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June 9, 2022 - The Delingpod - James Delingpole

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	I know I always say I'm excited about this week's special guest, but I really am.
	to that jelly pod with me james jelly pod i know i always say i'm excited about this week's special guests but i really am alex mitchell i've been following him for a while on on social media and uh you've got a terrible story to tell alex but i think you've been heroic in in speaking out on behalf of yourself and all the other vaccine injured people out there and I mean, that's the story, isn't it?
	You had your leg chopped off as a result of vaccines.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, I took a really bad reaction.
	To the AstraZeneca vaccine, the result of which almost cost me my life.
	And you're right, it cost me my left leg.
	A portion of my right eye.
	We're not sure where it's going for next.
	We're taking bets at the moment as to where it's going for next.
	That's the way it is.
	Well, I mean, I imagine there were certain bits you don't want it to hit, because that would be a bit particularly tragic, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	I think I'm doing enough of the pirate impersonation, you know.
	I think I'm taking it too far.
	You know, the peg leg, the one eye, you know.
	I've not got a pirate, but I do have a cat that sits on my shoulder from time to time.
	I'm sorry that the cat's not there now.
	It adds to the entertainment.
	Let's go back.
	So you are Scottish, I can tell.
	There's a subtle hint in your accent.
	And you live in Glasgow.
	Yes, I'm a 57-year-old man from Glasgow, the East End of Glasgow.
	I was born in the East End of Glasgow and I still stay a couple of miles from where I was born.
	I was born in 1964, so that makes me 57.
	I was a Scottish scaffolder.
	I scaffold for seven years, and I actually love the job, even though it was the most physically demanding job you could ever imagine.
	But I think that in some ways is part of the reason why you and I are actually able to have this conversation, is that I think that my body was supremely fit, and to a certain extent, that saved me.
	That's interesting.
	So, I mean, I know nothing about scaffolding.
	Tell me what's enjoyable about it.
	Well, it's a physical, very, very physical job.
	On average, we'll lift about five tonnes of steel a day each.
	We'll do about 30,000 steps a day.
	These guys, most of them I've worked with, they are machines, literally physical machines, and there is an art to scaffolding.
	What these guys are, I think I've realised every scaffolder I've ever worked with is slightly insane.
	I've had to accept that, because they are.
	And I've had to accept I must be slightly insane too, because I actually love the job.
	There was a certain pride of knowing you did something that very few people are capable of doing, physically and mentally.
	You know, the old adage of the scaffolders being most people in construction sites not being the cleverest people in the world.
	It's the total opposite, because some of the mathematics it takes to figure out the schematics of a scaffolding and upper building, it's not there.
	These guys have got imagination, they're very clever, but they're hard, hard working.
	They do have a very dark sense of humour.
	Very, very dark sense of humour.
	I think that helped me to a certain extent because it gave me that tough skin, which I've certainly had to add over the last year or so.
	In more ways than one, shall we say, Yeah, I don't want to jump ahead because, you know, I'm enjoying your story.
	So you were having a great life as a scaffolder.
	I mean, do you... Is the time to have sort of chat and banter and stuff?
	Or are you all kind of spread out?
	No, there is opportunities.
	You become a well-oiled machine.
	It depends on the size of your squad.
	I ended up, started in a three-man squad and ended up in a two-man squad.
	Me and another fellow who's one of my best friends and he still comes up here every week, at least twice a week to come visit me.
	And we'll sit and chew the chocolate-topped crap and watch crap on telly and discuss what's going on in the world.
	Some of the best conversations I've ever had have been on building sites with scaffolders and brickies and joiners.
	You know, I connect to the old Harry Enfield sketch, where you see the scaffolders, you know, the young lady walks by and they're whistling, oi oi, and then they turn around and they start having this wonderful intellectual conversation.
	That's not far off the mark in some cases.
	Right.
	You know, I've discussed politics, religion, philosophy, you know, spiritualism, some of the the conversations I've had, some have been hilarious because you do meet some really big characters on Balcon sites.
	Most of them tend to be scaffolders.
	I think that's an insanity, but I love the banter of it, as I say.
	That's really interesting because I was going to ask you, in my experience, That's really interesting because I was going to ask you, in my experience, when it all started going insane in 2020 and they locked us all down at our homes and almost the only people who were allowed to travel around when it all started going insane in 2020 and they locked us all down at our homes and almost the only people who were allowed to travel around the
	So the guy who did my satellite dish was, you know, because it keeps breaking down because my internet is so crap.
	He knew what was going on.
	These kind of people, plumbers knew what was going on.
	People who do, you know, men, your window frames or whatever.
	Practical people knew that what was happening was not as being sold to us by the government.
	And I imagine it must have been the same with scaffolding.
	Did the scaffolding carry on in 2020 when the country was locked down?
