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A Bridgen Too Far

by Nick Dixon
14 January 2023 7:00 PM

Although I couldn’t resist the headline, I have no intention of adding to the many hit pieces on Andrew Bridgen. 

But nor can I completely condone his recent tweet. 

Prior to the events of this week, Bridgen had been brave to raise the extremely important issue of vaccine harms in Parliament.

One always assumes politicians are behaving in a largely calculated manner most of the time. But Bridgen’s recent speech on the matter was so brave and borderline reckless that one wonders if he has simply always been acting solely according to his conscience, and this is just the first time it happens to have landed him in this much trouble. 

Or, as I suggested in another piece, maybe he has recently taken a hefty dose of red pills. All the signs are there: awareness of vaccine damages, appearing on James Delingpole’s podcast… actually that’s all you need.

Unfortunately the same instinct, whether naivety or righteous zeal, caused him to post his regrettable tweet. 

Now let’s be clear: in no way was the tweet anti-Semitic. I have this on good authority from my most anti-Semitism-aware friend, who even believes the term ‘Globalism‘ is anti-Semitic, yet conceded Bridgen’s tweet was not. Crass, perhaps. Racist, no.

Nor was Bridgen intending to trivialise the Holocaust. He employed it as an analogy precisely because of its horrific properties. And by calling the global vaccine side-effects scandal the “biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust” (or, at least, endorsing a cardiologist who made this point) he is seemingly presenting the vaccines as the next worst event. 

Still, the details almost don’t matter, because he has already lost.

And by making the ill-advised analogy, my fear is he has ended up undermining the serious cause he was rightly highlighting.

He has given the Guardian the ammunition to bizarrely link him to Andrew Tate, and call for more online censorship off the back of it, and allowed Rishi Sunak, and that ludicrous popinjay Matt Hancock to call him anti-Semitic. 

This allows them to crush Covid dissent, bin Bridgen, and move on. 

It could be compared to Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech, in that it raised a very serious issue that concerns huge numbers of people, but did it in a sufficiently lurid way as to set the argument back catastrophically. 

Just as the debate on immigration was buried to the detriment of the country, will the legitimate issue of vaccine harms now be similarly silenced? 

It certainly looks that way in the short term, and it reminds us all of the discipline needed when one is on the despised (yet correct) fringe of accepted opinion. Dissident discipline, one might call it. 

Lacking this vigilance, Bridgen handed his party the perfect excuse to dump him. 

Chief Whip Simon Hart’s statement clearly reflects that. His claim that “Andrew Bridgen has crossed a line, causing great offence in the process”, suggests that the Party’s main concern was raising the issue of vaccine safety, with the Holocaust reference being an offensive aside. The next part confirms this reading:

As a nation we should be very proud of what has been achieved through the vaccine programme. The vaccine is the best defence against Covid that we have. Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives. I am therefore removing the whip from Andrew Bridgen with immediate effect, pending a formal investigation.

The idea we should be proud of the vaccine programme is simply an opinion, albeit one that appears to be rigorously enforced. I personally remain impressed by the logistics of the rollout, which could not have been achieved within the EU, but would not go anywhere near the actual product.

Hart goes on to discredit himself with standard Regime terms like ‘misinformation’, and the contemporary authoritarian’s favourite claim: that exposing potential wrongdoing is causing ‘harm’.

I believe Bridgen will be proved right on vaccines in the long term, but his reputation may sadly remain tarnished by the clumsy comparison he made.

In future, let’s maintain our dissident discipline, and not give our glib oppressors any open goals.

Tags: Andrew BridgenCOVID-19PoliticsVaccineVaccine HarmsVaccines

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Paul B
Paul B
2 years ago

I made the point a couple of years ago that forcing people to choose between injecting an experimental substance into your body that you didn’t want or need and feeding your family, having people herded off into camps for refusal and taking children away from parents sounded like atrocities carried out by the Nazis. I was told it was a disgusting comparison. I think we’ve seen the last 3 years who would have been prison guards and who would have hid novelists under their floorboards.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

So true

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Paul B

And Austria was on the verge of introducing camps for vaccine refuseniks, and Germany considering it too.

