UK Conservative Party removes anti-vaccination lawmaker

The UK Conservative Party announced this Wednesday (11) the removal of MP Andrew Bridgen from the Legislature after the politician shared a series of misinformation on Twitter about vaccines against Covid-19.

“Andrew Bridgen crossed the line,” said his supporter Simon Hart, who is responsible for parliamentary discipline for Britain’s Conservatives. “Vaccine misinformation costs lives. Accordingly, Bridgen’s removal is effective immediately, and we await a formal investigation.”

In one of his last tweets, for example, the parliamentarian, commenting on the crisis in the British public health system, the NHS, said that there is an “elephant in the room” – “the current excess of deaths in all countries that administer vaccines of gene therapy mRNA”.

The information is false. Vaccines that use messenger RNA (mRNA) technology are not gene therapy, do not cause disease and do not cause the same disease that they are supposed to combat.

What they do is “teach” the cells of the human body to synthesize the spike protein, which is specific to the coronavirus, so that the immune system is prepared to fight it.

Bridgen even compared the use of vaccines to the Holocaust. Sharing content from a conspiracy theory website, he wrote: “As a cardiologist told me, this is the greatest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”

In another publication, he says that vaccines are “causing serious damage” and that “it is becoming increasingly evident how they do it”. “No wonder so many people have been sick since vaccination,” he said, in misleading new messages.

The conservative also came out in defense of the use of ivermectin to treat Covid instead of vaccines. As several scientific studies have shown, however, there is no scientific evidence that the antiparasitic medicine works against the disease.

Even before the removal, Andrew Bridgen was already the target of frying in the British Parliament. On Tuesday, the BBC reported, he was suspended from the House of Commons for five consecutive days after breaching a parliamentary code of conduct.

In November, the House discovered that Bridgen, when defending the company Mere Plantations in Parliament, hid from his colleagues that he had financial interests in the matter – the company donated money to his campaign and financed his trip to Ghana, in Africa. Bridgen has been an MP since 2010 for the North West Leicestershire Borough.