	We were locked down for three months, the first lockdown.
	And then they come up with a scheme It was socially distanced, supposedly.
	But it was one of those scenes that, on paper, it looked as if it worked, but in reality it was the most messed up system we ever saw.
	You know, building construction is all built on time, and you don't have the time to leave something sitting for 48 hours to ensure that there's no infection on it, you know, before you hand it over.
	And someone else goes and inspects it, then it has to wait another 48 hours.
	And it was getting ridiculous, you know.
	Normally, it would take a week to do a scaffolding.
	It was taking three weeks.
	You know, it was just beyond ridiculous.
	And eventually, I think that some of the craziness relaxed and we went back to work when everyone was locked down.
	You know, when the first lockdown was over, we never stopped after that.
	But pretty much because, I think, A, we worked outside, B, we very rarely worked within two feet of each other.
	You know, because everything, you're working at a distance, you're working to a method, and you usually just chat as you pass each other.
	And that's usually when you have the fun parts, because there's always someone on a building site that does something that nobody else wants to do, or doesn't want to be caught doing.
	You know, the falls, The wind-ups, the pranks, and sometimes the cock-ups.
	I've seen a couple of belters.
	One house had eight windows and only had seven on the inside.
	They'd forgot to actually cut out the plasterboard to put the window in the bathroom.
	This was two weeks before the house was finished.
	I'll never forget it.
	There's an extra window in that house.
	No, there's not.
	Yeah, there is.
	Someone had forgot to mark it and it was just covered over.
	Yeah, some of those are funny.
	You get the good laughs and that was always the thing I found.
	You come home after a day of hard days physical work but you had a good laugh with your mates and you knew you were doing a job that not many people can do physically and practically because scaffolding is quite technical.
	I'm not saying I was a great scaffolder.
	I certainly wasn't the best.
	I wasn't the worst.
	And is it well paid?
	No, not really.
	People think it can be.
	It can be.
	If you go into the blue-collar jobs, your BPs, your shelves, your refineries, your offshores, yeah, there's money there.
	But for me, being away from my family, that didn't work for me.
	I was quite happy to work reasonably local.
	And it wasn't always about the money.
	If it was about money, I wouldn't have been doing scaffolding.
	I'd have probably used my brains to do something else, if that makes sense.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You say you've been a scaffolder for seven years, so what were you doing before then?
	I was a manager for various businesses.
	I was actually a qualified pawnbroker at one time.
	I had a varied career in management, and at the age of 50, I think I'd either burnt out or I'd had enough.
	And decided that I wanted to do something different.
	And my brother got me into doing scaffolding, because he is a scaffolder, so it's his fault.
	And I think at the age of 50, people were taking bets on how long I would last.
	Of course.
	You know, my brother owns a pub, and apparently there was a book running on would he last more than, you know, people were saying of days, you know, someone said off two days, two weeks.
	Three weeks, four weeks.
	You know, I'm not sure who won the book because seven years later I was still doing it.
	I think that's more my determined character.
	My mother called me the most throne.
	Glake it, stubborn.
	Be a password that she'd ever clapped her eyes on.
	And I think she's quite right.
	What was the word before stubborn?
	Glake it, did you say?
	Glake it.
	That's an old Scottish word.
	I like it.
	How can I put it?
	He's Gleek at that point.
	There's something wrong with him.
	You know, your mum would point to someone when you were younger and say there's something not right.
	Well, that's kind of what Gleek had meant, you know.
	Gleek because he's not quite here.
	I think my mother was right because she called me the most stubborn Gleek at the time.
	She had my clapped eyes on.
	She was a very clever lady, my mother.
	You could do a story on her on her own.
	She was an absolute legend.
	She ran and worked in pubs for 60 years.
	Over 60 years as a barmaid and running pubs.
	And the stories that she could tell.
	Oh, and she was very clever, very sarcastic.
	I never won an argument.
	None of us ever did.
	You couldn't beat this woman with words.
	You know, she would tear strips of leather off you and you just walked away in shame.
	Didn't matter.
	Even at the end, she still had us running about.
	Well, maybe she's another reason why you're still alive.
	I have to say, Alex, that for somebody who's had his leg chopped off and almost died, you're looking really good.
	I mean... Believe it or not, that's me.
	I'm still two stone down.
	I was about 12 and a half stone, less than 5% body fat, as most scaffolders are.
	And luckily I've managed to, because I'm quite active, I've kept most of that physicalness, shall we say.
	I've never carried any weight in the sense of excess fat.
	Yeah.
	So I've always been very lean.
	Which is probably part of the reason why we are still here.
	So I can wait no longer.
	I want to know, first of all, why did you get the jab?
	I mean, did you have any reservations at all before you went and had your first shot?
	Well, if we go back to November, December 2019 to January 2020, it was 24-7 on the TV.
