A British vaccine conspirator MP has been suspended pending investigation for a tweet suggesting the vaccine program was the “greatest crime against humanity” since the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people. “crossed a line and caused a major offense in the process”
Britain’s ruling Conservative Party suspended one of its lawmakers from the party last night (Wednesday) after he compared the coronavirus vaccine to the Holocaust. Simon Hart, said in a statement that MP Andrew Bridgen “crossed a line and caused great offense in the process”.
“Misinformation about the vaccine causes harm and costs lives,” Hart said. “I therefore suspend Andrew Bridgen immediately, pending an official investigation.” Suspension is one of the most severe penalties a British political party can impose on a lawmaker, effectively removing him from the party. Bridgen will sit in the House of Representatives as an independent MP.
Bridgen, the Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire, tweeted last night, referring to the claims that the corona vaccines cause damage to the heart: “As a consultant cardiologist told me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.”
He published unfounded conspiracy theories from sources known to spread misinformation on the subject, he wrote, “We know that vaccines cause serious harm and it is now becoming increasingly clear how they do it. No wonder so many people are sick since the vaccine.”
Labour’s Christian Wakeford, who defected from the Conservative Party last year because then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson attended parties during the coronavirus lockdown, tweeted: “Fake news and scaremongering about vaccines is bad enough but to use the Holocaust during Holocaust Remembrance Month is despicable “.
The British Jewish umbrella organization said in a statement: “For a member of parliament to suggest that the corona virus vaccines are the greatest crime against humanity since the holocaust is unthinkable.” Holocaust Education Foundation CEO Karen Pollock said Bridgen’s comments were “totally irresponsible and inappropriate.”