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Mar 28 • 7 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Andrew Bridgen has been ordered to pay Matt Hancock £44,300 in defence costs, after his libel claim against the former Health Secretary was ruled "defective" earlier this month, and needing amendments before the case could proceed. 🧵

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While Andrew Bridgen initially tried to claim victory, because the judge didn't throw out his libel claim completely, he's apparently failed to amend his complaint since then.

The latest ruling against him warns that if he doesn't do so soon, the whole case will be dismissed. Image
Andrew Bridgen raised over £100,000 for his libel claim, via a crowdfunding site owned by his former colleagues at Reclaim. Oddly he's still failed to declare most of this money in the Parliamentary Register of Interests.

He's now begging for more .. to pay Hancock's lawyers. 🤦‍♂️ Image
It's not clear if Bridgen will receive money raised by "his" crowdfunder, as a deleted tweet by Reclaim leader Laurence Fox (who owns the Democracy 3.0 site) ridicules his libel case and describes the MP as "an absolute tw*t". 😳

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Bridgen claims (in an email posted by Fox) that Fox's Bad Law Project is to blame for his "defective" libel claim against Hancock, and that Fox's crowdfunding site is still holding money raised in his name!

And yet Bridgen is still asking supporters to send more money there. 🤷‍♂️ Image
Andrew Bridgen spent Easter begging his supporters to "sacrifice" more of their own money to keep his libel action against Matt Hancock limping along. He again claims he won, despite the judge explicitly ruling that he lost. Hence the order to pay most of Hancock's defence costs.

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In the video, Bridgen blames his "previous legal team" (Laurence Fox's aptly named Bad Law Project) for the defective claim and says he's trying to "recover the cost .. from the lawyers responsible". Then asks for more donations via .. Fox's Democracy 3.0 crowdfunding site. 🤦‍♂️ Image

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Apr 19
Andrew Bridgen and his supporters held a rally outside Parliament yesterday, after his speech in the House of Commons blaming covid vaccines for excess deaths. The rally saw calls for executions, a speech by Piers Corbyn, and banners claiming vaccines killed 17 million people! 🧵 Image
Andrew Bridgen modestly suggested that his speech in Parliament (attended by a handful of MPs) "will be totemic, it will go around the world".

He also falsely claimed that covid vaccines are "damaging everyone's immune system .. and making us more prone to cancer". Image
Piers Corbyn also spoke at Bridgen's rally after the debate, but seems to have used it to promote his run for London Mayor, which (unsurprisingly, given his constant begging for petrol money) fell at the first hurdle after an apparent mix up over his deposit. 🤦‍♂️ Image
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Mar 27
Of all the "doctors" @Nigel_Farage and @GBNEWS could have invited on to talk about the NHS, they picked Ahmad Malik, a self-proclaimed anti-vaxxer who claims 9/11 was a "false flag" attack and covid was a hoax, calls the NHS a cult, and isn't even licensed to practise anymore. 🧵

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Former foot surgeon Ahmad Malik hasn't worked for the NHS since 2017, and gave up his license to practise medicine completely last month. These days he works as a full time podcaster.

Perhaps unsurprising, given his stance on not just covid vaccines but ALL vaccines.


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Like many, Ahmad Malik first fell down the rabbit hole of 9/11 conspiracy theories. He claims it was a false flag and commemorated the atrocity's anniversary last year by interviewing 9/11 "truther" Richard Gage, and spamming tributes to 9/11 victims with ads for his podcast. 😬


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Mar 5
Andrew Bridgen has shared a letter he recently sent to the Metropolitan Police, accusing the government of murder over the covid vaccine programme! He's calling for police to meet some of the most extreme conspiracy theorists in the UK. Here's who they all are...🧵 Image
The list of "experts" Andrew Bridgen wants police to meet is a who's who of the British covid conspiracy movement, many of whom he's been working with for years. This latest move seems to be supporting a long running campaign by a man who has called for public hangings! 😬 Image
Michael Yeadon claims covid vaccines are "toxic by design" and part of a plot to wipe out most of the Earth's population. He also thinks the Spanish Flu pandemic didn't happen, and everything from nuclear weapons to moon landings were faked. 😳


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Feb 25
The ITV drama Breathtaking has clearly triggered covid sceptics. Ironically, they're still recycling many of the same vintage conspiracy theories from 2020 that are featured in episode 3 of the mini-series. 🧵


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In particular, the usual suspects are sharing old, false claims that hospitals were empty during the pandemic.

Episode 3 starts with a creep filming part of a hospital that's empty (because elective surgery was cancelled), while other wards were overflowing with covid patients.
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HART's Bob Moran, who lost his job as a cartoonist at the Telegraph in 2021 for haranguing the doctor whose memoirs the drama is based on, is one of many repeating "empty hospitals" stories, claiming "nobody saw the pandemic" as it didn't really happen!




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Dec 2, 2023
Steve Kirsch has landed in the UK ahead of Monday's meeting in Westminster organised by MP Andrew Bridgen. But his much hyped "record level data" from New Zealand on supposed vaccine deaths is already being torn apart .. by his own side! 🧵


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Steve Kirsch claims leaked New Zealand data shows covid vaccines caused literally impossible death rates.

Fringe party NZ Loyal (1% of the vote at this year's election) seem to be behind the leak, dubbing it "the mother of all revelations".

Other cranks are less convinced...

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Nick Hudson (founder of PANDA, which now claims there was no pandemic) also received the leaked data, but says "little could be concluded from it" and "no analysis is possible based on it". He says he warned Steve Kirsch about this, and that it has "all the elements of a set-up".

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Sep 30, 2023
Laurence Fox and friends seem to have his Reclaim Party's lone MP, Andrew Bridgen, over a barrel.

Recent filings in the Register of Members' Financial Interests suggest they're holding onto £100,000 raised in his name, paying for his house, AND employing him as a consultant. 🧵


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Previous filings showed Fox's Bad Law Project gave thousands of pounds in funding and services for Bridgen's defamation case against Matt Hancock, while Reclaim Party donor Jeremy Hosking gave him a £25,000 interest free loan for his housing costs.

A year after his last loan, Reclaim donor Jeremy Hosking has given Andrew Bridgen another £18,600 interest free loan to cover the cost of his constituency home, while Reclaim leader Laurence Fox's Bad Law Project doled out another £4,319 to cover court costs against Matt Hancock. Image
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