Simon Harris - Man Behaving Dadly

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    Simon Harris AKA Man Behaving Dadly is 40 years of age and is ostensibly a blogger, internet personality, and freelance social media manager. In reality, he's a performing clown desperate for attention and social media engagement. He is based near the town of Southend in England.

    He made national news in the UK in January 2024, when it was widely reported that he had received large sums of money from Essex County Council for social media work. There were serious concerns over the value for money he provided and how he got the contract. See below for more.

    Simon is known for creating dozens of online fundraisers, most notably one for the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute) for whom he secured almost £250,000 in donations to buy them a new hovercraft he calls The Flying Farage - to spite Nigel Farage who has blamed the RNLI for helping migrants cross. Although this appeal is legitimate and the RNLI have confirmed they receive the money, questions have been raised over other fundraising efforts of Simon's including one for victims of the Horizon Scandal.

    He has been described in the media as a "comedian", "satirist", "prankster", and "funnyman." He is none of these things, unless you think playing unfunny practical jokes and farting out tired old quips onto the internet is somehow a career.


    About Simon

    Simon lives near Southend, Essex, UK. He was married to Rachael and they have four children: sons T. (aged 3), J. (aged 7), L. (aged 10), and daughter E. (aged 8.) L. has autism, which Simon has written about at length. Rachael used to be part of Simon's "brand" with her Facebook page Mum Behaving Madly; but she quickly gave it up. After some speculation as to whether Simon and Rachael were still together, it became apparent that they had separated and she has a new partner.

    Simon is constantly begging for attention. Until January 2024 he had a heavy Twitter presence, often tweeting relentlessly at public figures or bragging about the number of likes/retweets he got. He had around 110,000 followers on Twitter and 200,000 on his Facebook until he deleted his social media in January 2024; he has since returned to Facebook where he runs both a personal account and a Man Behaving Dadly account. He also regularly features in the local newspaper, desperately trying to get noticed for anything at all.

    Simon does various freelance marketing work, mainly for Essex County Council. As well as his social media, he previously had a Man Behaving Dadly blog, and a spoof news site called Southend News Network (which is just another outlet for his endlessly recycled jokes.) He fundraises online for various causes, notably the RNLI, and often brags about how much he raised even though all he did was direct donations to a GoFundMe. His suspicious attempt to raise money for those affected by the Horizon Scandal (through a private GoFundMe rather than the official fund) led to closer scrutiny of his finances, and he vanished from the internet rather than answer those questions.


    Simon's Fixations

    Things/people he likes

    • Harry and Meghan
    • King Charles III - despite Simon's professed disdain for the Royal Family, he wouldn't shut up about it when he met then-Prince Charles.
    • Breastfeeding
    • Toilet humour
    • Endlessly recycling the same "jokes" and tweets
    • Accusing others of "ragewanking"
    • The RNLI
    • Supertanskii - he likes to imitate her habit of calling others "cockwombles" and "wankspanglers."
    • Gary Lineker
    • Phillip Schofield - Simon defended him just because Schofield was being discussed on GB News.
    • Mae Muller - 2023 UK contestant in the Eurovision Contest, who is critical of Brexit. In a stunning display of logic, Simon encouraged pro-EU Europeans to vote for Muller ... which would cause the UK to win.
    • Social media validation
    • GoFundMe - Simon professes to be an heroic fundraiser and brags about how much money he’s raised for charity in his Twitter bio. In reality, Simon’s benevolence is simply a cover for his own self obsession and his fundraising activities involve nothing more than sitting in his underwear at home, eating Pringles and retweeting links to GoFundMe pages. No marathons, sponsored sky dives or anything which requires the slightest bit of effort on his part.
    • Mouldy bananas – Every time schools are due to return from a holiday period, Simon rolls out the same gag about parents discovering a mouldy banana in their children’s lunchbox from the previous term. Oftentimes, the joke is embellished with tales of the banana evolving into a sentient mutant. The appearance of the gag has become so reliable that in August 2023, a book was opened allowing Tattle members to bet when it would make its customary appearance. The forum was buzzing with anticipation on Sunday 3rd September as the community sensed that it was near, and Simon didn't disappoint. The last day of any school holiday is now known as Banana Tweet Day in honour of Simon's favourite joke.