The lessons of the Holocaust is not about the people who suffered but the people who caused it, their way of thinking, their lack of Humanity, their excuse they are doing evil in order to do good – save granny – their tyranny and where that ultimately and inevitably leads.

We are in times when the ruling class thinks and behaves in exactly the same way those who caused the Holocaust did, with far too many supports enthusiastic supporters.

The CoVid ‘crisis’ and Net Zero are readily apparent indicators and warnings of that.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Indeed, they really put the “Reich” back in “Osterreich”!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago

Totally agree

Does the writer seriously expect us to believe that the immigration “debate” would have turned out differently had Powell been more mealy-mouthed? Perhaps his speech was widely reported in all the other rich world nations that have pursued mass immigration against the wishes of the majority of their citizens?

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Mark Nind
Mark Nind
2 years ago

So let me try and analyse the crime that Andrew Bridgen committed. He drew attention to the possibility that the ‘vaccines’ may be causing harm and roll out should be stopped pending a thorough review of the safety. He cited yellow card reports and Vaers data. He also quoted other doctors and a member of the Br Heart Foundation. If these experimental ‘vaccines’ are killing people we need Andrew Bridgen and many others to speak out! For goodness sake, how many more excess deaths are we as a society prepared to tolerate??? What is causing these excess deaths then?? The one thing the media is sure of that it isn’t the ‘vaccine’. Other than that they don’t have a clue. And please, stop applauding the successful roll out. That will end up being ridiculous if it is the jabs that are causing people to ‘die suddenly’.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Mark Nind

Indeed. Bridgen is literally doing what any good whistleblower worth his salt would do.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago

The counterfactual argument that it would have been better if… is a weak argument

There is no evidence that the government was about to take a major turn on vaccine damages and every reason to believe they were sticking to their line, regardless of what anyone says.

What needs to happen now is that doctors continue to speak up, and the information about damages continues relentlessly. And it will because the damage seems very real.

What wins here is force, persistence and determination.

Don’t fault Bridgen for exhibiting those qualities. Applaud him.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Amen. Let’s NOT quail in the face of this, lest we give the powers that be the satisfaction.

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James Richardson
James Richardson
2 years ago

I disagree. Bridgen baited his hook and the likes of Hancock, Javiid and Zaharwi couldn’t resist. They now have to back up their hasty allegations or be sued. A calculated masterstroke in my opinion.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago
Reply to  James Richardson

I hope you’re right. I’ve not seen too many positive legislative victories in the past half decade.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  James Richardson

Absolutely. They literally walked right into this and took his bait. They bought the proverbial ticket, now they get to take the ride.

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richardw53
richardw53
2 years ago

What nonsense this article is. We need to find common ground with those who agree with us, not genuflect to the guardianistas.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  richardw53

So true.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago

Jeez, victim blaming, much? The facts of the matter could not be more clear so I’m not going to regurgitate everything yet again. He said “since” the holocaust, for crying out loud. Deal with it.
And why should the holocaust be out of bounds to speak about anyway? Andrew B has got so much support from the Jewish community that it’s laughable it’s the non-Jews that are getting their knickers in a twist over this! If this really had anything at all to do with the “h” word or antisemitism then spokespeople for the Jewish people would be all over this. On the contrary, their support for Andrew and lack of slandering terminology ( unlike his spiteful fellow MPs ) tells us all we need to know.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

You have to admit, the anti-semetism accusation seems to be at least partly working.

His statement was extremely incendiary because.in effect what he was doing was accusing the government from his party of a massive crime against humanity. That is one hell of an accusation.

They in turn pulled out all their heavy weapons – basically the mainstream media which they control – and fired back with accusations of anti semetism.

