In the latest controversial comments from Nigel Farage, the Reform Britain candidate has said that “girls should be aware that promiscuity is not attractive” and that women cannot “behave in the same way” as men.
In an interview with andJames Gunn, who stands in Oxford West and Abingdon, also repeated disputed claims about Covid-19, including suggesting, without evidence, that vaccines could “put something really nasty into the body”.
Asked about Mr Farage’s comments in which the Reform leader praised misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “skinny” and for giving boys “maybe a bit of confidence at school”, Mr Gunn Tate said: he is not my role model’ and ‘didn’t know much about him’.
But when asked about comments made by Tate, including that women who are not virgins are “used goods”, Mr Gunn said: “I think girls should be aware that promiscuity is not attractive to young men, not even for old men. Feminism has taught them that men and women can behave the same and I’m sorry, but it’s not true.’
As of December 2022, Tate faces charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women in Romania. He denies all the accusations.
Mr Farage has previously praised the British-American kickboxer, who poses with fast cars, guns and cigars, for defending “masculine culture”, although he also acknowledged the influencer had “overdone it” and said some “pretty awful”. things.
Reform chairman Richard Tice said in response to Mr Gunn’s comments and: “That’s just childish nonsense. Nobody cares about that.
“On the thousands of doors I knock on, no one talks about how much sex women have compared to men. He talks about immigration, the cost of living crisis and the need for something new in politics.”
Debating the Covid pandemic, Gunn backed former Tory MP Andrew Bridgen, who was expelled from his party after he compared Covid-19 vaccines to the Holocaust.
In December 2022, Mr Bridgen called for a “total moratorium” on Covid attacks based on what he described as “detailed data of significant damage and little ongoing benefit”. This contradicted the overwhelming weight of evidence from a number of different independent teams of researchers who found that the benefits far outweighed any known harms.
For example, two new but exceptionally rare side effects of the Covid-19 vaccine – a neurological disorder and inflammation of the spinal cord – have been revealed by researchers in the largest vaccine safety study to date. A study of more than 99 million people from Australia, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, New Zealand and Scotland confirmed how rare the known complications of vaccination are, with researchers confirming that the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines still “significantly outweigh risks. “.
Mr Gunn said he supported the former Tory MP’s efforts to open the debate on the Covid vaccine and said he was deeply concerned by the government’s “absolute determination to ignore excess deaths and ostracize Andrew Bridgen and discredit him as much as they can”.
He added: “I think he [Mr Bridgen] he can be extremely proud of his work as an MP and I am sad that the other MPs did not support him.”
Discussing how he thought the NHS had “overreacted” on the lockdown, Mr Gunn said: “We have a lot of people who are having some unexplained increase in cancer and heart problems, which the government is refusing to investigate.
“I’m in it with Andrew Bridgen, it’s time to look at 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.
“It worries me greatly. I am very concerned that the government is not responsible for this.”
Mr Gunn said he believed healthy people should not be kept in quarantine during the lockdown, adding: “It’s a lot easier to get something really nasty into the body through the immune system through the subcutaneous tissue than it is for some random virus, if that really was the case . random virus.”
The reform candidate further suggested that the US was involved in the creation of the Covid virus. He claimed Dr Anthony Fauci – who was the US president’s chief medical adviser during the pandemic – admitted the virus was created as a result of “gain of function” research he approved and subcontracted to a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan.
Gain-of-function research is the process by which an organism, cell, or microbe is genetically altered to gain a new function.
Dr. Fauci rejected the theory that the Covid virus escaped as a result of US-funded work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He told Congress in June, “I’ve always said, and I’ll say now, that I’m open-minded about the origins of [of Covid-19] Yippee.
“One 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 that this was the profit of a leak from a working laboratory in Wuhan.”
Mr Tice backed Mr Gunn’s claims about Covid vaccines, saying: “He’s talking about serious stuff here. About closures, excessive mortality, about damage caused by vaccination.
“We believe there should be a full public inquiry into vaccines, but everything is being covered up. Cancer diagnoses have increased significantly since the pandemic.”
But experts pointed out that many cancers went undiagnosed during the pandemic due to interruptions in health care and testing during the period — leading to a spike in late diagnoses once the pandemic ended.
Mr Tice claimed: “Most people now accept that it was a lab leak from Wuhan and that it was essentially a man-made virus. It was conspiracy sewing that it was from wet markets.’
Asked if he also supported Mr Gunn’s claim that the research at the Wuhan lab was funded by the US, Mr Tice said: “The US does not deny that statement. This is in the public domain. The U.S. funded the profit of functional research in Wuhan, basically to try to keep it at arm’s 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 be used as “target practice”.
Mr Farage 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 “appalling sentiments” expressed.
The Reform Party did not respond to a request for comment.