    Things/people he doesn't like

    • Tattle
    • Anyone politically right of Jeremy Corbyn
    • The Tories
    • "Barry", "Clive", "Keith", and "Brian" - imaginary characters Simon made up for the purpose of strawman arguments.
    • GB News
    • The Daily Mail
    • "The S*n"
    • Nigel Farage - Simon's RNLI fundraising campaign is intended to buy a hovercraft called "The Flying Farage" just to spite him.
    • Smiling - as a bitter, left-wing extremist, smiling does not come naturally to Simon. On occasions where he is required to pose for photographs, his forced attempts at appearing happy often leave him looking like he’s just had a lobotomy. Some have theorised that he was taught to smile by a blind person describing it to him or that his expression was actually the result of an unfortunately placed cattle prod.

    Things/people he's not sure about

    • Brexit - Simon voted leave in 2016 (as a "protest vote" he says) and ran a pro-Brexit website that published fake news, which he denies he wrote. Yet he now constantly complains about Brexit and insults other leave voters.
    • Jack Monroe - fellow Southend-based grifter. He used to be a big fan of hers but has somewhat changed his tune ever since public opinion turned against her
    • Gender issues - Simon doesn't discuss these because he can't predict how his followers would respond.


    Dodgy finances

    Ranting on the internet doesn't pay the bills - so Simon does freelance content creation/social media management work, mostly for local authorities in/around Essex. He also co-owned a company called D Media and made money from ads on at least two websites: Southend News Network, and Dodgy Drivers.

    The Horizon Scandal Fund Fundraising Scandal

    On 3rd January 2024, ITV aired Mr Bates vs the Post Office - a drama series about the Horizon Scandal (in which hundreds of Post Office employees were wrongly prosecuted on theft and fraud charges.) This was followed by a documentary about the real case. As a result, there was a national outcry, and the Horizon Scandal Fund was set up to support those affected.

    Simon set up a GoFundMe for the Horizon Scandal Fund. Because it was a relatively new charity, they were not listed as such on the GoFundMe platform. Therefore, the money would go to GoFundMe UK's charity arm, who would then give the money to the fund as a grant. The Horizon Scandal Fund, however, has a fully functioning online donation form set up with Gift Aid attached. He posted on Facebook promoting the GoFundMe.

    On 4th January, an investigative journalist (also a trustee of the Horizon Scandal Fund) commented on Simon's Facebook post that "the only way to guarantee your donation will reach the Horizon Scandal Fund is by donating directly to the Horizon Scandal Fund. Simon has never contacted us. We have no way of knowing if he is acting in good faith. And therefore we have no idea what will happen to your money if you give it to Simon."

    Shortly after this broke on Tattle, it made its way to Twitter. Shortly after it made its way to Twitter, Simon closed the GoFundMe as "it had reached £1000", and shared the link to the Horizon Scandal Fund donation page. This is in spite of the fact that he had initially set the fundraiser up with a target for £10,000. (Archived capture of GoFundMe page). After receiving many messages and comments, and news of his grift spreading, he closed down his Facebook, Twitter, blog, and Southend News Network website. He has never acknowledged this fundraiser since, and has claimed (see below) that he shut down his social media solely because of the controversy over his work with Essex County Council.

    Local authorities contracts

    Simon has often worked with Essex County Council as a contractor for comms and social media work. In the space of five financial years (up to 2023-24), ECC made payments of almost £500,000 to Simon for professional services, as shown in spending documents on their website. ECC and Simon have confirmed that all these payments were made to him, but have said that some of the money was given to him to pay other contractors.

    How Simon got this contracted work with ECC is concerning. For one thing, he has multiple CCJs on public record; local authorities are supposed to check to see that a supplier is solvent. For another, he has a friendship and business relationship with someone (K.) who has held various senior roles in Essex local authorities. There have been multiple instances where personal friends or business associates of K. were subsequently given business contracts with ECC. This has been reported on in the press, and Private Eye has covered the subject in detail. In September 2024, Simon agreed to speak to Private Eye and effectively threw K. under the bus.

    In 2020, Simon was put in charge of ECC's COVID comms. At this time K. was in a senior management position of the department that was paying him. K. ran a company called Socialkind which offered comms and marketing services, and Simon was ostensibly a shadow director. (He was named as a director on the website but not listed as one on Companies House.) While Simon was working for ECC, Socialkind was contracted to do COVID comms for Suffolk local authorities. By this point, Socialkind legally no longer existed; K. had dissolved it before accounts were due, and then set up a new company with almost exactly the same name (Social Kindness.) But Suffolk Council made their contract with Socialkind, which had already been dissolved, therefore the contract couldn't be enforced.

