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I feel now that the party no longer represents the people of this great country.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”.
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
— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) January 11, 2023
My question to @RishiSunak in PMQspic.twitter.com/6ospPGfi9a
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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Marvellous!
The Democrats don’t like the British Empire even though they have one of their own!
Badenoch is now third in the Conservative leadership election.
So the Conservatives will be led by another Westminster yes man cardboard cut out.
Reform.
Anyone conservative was always going to be removed from the ‘choice’ – we know that…
She is only parading her ‘conservative’ values to win over the sucker membership vote. And boy oh boy any member left in the Tory party is either a sucker or a wet.
Badenoch would become a cardboard cut out yes lady too. They don’t become leader without taking the Danegeld.
The tail end of the left wing Biden administration (likely run by Obama for most of the past 4 years) just doesn’t care. Most politicians have short time horizons.
Aside from the security issue, they were ours and had never been meaningfully Mauritian. There might be minerals in their territorial area.
We know Mauritius cannot protect and secure these islands over 2000 miles.
Whoever comes at the top heap won’t be relevant for long. The Tories haven’t learned anything over the last few months and until they unite with a common purpoe they are doomed.
What is all this tosh about the “special relationship”? American foreign policy is directed at protecting the interests of the United States – and no one else. In other words the “special relationship” is a childish delusion peddled by adults who ought to know better.
It is where the UK bends over and the US decides how far it will shaft us.
You are absolutely correct. How many countries and politicians have been destroyed by this fallacy of a special relationship with Washington? Politicians delude themselves and fall into this hole because of their need and quest to be close to power. Bliar is a good example.
Next on the list will be Gibraltar …. demonstrating our continuing vassal status to the EU.
This is what happens when you have a treacherous parcel o’ rogues running a nation …… the kind we’ve had since the 1960s.
“… the country’s government sold the islands to Britain for a tidy sum.”
So we can get that back with interest and allowance for inflation and pay the pensioners’ Winter fuel allowance – or buy Free Gear Keir a new suit.
None of these shenanigans will get a single Chagos Islander back to their islands though, at least they won’t be our problem anymore.
Of course if the Yanks did tell Liebour to hand over the Islands lets hope Mauritius doesn’t now ask them to leave too but if they do I hope the yanks will have the good sense to totally and utterly demolish all infrastructure, and flood with concrete anything underground.