Highland Titles founder Peter Bevis keeps a personal website where he comments, spouts opinion, and generally rambles on various subjects. The writing style results in a rather odious, superior, condescending tome, which we find really quite difficult to read, but occasionally we brace ourselves to have a peek.
Back in March 2018 Mr Bevis wrote some opinion on the upcoming defamation case involving Wildcat Haven Enterprises CIC and Andy Wightman. One piece of comment was about the crowdfunding efforts of Mr Wightman to raise funds for his defense. This is what Peter Bevis wrote.
"What a difference a year makes! Eleven months ago the news of his crowdfunder appeal for a modest £10,000 electrified Twitter. 318 hearts and 592 retweets. Wow. This year the request for an additional extraordinary £120,000 created a massive social media yawn. One heart and a comment from Cathy. Hopefully she will be donating the full £120,000 because nobody else appears to be interested."
A pdf copy of the web page as it was at time of writing can be found HERE
Perhaps Mr Bevis would have been better to wait until he knew the final outcome before commenting. In fact Andy Wightman's first crowdfunder raised £61,516 with 1758 supporters in 56 days, and the second £116,417 with 3202 supporters in 28 days. It is obvious that contrary to Mr Bevis' opinion, the support for Mr Wightman has in fact increased substantially from the first crowdfunder, and very nearly reached the £120,000 target.
This does rather call into question the validity and accuracy of any other observations on the page, and indeed the whole website.
If there was a prize for number of words written, we imagine Peter Bevis might be up for an award. If on the other hand the award was for accuracy, we rather think the wooden spoon might be finding a very worthy home.
Back in March 2018 Mr Bevis wrote some opinion on the upcoming defamation case involving Wildcat Haven Enterprises CIC and Andy Wightman. One piece of comment was about the crowdfunding efforts of Mr Wightman to raise funds for his defense. This is what Peter Bevis wrote.
"What a difference a year makes! Eleven months ago the news of his crowdfunder appeal for a modest £10,000 electrified Twitter. 318 hearts and 592 retweets. Wow. This year the request for an additional extraordinary £120,000 created a massive social media yawn. One heart and a comment from Cathy. Hopefully she will be donating the full £120,000 because nobody else appears to be interested."
A pdf copy of the web page as it was at time of writing can be found HERE
Perhaps Mr Bevis would have been better to wait until he knew the final outcome before commenting. In fact Andy Wightman's first crowdfunder raised £61,516 with 1758 supporters in 56 days, and the second £116,417 with 3202 supporters in 28 days. It is obvious that contrary to Mr Bevis' opinion, the support for Mr Wightman has in fact increased substantially from the first crowdfunder, and very nearly reached the £120,000 target.
This does rather call into question the validity and accuracy of any other observations on the page, and indeed the whole website.
If there was a prize for number of words written, we imagine Peter Bevis might be up for an award. If on the other hand the award was for accuracy, we rather think the wooden spoon might be finding a very worthy home.
