hope it's all a front and the kid did get to go to school in a costume, rather than being a vehicle for some half-baked 'parenting blog irreverence'
In my former life as a bookseller, seeing the kids that came to the shop on school visits for WBD, and how jazzed up they got about their costumes, was one of the most heartwarming points of the year for me.
BeautifulTrauma
VIP Member
He was in his element last week on Facebook with the exact same post, I bet he feels like he's struck gold with this one and the amount of comments from people who are affected by the subject while he sits there counting those sweet likes. Next up no doubt, a rant about PIP potentially being cut.
He can't help himself.
He can't help himself.
HotesTilaire
VIP Member
Simon hops over to tattle? Hi Si, you’re a has been who was wrong to take that money from ECC.
Fred Santos
Chatty Member
5 minutes on chat gpt and this... It's actually found and concluded stuff I didn't in all cases direct it towards
Remarkable really...
Simon Harris’s self-mythologised journey from Facebook dad-joker to pandemic communicator is increasingly hard to take at face value. Contracted by Essex County Council (ECC) to produce shareable content during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harris now casts himself as a maverick innovator persecuted for his creativity. In reality, his story reads more like an exercise in personal brand protection, political opportunism, and institutional naivety.
Years before COVID, Harris was already cultivating an online identity — combative, proudly anti-Brexit, left-leaning, and deeply partisan. Yet in 2017, The Guardian featured him in an article exploring how misinformation spread during UK elections. The accounts in that article were associated with pro-Brexit, conspiratorial tactics, casting doubt on mainstream narratives. That Harris was even tangentially linked to a misinformation monitoring group that platformed the very tactics he now rails against reveals a stark contradiction. Since then, his online persona has doubled down on opposing Brexit, right-wing politics, and disinformation — apparently forgetting his earlier proximity to all three.
When the pandemic hit, ECC appointed him to lead their public health messaging — bypassing standard procurement, qualifications, and strategy in favour of viral reach. The result was a campaign heavy on memes and cartoon seagulls but light on clarity or professionalism. Public money was poured into content that often trivialised serious issues. And behind the humour was a far murkier arrangement: Harris received substantial sums and acted as an informal paymaster, distributing funds to unnamed collaborators with no proper governance structure in place.
He now insists he acted in good faith, yet also admits it was a mistake — an “extremely wrong and regrettable” one, in line with ECC’s internal findings. He claims he was told to do it by multiple people in the council, yet refuses to name any of them. He says he was shut out of scrutiny processes, yet also acknowledges he declined to participate due to mental health. The contradictions pile up — all while he carefully curates a story in which he is the embattled truth-teller, rather than a central figure in a badly run and questionably ethical project.
To bolster his image, Harris regularly trots out a photograph of himself meeting the then-Prince Charles at a 2022 Meta event. He frames this as proof of legitimacy, but omits two key facts. First, the Meta invitation predated the financial scandal entirely. And second — more tellingly — the original photo included Kirsty O’Callaghan, ECC’s then–Head of Strengthening Communities and Harris’s primary point of contact. In more recent uses of the image, O’Callaghan has been cropped out, her existence quietly erased.
This isn’t a minor aesthetic tweak. It’s emblematic of the entire affair: image management over transparency. O’Callaghan, who left ECC in 2022, has since come under criticism for her role in awarding contracts and working closely with external individuals with whom she had personal or undisclosed relationships. After leaving ECC, she reportedly established a private venture offering similar services, later securing work from other councils — raising significant concerns about conflicts of interest, ethical oversight, and the so-called "revolving door" between public office and private gain.
That Harris continues to trade on that royal photo — now conspicuously cropped to exclude O’Callaghan — while ignoring the context of their collaboration is not just misleading, it’s calculated. It reinforces a version of events in which he appears independently celebrated, rather than part of a deeply compromised project steered by questionable leadership.
He also leans heavily on a handful of glowing internal and academic reviews of the campaign, presenting them as vindication. Yet these evaluations lacked independence, methodological integrity, and often involved close collaborators. They offered soft metrics like likes and impressions, not impact on health outcomes or value for money.
Meanwhile, any legitimate questioning of the campaign — from opposition councillors, journalists, or even members of the public — is immediately reframed as trolling or politically motivated abuse. Harris invokes the online harassment he’s received as an all-purpose shield against accountability, creating an environment where transparency becomes taboo and all scrutiny is written off as cruelty.
