Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right • Hacker News Board

Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by darthoctopus » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:47 PM UTC

treeFall wrote: post #16

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There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics:

> On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84] Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called the comparison "utterly unacceptable".[5] Two days later, Bridgen issued a statement saying his tweet was not antisemitic, and apologised "for any offence caused". He said he was taking legal advice about action against those who had labelled him as antisemitic. Bridgen further contended that he asked "reasonable questions" about the side-effects of mRNA vaccines, and had "received huge support from ordinary people, medical workers [and] those who have experienced vaccine harms themselves".[85]

> In March 2023, Bridgen posted tweets promoting a conspiracy theory claiming that COVID-19 originated at Fort Detrick.[86]

> On 29 February 2024, Bridgen referenced capital punishment as an appropriate response to "crimes against humanity" regarding the vaccine rollout.[87]

Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by DarkNova6 » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

There is this pervasive believe that the far right is somehow supported bottom-up. But historically, capitalists and technologists have only been too happy overthrowing status-quo to become part of the new oligarchy.

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Post by hkt » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

treeFall wrote: post #16

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Bridgen compared vaccinations against covid to the holocaust.

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Post by Teandw » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:52 PM UTC

A blog post that says a lot of words without really saying anything at all.

The whole post boils down to "The founders of Reform have multiple companies."

Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by lucasRW » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:52 PM UTC

aaa_aaa wrote: post #5

turblety wrote: post #2

Would be great to see this sort of thing for all political parties, or at least Labour and Conservatives.

Not that I care politics but one should think why reform and why the label "far right"? Why now?

By 2024 standards, saying that a man cannot be pregnant, or that illegally coming into a country is... well, illegal, is enough to be "far-right".

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Post by treeFall » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:53 PM UTC

Teandw wrote: post #24

A blog post that says a lot of words without really saying anything at all. The whole post boils down to "The founders of Reform have multiple companies."

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Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by treeFall » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:54 PM UTC

darthoctopus wrote: post #21

treeFall wrote: post #16

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There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics: > On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84…

Like I said, he's a hero

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Post by sudden_dystopia » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 7:57 PM UTC

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Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by flosstop » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 8:00 PM UTC

darthoctopus wrote: post #21

treeFall wrote: post #16

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There's healthy skepticism about vaccine side effects, and then there are these antics: > On 11 January 2023, Bridgen had the Conservative whip suspended after tweeting about COVID-19 vaccines: "As one consultant cardiologist said to me, this is the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust." Bridgen claimed the tweet had been moderated by staff members, which was denied by a Conservative Party spokesman.[84…

He didn't make the statement, he retweeted a professor from an Israeli university who made the statement.

Re: Six Degrees of Reform UK – Mapping the UK's Entrepreneurial Far Right

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Post by pessimizer » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 8:02 PM UTC

Is it a big conspiracy that Leave.EU, Reform UK, UKIP, and Nigel Farage are connected to each other? Other than that, the rest of this article seems to simply be talking about businesses that someone named Richard Tice (who is also connected to Reform UK) is involved with.

All of these people are publicly connected to each other. They also seem to be pretty small fry. Wouldn't be surprised if this itself were funded by the Tories, in order to quote in press releases. If not for Reform, the Tories would be at least running even with Labour in this election.