And now that’s what they have people talking about and not thinking that Boris Johnson, Hancock and the rest of them have just been accused by one of his colleagues of a hideous crime.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Yes pure distraction. It’s clear as day to anyone that the tweet in question was not remotely antisemitic so A.B does right to get some legal counsel here because, just as a layperson, I can see that’s blatant slander. The mudslingers have nothing solid against Andrew and that’s why they’re desperately resorting to what amounts to a playground mentality of name-calling. They haven’t a leg to stand on, are patently the ones in the wrong and they should be embarrassed to have sank so low. Utterly pathetic. Having said that, I do think both Andrew and Aseem make quite the tag team. And seeing as our Mr Bridgen has a science background he knows his way around the scientific literature so I think the pair of them complement eachother and can easily knock any verbal assaults, accusations or pro-narrative tropes directed their way out of the ballpark merely by using the masses of available evidence they have at their disposal.

I’ve noticed this is what the likes of McCullough and also Dr Malhotra do. In interviews they very impressively seem to be able to always cite studies and stats off the top of their heads as supporting evidence for whatever they’re saying. So I think to always make sure you have the evidence to hand to back up your point is essential now more than ever as the hyaenas are out and baying for blood but with facts on your side you’re bulletproof. Let the so-called ‘fact-checkers’ tie themselves in knots trying to discredit these professionals who know their stuff.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Indeed. That was precisely the point, he was accusing the powers that be of truly massive crimes against humanity. And THAT was what the powers that be found so triggering.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Well said, Mogwai. Those who are zealously and jealously throwing him under the bus for that really seem to be projecting, or at least missing the point. The fact that uttering the H-word is so triggering to NON-Jews really says more about them than it does about Andrew.

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Wroxetan
Wroxetan
2 years ago

The covid jab is the greatest medical experiment on live humans of all time who of were coerced into having it to a greater or lesser degree or were too young or lacked capacity to prevent what was done to them .

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Wroxetan

I’d say that the whole crux of this ridiculous “don’t mention the holocaust” stance, taken exclusively by the Narrative supporters and Covidian lot is that it highlights just how flipping similar what’s happened these past few years is to the atrocities experienced during WW2. The propaganda, the othering and stigmatisation of people, the encouragement to grass your neighbours up or turn your back on family who do not adhere to the dogma spewed out by the PsyOp, the massive experimentation on unwitting people including kids etc etc
I actually have no qualms making comparisons and drawing parallels because, when you think about it ( obviously not to minimise anything to do with the horrors that took place ) but what occurred during WW2 affected only a fraction of the world whereas this bioweapon deployment of first a manufactured ‘virus’ then the medical countermeasures has affected the entire globe to varying degrees, and the effects will carry on being felt long past the six year mark.

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago

So we have 99% of politicians worldwide under the total control of Big Pharma, 20% increase in all cause mortality around the globe, God knows how many people maimed by the shots, health systems destroyed, businesses destroyed, debt levels we’ve never seen before, but a single MP says this is is an enormous issue and he’s being undisciplined?
I could not disagree more with this article.

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wokeman
wokeman
2 years ago

Let us remember there are only 2 words supporting this vaxx racket, these are “legal indemnity”. Should that change Pfizer would pull this unsafe product faster than Usain Bolt running 100m. Bridgen has done a huge service to our cause by the publicity he has generated, it was all calculated.

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SD67
SD67
2 years ago
Reply to  wokeman

Exactly.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  wokeman

BINGO

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Jane G
Jane G
2 years ago

I’ve been on to my MP with the latest #together declaration thing about Carers: ‘apologise, compensate, reinstate’. I’ve written to him before about it and just got the usual party line yada yada in response.

Took the opportunity to give him both barrels about the party’s treatment of Bridgen with every ounce of (civil) strength I could muster. It will do no more than indicate ‘we see you and you don’t come out of this well’ but I hope it will be a small bead on the abacus of for/against Bridgen and his crusade.

I described the previous suspension and the latest removal of the whip as a drive-by shooting, which is what it looks like.