The truth is simpler, and less flattering: Simon Harris was never the public health innovator he claims to be. He was a politically charged entertainer given too much responsibility, with too little oversight, in a time of national crisis. His prior entanglement with disinformation ecosystems, followed by his self-reinvention as an anti-misinformation champion, reveals a pattern of calculated contradiction. His selective memory, curated narratives, and post-scandal PR strategy are not the marks of a persecuted civil hero — they are the moves of a man who knows exactly how to play the platform.
This wasn’t public service. It was reputational theatre.
Remarkable really...
Simon Harris’s self-mythologised journey from Facebook dad-joker to pandemic communicator is increasingly hard to take at face value. Contracted by Essex County Council (ECC) to produce shareable content during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harris now casts himself as a maverick innovator persecuted for his creativity. In reality, his story reads more like an exercise in personal brand protection, political opportunism, and institutional naivety.
Years before COVID, Harris was already cultivating an online identity — combative, proudly anti-Brexit, left-leaning, and deeply partisan. Yet in 2017, The Guardian featured him in an article exploring how misinformation spread during UK elections. The accounts in that article were associated with pro-Brexit, conspiratorial tactics, casting doubt on mainstream narratives. That Harris was even tangentially linked to a misinformation monitoring group that platformed the very tactics he now rails against reveals a stark contradiction. Since then, his online persona has doubled down on opposing Brexit, right-wing politics, and disinformation — apparently forgetting his earlier proximity to all three.
When the pandemic hit, ECC appointed him to lead their public health messaging — bypassing standard procurement, qualifications, and strategy in favour of viral reach. The result was a campaign heavy on memes and cartoon seagulls but light on clarity or professionalism. Public money was poured into content that often trivialised serious issues. And behind the humour was a far murkier arrangement: Harris received substantial sums and acted as an informal paymaster, distributing funds to unnamed collaborators with no proper governance structure in place.
He now insists he acted in good faith, yet also admits it was a mistake — an “extremely wrong and regrettable” one, in line with ECC’s internal findings. He claims he was told to do it by multiple people in the council, yet refuses to name any of them. He says he was shut out of scrutiny processes, yet also acknowledges he declined to participate due to mental health. The contradictions pile up — all while he carefully curates a story in which he is the embattled truth-teller, rather than a central figure in a badly run and questionably ethical project.
To bolster his image, Harris regularly trots out a photograph of himself meeting the then-Prince Charles at a 2022 Meta event. He frames this as proof of legitimacy, but omits two key facts. First, the Meta invitation predated the financial scandal entirely. And second — more tellingly — the original photo included Kirsty O’Callaghan, ECC’s then–Head of Strengthening Communities and Harris’s primary point of contact. In more recent uses of the image, O’Callaghan has been cropped out, her existence quietly erased.
This isn’t a minor aesthetic tweak. It’s emblematic of the entire affair: image management over transparency. O’Callaghan, who left ECC in 2022, has since come under criticism for her role in awarding contracts and working closely with external individuals with whom she had personal or undisclosed relationships. After leaving ECC, she reportedly established a private venture offering similar services, later securing work from other councils — raising significant concerns about conflicts of interest, ethical oversight, and the so-called "revolving door" between public office and private gain.
That Harris continues to trade on that royal photo — now conspicuously cropped to exclude O’Callaghan — while ignoring the context of their collaboration is not just misleading, it’s calculated. It reinforces a version of events in which he appears independently celebrated, rather than part of a deeply compromised project steered by questionable leadership.
He also leans heavily on a handful of glowing internal and academic reviews of the campaign, presenting them as vindication. Yet these evaluations lacked independence, methodological integrity, and often involved close collaborators. They offered soft metrics like likes and impressions, not impact on health outcomes or value for money.
Meanwhile, any legitimate questioning of the campaign — from opposition councillors, journalists, or even members of the public — is immediately reframed as trolling or politically motivated abuse. Harris invokes the online harassment he’s received as an all-purpose shield against accountability, creating an environment where transparency becomes taboo and all scrutiny is written off as cruelty.
The truth is simpler, and less flattering: Simon Harris was never the public health innovator he claims to be. He was a politically charged entertainer given too much responsibility, with too little oversight, in a time of national crisis. His prior entanglement with disinformation ecosystems, followed by his self-reinvention as an anti-misinformation champion, reveals a pattern of calculated contradiction. His selective memory, curated narratives, and post-scandal PR strategy are not the marks of a persecuted civil hero — they are the moves of a man who knows exactly how to play the platform.
This wasn’t public service. It was reputational theatre.
Kikini Bamalam
VIP Member
He is just such a momental dullard. Everything about him screams desperate. Fucking wanker.