    Simon evidently worked on both the ECC and Suffolk accounts, because the content and "house style" is identical. But ECC paid him directly while Suffolk paid Socialkind. We question if this was a way of getting around conflict of interest restrictions? It also begs the question of who were the contractors that ECC asked Simon to pay on their behalf.

    K. now works for the local NHS in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Partnership, and Simon freelances for them too. He sits in committee meetings and is an admin of their official Facebook group; K. is also on the committee. For this, Simon identifies as Blaireau - a business he previously ran for tutoring and IT support work (which he seemingly hasn't done in years.) It is not a registered company but he can do this kind of work as a sole trader. What was the tender process he went through to get his contract with them, and is he involved with Social Kindness, which is still trading?

    Simon received between £65,000 (in 2023-24) and £192,700 (in 2021-22) from Essex County Council each year. That's a huge sum for one person. He claims that in total, he personally earned £367,000 from them. In the private sector, it would pay for a team of professional agency staff for a year. Simon earned as much as an experienced director of a PR/comms agency, and continued to be highly paid by ECC after COVID restrictions ended. Regardless of the amount of money, the main issue here is the lack of transparency and his business relationship with K. Simon wasn't the only person that ECC hired for comms/social media work, so their overall spend in this area was much higher. Some of their other contractors also appear to work with K. often.

    ECC has publicly stated:
    • They had an established business relationship with Simon before the pandemic, and resumed working with him for COVID comms
    • They followed procedures for appropriate use of taxpayers' money and preventing conflicts of interest
    • His fee included not just social media content, but other services such as support for others doing COVID outreach work across the UK. It also took into account the fact that he produced record levels of engagement for ECC. (That wasn't difficult during "lockdowns" when people were stuck at home with nothing to do!)
    • Simon was paid directly "for expediency" and they did not make any payments to Socialkind/Social Kindness.
    This is rather vague and still leaves a lot of unanswered questions e.g. what work was Simon doing to support others? (It's an old trick for contractors to charge extra for services such as "liaising with suppliers" for instance.)

    Simon closed down his social media accounts on 4th January 2024, after being questioned over a GoFundMe for the Horizon Scandal Fund (see above.) Within a day or two, questions were being asked on social media about the money he had received from ECC. On 11th January he released a statement through EssexLive. He said he had removed his social media temporarily because of harassment/threats that were being investigated by police. Stating that during the COVID pandemic he worked for ECC 7 days a week, and the payments to him covered his services in other areas (such as climate change) along with work from other content creators and staff. He has since clarified that some of the money ECC gave him was for him to pay these other contractors.

    The local and national press reported on this, and opposition Lib Dem Councillor Mike Mackrory promised to investigate who authorised the payments and how much. On 25th January, the Liberal Democrat Group at Essex County Council requested an Extraordinary Meeting of the council and an urgent investigation into ECC's contract with Simon. ECC also published this regarding Simon giving their explanation as to what was paid and why, and information about who signed off the spending (much of it by - surprise! - K.)

    The leader of ECC has since admitted a number of "regrettable" mistakes over the contracts with Simon, and as of March 2024, an investigation into the funding is ongoing. It has been reported that a number of the social media pages Simon created for ECC had very low engagement and that they spent £15,000 on a Facebook page with only 20 followers.

    On 6th August 2024 Simon gave an interview with BBC News about the controversy, in which he claimed:
    • He personally earned £367,000 from ECC and was asked to distribute a further £163,000 to other contractors (including employees at vaccination centres.) He described this as, "the biggest mistake of his life" and said that ECC took a very casual approach to asking him to distribute the money - as if it were no big deal. He was left with the impression that they were asking him to do this because resources were stretched during COVID
    • He described himself in the article as "some bloke who makes memes", saying that he felt he had provided value for money but that the negative response he got was disproportionate as he is just a content creator. That's not what he was saying back in April when he posted a self-justificatory rant on Facebook, saying among other things that he isn't just an internet prankster and was being paid for his considerable experience and knowledge as a social media manager.
    • He shut down his social media because he was being criticised over the ECC contract; but now feels this was not the best way to handle it. See above; he closed down his social media immediately after he was challenged over a fundraising attempt for victims of the Horizon Scandal. The ECC story broke a few days later.

