It could be that the falling out between Bridgen and Loser/Reclaim is partly about differences concerning Israel and Gaza. And it could also be about antisemitism.
Last Friday Bridgen retweeted Jordan Sather (a conspiraloon influencer) including a video clip from a speech by the very right wing Roman Catholic Archbishop Vigano.
It was picked up by the excellent anti anti-vaxer account John Bye in a short thread
archived here as a web page:
Sather had xtweeted:
Here's the short video clip of Vigano
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(Vigano is an outspoken opponent of the Pope as well as a massive (and influential) conspiraloon. The speech this is taken from -
the whole thing is on YouTube here - was at an online conference entitled "Is The Pope Catholic?")
Bridgen retweeted Sathers xtweet and the video and commented:
In a
debate over Gaza in Parliament yesterday Bridgen
asked a question:
and he later
xtweeted his disappointment at the answer he got from Andrew Mitchell, the Minister of State:
Obviously this concern for the IDFs actions has to be seen in the context of his suggestion that people should listen to Archbishop Vigano when he says:
Bridgen's retweet of Sather and Vigano led to him being severely criticised by some far right supporters of Israel who had previously been allies. One of them is Professor Norman Fenton. When Bridgen was booted out of the Tory Party for saying that Covid vaccines "were the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust", Fenton, another covidiot, defended him.
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In response to Bridgen retweeting Vigano's conspiralunacy Fenton replied:
To set Fenton's own views in context, here is a twitter thread he wrote
archived as a web page. After the March Against Antisemitism, where Tommy Robinson was arrested, Fenton attacked the organisers and defended Robinson:
As far as I can discover neither the Reclaim Party, nor Loser, have taken an official line about Israel or Gaza. However their sympathies are pretty clearly with Israel. Loser has defended the Israeli actions in Gaza, and 'jokingly' suggested setting up a "free one way ticket to Gaza go fund me" for pro-Palestinian demonstraters. Loser has also supported Tommy Robinson in the past, and his attitude is based on a shared islamophobia.
Bridgen's criticism of the IDF (and Vigano's criticism of "Netanyahu's war crimes"), and the antisemitic conspiracy theory Bridgen suggests we should listen to, are not at all on the same page.
So is this the second political party Bridgen has had to leave over views seen as anti-semitic? I think we should be told.
And what of the
financial arrangements between Bridgen and Loser/Reclaim?