Andrew Bridgen

Andrew Bridgen     (politician, Covid dissident)
Born	Andrew James Bridgen 28 October 1964 Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, England
Alma mater	University of Nottingham
Victim of	UK/Election fraud?
Interests	RNA Vaccine
Party	Conservative Party
Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire  Member of Parliament for North West Leicestershire In office 6 May 2010 - Present

Andrew Bridgen is a former Conservative Member of Parliament.

Parliament

Interview with Resistance GB in June 2024

He is a member of the COVID Recovery Group.

He has raised concerns in Parliament about Big Pharma and RNA Vaccines.

He opposes vaccine mandates.

Bridgen was the first MP to raise the issue of the [British Post Office scandal]], where hundred of independent post office contractors were falsely accused and convicted of fraud. Bridgen was instrumental highlighting the issue, leading to an overturning of the verdicts. Bridgen also exposed how Fujitsu, the IT company at the heart of the Post Office scandal, targeted a whistleblower.

Suspension

The Standards Committee, chaired by Chris Bryant, recommended his suspension over alleged lobbying breaches,/

UK/Election fraud?

After 14 years as MP for North West Leicestershire, Bridgen lost his seat in spectacular fashion at the general election in July with an implausible 95 per cent decrease in votes. This made no sense as he enjoyed more than 95 per cent recognition on the doorstep, an endorsement from US politician Robert F Kennedy Jr, and a positive response from his constituents, many of whom had received justice because of his interventions.

To drop from 63 per cent of the vote to 3.2 per cent with just 1,568 votes seems implausible. Bridgen said: 'After the election people were coming up to me, and still are, saying, "I voted for you, my whole family voted for you. What happened?"' Bridgen thinks that the vote could have been tampered with, a suggestion strenuously denied by North West Leicestershire District Council (NWLDC) which has responsibility for collecting and counting the votes, and has highlighted what he sees as anomalies. The contentious issues for Bridgen surround the exit poll, the opening of the ballot boxes and new electoral services staff.<ref name=conservative>

The market research company Ipsos-MORI conduct exit polls on behalf of the BBC, Sky Television and ITV. Just two weeks before the election, they cancelled the North West Leicestershire exit poll with no explanation, removing any chance to check voters' candidate preference.<ref name=conservative>

Bridgen questioned the time it took to count the vote. Polling stations closed at 10pm and Allison Thomas, CEO of the council and returning officer for the constituency, said they would not begin the count until 2am – a four-hour time lag. 'There was no explanation,' Bridgen said. 'The election officers were unnaturally nervous too. You'd have thought they were the ones standing for election. None of it stacked up. I've been through around 20 elections locally and I've never seen anything like that.'<ref name=conservative>

NWLDC appointed Allison Thomas as CEO in August 2022. In April 2023, after he had been expelled from the Conservative Party, Bridgen said: 'I was informed that the whole of the election services department had resigned en masse, on a Friday, and they'd been replaced by a new team. That was amazing because I can't remember anybody leaving since I became the candidate in 2006. There were three people in the department, they weren't relatives, so I can't understand why they all left on the same day. I think that's very, very unusual.<ref name=conservative>

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Rachel Schraer	“Andrew Bridgen was previously critical of policies like lockdown and the idea of vaccine mandates - but he praised the development of the Covid vaccine, and tweeted proudly when he received his doses. It wasn't until last autumn that he began to make increasingly baseless claims, including that the vaccines were killing many people and that the damage was being covered up. At first, he began highlighting some real, but rare, instances of genuine vaccine injury and misinterpreting real data to suggest these cases were more common than the research suggests. But in recent weeks, this rhetoric has ramped up. Extensive independent research shows that Covid vaccines are extremely effective at preventing deaths and that serious side effects (including approximately 60 deaths in England and Wales) are rare, given the tens of millions of doses administered.”	Rachel Schraer	11 January 2022

 

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