Complete waste of time as my MP’s latest campaign is against cable theft.
*sigh*

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Elizabeth Hart
Elizabeth Hart
2 years ago

The UK is responsible for unleashing a catastrophe with the reckless and unnecessary Covid jab rollout, against a disease it was known from the beginning wasn’t a serious threat to most people.
It was the UK that got the ball rolling on this with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in early 2020, and vaccine trials were undertaken with people aged 18-55 years, and children – why? Why were these vaccine trials undertaken with age groups that generally weren’t at serious risk of disease? 
Andrew Bridgen and others such as Danny Kruger are helping to open the floodgates on this scandal, and I bet there are members of the former Boris Johnson government who are quaking in their boots, along with the worse than useless Labour ‘opposition’.
This is the biggest scandal in history, time for the spotlight to be turned up to maximum.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

If this wasn’t about killing as many people they could get away with killing the jabs would have been pulled ages ago. In fact they would never have been authorised.

Bill Gates has clearly stated his depopulation ban on many occasion.

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FEStand in the Park

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Yes that’s the point I tend to keep banging on about and cannot get past with any sort of logical or benign explanation. These jabs are still being administered all over the world, despite the irrefutable evidence that they are both ineffective and extremely unsafe, with much emerging data to support this fact appearing all of the time, and so what do they do? They just introduce more mRNA in the form of other ‘vaccines’ onto the market. So if this isn’t evidence of intentional, premeditated harm then I don’t know what is.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago

Why is it that Powell is accused of saying “rivers of blood”? He did not use the phrase, but it has still passed into folklore.

The people who have foisted these toxic injections upon so many people need to be slapped down as hard as possible, we the people should be furious with them and never give an inch. That’s how wars are fought, you don’t sit down to tea with the enemy.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Isn’t this what he said? Seems to me ‘Rivers of blood’ is a fair enough paraphrase not exactly folklore.

‘For these dangerous and divisive elements the legislation proposed in the Race Relations Bill is the very pabulum they need to flourish. Here is the means of showing that the immigrant communities can organise to consolidate their members, to agitate and campaign against their fellow citizens, and to overawe and dominate the rest with the legal weapons which the ignorant and the ill-informed have provided. As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

I don’t agree with the comparison between Enoch Powell’s speech and Andrew Bridgen’s tweet. My view is that Enoch Powell’s speech has more in common with those people who were trying to incite hatred against the unvaccinated.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

Powell was warning that a mass immigration project would threaten social cohesion and lead to conflict.

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Chris P
Chris P
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Conflict he was doing his best to incite. A bit like Bill Gates warning about the next pandemic.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Chris P

So Powell single-handedly has caused racial unrest around the world, since the beginning of recorded history?

Well, he gave a clear warning and Europe and the USA are now living with the consequences. I don’t like those consequences – hope others are happy when Western Christian Civilisation is destroyed.

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Unutterably Pistoff
Unutterably Pistoff
2 years ago

I admire your passion. It is something very like what I feel. But it is whipped up by the other side. What we also need is cold, hard, dispassionate and calculating analysis. Several very serious things are going on and imminent. Rage is a bit self-indulgent.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago
Reply to  Unutterably Pistoff

“ Rage is a bit self-indulgent.”

Umm, your handle is “Unutterably Pistoff”!

Some part of this is satire. Not sure which.

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SD67
SD67
2 years ago
Reply to  Unutterably Pistoff

The way to deal with this IMHO is time honoured English common law. Were it not for the Emergency Usage Authorisation these jabs would never be on the market as the compensation claims would bankrupt the companies – so we target that. End the EUA and restore normal product liability. No one can argue against that

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago
Reply to  SD67

BINGO. There is NO good reason to keep the liability shield any longer, if it was ever justified at all.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
2 years ago

Sorry Nick but I’d like to see you silence the family’s of the many people who have been effected by this vaccine, the families of the victims of the holocaust have never and will never be silenced, this will not be swept under any political rug, not while there are people like us on this forum and the many of the silent majority it will not be allowed to go away!

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

Bridgen was quoting an Israeli Scientist. There is absolutely nothing wrong with quoting what a Specialist Scientist has said.

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James.M
James.M
2 years ago

If Nick Dixon can’t see that Handcock and Sunak, the media and the corrupt medical and corporate establishment have deliberately used the anti-Semite card as a way to try and discredit Andrew Bridgen to shut down any discussion about the mRNA injections and the harm they are causing, then he’s blind. This is going to back fire on them spectacularly. No matter how much these people try to back away from the harm they have inflicted on society through their ill conceived pandemic policies, they will eventually be exposed and held accountable. The narrative is starting to crumble and this only helps it crumble more quickly.