	We'd already been through a lockdown.
	People were delayed downstairs.
	My mum had passed on through.
	She'd fallen in the bathroom downstairs and went into a hospital with a broken leg and passed with COVID.
	You know, so there was this real fear that this thing was killing people and that 24-7, do the right thing, save the NHS, protect lives, don't hug your granny.
	You know, so you were trying to do what you thought was the right thing to ensure that nobody else, particularly old people, could be harmed with this thing.
	And there was nothing at that point that ever said there was nothing official coming out saying there was any problems.
	In fact, it was the opposite.
	The BBC and the government that very week in March had come out and said that it was 100% safe.
	Right.
	So you believe, I mean, this is all completely understandable.
	You got your news from the BBC.
	You thought, well, they're not going to lie.
	You got this stuff from the government.
	I mean, I would imagine this in Scotland, particularly in places like Glasgow, there must be a suspicion of government in the way that maybe even more so than English people.
	Yeah, I think we've always been very suspicious of the officialdom.
	Even the Scottish Government was pushing the exact same 24-7, you know, get your jags, get your vaccinations, save lives, protect the NHS.
	Nicola Sturgeon did something that Boris Johnson didn't do, she gave a daily brief every single day.
	So you were getting catch-ups of that every single day.
	Yeah, of course we all watched it because people were dying left, right and centre.
	Couldn't go to funerals.
	Weddings were getting cancelled.
	The whole country was shut down.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I mean, the fact that people were dying of something, and that people were being banned from going to funerals, and the whole country was shut down.
	What you're describing are symptoms of something, but it's not necessarily... the something was not necessarily a deadly pandemic.
	It could easily have been a government... well, as it indeed probably was, a government psyop.
	But you didn't know that.
	You were swept up in the... you were convinced.
	Yeah, I thought you were doing the right thing.
	So you went along, you got your vaccination.
	Plus we also knew that nobody was going to get to go anywhere on holiday, if there was any holiday possibility, without being vaccinated.
	So there was all sorts of other pressures.
	So you went along, got the vaccine.
	On the 20th of March, went to the local centre, detailed my letter, was told verbally, you may have a sore sight, Adam, for a couple of hours, and you may have flu-like symptoms for 48 hours.
	That was verbally.
	I wasn't given anything right.
	You know, so away you go.
	Go home.
	And I did feel like I had the cold for 48 hours.
	Went to work on Monday.
	By Monday afternoon, felt back to normal.
	For want of a better word.
	Roll on to the 1st of April.
	And again, the irony is not lost on me.
	I lifted something heavy, just about the close of play.
	It usually takes two people to lift, but being a stupid Scottish scaffolder, I lifted it myself and stepped back and says to my workmate, I think I've pulled both calf muscles.
	It was intense cramps in both calf muscles.
	So we went home, had a bath.
	Friday's a half day, early day for us.
	So you're not going to take a day off.
	Went in, by half ten I couldn't walk 10, 15 feet without being in some sort of a cramp.
	It was my daughter's birthday on a Saturday, the 3rd of April, and I phoned and said, I'm going to spend some time, see if I can feel any better.
	If I'm not feeling any better tomorrow, I'm going to the hospital.
	That was fine.
	The next morning, the 4th of April, I got up.
	I felt as if I'd run a marathon, a bit exhausted, but better than what I was.
	I ironed some clothes, unplugged the iron, turned round and collapsed.
	And I knew that my legs gave way.
	And I knew the minute I hit the ground, I was in trouble.
	I don't know why, but something inside me told me I was in trouble.
	Unfortunately, I was upstairs.
	My wife was downstairs in the kitchen.
	With the door closed, she couldn't hear me.
	I had to pull myself down the stairs, head first backwards, which made a bit of a noise, shall we say.
	Landed at the mid-landing, shall we say.
	I had my wife come running out and something told me to stay calm and I said, I need you to do two things.
	Phone an ambulance and get me a belt and don't panic.
	And she did it.
	I don't know why the belt thing, I think, It's that thing that we all think where John Wayne or Audie Murphy in the war movies or the westerns, you know, put a tourniquet around it and everything will be okay.
	I don't know.
	But I did, and it clearly didn't work because it did nothing to save my leg, but it made me feel better.
	I vaguely remember drifting in under the conscious of various bits, coming blue-lighted to hospital, and coming to, and there's a lady in front of me, all in scrubs, all I can see is her eyes.
	She said, we need to go for a CT scan, I need your permission.
	And I think I've signed or gave her verbal permission.
	And the next thing I remember is the scan is still spinning, and this lady's standing beside me saying, we need to go to theatre, and we need to go now.
	And I said, I take it, I'm in trouble.
	And she said, yes.
	I said, what kind I'd have.
	How bad of trouble?
	She said, the worst kind.
