Today’s article is by our Middle Eastern Analyst, Mey Iviani.
Another domino from the Tory Party’s House of Cards has fallen, and it is a house of cards, because there will be more MP’s who will follow the likes of Andrew Bridgen and not always because integrity will be first and foremost in their thoughts, but because of their insipid ability to sway with the political wind should they feel under public pressure to follow Mr Bridgen’s lead.
So, it will be their constituents or the voters, whose numbers are growing, who will provide the impetus and direction for their MP’s, demanding answers to the questions surrounding the COVID vaccinations, the injuries and their efficacy.
Meet Alex Stevenson, who represents Greater Heanor at Derbyshire Council, who spoke up in support of his much-maligned colleague, Mr Bridgen, who was being bruised, battered and torn in a coordinated attack against him by his own cross party MP friends and colleagues, as well as the government’s political wing, the Mainstream Media.
Mr Alex Stevenson spoke out to clarify the comments made by Andrew Bridgen (AB) in relation to a tweet AB made, in which he intended to highlight the level and seriousness of the injuries caused by the COVID vaccine, and not to draw parallels between his argument re the vaccine injuries and the Holocaust itself.
The offending tweet according to the BBC was posted on Wednesday 11th January 2022 by Mr Bridgen, part of the tweet included : “As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”
A short exert from the above BBC article states that Councillor Stevenson announced his backing for Andrew Bridgen on his Facebook page. Councillor Stevenson is quoted as saying that AB: “did not compare the vaccine to the Holocaust” but said it was the worst crime to humanity “since” the Holocaust, and this was “totally different”.
This is in direct contrast to comments reported in another BBC article (link below) made by Midazolam Matt Hancock, MP, you know, the one who wanted us all to get jabbed and boosted. Further comments were made by his conservative colleague, the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, the man who asked a homeless man at a soup kitchen if he ‘worked in the city.’
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-64236186
The BBC reported that Former Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, found the now-suspended Tory MP, Mr Bridgen’s tweet, “deeply offensive” and anti-scientific (that is what is written on the BBC web page).
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the “utterly unacceptable” comments, and that anti-Semitism had no place in society.
Andrew Bridgen lost the Tory whip because of his comments, which it is claimed that he drew comparisons to the Holocaust.
It will be of no surprise to you, the reader, that in response to Councillor Stevenson’s backing of Mr Bridgen, that he himself has been suspended from the party in a move that appears to be punitive and vexatious in its nature, and all for only having sought to clarify what was said by Mr Bridgen and his right to say it.
Finally, the website for the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum describes Antisemitism as: Prejudice against or hatred of Jews.
https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism
Although the issue is more complex than the few words included above, the point I am making is that: ‘Where was the embedded, or intended, prejudice or hatred shown in the words of Mr Bridgen in his tweet?’
Finally, I am sure Mr Stevenson considered that his public support for his colleague, might result in him being sent to the ‘naughty corner’ for some time out, and or words of advice, but in these times of stifling our free speech, should any of us be surprised that he ended up being suspended, or to be more accurate, silenced!
Mey Iviani, Middle Eastern Analyst, for Red Brick International News Media Group.