When establishment institutions like the British Tory Party or anything Rupert Murdoch owns prioritise their institutional interests over the truth and transparency, then we have problems. In the long run, we are all dead, of course. But also, in the long run, institutions that lie will end up dead too. Sacking truth tellers is lying on a grand scale. As everyone on the planet probably now knows, Rupert Murdoch (apparently personally) sacked Tucker Carlson from Fox News. He has sacked all his wives, of course. He clearly has used-by dates on all of his employees.
Less well known (perhaps) is the sacking of Andrew Bridgen MP by the British Conservative Party. In particular, by the goons of Number Ten, teenagers in mind and possibly age, who work for an Indian billionaire whose closest taste of reality has been the London City merchant banks, and who the Tories didn’t actually want to be their leader. Sunak is the fifth prime minister the Tories have had in their decade in office. All of them especially undistinguished. He is, perhaps, the worst of them, but who knows? Leading the Tories has become a race to the bottom.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65402195
Ostensibly, Bridgen was sacked for alleged anti-Semitism. A simply risible claim. He was sacked for telling the truth about Covid jabs. Andrew Bridgen stated:
My expulsion from the Conservative Party under false pretences only confirms the toxic culture which plagues our political system. Above all else this is an issue of freedom of speech. No elected Member of Parliament should ever be penalised for speaking on behalf of those who have no voice. The Party has been sure to make an example of me.
Fiona of CoviLeaks weighs in:
Andrew has been expelled from the Conservative party for stating COVID jabs were "causing serious harms", adding that the vaccine programme was "the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust".
He is entirely correct and in this tweet he was retweeting a cardiologists paper from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem... yet he has been branded anti-Semitic despite support from the Jewish community including doctors and scientists.
Andrew has said 'I have been a vocal critic of the vaccine rollout and the party have been sure to make an example of me.
I am grateful for my newfound freedom and will continue to fight for justice for all those harmed, injured and bereaved due to governmental incompetence.'
I stand with Andrew Bridgen.
Nevena Bridgen also weighs in, and her short statement is well worth reading. Delightfully, she is also planning a tell-all book on the Tories.
"No corrupt & sleazy Conservative has been expelled despite being embroiled in countless scandals and money grabs, but they managed to kick my husband MP Andrew Bridgen for simply doing his job & speaking for the people who elected him’
https://twitter.com/NevenaBridgen/status/1651236166337720323
Here is Andrew’s brilliant defence, in the face of mediocre, pesky interviewing. One especially noteworthy comment is:
If I've saved one child from being injured, then it's worth it...If it's cost me my political career, then so be it.
One thing to note is that the Tories’ attempt at “look over there” has been partly successful, for it is the Holocaust statements and not the vaccine harms that have become the issue talked about, by interviewers, for example. (GB News has become controlled opposition, of course). It is clever tactics. Just ask the critics of Mark Latham’s recent outburst on social media about the appalling Alex Greenwich. Latham’s Greenwich mean time became the issue, distracting us from the evil that this man (not Latham) has wrought upon the State of New South Wales. And it is a great way of silencing editors who will just not go to certain places, let me tell you.
There is a lot of brand protection going on these days, and “look over there” is the strategy of choice in ensuring that reputational risk is minimised. That is why, as Tucker Carlson himself has noted in his first public comments since his own sacking by Fox, there is so much public debate about issues that don’t matter and so little about issues that do. He even names some of them – war, civil liberties, emerging science, demographic change, corporate power and natural resources. A list that largely overlaps with my own. There is simply too much dynamite in these and discussion of them is largely not allowed by the corporates and governments that have merged and which together make up the modern Hobbesian state. And which collude to keep the big issues at a distance. Why they silence dissent. Why they send the Carlsons and the Bridgens packing.
Andrew says that he now barely recognises the Conservative Party he joined and worked for over many decades. This is a common perception in Britain. He is probably relieved to be leaving it, in the light of this. A recent speech by Bridgen (at a Truth Be Told rally) gives ample reason for the vaxx-toting Tories to loathe him.
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/andrew-bridgen-mp-speaks-out-for-vaccine-truth/
Bridgen tells the truth, just like Carlson.
In totalitarian times, as Orwell thought, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. And the truth can be mighty inconvenient for the powers that be. Ergo. He had to go. Bridgen’s alleged crime is anti-Semitism. His real crime is telling the truth publicly about Covid vaccine harms. This wins few friends in the UniParty. Just as Alex Antic, Gerard Rennick, Malcolm Roberts and Ralph Babet do in Australia, and for which they, too, get little thanks and certainly no material rewards. The first two of these noble Senators work for corporate political parties. Maybe they should watch their backs. Having spoken at length with Senator Antic the other week, I can assure you he is already doing this. Bagging the ruling class on a regular basis did not help Tucker Carlson’s corporate career prospects. Showing the harms done by Covid vaccines in front of your own party (which was responsible for the vaccine roll out) had a similar effect on Bridgen’s career.
(Just for the record, Andrew Bridgen didn’t compare vaccine deaths to the Holocaust. He said, quoting someone else (a Jewish scientist!), that the vaccine deaths ere the worst attack on human life by the State since the Holocaust. But truth is the first casualty of war, and we are, indeed, in a war. With the ever-burgeoning State).
