By James Simons-
The embarrassing hypocrisy of Known anti-vaxxer Piers Corbyn in accepting a bogus deal of what he thought was £10k cash offer from YouTube pranksters Josh Pieters and Archie Manners, shows just how easy it is to pay high profile personalities to do anything.
If Corbyn was prepared to compromise his principles for as little as £10k, imagine what others would do for ten times that figure. The proactive activist and campaigner against vaccines will probably disappear off the radar, after showing the world that can easily be bought to do anything that suits the buyer.
The brother of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Corbyn is possibly the UK’s most high profile antivaxxer, but his knees wobbled badly when offered a fraction of what other politicians could be offered to promote any stance or position, not only on the vaccine, but on anything. Corbyn was prepared to promote the very thing he strongly protests against for just £10k shows just how corrupt money can be.
. Corbyn was prepared to not only padlock his mouth which is often running without control against the vaccination programme, but to actually state the benefits of the Astrazenica vaccine.
After Pieters and Manners offered Corbyn a ‘dodgy donation of £10,000’, by convincing him that they were rich individuals with financial interests in AstraZeneca, it doesn’t take much imagination to conclude that the reverse could also take place in getting high profile figures to actively promote the vaccine or anything else, without the promoters necessarily believing what they are promoting.
Taking two jabs of the vaccine reduces the chances of hospitalizations as death, as stated by the various pharmaceutical companies, but how accurate the extent to which it does that is not clear. The potential influence of monetary gains from the vaccine and many of the systems in place, makes it difficult to establish the integrity of some of those making the claims.
The youtube pranksters promised that Corbyn could have the cash if he left AstraZeneca well alone, focusing his attentions instead on Pfizer and Moderna.
Starting by using their ‘brilliant PR firm Geld and Yapp’, the YouTuber pranksters sent Corbyn an email professing to be from the representatives of a very rich and powerful individual with connections to a vaccine company.
Having been led to believe this wealthy person wanted to make a donation to his campaign, Corbyn appeared ‘delighted’ to meet up, and so they arranged a meeting in London’s Sloane square.
After ordering Corbyn a pizza, Pieters began setting out a deal, claiming that his father owns a ‘very successful restaurant chain in South Africa’, and that he has now taken over as director.
Detailing some of the investments he presides over, Pieters continued:
”One of our main interests, funnily enough, is we have share holds in the AstraZeneca vaccine. Can you believe that? It’s not from a personal standpoint, it’s more of a case that it’s good business.
Corbyn could be seen laughing away and didn’t appear to be in any form bothered that he was enjoying lunch with people who professed to earn a fortune from a product he has been publicly vocal against.
Pieters made it abundantly clear he wanted the anti vaxer to support his campaign, noting, ‘that’s obviously going to help us, we’ve got shared interests’. Then they revealed they had brought a ‘little something’ along, as a means of showing their intention.
Seeing is believing, and the former Labour leader’s brother described the visible sight of the cash as ‘brilliant’ and ‘astounding’. He was unaware that the real money had been swapped for an envelope stuffed with Monopoly money.
”Well, as long as I can accept it with no insistence on policy changes or anything that I’m doing”.
Corbyn eventually embarrassed himself and his brother- Jeremy Corbyn- when he began writing down benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine, contradicting his public position, just to receive the money.
The sudden turn around makes one wonder how many other public figures have taken real cash to change their position. Corbyn further embarrassed himself by when he was heard saying ”if anyone asks me where the money came from, I will say it was from a businessman who runs restaurants’.
When asked by a reporter if he was naive, Piers responded: ”in public, of course people often give cash, but not large amounts… This was a large amount, but they said they had lots of money and they wanted to help and wanted to be anonymous.
“So I took it perhaps naively thinking it would all be safe,” he said.