    D Media/Dodgy Drivers

    Simon and another person (I.) were co-directors of a company called D Media. Its main business activities appear to have been two websites (Dodgy Drivers and Southend News Network) and related social media pages, all of which had low engagement and were rarely updated at the time the company was operating.

    In 2022, D Media was liquidated with around £74,500 of debt including a "bounce back" loan of £21,000 taken out in 2020. These were taxpayer-funded loans handed out to businesses that were struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the loans were handed out quite freely, it's questionable how D Media got such a large sum - to get a £21,000 loan they would have been expected to show an annual turnover in the region of £84,000.

    The loan was taken out at a time when Simon was earning hundreds of thousands of pounds from Essex County Council alone (see above - he had other work too) for supposedly essential services during COVID. Yet he was seemingly so heavily impacted by the pandemic that he needed a £21,000 loan to keep his business going. And then closed the company without ever repaying that loan, or any of its other debt, or the £15k in unpaid taxes it owed HMRC. How does that work?

    Simon's business partner I. registered a company called Dodgy Drivers, which ran the website dodgydrivers.co.uk. Simon wrote for the website until 2020. As you can see from the bottom of the archived page, at that time the website credited D Media, although it no longer does. D Media and Dodgy Drivers both finalised their dissolution in 2023; but as of August 2024, the Dodgy Drivers website is still up. It is no longer updated but contains adverts and affiliate links. Dodgy Drivers has an active Youtube channel where videos average around 25,000 views, so is making money from ads/clicks; and a Patreon that shares regular videos for subscribers. Both have become much more active since Dodgy Drivers and D Media were dissolved as companies. Has control of the Dodgy Drivers website and social media passed to someone else, or is Simon still involved and still making money from this?

    Southend News Network

    Southend News Network was Simon's spoof "news" website. He registered it as a company in 2016 and it was dissolved in January 2018 by mandatory strike-off - meaning it either was no longer trading or had failed to meet regulations. Despite this, Southend News Network still had a website with ads until Simon closed it in January 2024 after the Horizon fundraising scandal (see above.) Perhaps he was also running this as a sole trader, but in light of everything else, it raises questions. The website remains closed, but he has restored its Facebook page, which he was using for a while to sell overpriced tea towels with unfunny "comedy" slogans.

    Amusingly, various far-right figures including Milo Yiannopoulos and members of the English Defence League cited Southend News Network as a legitimate source (on multiple, separate occasions), failing to realise that it was a parody.

    Your Brexit

    In 2017, the Guardian published an investigation into Brexit fake news. This included a website called Your Brexit, which regularly published false claims such as Jeremy Corbyn supposedly making an election promise that a Labour government would pay an $85 billion "Brexit bill." The Guardian connected Your Brexit with Southend News Network and Simon. In an interview, Simon admitted he was the owner of Your Brexit but said that he did not write the content. He claimed it was written by a 19-year-old student pseudonymously known as "Walter White", whom he described as "fed up with the liberal elite." Yes, this is the same Simon who now won't shut up about how much he hates Brexit and the Tories. Here you can see examples of the type of headlines posted on the site; some articles are archived via the Wayback Machine.

    According to Simon, he didn't have time to check the content published on the site, and as a result "Walter" often made mistakes. This leaves three possibilities:
    1. Simon effectively gave away a website, which attracted hundreds of thousands of views, to someone else and let them keep any profits. He had no input into that website's content, which was at best sensationalist fake news, at worst arguably racist.

    2. He had some editorial responsibility for the website's content but was so busy that blatantly false claims and inflammatory, anti-immigrant rhetoric would often slip through

    3. He happily let someone else publish this material on his site so he could make money, or at the very least didn't care what they wrote as long as he was profiting from it.

    Which of these do you think is most likely?

    The website is now gone, but it had a Facebook group which is still very much active. This group has well over 250,000 followers and sells paid subscriptions; we do not know if Simon owns or profits from it.

    Many people, Leave and Remain voters alike, changed their minds after the referendum. But if that were the case for Simon, why has he never acknowledged his involvement with this website? It proves how mercenary he is that he is happy to promote and monetise completely opposing political views depending on what's currently most profitable for him.


    Nasty little man

    Despite Simon frequently professing to fight against injustice and prejudice in all their forms, he's (surprise!) not the nicest person.

