Ex-Brexit Party MP candidate faces backlash for wrongly claiming Japan BANNED ... trends now
An ex-Brexit Party candidate today faced backlash for wrongly claiming Japan has banned Covid vaccines.
Jim Ferguson, who narrowly missed out on becoming an MP in the 2019 General Election, said injections made by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna were linked to 'soaring deaths'.
His post, linking to an article reporting on the bogus claim, was viewed millions of times.
Shamed MP Andrew Bridgen, who was kicked out of the Tory party for comparing the vaccine roll-out to the Holocaust, shared a similar post that mentioned Japan's non-existent ban.
Japan has never outlawed mRNA Covid vaccines, although the claims are widely circulating on social media among anti-vaxx groups who believe that the jabs are behind a sudden wave of deaths in the UK and beyond.
Jim Ferguson (pictured), who narrowly missed out on becoming an MP in the 2019 General Election, said injections made by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna were linked to 'soaring deaths'
In Mr Ferguson's original post on X, formerly known as Twitter, the former Barnsley East candidate said: 'Japan has just banned Covid mRNA shots for public use and called on other nations to follow suit after an official government study tied the injections to the nation’s soaring sudden deaths.' Pictured, Mr Ferguson (second right) in May 2019
Leading doctors, experts and charities have repeatedly insisted the jabs are safe.
They have been credited with saving 20million lives in their first year of deployment alone, as well as ending the series of Covid lockdowns that crippled economies and saw families separated.
However, like any medical product, jabs have a range of side effects that vary in how common and severe they can be.
mRNA Covid jabs, like those made by Pfizer and Moderna, have been linked to rare reports of myocarditis — a potentially dangerous inflammation of the heart.
The vast majority of cases were mild and resolved on their own.
Studies have also shown the risk of myocarditis, which can also be triggered by an infection like Covid, was higher from the virus than the jab.
Reacting to the claims currently sweeping social media, Professor Jonathan Ball, a
