Section 179 creates a criminal offence of sending false communications. A person is guilty of this offence if they:

1. send a message;
2. conveying information that they know to be false;
3. at the time of sending it they intend the message to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience (i.e. someone who is likely to read it, whether originally or after someone has shared it); and
4. they have no reasonable excuse for sending the message

is a reasonable excuse "I thought it was funny"

does this mean Dalek goes to jail for his fantasy Brexit posts that he posts to own the libs? or would it be a defence to say that the readership of RoF is so small it does not constitute an audience? 

I'm not worried, most everything I do online was already illegal

I guess I'll take my chances under the Scottish regime 

at least there you only really have to worry about calling the wrong person a fanny or a dick 

It’s nothing new Crypto. Sending false messages was already illegal. This just replaces https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/21/section/127?view=plain

Has that been used much, Jimbo? 

This kind of ill-defined thing worries me. Is saying "all cops are corrupt piggies" a false message? Arguably since we know that not all cops are corrupt. 

In my experience a sensible view is normally taken. If someone sends you a scam message purporting to be from your daughter in dire straits needing money transferred immediately then this would be prosecuted (if you were traced). If Risky posts on here that I’m corrupt knowing full well I’m not, that wouldn’t and it would be up to the individual to sue.