Unsurprisingly many people signing the "Together Declaration" against covid passes are HART members with bizarre views on the subject.
Liz Evans, for example, keeps making crazy claims that vaccination causes surges in deaths all over the world which governments blame on covid.
Joel Smalley has spent months ranting and raving, drawing random lines on graphs, trying to convince everyone that covid vaccines are somehow responsible for vast numbers of deaths.
He even claimed death rates in US children were at least 100 times higher than they really were!
Anna de Buisseret describes herself as a "trained assassin", and keeps going off on wild rants about nurses being hanged for war crimes, people supposedly clamouring for her to launch Nuremberg Trials, and nutty conspiracy theories involving Bill Gates and the World Bank.
Clare Craig thinks a rise in normal childhood illnesses as lockdown ended was somehow caused by their parents getting vaccinated! 🤔
She also claims that vaccines cause covid, and that HART need to "seed the thought" in people's minds.
How about no.
Charlotte Gracias is a conspiracy nut who thinks proposals to make care home workers get vaccinated were a plot to "bring social care to a halt", believes there could be tiny parasitic worms in face masks, and that a surge in covid cases was faked to cover up "vaccine deaths".
Damian Wilde thought former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was a "sick little f*cker" for .. er .. encouraging people to get vaccinated against a deadly disease.
I'm no fan of Hancock, but I don't think you can fault him for that. 🙄
Ros Jones shared videos from anti-vaxxers Children’s Health Defence and cranks like Sucharit Bhakdi, who falsely claims the pandemic is fake and vaccines will decimate the world's population.
She also seems to think ivermectin protected some Indian states from .. er .. vaccines.
Jonathan Engler thinks the vaccines "decondition" your immune system and makes unsubstantiated claims that this will cause "a terrible winter" that the government will blame on either flu or covid.
He also thinks the government may be lying about how many people are vaccinated.
Gary Sidley agrees that the govt exaggerates vaccination rates, but as "psy-ops" to pressure more people into getting it.
And he hailed Michael Yeadon for "truth telling as always" .. after an interview in which Yeadon claimed vaccines will be used to depopulate the Earth! 🤪
Are the more respectable names signing the declaration really sure that they want to "stand together" with this bunch of grifters and conspiracy theorists?
And do they really agree with HART's members that "where this could lead" is totalitarian dictatorship and depopulation? 🤔
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Aseem Malhotra has been confirmed as a speaker at next weekend's Reform UK conference. The increasingly anti-vaccine cardio crank is already Chief Health Advisor to Farage's anti-WHO "Action on World Health" campaign, and now seems to be angling for a job with Reform too. 🧵
This intersection of far right politics and anti-vaccine health contrarians in the UK is no surprise, after Reform's 2024 manifesto pandered to conspiracy theorists, many of whom helped out on their campaign or even stood as candidates for the party.
Reform's links to anti-vaxxers in the UK go back years. Richard Tice was in contact with ivermectin pusher Tess Lawrie and pandemic denier Jonathan Engler in 2021 and several Reform / Brexit Party veterans were involved in the covid conspiracy movement.
Advance UK recently announced its committee, which includes anti-vax data mangler Norman Fenton, racist conspiracy theorist Jim Ferguson, climate change denier Paul Burgess, and conspiracy theory website editor Kathy Gyngell. 🧵
Paul Burgess was environment spokesman for the far right For Britain Movement (a UKIP splinter group which, like Reform splinter group Advance UK, was backed by Tommy Robinson). He's also appeared on GB News as a "climate commentator".
Kathy Gyngell is the editor of Conservative Woman, a right wing website which during the pandemic went from attacking gay and trans rights and other culture wars nonsense to spreading anti-vaccine propaganda, covid conspiracy theories and AIDS denialism.
The co-founder of "Operation Raise the Colours" (the recent spate of people putting English flags on lamp posts) is an old friend of Tommy Robinson who says he's been "16 years by his side", and had breakfast with Robinson after his release from jail earlier this year. 🧵
Tommy Robinson's mate Andy Saxon and his "Operation Raise the Colours" have also had support from UKIP leader / Turning Point UK COO Nick Tenconi (recently seen giving what looked like a Nazi salute), far right Britain First Party and its co-leader / ex BNP member Paul Golding.
Before his "Operation Raise the Colours" gained momentum recently, Saxon posted support for Britain First and its "remigration" campaign to remove immigrants from the UK, as well as offensive and sometimes threatening Islamophobic content.
🧵 Kate Shemirani's daughter sadly died last year, after refusing chemotherapy for her cancer, in favour of the kind of extreme quackery promoted by her mum.
Refusing to take responsibility, Kate accused the NHS of homicide and subjecting her daughter to medical experimentation.
Kate Shemirani and her ex-husband issued a statement after their daughter's death, wildly claiming that it was part of "a systemic pattern of state-sponsored medical homicide and institutional cover-up" by the NHS, and suggesting that she was part of an "unregulated drug trial".
Inevitably, Kate Shemirani and her allies are using the tragedy to raise money, claiming "they have taken her daughter". Their target is up to £100,000 to challenge the outcome of an inquest that hasn't even happened yet. So far they've only raised £2,455 from gullible followers.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams has sadly got prostate cancer. After going down a rabbit hole during the pandemic though, he turned to Canadian quack William Makis who (as always) recommended ivermectin and fenbendazole. Which did not work. Now they're in an unseemly row over it. 🧵
Ivermectin pusher William Makis responded to Scott Adams' post by claiming he didn't follow his "protocol" (which Adams denies), his cancer was "probably" caused by covid vaccines, and that he "didn't discount the possibility" that Adams was part of a plot to discredit him. 😬
Unsurprisingly Scott Adams is giving short shrift to Makis and other quacks and their followers, who are trying to blame his cancer on covid vaccines or encourage him to try anti-parasitics, vitamins, fasting, diets and other dodgy "cures" for his cancer.
This week sees the second "ARC Forum" in London, a right wing talking shop with overtones of Islamophobia, transphobia and climate change denial, funded by Paul Marshall and Legatum, who are also behind GB News.
Unsurprisingly there are a lot of familiar faces there... 🧵
Alan Miller from anti-lockdown turned anti-everything group Together is on a panel.
He was interviewed at ARC Forum by right wing channel Newsmax Australia, and was apparently "shocked to learn" that, according to them, Australia has no free speech and supports trans people. 🤷♂️
Toby Young founded Daily Sceptic, which like Together started out as anti-lockdown but then branched out into culture war outrage farming and omni-contrarianism.
It's still edited by a member of anti-vax misinformation group HART, who laundered their work through the site.