Simon Heffer is a fat fucking liar

[webofevil]

SIMON HEFFER IS A FAT FUCKING LIAR

Ed Balls, the Children’s Minister, has gone down in history—well, according to Hansard at least—as having ejaculated “so weak” from the front bench when, in his response to the Budget, Dave said, quite correctly, that we now have the heaviest tax burden in our history. He in fact yelled out “so what?” ... Hansard was spoken to and the so-called record now reads “so weak”. [Simon Heffer, Telegraph]

The Hansard reporters in the room heard “so weak”, the video footage catches the end of Ed Balls mouthing “weak” and, more to the point, Hansard does not change anything just because it is inconvenient for the government, or indeed for anyone else. Anyone who says otherwise is an ignorant poltroon or an opportunistic shitgiblet.

If this seems like an unnecessarily ad hominem attack on the crapulent unwitting falsehood-spreader [That's a bit better - Legal dept], it’s worth remembering that an attack on Hansard reporters' professionalism and integrity is pretty ad bloody hominem in itself. And nothing less than I would expect from that repellent [the rest of this entry cut for length].

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

English law allows actions for libel to be brought in the High Court for any published statements which are alleged to defame a named or identifiable individual or individuals in a manner which causes them loss in their trade or profession, or causes a reasonable person to think worse of him, her or them.

[webofevil.livejournal.com]

Whoever you are, and for whatever reason you chose to bless me with this potted recap of the law, you are entirely right. Simon Heffer has helped to circulate a dirty fucking lie in a national newspaper at no cost to himself, but to point out the extent of that untruth and his part in disseminating it could easily cost others thousands of pounds.

However, your nudge has reminded me not to leap to uncharitable conclusions. I have taken note and changed the headline to this post accordingly. No-one is going to accuse esteemed historian Simon Heffer of deliberately lying, not on my watch. Clearly, in going to print with an outrageous falsehood, he has been the victim of a serious misunderstanding, or perhaps of his own profound ignorance of the workings of Parliament, in which case I extend my sympathies to him for apparently being so easily taken in.

It’s not libellous to keep pointing out that he’s fat, though.

EDIT: I subsequently understood that my anonymous commenter's oblique intervention was actually intended to demonstrate a flaw in Heffer's approach, not in mine. In the light of that, I have changed the headline back to its original untruncated, if linguistically unadventurous, form. For the record, I initially changed it to "SIMON HEFFER IS A FAT FUCK".

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Simon Heffer libels himself by existing.

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

How could a reasonable person think any worse of Simon Heffer?