Joey Barton loses ‘bike nonce’ libel showdown with Jeremy Vine after judge rules vile post was defamatory

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1. Shocking. Or not. It’s pretty fucking obvious that what he said is libel.

2. Unfortunately, the far-right grift gravy train means he won’t face severe enough financial ramifications. He’ll just spin this as “i’M bEiNG SiLenCEd” and idiots will lap it up.

3. Barton seems to be a misogynistic and abusive chap. I hope that’s not libel.

4. Very misleading title, but what else from the Daily Hate.

   This is only part one of the case, where the judge had to decide if the actual word used are defamatory, which he, IMHO, has correctly decided they are.

   Personally I think Barton is a vile, hate filled individual who in other circumstances would have spent a portion of his time at Her/His Majesty’s Pleasure.

5. What if I call someone a bus nonce, will I be punished?

6. Fantastic. I mean he literally said “if you see him near a primary school call 999”, referenced Savile, and loads of his followers joined in. What a prick.

7. They’re both parasitic bottom feeders, i’m only sad it means one of them wins

8. Saying Joey Barton is taking the shit he talks because he has a “brain injury” is itself defamatory. To people with brain injuries.

9. “Vile post” fuck me what a sensitive bunch we’ve become eh. And he is a massive fucking nonce for what it’s worth

10. I heard a rumour that after the next election there is going to be an exception written into libel laws whereby you can say whatever you want about Jeremy Vine.

11. lol I call my mates nonces all the time, what a sad life Vine must have if he has actually escalated this to the courts.

    What a waste of resources

12. On the one hand, these pathetic twitter spats, like the Laurence Fox case, are not really a good use of time or money*. No one was seriously hurt and it’s rich people taking punts at each other and lawyers grtting rich.

    However, sooner or latter the habit of right wing grifters of shouting “pedophile” left right and centre is going to get some innocent poor sods house torched, so it’s probably better that people be made to think a bit more carefully.

    *although Foxy boy going bankrupt will be very funny. 

13. Look, I cycle and I also hate coming across a cyclist when I’m driving on a tight road. But we wouldn’t tolerate this sort of abuse to any other group of people. I’ve cycled around the world and I honestly find the UK to be the most hostile.

    When I cycle and I get abuse from traffic, it’s almost always because a timid driver was too scared to overtake me. They’re the ones that bundle up the traffic. When they eventually get past, the end result is that I get 10 other furious drivers directing their frustrations at me (at best, a loud rev; at worst, verbal abuse).

14. No horse in this race but Vine called a YouTuber “The Jimmy Saville of trolling ” when said Youtuber who wasn’t a nice guy in the slightest but definitely not a pedophile was involved in a court case involving Vine . So is that OK?

15. I hate nonces as much as the next guy but to compare them to Jeremy Vine is a bit much

16. He’s stupid enough to double down on it. He alienates himself more every day with every unhinged post he writes

17. Seeing a lot of people either deliberately or unknowingly ignoring the fact that Barton also called Vine a ‘pedo defender’.