Posted on 01/11/2023 8:20:39 AM PST by RandFan
Mr Bridgen was previously critical of policies like lockdown and vaccine passports but he praised the development of Covid vaccines, and tweeted proudly when he received his doses.
However, last autumn he began to make increasingly baseless claims including that vaccines were killing many people and that the damage was being covered up.
At first, he began highlighting some real, but rare, instances of genuine vaccine injury and misinterpreting real data to suggest these cases were more common than the research suggests.
In recent weeks, this rhetoric has increased.
Posting a link to an article on vaccines earlier, he said: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust."
Extensive independent research shows that Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing deaths.
Serious side effects involving Covid vaccines, including approximately 60 deaths in England and Wales according to the Office for National Statistics, are rare, given the tens of millions of doses administered.
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, called Mr Bridgen's comments "highly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate".
Lord Mann, an independent peer and former Labour MP who advises the government on antisemitism, said Mr Bridgen should be barred from standing for the Tories at the next election.
"He cannot claim that he didn't realise the level of offence that his remarks cause," he added.
Conservative chairman Nadhim Zahawi, a former vaccines minister, said he was "proud" of the UK's response to the pandemic, and he was "appalled" by Mr Bridgen's remarks.
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Heavy editorializing going on here within a "news" piece.
They're covering up for someone. I haven't seen this level of garbage since the 2020 presidential election...
Someone? They’re covering at least in part for their own past “reporting”
State TV
The BBC is the Brit government outfit.
They’re letting Winston Smith handle all the corrections. He’ll show you how this guy had a mental breakdown and nothing to see here - move along.
It’s remarkably similar to what you would read in AP articles etc. after the presidential election...
The level of editorializing, etc.
I would call it propaganda and it should be a big red flag!
If sixty died out of millions that’s a good record. Not sure which vaccines they are talking about here but the UK had at least one we don’t have over here.
It’s amazing how many otherwise intelligent people still believe all the vaccine lies. Don’t think the average person sees 1/10th what the average FReeper does.
“Don’t think the average person sees 1/10th what the average FReeper does.
Not unless it’s on NPR.
Coincidence Theorists
https://twitter.com/DavidWolfe/status/1612994071362146309
Must see short satirical vid.
Good point. In the tweet he linked to the VAERS story.
This is about the US figures not UK so the BBC are misrepresenting him there.
AstraZeneca
“If sixty died out of millions that’s a good record.”
Not knowing how many more might have died that were misclassified, or how many were permanently injured, crippled, rendered infertile, etc, that’s a bit of a premature assessment, I think.
We’re all getting used to the shortcuts to the truth—anything referred to in the Unimedia as “Baseless”, “False”, or “Debunked” is so true it has to be destroyed.
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