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Saturday 22 July 2023

Dan Wootton - No Crowdfunder Needed

The loathsome Toby Young has urged anyone not yet asleep to donate to a crowdfunder: “Support [Dan Wootton]’s battle to save his career - and fight back against the malicious onslaught by Byline Times - by donating to his fundraiser”. How does Tobes know the Byline Times allegations are malicious? What research has he done? Probably none at all.


But one thing in this Tweet was true: the deeply unpleasant Wootton has indeed launched a crowdfunder, for legal fees. So why isn’t Gammon Broadcasting™ News (“Bacon’s News Channel”) underwriting them instead? Isn’t this crowdfunder a sign not only that Wootton is on his own here, but also that he is not confident of being able to win a defamation action?

Whatever. Let’s consider his schtick, his sales pitch. “A hard left blog is on a deranged campaign of harassment designed to destroy me financially, mentally and professionally - but, with your help, they will not succeed. Please support my legal case against Byline Times so I can keep fighting for you”. Wootton fights for someone who is not Himself? Well, well.

But let’s pick apart that statement. “Hard left blog”? Byline Times is not a blog; Wootton is trying to diminish its status by thus asserting. The claim that it is “hard left” is just abuse: Wootton cannot and will not stand that up. Nor does he do himself any favours with claiming to be a mental health victim, while using a mental health smear - “deranged” - against Byline Times.

Nor did he do himself any favours, it seems, with the mailing list someone has compiled to enable him to ask his Sleb pals to chip in to that crowdfunder, as the Byline Times Twitter feed has toldDan Wootton tonight crowdfunded for legal fees as he faces a series of allegations made by Byline Times he sent a message to dozens of celebrity contacts book begging for them to contribute - including at least one of those he is alleged to have catfished”. WHOOPS!

Then another thought enters: why does Dan Wootton, who, it has been claimed, is worth around five million notes, need to crowdfund for £150,000? Can’t he underwrite that amount himself, or get GB News to do it? Byline Times aren’t, as Peter Jukes has confirmed: “We're not yet crowdfunding for legal fees because we think it's very unlikely given the evidence we have Wootton will ever initiate proceedings”. Brian Moore had some thoughts.


Re Wooton' s grfiting for legal fees - if you're thinking of donating - 1. He appears to have the requested amount in cash 2. He reserves the right to keep any unpsent money for 'other' cases … 3. You're a mug”. OUCH!

He appears to have the requested amount in cash? How do we know? Well, Desperate Dan has his own limited company, Wellidon Limited (registered number 08186903) which last May submitted its accounts, made up to the end of August 2022. And they show “Cash at Bank” as £249,352. Even deducting the item for “Creditors - Amounts falling due within one year”, at £64,522, that still leaves him with £184,830 to play with.

So yes, on the basis of his last limited company accounts, Wootton already has more than the £150,000 crowdfunder target, and it could therefore be concluded that he has no need to ask for assistance. Hence Moore using the term “grifting” and telling anyone donating “you’re a mug”.

In any case, quite apart from Toby Young suggesting that his idea of “free speech” does not extend to those outside the media establishment, and is therefore worthless bluster, Peter Jukes is unmoved by the attacks on Byline Times and Tobes’ lack of support for the publication. “By this time next week, I bet a lot of Wootton's crowdfunders will want their money back. Bookmark this tweet”. Takes a confident man to make such an unequivocal assertion.

Meanwhile, the next set of revelations is on its way. Tick, tock, as they say.


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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tobes would do better to crowdfund for a new syrup for himself and chin and gut reduction lypo for fat boy wootton

Anonymous said...

What a delightful interlude spectacle this is.

Both Wooton and Young caught with their kecks flapping around their ankles and their thumbs in each other's mouth. If Byline is believed, the former is apparently true in Wooton's case.

I would willingly contribute to a fund for an electric scooter to take them both whence they came. But they'd have to pay for it to be deep cleaned afterwards.

Anonymous said...

Although Peter Jukes is so thin skinned it hurts, Byline does good work.

They will have legalled this to the eyeballs.

Anonymous said...

MiscreantlyTransphobic fat homosexual tastes bitter flavour of its own rancid broth it's been brewing, enjoy dearest fat homosexual.
Loved the lipo jokes he really is a cat funt!!!