Simon Harris speaks for the first time about being paid £367,000 by Essex County Council.
A social media figure who was given hundreds of thousands of pounds by a council during the pandemic said he feels like a “sitting duck” due to concerns on the spending.
He said this work increased over the pandemic and recalled a phone conversation when he was asked to distribute more than £100,000 to other social media influencers and causes. He added: “I’m just some bloke who makes memes and people read them, sometimes they don’t read them, and because it was over Covid I’m just assuming that all this must be normal and they just need to get stuff done.”The payments and Mr Harris’ name came to light in January this year prompting him to delete his social media accounts, which he admits, “wasn’t the best way” of dealing with it.
"I’m thinking come offline, keep a low profile, and see what happens, when in fact that wasn’t the best way of handling it." “The mechanism of how it all came about is horrific and needs properly sorting out which I’m assuming it is.”
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