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A taste of it from last Wednesday's 'Femi fact checks PMQs', with @Femi_Sorry's dissection of @DominicRaab 's arguments 🔥🧐
Entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh, who found fame on BBC’s Dragons Den, has used her platform to spread anti-vaxx conspiracy theories and to threaten Chief Medical Officer Chris Witty, is part of a wider overlap between the wellness community and conspiracies. THREAD:
She tweeted “Whitty will hang for this” responding to a story about giving children the vaccine. After the tweet was removed, she took to YouTube and Telegram, saying “Whitty must be at the point where he knows he’s going to hang, so in for a penny, in for a pound, right?”
Her tweets and biography suggest that her anti-vaxx views align with a larger, strange marriage of wellness, alternative medicine, and the far-right movement, and Elnaugh herself is an outspoken commentator on the baseless ‘Great Reset’ conspiracy theory. rachelelnaugh.com/biography-2
@DominicRaab@Femi_Sorry As hinted by @Femi_Sorry, the Road Haulage Association is calling for action as "the shortage of HGV drivers in the UK is at crisis point, and we’re urging you to use this quick tool to write directly to your MP to raise the issue". rha.uk.net/News/News-Blog…
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that #Russia was responsible for the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander #Litvinenko, poisoned in London with Polonium 210. bbc.co.uk/news/world-586…
🚨BREAKING 🚨
Britain has named and charged a third Russian military intelligence officer over the Salisbury spy poisonings, in a significant development that will enrage Russia. news.sky.com/story/skripal-…
Russian interference threatens British democracy. Despite this, the Uk government has refused to take the unequivocal recommendations of parliament's own Intelligence and Security Committee that it says are essential to protect our national security. bit.ly/3kuHOPH
Cutting universal credit by £20 a week is an “unconscionable” move that breaches international human rights law and is likely to trigger an explosion of poverty, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said theguardian.com/society/2021/s…
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Is the Secretary for Work and Pensions Thérèse Coffey unaware that lots of people on #UniversalCredit already work themselves to the bone and still can't make ends meet?
And that it actually would take up to 9 extra working hours for #UniversalCredit claimants to recoup their £20-a-week benefit cut? And that this cut is predicted to plunge half a million more people into poverty, including 200,000 children? independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
An investigation by @AllTheCitizens has uncovered a group of anti-vaxxers designing fake NHS advice leaflets for members to print and share outside schools across the country. 2/7
The NHS-style leaflet contains six lies about the Covid virus and vaccine which have variously been debunked by the Department of Health and @FullFact 3/7