Ex-Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who was expelled from the party for criticising the Covid vaccines, has announced he’s joining Laurence Fox’s Reclaim Party, making him its first member of Parliament. At a press conference today Bridgen said he would be standing at his North West Leicestershire constituency at the next General Election. He also confirmed he would be suing Matt Hancock MP for defamation over an allegation of antisemitism.
At the press conference this morning Bridgen confirmed he has decided not to appeal his expulsion and blasted the Conservative Party. He said:
Even if I were to be given a fair hearing, which I doubt, I would not wish to rejoin the party after the treatment received by myself and my family over the past few years.
I feel now that the party no longer represents the people of this great country. If I am to represent my constituents and countrymen it must be from outside the party which I have served dutifully for many decades.
I will be standing again in North West Leicestershire at the next election. Not as a Conservative, but as a Member of the Reclaim Party. More than anything, the Reclaim Party stands for freedom of speech.
I will cross the floor today, Wednesday May 10th, and sit on the opposition benches as the first Member of Parliament for the Reclaim Party. I say first because I have no doubt I will not be the last. This is just the beginning.
If the Conservative Party wishes to contest my seat it can do so at the next General Election.
I have more confidence that I will win my seat than the vast majority of sitting Conservative MPs, so I welcome the challenge should the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Party wish to take it.
Bridgen was accused of antisemitism for agreeing in a tweet with an anonymous heart doctor he quoted that the Covid vaccine rollout was “the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust”.
He has denied the allegation – which we at the Daily Sceptic agree is spurious and an example of a weaponised antisemitism allegation to achieve political ends. This morning Bridgen confirmed that he will be suing ex-Health Secretary Matt Hancock for defamation after the Conservative MP tweeted in January that he was spouting “antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories”.
In a YouTube video Bridgen said he has submitted a “defamation claim to the Royal Court of Justice against Matthew Hancock MP”. The basis of the claim is that Hancock’s accusation of antisemitism is “a false slur to deliberately try and shut down valid concerns raised by me on behalf of constituents and thousands of others around the world about the safety and efficacy of the experimental COVID-19 injections”.
Matt Hancock in the dock: that’s a court case to look forward to.
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If Andrew Bridgen was my MP he would be guaranteed my vote. He would also be guaranteed some financial assistance, free labour as needed and a knocker of doors. No question I would stand with this man.
Regards Handicock – take that scumbag to the cleaners. A court case would do pleny more damage to the globalists cause and the outcome is in the bag, barring a bent judiciary.
Good luck Mr Bridgen and I am sure everyone at DS is fully supportive. 👍
I’m with you all the way ! Andrew Bridgen is the man who got the truth for the Post Office workers who were persecuted by the state ! He’s a “good un” no question 😇👏👍
Also I would like to see AB re enact the Monty Python Fish Slap sketch with that Fraser Myers on the receiving end !!
I bet Lozza is feeling over the moon right now!
I’m looking forward to seeing snivelling, mendacious, murderous charlatan Hancock being destroyed in court by Andrew Bridgen’s legal counsel.
Hero and a very courageous man.
God be with him.
Andrew Bridgen is where it’s at. You are a hero. Keep up the fight. Godspeed.
Sadly, Mr Bridgen does not enjoy universal popularity in his own constituency as a result of things that have happened in his private and business life.
I think his stand on things such as vaccine harms has been extraordinarily courageous, however, and I will support him. I have made a small donation. I would have liked it to be more.
I hope that there are people, perhaps on this website, that can help him assemble a credible team of experts to help him make his case.
If that can be done, the government might not be too keen to have their record gone through in detail in court and might force Hancock to seek a settlement.
Thanks – you mention private and business affairs – do not know anything about them – do you have some info ?
He had a factory packing salad stuff and there was an issue with pollution, he then sold it to make way for HS2 having fought for a change of route. He also had a legal disagreement disagreement with his brother over a family business.
Is there a public donations page / site?
Could you post a link?
Last line of the article.
Thanks. Dozy me.
Sadly, Mr Bridgen does not enjoy universal popularity in his own constituency as a result of things that have happened in his private and business life.
If you look hard enough, you’ll find something less-than-positive in every real person’s life. People are wont to do stupid and wrong things because they’re people who have to employ their inherently limited understanding to make decisions based on incomplete facts. It’s ok to make mistakes. Everyone does that. Beware of people who claim they don’t (Hancock).
Hopefully Mr Bridgen will require expert witness evidence from some of the many equally brave Drs/scientists currently censored by the corrupt media. I wonder if experts like Dr Malhotra would like the opportunity to explain in a court why…
”The disgusting and dangerous anti-semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society”
is more reality than conspiracy
Donated.
Godspeed Mr Bridgen.
The right decision to leave the Tory party.
Also good he’s taking Hancock to court.
Hope he is not the last defection but would bet money that Reclaim will have zero MPs after the next election.
“Reclaim will have zero seats….” Possibly yes. He may have had a better chance of retaining his seat standing as an Independent.
Reclaim have money but may put people off. Fox seems to be a polarising figure, though I think he’s sound.
While I support his position on this issue, in the long run “single issue” MPs don’t stand against the party machinery. One of the historic ones I can remember is the Tatton one in 1997, when there was a deal in which both Labour & the Libs stood down, and the independent Martin Bell won, in the after effects of a “cash for questions” scandal. Something like this could happen for Andrew Bridgen, perhaps.
As for Hancock, and the ensuing legal damages claim, he demonstrated his incompetence by tweeting things that he could get away with in the House of Commons; not very clever. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a strong arm approach to get it settled outside court, though.
True. However, is Bridgen really a single issue MP?
If you listen to him, I think he’s had a real awakening over the last two years. He’s very sound on multiple issues.
Here’s Laurence Fox talking to GB News about it ( 3min vid ). It all sounds very exciting and positive so I’m really keen to see how this pans out. I’m sure Andrew will have a shed-load of support because anyone with an intact moral compass and a working brain can see how he’s been shafted and hung out to dry by his peers. He only deserves good things going forward and I hope Handcockup likewise gets all he deserves. The chuffing douchebag!
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She wasn’t his mistress: it was a fake. He kissed her as if he’d never before kissed an adult female.
What exactly were the “takeaways” that he spent £50,000 of public money on?
The single issue in the defamation case is that AB is alleged by the Defendant to be a hater of Jews So if you compare the “vaccines “ to ,say the potato famine does that make you anti Irish or to Horoshima a hater of the Japanese?
Anti semitism is not a crime but it is the most career ending label and smear .
I see Spiked is doubling down on the smearing of Andrew Bridgen and ‘shrill antivaxxers’.
What an absolute arsehole Fraser Myers is.