    Simon seems to think it is okay to pick on people as long as they're the ones he has decided are the bad guys. In July 2023 he defended Huw Edwards over allegations of paying a teenager for explicit photos; Simon said it was cruel to discuss this because of Edwards' mental health and lamented that Edwards had had his life “turned upside down” by journalists reporting on the story. (Edwards later pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children, including seven of the most serious type). But subsequently, Dan Wootton, whom Simon had recently criticised for his comments on Edwards, was also accused of paying men for nudes. Simon happily tore into him; apparently Wootton's mental health isn't important. (Wootton was later cleared of any criminal behaviour by both the Metropolitan Police and Police Scotland).

    He talks a lot about misogyny and women being bullied online, yet abuses Tory women like Nadine Dorries and Sophie Corcoran on Twitter. He tweeted at Gillian Keegan (then Secretary of State for Education, who was under fire over school closures) with what came across as a threat of violence.

    On multiple occasions he has tried to shut down online discussion about alleged sex offences by public figures; telling people they will be sued and should stop talking about it. While it's important not to outright say anything libellous on social media, he comes across as aggressive and dismissive of victims or people who may genuinely know a victim.

    He is happy to make racist jokes for engagement when it suits him (this one referencing the Only Fools and Horses episode "The Longest Night." He deleted the tweet when others pointed out that it was racist.) Despite frequently accusing others of racism, and suggesting that any criticism of a person of colour in the public eye is because of their race.

    He is in multiple Facebook groups devoted to "hun" memes, where he leaves very vicious comments that make it clear he enjoys making fun of working-class women.

    He often defends shoplifting (especially of baby milk) and tells his followers not to report others for stealing baby milk. It is irresponsible to post things like this because it can encourage someone to risk shoplifting and potential arrest. Criminals like to steal formula milk to resell and/or mix with drugs - if you see someone pinching it, they may very well not be a struggling person trying to feed their baby.

    Simon is Jewish but is a fan of Supertanskii (who made antisemitic "jokes" on her blog) and several Labour politicians accused of antisemitism. He justifies this by saying one can be both Jewish and antisemitic. That's true, but do you really want to advertise it?

    In response to a Facebook post by an autistic man who had called police over a dispute in Costa Coffee, Simon left a rather nasty comment insulting/making fun of him. How would Simon feel if someone treated his own autistic son that way?

    Simon spoke about government plans to reduce the cost of HS2 (a project to connect England by high-speed rail) by cancelling the line to Manchester. When someone pointed out that Simon has never lived in the north of England and doesn't understand how this affects others, he replied, "Don’t worry. I developed an ability to empathise with others a while ago. For example, I criticised Putin even though I don't have an apartment in Lviv."

    A poster on Twitter alleges that after they complained about being overcharged by a local garage, the owner had Simon (who does promotional work for the garage) threaten the poster's wife into taking down a negative review, or else he would use social media to ruin her business. We of course can't verify this.

    Examples of creepy/inappropriate behaviour

    Simon said on Twitter that he would rather his son L., who is autistic and was aged 8 at the time, watch porn than read the Daily Mail. Accompanied by a staged photo of L. looking at the Daily Mail website. Because that's a totally normal thing to say about your 8-year-old disabled child.

    He repeatedly made very inappropriate, borderline paedophilic "jokes" on Southend News Network. Here are some examples: one, two, three. (Notice that the first one contains a photo of an actual young child in school uniform. We question what search terms he used to find this photo?)

    He has a fixation with breastfeeding and women's breasts, and will often post about it under the guise of saying that he supports women's right to breastfeed in public. See "Greatest hits from his blog" below for examples of this, he very often posted about it on his old Twitter/X account as well. A more recent example is when he attacked a woman who had criticised Emily Atack for being photographed holding a glass of wine while breastfeeding. It clearly shows what Simon's real agenda is and it isn't defending women's rights!

    He was once commissioned to help local NHS authorities design a campaign promoting cervical screening; and came up with the slogan "Use Your Head, and Spread." Why they thought it appropriate to commission him for a campaign about women's health, telling women in crude and overly-sexual terms to "spread (their legs)", is anyone's guess.

    He posted this showing that while staying in a holiday rental that had a smart TV, he'd searched for porn on the TV's YouTube app as a "joke." This risks bringing up porn on something that children may use, and it's quite disturbing that he thought it was funny to see this among children's programming.


    Behaving dadly, badly

    Given the inordinate amount of time Simon spends on social media, it's questionable how much childcare he actually does. He once defended this by saying he gets a lot done in a day, including driving the kids around and "answering questions about Peppa Pig." Take a look at his list and decide for yourself.

