Matt Hancock has lost a High Court attempt to end a libel claim by former MP Andrew Bridgen against him over a tweet about the Covid vaccine. The Telegraph has more.
Mr Hancock, a former health secretary, is being sued by Andrew Bridgen over a post on X in January 2023.
Mr Bridgen, the former North West Leicestershire MP, shared a link to an article concerning data about deaths and other adverse reactions linked to Covid vaccines, stating: “As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”
Hours later, Mr Hancock shared a video of him asking a question in the Commons, captioned: “The disgusting and dangerous antisemitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society.”
He unsuccessfully asked a judge to throw out the case last year, and at a hearing in March asked the court in London to rule in his favour before a trial.
Mr Bridgen opposed the application, with his barristers calling it a “desperate last throw of the dice”.
In a judgment on Monday, Mrs Justice Collins Rice dismissed Mr Hancock’s bid, adding that whether Mr Bridgen succeeded in his case was “likely to depend on a full examination of the evidence both ways” and that there should not be a “mini-trial in advance of the evidential situation even being known”.
She continued: “My task on this application is not to consider who has the better case at this stage, much less who is more likely to win. My task is to consider whether Mr Bridgen’s case is unreal. Mr Bridgen’s case as pleaded and evidenced so far does not have an obvious quality of unreality.
“I am not in a position to conclude at this stage that Mr Bridgen’s prospects of success on either matter are such as to be determinable now to be unreal, and in any event there are, in my view, compelling reasons for further investigation at trial and a fully considered judgment thereafter.”
Mrs Justice Collins Rice said the case was “therefore set to proceed to the full evidential stages and on to trial”.
The judge also said Mr Bridgen’s “pleading of the counter-defence is, however, defective”, adding that he had a “limited opportunity” to amend it.
Mr Bridgen was suspended by the Conservatives after his post and expelled from the party in April 2023. He then sat as a Reclaim Party MP and then became an independent until he was defeated at last year’s General Election.
He previously said he wished to “clear his name” through the libel action over Mr Hancock’s “malicious” post.
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It is interesting that any crtiticism of this witches brew is labelled as ‘anti-Semitic’.
It functions as an accusation of heresy – like “islamophobia”, “racism”, misogyny, and so on. These accusations are designed to stifle debate, and to divert attention form inconvenient facts.
It’s also an attempt to portray people as “beyond the pale” and not to be taken seriously. It’s similar to the label “climate change denier” which was originally coined in an attempt to make people seem the same as holocaust deniers i.e. in total ignorance of the facts (as selectively presented by alarmists) and ideallogically motivated.
Holocaust deniers are not ignorant of the facts, their argument – such as it is – is the facts have either been grossly exaggerated and/or distorted, or are not factual but are propaganda by Jews and their supporters. They are also likely to be prejudiced against Jews.
There is abundant tangible, empirical and forensic evidence that can leave no doubt in a reasonable mind that the Holocaust was real and abominable.
”Climate change” has no empirical evidence to support it, rests on computer modelling, loud shouting, attacking any who disagree, exagerations and catastrophic predictions which fail to materialise in the timeframe forecast and get rescheduled.
Challengers notice this, point out the absence of scientific back-up, the lies, and that the climate system is not behaving as claimed.
Yes, you’re right about the abundant evidence for the Holocaust.
But NO ONE SHOULD BE ARRESTED or FINED or IMPRISONED for denying ANY HISTORICAL EVENT.
Freedom of Speech & Thought is the absolute right of All Humanity.
I believe it was based on his use of the word “Holocaust”, which Hancock then used to gaslight parliament and the media to try to silence Bridgen, and get him kicked out of the party.
In context, it is impossible to argue that this could in any way be classed as anti-Semitic.
But, we all know the judiciary is biased and they will not find against Hancock and Bridgen will be hit with massive costs, they will protect their own, Bridgen will not get justice.
Hancock will not want the adverse publicity a court case might bring, so its possible he might make some token settlement outside of court, with no admission of guilt – out of the goodness of his heart!
Except the bastard doesn’t have a heart of course.
Does he even know how much he is hated by a section of society? Probably not, in his mind he only did good!
Bridgen for his role deserves a knighthood (if anyone does) or a peerage, but of course he’ll get neither – much more likely they’ll try to destroy him!
For having the temerity to dare question a Minister or the Government.
I am rooting for Bridgen but he is braver than me in going to a British court to seek justice on any matter relating to Covid.
“In context, it is impossible to argue that this could in any way be classed as anti-Semitic.”
Not least because Bridgen was referring to comments by an Israeli, Jewish doctor.
My big fear is that this trial is being allowed to go ahead not in the interests of justice but for the purpose of bankrupting Andrew Bridgen which of course would be entirely in keeping with what passes for British justice these days.
