Do me a favor, love!
HOTRODGAL:
It would be an absolute waste of your valuable time and intelligence to wonder or worry about the libel accusation from the erstwhile "Village Secretary" and when it comes right down to the nitty-gritty of the matter, you will find out that the secretary is, as the English saying goes "All mouth and no trousers!"
These days, every Tom, Dick, and Harry feels libeled or slandered if you so much as comment on how they sugar their coffee, or tea as the case may be, which is quite sad really, because what they are feeling is not so much defamation as it is delusions of grandeur and self importance as well as being a complete ignoramus as to the very meaning of the words they spew or where they are doing it.
Does the secretary not know that the libel and slander market in England is cornered by and revolves around The Sun, The Daily Mirror, Queen of England, members of parliament, Elton John, and Tom Cruise who seem to be perpetually going in and out of the High Court.
And I digress…
Anyways, the sentence in question is as far from being libelous as I am from the Presidency of the United States and you are quite correct in saying that it is nonetheless your opinion which (I presumed) was expressed within a certain context of the local politics. And besides, for a valid cause of action sounding in defamation, someone somewhere must have suffered damages going to the character and other related "general" damages which here there are none except a bruised ego which by itself is not actionable.
In sum, as they say, FORGET IT! Your accuser is in the immortal words of Del Trotter, a complete plunker.
fredrikklaw
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