Unseated but not silenced: Andrew Bridgen, the parliamentary hero of our times
KATHY GYNGELL
FORMER MP Andrew Bridgen – the parliamentarian of our times, as one reader recently put it to me – is a man shamefully treated by his former party, by Parliament and by Lady Hallett. Her Covid-19 Inquiry continued the miserable Westminster tradition of ostracising him – smearing him as well as ignoring him over the huge concerns he raised about the Government’s pandemic response, the safety of covid vaccines and the excess deaths they most probably caused. Depressingly predictable but no less wrong.
If it were not for Andrew Bridgen, there would have been no debates on these issues, and no parliamentary questioning. It wasn’t easy; he had to use all his parliamentary skills and agility to secure them.
His first intervention came on December 13, 2022, when he obtained an adjournment debate in which he was able to raise the concerns regarding the safety and potential side effects of covid vaccines, concerns that neither the MSM nor parliament had heeded. The data, he said, ‘clearly shows to anyone who wants to look at it, the mRNA vaccines are not safe, not effective and not necessary . . . I implore the Government to halt their use immediately. As I have demonstrated and as the data clearly shows, the Government’s current policy on the mRNA vaccines is on the wrong side of medical ethics, it is on the wrong side of scientific data, and ultimately it will be on the wrong side of history.’
His was the lone voice. This and each of his subsequent remarkable speeches, as reported here, delivered via another adjournment debate, on excess deaths on October 20, 2023, and finally his masterly speech on excess deaths on April 17 last year, were all addressed to a virtually empty chamber, with MPs supporting him countable on one hand.
With no subsequent apology or recognition of this lack of respect for democratic debate, Parliament, to me anyway, has become an irretrievably damaged and diminished institution.
Bridgen’s speeches were remarkable not because of his oratory per se but because of the bravery and independence of mind they represented, comparable with the few celebrated parliamentarians before him.
Since losing his parliamentary seat in still not fully explained circumstances, Bridgen has been rescued from the political wilderness by social media. Last week he sat down with Will Coleshill of Resistance GB to discuss ‘the total corruption of Westminster’.
About halfway this through this interview he gets to another ‘undealt with’ scandal of the covid era, the euthanasia-in-effect of elderly people moved from hospitals to care homes and given inappropriate midazolam treatment which we first reported here.
More recently, this scandal has been brought back to forefront of debate by the Derek Dimmock inquest which Sally Beck reported on here and here.
Bridgen is good enough to recognise us as the only (MSM!) outlet to have done so. This inquest should have finished on Friday August 15, having then already run for ten days, but coroner Dr Julian Morris adjourned it, saying that it should be reconvened. It has – this week. Sally is following it to report further. But please watch Andrew Bridgen’s interview below to see why it has become such an important case.
This article (Unseated but not silenced: Andrew Bridgen, the parliamentary hero of our times) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Kathy Gyngell
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