OneVSP is a platform with great potential.

Your author MHN Editor Samuel Collingwood Smith is happy to announce that I have purchased 1.5 million shares in One VSP Limited (One-and-a-half-million). One VSP is an upcoming video sharing platform. This has only just gone through, and will be updated at Companies House in the coming weeks. I may also be doing some advisory work for the company.

OneVSP is a UK based video sharing platform similar to YouTube, Rumble and Bitchute, with an emphasis on free speech and monetisation through subscriptions, which limits its dependence on advertisements and advertisers with political views. MHN has been a critic of OneVSP in the past, but I have always said the company has potential.

Over the past few weeks I have had a number of discussions with shareholder and CEO Muhammad Butt. There are lots of exciting wheels in motion about improving and diversifying content so although political content will remain, there will be other draws to increase traffic. My opinion is qualified. As my day job, I am also qualified in Software Development and I am the owner of an IT Consultancy, Prosperous Software Consulting Limited Limited, which amongst other things develops software including working on high traffic websites, including for some large retail and financial businesses.

As a result, I have worked on very high profile websites. My contributions as an advisor will be around making One VSP as scalable as possible, as cost-effectively as possible, to deal with an increase in viewing. I am also concerned to maximise free speech on the platform, whilst complying with regulatory requirements.

On another note, Muhammad and I have obviously discussed the sad case of former OneVSP contributor Sonia Poulton. Poulton was being financially backed by Muhammad in a lawsuit by former MP John Hemming against her, and by her against myself and John. However, as of last year Muhammad withdrew as a backer and encouraged her to settle with us.

Also revealed at the hearing was that in order to walk away, we have made an offer – but only to avoid her being made bankrupt – not to let her make a profit on publications that were incomplete and misleading.

Since then, both myself, John and Muhammad have continued to give Sonia opportunities in open correspondence to settle and walk away. Muhammad has been quite generous in not, so far, pursuing recovery of his £150K+ gifted to Sonia to make it easy for her to walk away. There is a court deadline to pay fees, which means that offers available will be on less generous terms after the end of this week.

Ms Poulton also resigned after a short period of engagement with TNT Radio, who were concerned about her journalistic output.

Muhammad Butt has provided me with this clarification statement,

“I wanted to clarify a few matters regarding myself, onevsp.com and Sonia Poulton, hopefully this will make things a little more clear.

The purpose of this clarification is because I am aware Sonia made certain comments in one of her podcast on YouTube regarding me. It was said, words to the effect that I suddenly stopped communicating with her.

Also, as you rightly pointed out, it appeared that on a show with a particular host on TNT Sonia was asked about being involved with a ‘previous platform’ to which neither Sonia or the host mentioned it was onevsp.com formerly BrandNewTube.com.

Having watched the clip it could easily appear to some viewers that this exchange was very derogatory and dismissive towards myself and my platform.

All the above obviously is quite disappointing to me as firstly I did not simply stop communicating with Sonia, rather, I sent a number of text explaining that I simply needed time off to gather my thoughts.

Secondly, not mentioning the fact that she had worked for so many years on BrandNewTube.com and also onevsp.com did shock me a little, I found that quite bizarre.

During her break from onevsp.com Sonia had decided to join TNT, I had absolutely no idea she was going to do this as she had made no contact with me explaining this or even to inform me she was leaving onevsp.com.

From that moment our communication completely broke down, however, I have always hoped the best for her and that she would be able to come to some amicable settlement with you and John Hemming.

In order to help facilitate this as I have discussed with you, any settlement offer you make to Sonia would not need to take into account the £150,000 (there or thereabouts) that I had spent helping her defend herself in these cases.

I am willing to write that full amount off if she decides to settle with you both, hopefully, this will remove a huge burden and help you all settle speedily.

I had previously mentioned that I was willing to do this in the last hearing I went to with her.

I really hope you can all settle this amicably and get on with your lives, aggressive litigation is not healthy for anyone.

One further point that I will make absolutely clear, my funding of Sonia was always about defending her against any false or incorrect allegations she may have had to face.

The funding was never about trying to prove Mr John Hemming was guilty of any crime. I made this clear at the last hearing, Sonia to be fair has always known and agreed this was indeed why I was helping her.

To be absolutely clear, I do not think John Hemming is guilty of any criminal offence and certainly feel he is innocent.

Finally Sam, I would like to welcome you as a share holder of ONE VSP LTD (onevsp.com) and look forward to working closely with you in areas that I feel you will excel our rapidly growing Video Sharing Platform.”

However, Sonia, who does not presently have any major platform and self-publishes, is not important. What is important is that One VSP is a new business that is rising to the challenges of the market environment and stands to make investors a lot of money.