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rocky44
rocky44
2 years ago
Reply to  James.M

That’s not how I read the article. Nick Dixon can see this perfectly well and is simply lamenting the fact that Bridgen scored an own goal by posting the Holocaust tweet, thereby allowing the entire MSM the opportunity to divert attention from the issue he was raising.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  rocky44

Own goal? Your opinion, not a fact.

Equally arguable it has got him more attention.

Anyone questioning the narrative, however they do it, will be smeared, ignored, shut down, vilified etc.

Bridgen is a bloody hero and how he’s been treated has exposed to a wider audience more clearly how corrupt the pro-vaxxers are.

The time for being mealy-mouthed is over.

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James Leary #KBF
James Leary #KBF
2 years ago

Nick, the ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is remembered to this day, and the fact that you mentioned it proves that. What other speech of the time is?

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

He wasn’t clumsy or indiscreet. No apologies for him should be made. He has been slandered pure and simple. He has not done anything wrong.

”The idea we should be proud of the Anschluss is simply an opinion, albeit one that appears to be rigorously enforced. I personally remain impressed by the logistics of the blitzkrieg, which could not have been achieved within the Weimar Republic, but would not go anywhere near the actual enlistment”.

Good for you Nick, stick to your principles and don’t get “careless” with your opinions.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago

The problem is you only have to slip up once.

The opposition is sitting waiting for that moment — and when it comes they’ll attack with everything they’ve got. It doesn’t matter what it is, if there’s any leverage they’ll use it to the max to destroy you.

It is only a matter of time for anyone who opposes the government at the moment — all we can hope is that when the truth comes out we can offer some redress to those who were destroyed because they tried to warn of a terrible medical risk.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Slip? Who “slipped” and how?

Whoever speaks against the covid narrative will be attacked, regardless of what they say and how they say it.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Hear hear. And it looks like Hancock has come up smelling of roses after his ”slip up”, to name just one. As you say, it’s purely to do with opposing the narrative, pointing out inconvenient truths and not toeing the line and has bugger all to do with WW2 or Jews. He’s showing up the real reason he’s being dragged through the mud and the true colours of all of these malicious clowns that run the country good and proper.

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A Y M
A Y M
2 years ago

We may find out that the Holocaust was practice for this.

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Smotters
Smotters
2 years ago

I’m inclined to think that the Twitter post was deliberate bait for the outrage mob. When forensically analysed he’s clearly without sin; but without the provoked condemnation his stance on the vaccines would continue to be shadow banned by the MSM. It’s the best publicity he could have hoped for in order to raise the profile of the problem, and I reckon he has concluded that if he has to take the fall to get it out there then he’s willing to make that sacrifice.

I was a Remainer who used to see Bridgen as the epitome of the the worst of the Tory party; I’ve completely reversed my position and take my hat off to him.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  Smotters

Precisely. The government have shot themselves in the foot using these tactics. What I’d like to see is more MPs speaking up in Andrew’s defense. What are they going to do? Suspend them all? It’s times like this when you can see plain as day who has an intact moral compass and is a decent human being and who is a lying, cowardly schmuck. Andrew is doing a stellar job of inadvertently sorting the wheat from the chaff, and there doesn’t appear to be much wheat around.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

The MPs wont’s publicly support him as they are more bothered about being deselected for the next election by their party. No longer serve as MPs ‘without fear or favour’

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SD67
SD67
2 years ago

Pots and kettles. Some of the language used by the Lockdown fanatics has been beyond the pale. “Killing granny”, “look him in the eye” etc. And now these delicate flowers expect us to mind our Ps and Qs? Forget it.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Indeed. Insisting on playing nice while the other side is clearly NOT, is like having one hand tied behind your back. Mealy-mouthed and namby-pamby language will only get you so far, and not very. Time to take the gloves off, and throw down the gauntlet!

