Simon Harris #5 Mr Harris, who was a popular figure on the internet

[Pkershaw]

Wasn’t he meant to give us his explanation to the Kirsty grift after his obscene contract expired on 31st March?

Hasn’t that all gone rather quiet…. We’re all ears, Simon. You’ve had 12 whole days to tell us how everything was above board, and explain why you’re not a grifting conman. But instead you’ve wasted that time regurgitating the same tired tit. It’s not been mentioned once since that initial post when the prodigal prat returned.

I don’t know about you lot, but, if my name had been dragged through the mud in the national press, (unfairly in my opinion), it had cost me my livelihood and I had an opportunity to set the record straight to a large audience, I’d be pretty bleeping keen to do that. I’d be so keen in fact that I’d probably hold off on the banana jokes and the dynamite garlic bread content until I’d done it.

Silence truly is deafening, Simon

 

[nothanksbabes]

These delusional narcissists will never realise that a mea culpa will always be more productive and immeasurably less embarassing than continuing to fart out their every inane thought and stick their fingers in their ears going LALALALALALA whenever anyone asks them a reasonable question about their mortifying and well-documented duck ups.

What an embarrassment he is. Personally I'd die of shame, but that's because at least a fraction of my personality operates as a human's should.

 

[lilykestrel]

It might be squeaky bum time in Harris Towers given the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee is on Monday morning

Agenda is up.

There's two parts to the Social Media Issues - Part 1 is the public report, which has been published already. There's no particular new info in there and minimal hand-wringing

And Appendix 6 is some Simon marking his own homework

The juicy bit will, I expect, be in Social Media Issues - Part 2, which is closed to the public because



Hopefully this is the bit where they talk about SocialKindKindSocialKindnessSocialness and wtf was going on there

 

[CookieZippy]

So he's claiming that he still can't discuss some things because of an ongoing discussion with the police following him speaking to them in July over fears for his safety and that there are things that came to light last week which can shed light on why he vanished from social media in early January? What? And there were 700 facebook admins involved in the project? Bullshit.

The best bit is the involvement of some "very famous individuals". Yeah, bleeping Boycie and Marlene.

 

[Fred Santos]

Also, it looks increasingly likely given their prevarication, a similar arrangement appeared to have exsisted at Mid and South Essex ICB

And Suffolk County Council, who have also shelled out a significant wedge of cash (nowhere near as much as Essex) for their own crappy Facebook group with turgid engagement statistics, courtesy of Simon/Social Kindness. Simon just copies and pastes posts from Essex into the Suffolk page and raises an invoice. If he’s lucky it’ll get 2 likes. Most posts are complete airshots with no engagement whatsoever.

The monies for the Suffolk work is paid to Social Kindness (where Simon is content director) as opposed to paying Simon direct, which Essex have done. We suspect that was done in Essex to circumvent conflict of interest rules because the person who likely awarded the contract (or at least had significant influence in where it went), owns Social Kindness.

It’s the very definition of a can of worms
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[CookieZippy]

His latest is that people are furious all over social media that Morrisons are giving away free crumpets to anyone who "asks for Ellen". Had a look on twitter and imagine my surprise when I fail to find a single example of Keith and Barry kicking off. Surely it can't be that it's actually Simon the Bigot who's annoyed by the free crumpets? That would be shocking. Or maybe he's just hearing the voices again.

 

[anniemouse]

But none of his statement gives any reason why it cost so much money. My area, like many others I imagine have a local Facebook page for sharing info, etc and they aren’t paid for it

 

[CookieZippy]

The nature of the work meant that during the most serious stages of the pandemic, I was providing services seven days per week, and at a variety of times of the day and night - as were the team of community managers we had supporting the project.

You were just sat at home during lockdown with loads of free time on your hands like most of the country Simon. You were pissing about on Facebook, don't try and make it sound heroic.

 

[Pkershaw]

Trouble is, too many people out there will swallow that sort of tit. Having read the agenda ahead of Monday, I fear that they’re just going through the motions. Someone at the council will spout some half-baked responses that’ll go unchallenged, nobody will take any responsibility and nothing further will come of it.

