Hancock Made Defamatory, Illegal Smear & Fails in Attempt to Have Andrew Bridgen Libel Case Thrown Out.
In January 2023 former Health Secretary Matt Hancock posted a tweet on X saying “Disgusting and dangerous, anti-Semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories” that not only suggested he had “lost it” but also that fellow MP Andrew Bridgen was “anti-Semitic.” The “defamatory, illegal smear” was used as a political tool to silence views concerning the adverse events of the covid jab, and was to prompt Andrew Bridgen to issue libel proceedings against Hancock to “clear his name.”
Hancock’s lawyers argued that Bridgen’s case did not have “a realistic prospect of success” because of the “lack of a properly articulated case” and should be thrown out. However, now a over a year following the vile attack, it was Hancocks bid to ‘strike out’ the claim that was thrown out by a high court judge last week (source). Andrew Bridgen MP for North West Leicestershire, claims Sunak is also using illegal tactics to smear him, and according to TWC Hancock hoped to have the case cancelled to avoid explaining himself and his part overseeing the roll out of the experimental covid jab.
The Tweeted Link
Hancock’s remark on January 11th, came just hours after a status shared by Andrew Bridgen which included a link to a ZeroHedge article and a screenshot. with the comment:
‘As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust.’ which he had also previously discussed with an unnamed cardiologist.
These were highlighting the published figures actually from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the covid vaccine injury. The figures were provided by the US health watchdog VAERS and an analysis by Dr Josh Guetzkow, an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The graphs which Bridgen had highlighted just one of showed that major cardiovascular events reported to VAERS had exceeded 70,000 up to that time, including nearly 4,000 cases of atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeat), and 2,000 cases each of myocarditis and cardiac failure.
Andrew Bridgen Expelled from Tory Party.
Hancock, followed this up with a Twitter post saying ‘Disgusting and dangerous anti-Semitic, anti-vax, anti-scientific conspiracy theories spouted by a sitting MP this morning are unacceptable and have absolutely no place in our society.’
Bridgen was Identified
Hancock, who shared the above tweet to his 435,600 followers, where it was then viewed 4.4million times, argued that he had not identified Andrew Bridgen was expelled from the Conservative Party as a result. Hancock argued that he had not named Andrew Bridgen but to many Twitter users it was obvious who he was referring to and their comments rushed in with support of Bridgen. (source)
One X user said “WE SEE YOU AS YOU ALL JOIN TOGETHER TO SPOUT THE SAME SCRIPT.”
An Illegal Smear
‘Every person reading the tweet knew it was about me. It was seriously defamatory and untrue and intended to cause grievous harm to my reputation.’ said Andrew Bridgen. Importantly, the judge, Mrs Justice Steyn had cited numerous cases in her 20-page judgment where defendants had tried and failed to strike out claims because they had not named the plaintiffs, but decided that Mr Bridgen could in fact, establish that the tweet was about him. (source).
She wrote: ‘It is highly likely that the claimant would have little difficulty establishing reference innuendo.’ adding that ‘numerous replies on Twitter to the defendant’s (Hancock’s) tweet indicate that the reader was aware that it was about the claimant.’
A “Political Tool”
It is not the first time that Hancock and other members of parliament have used the weaponised smear against another MP in an attempt to vilify and discredit them and their political views. The groundless smear is also used when all else fails in an MPs battle against an opposition.
As the London Economic said “Matt Hancock appears at the best of times to be an empty bag of soundbites and when those soundbites unravel, he appears unable to back them up with any more cogent argument than simply repeating him (Boris Johnson)” This was to happen back in September 2019, at the height of Jeremy Corbyn’s popularity.
Hancock, as the Tory Parliamentary candidate the constituency in Haverhill, West Suffolk, attended a general election hustings and was laughed at for repeating the Tories half baked manifesto pledge. According to London Economic, he “loses it” and decides to attack Jeremy Corbyn by saying:
“There is one thing I am more passionate about ridding from our politics than anything else and that is the antisemitic, outrageous, racist attitude of Jeremy Corbyn.”
His remarks prompted members of the public to heckle, boo, jeer and stand up in opposition with chants of “shame on you” and liar” when he accused the Labour Party of being “racist.” During the uproar, Mr Hancock said: “Anybody who would support a racist party shouldn’t be standing for parliament.” (source).
An Empty Bag of Soundbites
Incidentally, this was also a week in which more of Boris Johnson’s racist, prejudiced and condescending remarks, writings and musings emerged; Johnson was forced to apologise for islamophobia; a week in which the former Conservative Party chair warned of the “impunity” of racists in her party, and the increase in violent attacks against Muslim women that followed Johnson’s racist remarks, reported the London Economic publication.
(Also worth noting, September 2019 was also the month of Event 201, and although I may be speculating here, it is quite likely that Hancock would have already been informed of his centre stage role in Convid and his ability to make his pals and himself a small fortune at the expense of the UK people.).
Weaponising Anti-Semitism
jonathan Cook points out “For the best part of a decade now, the British establishment has been weaponising antisemitism against critics of Israel, claiming as its biggest scalp the former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn” who is not anti semitic but has been a threat to the establishment due to his fight for the rights of Palestinian against oppression.
Cook posits that “He was finally drummed out of the parliamentary party by his successor, Keir Starmer, in 2020 for pointing out that antisemitism in Labour had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons”. It is unfortunate that the groundless smears were not dealt with at that time as they have continued to be used and normalised.
‘Just Not Anti-Semitic’
Nevertheless, it is being being addressed now, by Andrew Bridgen who made a statement after the judgement: ‘The tweet I put out regarding vaccine harms and excess deaths in January 2023 which resulted in my expulsion from the Conservative Party was not just not anti-Semitic, it was true and based on evidence, evidence which gets stronger by the day.
“I hope the Government will take note of this judgment and suspend the experimental, emergency use mRNA vaccines with immediate effect.’ He added: ‘I welcome the decision of Mrs Justice Steyn to allow this important case to continue to a trial.
A strike-out is a high-risk strategy often used by defendants who are worried about the prospect of a trial, and in this case, it failed, thus making clear that there is nothing wrong with the substance of the claim.’ (Source).
Update on Libel Action
He is now “pressing the court for a hearing before the general election so that he can clear his name.” In a tweet last Monday he claimed that both Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak had illegally smeared his character. ‘Update on my libel action.” (below):
We wish him the very best of luck.
Matt Hancock.
The video below has little to do with the above article at all if i’m honest, other than the fact that this is the man who has happily attempted to cause so much harm to Andrew Bridgen’s career and reputation.
While we may all be guilty of making an idiot of ourselves at sometime or other, many of his “gaffs” have been while he was living his best life while being tasked with doling out guidance on Midazolam protocols and the jab , social distancing, facemasks and very many in the UK whether they even know it or not, while he has feathered his own nest. The delusions of grandeur that he has
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