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Many people thought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was going too far back in his day as well, and that he should perhaps tone it down a notch or two. And Gandhi, and so on. Just saying.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Indeed. The tone of Nick Dixon’s article sounds too milquetoast and Neville Chamberlain.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Indeed, this is no time to be milquetoast, lest we be the new Neville Chamberlains.

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SimCS
SimCS
2 years ago

The treatment Bridge received says a lot more about the Conservative party/Parliament than Bridgen himself. If MPs cannot understand the very clear semantics that Bridgen used, then how can we trust them with any other deliberation, including the online harms bill?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  SimCS

I’m sure Hancock et al understand perfectly well. The outrage is faux. They are scared.

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
2 years ago

But Nick. Tens of millions agree with Bridgen. Trump was right and Bridgen will be proven right.

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D J
D J
2 years ago

Ironic that there was a river of blood in Euston yesterday with a drive by shooting.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

Excellent point to differentiate between the logistical success of the ‘vaccine’ roll out and the failure of their clinical performance
Strange how politicians conflate both aspects to be a success?

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sskinner
sskinner
2 years ago
Reply to  DevonBlueBoy

Indeed. I’m sure the roll out of thalidomide was also a logistical success.

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sskinner
sskinner
2 years ago

If you are on an airliner and someone starts using lurid analogies to point out that there is a fire in one of the loos have they ‘lost the argument’ then and everyone should carry on watching the inflight film?

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago

Ditto.

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Stuart
Stuart
2 years ago

The article is click bait…

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Stuart
Stuart
2 years ago
Reply to  Stuart

I’ll have to get my sense of humour bypass reversed!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  Stuart

Lol. I guess I’ve had one too – I can see there are attempts at humour (e.g. the pun in the title) but it’s not exactly a rib-tickler.

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tanya
tanya
2 years ago

I’m surprised by the hackles that this article seems to have raised. I interpreted the author’s viewpoint to be fully supportive of Bridgen’s position, while regretting that he handed the opposition such an easy way to discredit and shut him out. The basis on which he was discredited may be (objectively is) absurd, but that’s the reality of the current environment, and Bridgen’s voice was more powerful from within than it will be from the outside, which is what the author of this article, and I, regret.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  tanya

Do you think he wouldn’t have been ruthlessly attacked if he’d used cuddly analogies?
If anything he has had more attention like this, and exposed the liars more effectively.
He is a bloody hero.

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Nicholas Britton
Nicholas Britton
2 years ago
Reply to  tanya

One can look at it this way,
Ask yourself the question: was the reference to the Holocaus factually incorrect or an exaggeration of the current situation? If you decide the answer is “yes” then Bridgen deservss the criticism he is getting. If your answer is “no” then ask yourself why am I objecting to his tweet? Haven’t I just let myself be intimidated by his critics, exactly as they want?

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rocky44
rocky44
2 years ago
Reply to  tanya

Me too (oops, sorry!). I interpreted the article as you did and I just hope that others on here are correct that this was a deliberate tactic to garner more attention for the vaccine issue.

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Myra
Myra
2 years ago

Initially I was with you. Why even use the word that is going to trigger a response?
but now I am also thinking that by using this word he has gained more publicity, more MSM engagement than if he hadn’t. Will this help show more people that these vaccines are not completely safe and effective.
Time will tell.

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
2 years ago

The knee jerk reaction to the H word is the virtue signallers equivalent to a spinal reflex. The context in which the H word is used is irrelevant. It’s only important to decry the utterer of the H word to save yourself from condemnation by association. Just as you swiftly withdraw your finger if you touch a flame.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago

Yes, very well said, huge crime, disgracing mankind, as the holocaust did, an appropriate analogy.

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago

I only have the data up to October/November 2022…but here are some of the highlights…..!!

The MHRA in the UK states that 2,330 deaths and 1,533,654 injuries have now been reported by 470,023 people following a Covid-19
(We know these are vastly under reported.)

Following a Covid-19 Injection The deaths of 15 children have now been reported. Over 4,511 reports of death or injury to a child now reported in the UK. 

following a Covid-19 Injection 183 cases of myocarditis/pericarditis now reported in children under 18.