The twin sackings have a lot in common.
Both men are courageous, though they would both deny this. They prioritise core issues. They pick hills to die upon. And the issues upon which they choose to do this are core to our rights and freedom. And they tell the truth, come what may. They fight misinformation while they themselves are routinely, falsely accused of it. They stand up for the outsiders. They themselves are dissidents, which is so damned refreshing in a world of corporations, cookie-cutter public positions, PC cliches and lies. They fight corporate power, whatever the consequences. They fit the old-fashioned idea of a public servant, an idea of service that is scarcely visible in high places these days.
The mighty Brownstone Institute has helpfully revealed just who owns Fox News, Dominion Voting Systems (the beneficiary of Fox’s recent defamation settlement) and Big Pharma. BlackRock and Vanguard – which, of course, own one another as well – are the private equity management companies that own just about everything these days. They are the largest institutional shareholders of Fox. And of Dominion! So, Vanguard and BlackRock were paying defamation money to … each other!
But what if there was a rational economic explanation for his firing? What if the people who own Fox have far more interest in neutering criticism of their other economic holdings than they do in the success of Fox’s television department?
Last Wednesday, Carlson opened his show with an attack on the pharmaceutical industry’s manipulation of the news media.
“Sometimes you wonder just how filthy and dishonest our news media are,” Carlson started. “Ask yourself, is any news organization you know of so corrupt that it’s willing to hurt you on behalf of its biggest advertisers?”
Carlson then attacked the news media for taking “hundreds of millions of dollars from Big Pharma companies” and promoting “their sketchy products on the air and as they did that, they maligned anyone who was skeptical of those products.”
As truth bombs go, that one is up there. Little wonder Tucker Carlson was asked to depart.
The segment is worth watching.
Here is where it gets interesting:
Beyond MyPillow, Fox News’ largest advertisers include GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Novartis, and BlackRock.
Vanguard is the largest institutional owner of Fox Corporation, holding a 6.9 percent stake in the company. BlackRock owns an additional 4.7 percent.
Vanguard and BlackRock are the two largest owners of Pfizer. Combined, they own over 15 percent of the company.
Vanguard and BlackRock are the two largest owners of Johnson & Johnson. Combined, they own over 14 percent of the company.
Vanguard and BlackRock are the second and third largest owners of Moderna. Combined, they own over 13 percent of the company.
Perhaps, you may be noticing a trend.
Vanguard and BlackRock’s holdings in Fox amount to less than $750 million. Their investments in Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Merck amount to over $225 billion.
When Carlson attacked the pharmaceutical industry, he was attacking the same funds that owned his network. But those investments in Big Pharma were 300 times larger than their equity in Fox. Carlson may have stepped on a landmine, speaking the unspeakable against the intertwined economic interests of the world’s most powerful companies.
https://brownstone.org/articles/tucker-carlson-departure-power-of-big-pharma/
These are arresting facts and arresting numbers.
As Andrew Bridgen himself said, why would we believe the big corporates, especially the vaccine manufacturers, on the subject of vaccine efficacy and harms? Like the Tories, they have ground to defend. Why trust what they say? They are fatally compromised. Truth is a luxury for these people.
Here is the CEO of Pfizer:
Upon the release of Pfizer’s 2022 annual report, CEO Albert Bourla stressed the importance of customers’ “positive perception” of the pharmaceutical giant.
Of course he did. These companies spend more on marketing than on R&D. This is as unsurprising as it is appalling. That governments all over the world were parties to the Covid vaccine scam and that they and their compliant media mates (like Murdoch) keep defending this should have brought eternal shame upon them. Not so. Submissive electorates have rewarded them. The corporate media, owned by Big Pharma, continue to provide cover for them. And they continue to attack those who resist their demonic power.
Tucker Carlson and Andrew Bridgen have each paid a price for speaking out on core matters. They are heroes on either side of The Pond.
Let us leave the last word to the magnificent RFK Jr, himself a target of corporate state behemoths:
Tucker Carlson 'Was Saying Things That Nobody Has Ever Said on TV Before'
“He was talking about ... pharmaceutical advertisers getting newscasters on the networks to say things about vaccines that weren’t true. And nobody’s ever talked like that.”
Indeed. And few politicians talk like Andrew Bridgen.
Oh, and it helps knowing how the world works. Mercifully, Brownstone isn’t answerable to some corporate puppet-master. And equally mercifully, there are countervailing centres of power that continue to provide homes for those who challenge state and corporate power. It won’t be long before Carlson and Bridgen find them.
Paul Collits
27 April 2023
What a great piece. I have been watching Andrew Bridgen on Dr John Campbell’s you tube channel. What a hero! So well briefed and researched! That rather vacuous young man who was interviewing Andrew Bridgend was like that idiot that interviewed Elon Musk. Unprepared and totally out of his depth. I will be following Andrew and Tucker with interest.
Humans have always been partly irrational beasts en masse or individually. At present, irrationality seems to be the in thing for those who follow fashion, perhaps the majority. Where this is headed is impossible to predict accurately but it certainly will not be a good place.
The few courageous individuals who speak up against the trend need to be encouraged and supported.