Shots across the bows for any like-minded souls.
Hopefully he has legal expense insurance.
Or a barrister with similar opinions who will represent him pro bono. However that won’t help with court costs in the likely event it goes Handcock’s way.
Yes this is a familiar pattern of minor wins through the lower courts until a very expensive higher court ruling against. All this bollox about a thorough testing of the evidence…2 tweets. They can be read in 5 mins. There is a catastrophic failing of our legal system where money and influence buy results. People are desperate to believe that justice will prevail, but I’m sad to say, I no longer have any faith in this system.
“I no longer have any faith in this system.”
I could not agree more. Our judiciary and the justice system are corrupt.
Anti scientific depends on a question of what science has become, in these modern times. If ‘the science’ is the bilge we are supposed to believe about Covid, quackcines and CO2 driven climate change then the meaning of science has changed (along with a lot of other words, like woman).
Anti-quackcination is a statement of fact if you have broken through the propaganda and realised that being pro-vax is for dullards.
So that leaves anti-semitic. It is clear. It is not anti-semitic to describe the atrocities of Covid, from lock-downs to the lie of ‘safe and effective’ is, at the least, the worst atrocity since those dark days.
It is far bigger than the Holocaust in terms of numbers and even in terms of suffering given that virtually everyone has cancer these days. I mean stage 4 nasty bye bye stuff. Perhaps it is a more elegant method of destruction than concentration camps and I would never argue against the Jews and their victimhood but the injection is hundreds of times bigger then The Holocaust and it is only just getting started.
Sadly so.
Even before this situation we were being told that one in two people would be diagnosed with cancer within their lifetime. With this little concoction the odds are more like you goti baby and you’re gonna die. A quick death perhaps but six weeks of cancer eating away at your body can feel like a very long time. Nothing in paliative care can help with these cases it is like being eaten alive.
There IS something that can help, and is worth a try to alleviate this suffering. Some years ago, a doctor in Italy, I believe, discovered that cancer is caused by a fungus, and since fungal infections thrive in slightly acidic conditions, he tried giving ordinary Bicarbonate of Soda, plain Baking Soda in water, to his cancer patients, in order to create more alkaline conditions and destroy the cancer fungus. He even injected cancer tumours with baking soda solutions, and they really did shrink.
Every cancer patient should try this simple, God-given remedy to alleviate their agony, instead of being blasted with chemo and radiation. Surely it’s worth a try!
This weapon was definitely designed in accordance in racial differences in the uptake of the spike protein. It is defnitely a race specific bioweapon. Your country is a cold shadow of what it was ten years ago. That is what they want so I suggest that you bring it back to life.
Nobody show up telling you that their agenda is going to be good for where you live. Think about that. These are forces of predation.
So far, so good. Bizarre expression by the judge, though, gauging the degree of unreality of something to let it proceed in a civil court (a suit for libel, in which the outcome will be based on the balance of probability, not absolute guilt).
Yes I thought the same – surely you’d normally think of it in terms of reality, rather than unreality (does that mean false / lies?)
It would be excellent to see Handjob’s hide tacked to the wall.
And Prof PantsDown’s beside of him.
So was Enoch!
And so was Nick Griffin, and Tommy Robinson.
If Bridgens had of said the vaccines were a worse crime against humanity than the Holocaust Hancock might of been right to criticise him and call him antisemitic. However the claim that they are the worse crime since the holocaust may well be correct although it’s possible that Chairman Mao’s attempts to reform agriculture in China led to more deaths than the Covid vaccines.
I’m not sure if we’ll ever know how many people have been killed or seriously injured by the vaccines, although eventually it might be accepted that they were dangerous and doctors/scientists will try and estimate the total number of deaths. I’m also not sure if they’re continuing to kill people or if the deadly side effects only happened in the first 2-3 years after vaccination.
God, let’s hope so.
Will it be judged on what was known at the time or discovered subsequently. Even at the time will support Andrew
This could all end very badly for Hancock and for many others if, as the judge suggests, there is a full investigation of the evidence.
Bearing in mind that the holocaust did not just attempt to eliminate Jews from Nazi controlled Europe, but also the almost equal number of gypsies, mentally ill, disabled, and any other groups deemed unacceptable to the Aryan supremacy, therefore the tweet cannot be deemed anti semitic.
Mr Hancock must think he stands a good chance of losing or he wouldn’t be prepared to incur the legal fees trying to stop the case going ahead.
Dear English Patriot Andrew Bridgen,
Please get together with English Patriot Rupert Lowe and others to FORM A NEW GENUINE PATRIOT PARTY not controlled by Third World Ethnics.
Thank you.