    His social media indicates that his children spend a lot of time using screens. He also shares photos where they look visibly dirty and/or have unwashed hair.

    Simon has shared a lot of personal information about his children online and in published press articles. This includes their names, birthdays, photos, what school they attend, and details about L.'s autism - when L. is older he may not want everyone to know about his disability. All the children are far too young to understand the implications for their privacy. When Simon was first on social media he took more care to hide their identities e.g. by blurring out the logo on their school uniform, but no longer bothers.

    On one memorable occasion he made dozens of tweets complaining about then one-year-old T. throwing a tantrum in the supermarket. Simon then got into an argument with someone who criticised him for giving T. crisps that hadn't been paid for. Maybe T. would have been in a better mood if his dad paid attention to him and got on with the shopping rather than ranting on Twitter?

    Simon often appears in local press because he'll sell any non-story for attention. One of these was when L. wanted to go to a chip shop that was famous on TikTok. Simon drove his children there on a Sunday when the shop was shut, just so he could take photos outside. It was a five-hour round trip and T., who was still a baby, went with them. Why would you put your children through this just for content?

    He once "joked" in his Twitter bio that he "will use own kids for freebies" when this is exactly what he does.

    On 7 September 2023, Simon gave an interview on a US public radio show about the UK schools concrete crisis. Two-year-old T. "accidentally" interrupted the broadcast and thought the host was "Mummy." Did Simon stage this or do the kids really see so little of their mother that T. thought a complete stranger was her? This added to the speculation that Simon and Rachael have separated.

    He appears to have used his children in undeclared ads, including his daughter in a promotion for a banking service for under-18s.


    Greatest hits from his blog



    Desperately seeking attention

    Simon frequently tweets at Martin Lewis (journalist/TV presenter with a focus on personal finance) and Carol Vorderman, trying to get their attention. He will often do this several times a day, see here for examples of some of his tweets to Martin Lewis. Lewis appears to have blocked him for this reason.

    When Simon ranted about how life was supposedly better for everyone in Britain during the 2012 Olympics, the actor Sean Biggerstaff responded and called him "an ignorant, complacent arsehole." Simon retweeted this without comment because he couldn't resist the urge to show off that someone in the public eye had noticed him!

    Simon regularly appears in his local newspaper with ridiculous non-stories such as:

    Most of these involve fundraising/tin-rattling. Note the comments sections, which are not particularly kind to Simon.

    Pkershaw said:
    My fellow Southenders and I have had to put up with this moron forcing his gurning meathead in front of the lenses of our local news reporters for years. So for his final hurrah to be an article all about his sentencing would just be glorious.

    I’ve mentioned this before but I know we have a few new faces so it’s worth telling it again. We nicknamed him the village idiot in the comments section of Echo News.
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    In 2023, the UK faced a crisis over schools being closed out of concern the buildings could collapse (as they were built with cheap concrete that isn't designed to last.) Simon rushed to cash in on this and whored himself out to any media outlet that would have him. He managed to get a radio interview in the USA, and a brief quote on BBC News. He then posted a number of self-righteous tweets making it sound like the press were beating a path to his door. Simon's only "qualification" to talk about this is that (like thousands if not millions of other parents in Britain) his children go to an affected school. He knows nothing about building materials, education, or anything else relevant to the topic.

    Simon thinks he's the next Jeremy Beadle and likes to play stupid "pranks", such as sending wine and Dairylea to 10 Downing Street or making a parking space look like it said BLACKS. Then he goes running to the local papers in glee again, as if it's somehow a hot news story.


    Book of (literal) crap

    Simon is the author of a children's book called Little Budgie's Done a Fudgie about a baby bird learning to use the potty. (We will not link it here but it can be found for sale online.) It is self-published because several publishers rejected it, he spoke about this on his Facebook at the time. The book contains faeces and toilet humour in abundance, and is generally of the quality you would expect someone like Simon to turn out.

    He has not responded well to criticism of the book. At one point he shared a letter he had received from the manager of a nursery, who had turned down a donated copy of the book as she was concerned it might encourage children to try to eat their own faeces (since "fudge" is a word they will associate with food.) Simon called her snooty and condescending, and encouraged his followers to make fun of her - even though she had a perfectly valid point. On another occasion he received a complaint from a fundamentalist Christian who was angry because she mistakenly thought the title referred to a sex act. As usual, Simon's response was to run to the press as if this were anything resembling news.
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