In the USA, 167 Reports of the death of a child (6 months -17 years, plus 2 children under 6 months of age) and 543 cases of a child being permanently disabled following a Covid-19 Injection….

Governments and their institutions have become serial-killers…..

Worldwide….millions injured, thousands dead…..
Sons, daughters, mums, dads, sisters, brothers…as far as I am concerned IT IS a holocaust….

I’m absolutely behind Andrew, and many jabbed people I know are as well…..the press have made themselves irrelevant to ordinary people with half a brain..anyone who reads the MSM comments can see the massive disparity between the propaganda being printed, and the reality of what people think….there is a huge groundswell of support for Andrew…and the over-reaction is because they know what’s coming……

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George Knights
George Knights
2 years ago

Time Pool satirises the “disciplined dissenters” in the RINO group of the US Uniparty who respond to accusations of, let’s say, Debate Hijacker, Anti-Vaxxer, Anti Semite, Fascist, Racist, etc. by saying “just slow down there!” and doing absolutely nothing. That works.

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andreweverton1
andreweverton1
2 years ago

Clearly Andrew Bridgen referencing the cardiologist referencing the holocaust was not anti- semitic. It has unfortunately though taken the focus away from his well argued demand to suspend the covid vaccine roll-out until proper consideration has been given to the possible harmful side effects. The debate has become tangled-up in what is anti-semitism. Given that any criticism of Israeli Government policy is now deemed anti-semitic it is best to avoid any reference to the holocaust. A better more contemporary reference would be its the biggest crime against humanity since the adoption of net zero but that would simply shift the debate to net zero. So I think Nick is correct!! Dissident discipline is the way forward!!

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  andreweverton1

If you allow the enemy to dictate what language you use, you’re going to lose.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago

‘It could be compared to Enoch Powell’s famous “Rivers of Blood” speech, in that it raised a very serious issue that concerns huge numbers of people, but did it in a sufficiently lurid way as to set the argument back catastrophically.’

I recall Ted Heath saying when banishing EP that his words (‘Like the centurion, I seem to see the Tiber flowing with much blood’) were exacerbatory. Others feared he was attempting a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fact is that he had found a way to get himself thrown into the wilderness, where he could languish and glower at Heath; and he was always going to do that. He did the same thing in 1959, making Macmillan kick him out, as part of the ‘small local difficulties’ of that time.

Bridgen’s tweet is in no way comparable. Where is the exacerbation, the malign prophecy? And what is the setback? No one familiar with the data can think less of the concerns Bridgen is raising about the cvd19 jabs because of what he tweeted. He is pointing out facts, speaking for many eminently qualified people who are silenced.

And the holocaust analogy is not inappropriate. Hitler had plans to exterminate the entire human race after he was done with Jewry. All except the tiny minority who were fair-haired, oval-faced, blue-eyed; that is, as little like himself as possible, were destined for extinction. The shadows moving behind the jab scam have a similar purpose.

Last edited 2 years ago by allanplaskett
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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

They are comparable in that they both touched on subjects that have been rendered taboo by the left.

If you think a particular action will lead to bad outcomes, how is pointing that out “exacerbatory”? How would you point it out without being “exacerbatory”?

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

Fair points.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

He has lost… and clearly the speech regulators have won when self-censorship is advocated by people who should realise the consequences of that and know better.

Streisand Effect. The storm over Andrew Bridgen has created far more publicity of the issue than would otherwise have happened if the Offence Scumbags hadn’t jumped all over his Tweet.

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True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
2 years ago

Indeed

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
2 years ago

My thoughts exactly. Disappointed in Nick’s take on this. Bridgen raised vaccine issues in parliament – zero reaction from MSM. Bridgen makes perfectly reasonable comparison with government coercion and propaganda over experimental ‘vaccines’ and the Holocaust, and MSM is all over it. Go figure. We cannot hide. We must not abide by their rules; to do so is playing right into their hands.

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Chris Williams
Chris Williams
2 years ago

Andrew Bridgen’s speech is a major step forward in prising open the COVID Pandora’s Box and outing the Truth.

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