A UK Reform candidate has said that “girls need to be made aware that promiscuity is not attractive” and that women cannot “behave in the same way” as men, in the latest controversial comments from Nigel’s party Farage.
In an interview with TheJames Gunn, who is staying in Oxford West and Abingdon, also repeated controversial claims about Covid-19, including a suggestion, without evidence, that vaccines can “put something really bad into the body”.
Asked about comments made by Mr Farage, in which the reform leader praised misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “disguised” and giving boys “maybe a bit of confidence at school “, Mr Gunn told Tate “it’s not my model” and he “didn’t know much about it”.
But when asked about comments Tate had made, including that women who are not virgins are “second-hand goods”, Mr Gunn replied: “I think girls need to be aware that promiscuity is not attractive to young men , or even for older men. They’ve been taught by feminism that men and women can behave the same way, and I’m sorry, but it’s not true.”
As of December 2022, Tate has been facing charges in Romania of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang for the sexual exploitation of women. He denies all the charges.
Farage has previously praised the British-American kickboxer, who poses with fast cars, guns and cigars, for championing “masculine culture”, although he also admitted the influencer had gone “over the top” and said some “very terrible”. things.
Responding to Mr Gunn’s comments, reform chairman Richard Tice said The: “This is just childish nonsense. No one is interested in that for heaven’s sake.
“In the thousands of doors I’ve knocked on, no one talks about how much sexier women are compared to men. They are talking about immigration, the cost of living crisis and the need for something new in politics.”
Discussing the Covid pandemic, Mr Gunn backed former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who was expelled from his party after comparing Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust.
In December 2022, Bridgen called for a “full suspension” of the Covid shocks based on what he described as “strong evidence of significant harms and little persistent benefit”. This went against the overwhelming weight of evidence, from a number of different independent teams of researchers, which found that the benefits far outweighed any known harms.
For example, two new but extremely rare side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – were discovered by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date. The study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland confirmed how rare known vaccine complications are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “the risks are too great”. “.
Gunn said he supported the former Tory MP’s efforts to open up the Covid vaccine debate, saying he was deeply concerned about the government’s “absolute determination to ignore excess deaths and to exclude Andrew Bridgen and discredit him as much as possible”.
He added: “I think he [Mr Bridgen] he can be extremely proud of his work as an MP and I regret that other MPs did not support him.”
Discussing how he thought the NHS had “overreacted” to the lockdown, Mr. Gunn said: “We have a lot of people who have some sort of inexplicable increase in cancers and heart problems, which the government refuses to investigate.
“I’m with Andrew Bridgen on this, it’s time to look into it. I think I know where it came from, but I have no proof because the government doesn’t want me to have any proof.
“I am very worried about this. I am very concerned that the government is not taking responsibility for this.”
Mr Gunn said he believed healthy people should not have been quarantined during the lockdown, adding: “It’s a lot easier to get something really bad into a body by getting the immune system through a hypodermic than it is for some virus to random, if indeed it was a random virus.”
The reform candidate went on to suggest that the US was involved in the creation of the Covid virus. He claimed that Dr Anthony Fauci – who was a top medical adviser to the US president during the pandemic – had admitted that the virus was created as a result of “gain of function” research sanctioned by him and subcontracted to the Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
Gain-of-function research is a process in which an organism, cell, or microbe is genetically altered to acquire a new function.
Dr Fauci has dismissed the theory that the Covid-19 virus originated as a result of US-funded work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He told Congress in June: “I have always said and I will say now, I keep an open mind as to what the origin [of Covid-19] it is.
“But the only thing I know for sure is that the viruses that were funded by the NIH [National Institutes of Health]phylogenetically, it cannot be a precursor to SARS-CoV-2.”
Mr Gunn claimed “There is a lot of evidence to suggest it was a leak from a functioning laboratory from Wuhan”.
Mr Tice backed Mr Gunn’s claims on Covid vaccines, saying: “He’s talking about serious stuff here. About congestion, excess deaths, vaccine damage.
“We believe there should be a full public inquiry into vaccines, but everything is being covered up. Cancer diagnoses have gone through the roof since the pandemic.”
However, experts have noted that many cancers went undiagnosed during the pandemic, due to concerns about healthcare and testing during that period – leading to an increase in late diagnoses after the pandemic ended.
Mr Tice claimed: “Most people now accept that this was a lab leak from Wuhan and that it was essentially a man-made virus. It was a conspiracy theory that it was from wet markets.”
Asked if he also supported Mr Gunn’s claims that research at the Wuhan lab was funded by the US, Mr Gunn said: Tice asserted: “That statement is not denied by the US. It’s out there in the public domain. The US was funding the Wuhan function research benefit, basically to try to keep it at arms length.”
The Reform Party was embroiled in a fresh row on Thursday night after Channel 4 aired footage of activists using a racial slur and suggesting migrants should be used as “target practice”.
Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, which included an activist using a racist term to describe the Prime Minister, saying he was “appalled” by the “horrible sentiments” expressed.
The Reform Party did not respond to a request for comment.