In July, thirty protestors gathered outside Liverpool Town Hall demonstrating their opposition to the proposals to make Liverpool a ‘15 minute city’. Activists vented their fury as councillors entered the Georgian hall; labelling them “treacherous traitors” and accusing them of “betraying” the city. Yet as Councillor Liam Robinson has pointed out, the council have never supported implementing the policy nor were they convening to deliberate upon introducing the policy that day. This incident appears symptomatic of a problem which is plaguing Britain, with the intimidatory tactics deployed reminiscent of that used by 40 anti-vaxx protestors, who encircled and trapped Cardiff North MP Anna McMorrin as she was driven into Parliament, or the harassment of Matt Hancock, whose harrasser accused him of “murdering millions of people” in front of London Underground commuters. The connection between these cases is how the perpetrators are aligned in their conspiratorial convictions —convictions which appear to be seeping into the mainstream. Take the case of Andrew Bridgen, the Conservative representative for North West Leicestershire since 2010. After four years in the Commons, Bridgen found himself submerged in controversy after denouncing what he described as the “Jewish lobby” during a Parliamentary debate, much to the disgust of peers, many of whom labelled Bridgen’s remarks as antisemitic. Fast forward to January 2023 and Bridgen was suspended from the Conservative Party after comparing the vaccine programme to the Holocaust, prompting a fierce response from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who declared his desire for the “scourge of antisemitism to be eliminated” in his tweet confirming the suspension of Bridgen. Following his suspension, Bridgen has delivered speeches at anti-vaxx rallies sharing platforms with activists such as Kate Shemirani, a sacked nurse who compared David Attenborough to Joseph Goebbels and whose rhetoric correlates with that of Bridgen, from labelling hospitals “the new Auschwitz” or claiming that “the nurses of the Th ird Reich are here today”. Once upon a time, deplatforming was seen as the key means of acting as a bulwark to the spreading of misinformation, yet as research has shown from Cardiff University’s Crime and Security Research Institute, deplatforming has a “limited impact”, with an example being the surge Shemirani’s videos had in the months following her deplatforming in October 2020. Despite Bridgen’s association with such an activist, he has since joined forces with his parliamentary colleagues by becoming a member of the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, a group comprised of disgruntled MPs united under an ideological umbrella of climate scepticism, be they Jacob Rees Mogg who spoke of his desire to “stop the demonising of oil and gas” or NZSG founder Steve Baker, who has claimed climate science is “mostly contestable” and “sometimes propagandised”. Unperturbed by his suspension over the sharing of disinformation and antisemitism, Bridgen has remained a prolifi c member of the NZSG months after his removal of the whip. The case of the NZSG seems symbolic of the issue of disinformation infi ltrating the mainstream, with members openly sowing the seeds of doubt into the electorate when it comes to climate change.