I suppose at least the careers of this pair of grifters are in absolute tatters, but the dream of us seeing real accountability and some punishments meted out, feels a bit of a pipe dream to me at this point. Hope I’m wrong though.

 

[Aliceboo]

Someone has written an article on a blog that breaks down some of the figures regarding how many posts he made on the page.

All he did all year was make 4 posts a day, of which most were just reshared from others.

Simon Harris statement to the Audit, Governance and Standards Committee - Essex County Council Exposed

Please also see the previous post for more information on the meeting of the audit, governance and standards committee on

essexcountycouncilexposed.com

 

[ahkrin]

How many were the banana joke rehashed?

 

[Pkershaw]

How many were the banana joke rehashed?

If he was getting paid each time he ran the banana joke, he’d probably be on his own private island by now. Especially if he was on the sort of rate that ECC were paying him.

That blog post is interesting. Some lines in there that really make it hit home.

“Simon Harris got paid £35,000 for both the page and group from April 1st 2023 until March 31st 2024. All he did was share links and post information that he regurgitated from elsewhere. That’s about it, logged into the account, made 4 posts a day, logged off, and then relaxed with whatever he bought with the £35k.”

Holy bleeping tit. That’s the average salary of a nurse in the U.K., taken from the public purse for doing a few Facebook posts every day. What a good little socialist you are, Simon. At least you made up for it by virtue signalling about letting NHS staff jump the queue in Tesco, though eh!

 

[Fred Santos]

Do we need a new thread?

 

[Blue bunny]

You were just sat at home during lockdown with loads of free time on your hands like most of the country Simon. You were pissing about on Facebook, don't try and make it sound heroic.

He's just describing flexible working, which is extremely common when working remotely. He's trying to make it around much bigger than it was.

 

[Pkershaw]

Do we need a new thread?

Like Harris needs new material. And a new career.

Don’t ask me how to make one though.

 

[Aliceboo]

Like Harris needs new material. And a new career.

Don’t ask me how to make one though.

It's really easy, firstly you are contacted by a friend in a position of power at the local authority, then you put forward a plan to work with other thread creators to create a new thread and charge £500k for the privilege.

Then you fill the opening part of the new thread with information from other threads.

Then you eat all the pies and possibly the pieman as well, all the while laughing at poor people.

Simple.

 

[Mr Krabs]

Wasn't he a teacher for a while? Odd he doesn't understand how schools work.

I don’t know why he couldn’t keep his teaching career while doing the Facebook posts on the side. He could have made the ‘lol Karen thinks a van in her neighbourhood is suspicious’ jokes on his lunch break.

I think losing the twitter account with his celeb ‘friends’ will be every bit as hard as losing the easy pay and actually having to work for a living.

 

[Pkershaw]

It's really easy, firstly you are contacted by a friend in a position of power at the local authority, then you put forward a plan to work with other thread creators to create a new thread and charge £500k for the privilege.

Then you fill the opening part of the new thread with information from other threads.

Then you eat all the pies and possibly the pieman as well, all the while laughing at poor people.

Simple.

Honestly I think over the past year, I’ve put more effort into this Tattle thread than Harris did with Essex is United. And I unquestionably got more likes than he did! And I’m funnier than he is. That might sound arrogant but having a tapeworm would be funnier than Simon.

So where is my suitcase of cash?! Do you fancy a beer @jonmorter? We can drown our sorrows together.

 

[HotesTilaire]

I don’t know why he couldn’t keep his teaching career while doing the Facebook posts on the side. He could have made the ‘lol Karen thinks a van in her neighbourhood is suspicious’ jokes on his lunch break.

I think losing the twitter account with his celeb ‘friends’ will be every bit as hard as losing the easy pay and actually having to work for a living.

Have you ever met a teacher? They have the longest hours ever and aren’t allowed to eat or sleep due to lesson plans and homework marking.

 

[Bread]

It's at this point I feel I need to confess that I thought the Barry and Keith referred to on here were the Chuckle Brothers. But I've just discovered one of them was called Paul (thanks, Popbitch).