	And I said, right, OK, do what you can.
	But that's all I can ask you.
	It's not what you want to hear, is it?
	It's not.
	How bad?
	The worst kind?
	Yeah.
	Nobody pulls their punches, don't they?
	Well, certainly not at that point.
	It was as straight as, yeah.
	Unknown to me, as they were prepping me for They took my wife and my two daughters from my first marriage into a private room and explained to them that they had no hope.
	They had never seen anything like this ever.
	If I did survive, which was highly unlikely, it would be from the waist up.
	They didn't know what was causing this at that point and they just... I was in a bad, bad way.
	I vaguely remember I wasn't allowed to see my family and I remember I was given five minutes on the phone to say cheerio basically to my daughters, my wife.
	Was this the stage when they weren't really allowing people to see their sick relatives?
	Yeah, so I was rushed to theatre and spent seven and a half hours in theatre having clots removed from my lower abdomen, my right leg and my left leg.
	And when I come round after seven and a half hours, it's the same lady in front of me.
	And she says, it's so happy to see you.
	You shouldn't be here.
	We don't know why you're here, but here you are.
	And here we hope you stay.
	You've put up one hell of a fight.
	Unfortunately, we don't think we can save your left leg.
	At that point, Obviously you're kind of still groggy, you're kind of coming round, you're not sure what's going on.
	And I've said, sorry, what did you, what's, what is the problem?
	And she said, clots.
	I said, yeah, and I'm thinking still on my left leg, you know, and I've said, yeah, but I don't understand clots.
	She said, yeah, multiple clots.
	And I said, well, how many is multiple?
	And she said, we stopped counting.
	I said, I'm really struggling to understand this.
	What do you mean you stopped counting?
	She said, I spent seven and a half hours removing clots.
	They were forming as we were removing them.
	We don't know how you're here.
	And it turns out that she said to me, you know, you're clearly a very healthy, fit, healthy man.
	Because I've got no underlying health conditions, ever.
	Anything on my medical records is physical injuries as opposed to actual illnesses, shall we say.
	And she's explained that, you know, she's done everything she could, but she didn't think that my left leg was savable.
	And at that point, I, you know, was it to be an above the knee or below the knee?
	And she asked, you know, why was that important?
	And I said, well, if it's a below the knee, it means the options I have in life are massively greater than an above the knee, because it changes the whole dynamics, shall we say.
	Does it?
	She said, well, I'll go and get the vascular surgeon who will be performing the operation.
	And they brought in this gentleman, I call him my Doc Holliday from Back to the Future.
	He looks like the mad doctor, the mad professor.
	And he is.
	But in the loveliest possible way.
	Such a caring, caring gentleman.
	A lovely, lovely man.
	And he came in and he said to me, you know, you're looking for why?
	What's the reason?
	Is there a main reason?
	I said, well, yes, I need to know if the prosthetic leg will hold the weight of a scooter.
	And at that point, he looked so confused because he's of French and Swiss descent.
	So to explain to him, I'm an old time mod.
	I've been a mod since I was 17.
	I'm all Vespas.
	So, you know, that was my concern.
	Am I never going to ride my baby again?
	Never mind the fact I'm never going to work again, I'm going to lose my leg, you know, everything else.
	Nothing else, just will this hold the weight of a scooter?
	That was my first priority.
	My wife much reminds me of that one so many times, it's unbelievable.
	And he couldn't get his head around it, so I had to get my phone out and explain the whole mod culture.
	And the Vespas and Lumbrettas, and he said, right, okay, I'm with you now.
	I don't know.
	Alas, they're prosthetic people.
	And I said, so what's the chances of it being an above the knee and a below the knee?
	And he wasn't making anything up when he said it's highly unlikely to be anything other than that.
	And I said, there's absolutely no hope.
	And he said, well, there's always hope.
	And I said, I'll take it.
	How long will you give me?
	And he said, a week.
	And he gave me a week and he shut the door and he explained to me everything I was going to see in that week, everything I was going to experience, what I was going to go through.
	And he didn't paint any pictures.
	He didn't, he didn't hide anything out.
	And unfortunately, I was in isolation for a full week, pretty much.
	And that gives you an awful lot of time to think about everything you can possibly think about.
	And given the fact that you've been told that you shouldn't be here, you know, it puts a lot in your head.
	You have to get your head around.
	And you think you get the time to process these things, but you don't because things go too fast.
	If that makes any sense.
	You think a week's a long time, but you forget that that week is going to be spent in pain and it's going to increase.
	And it's, you know, your week's going to go from where you are, which is a very horrible, dark place, to somewhere that you never even imagined existed in many ways.
	And I do mean that in a level of pain experience.
	I've never experienced pain like it.
	And sadly, a week later, He took me in.
	I realise now that I didn't get the week because I asked for it.
	I got the week because my body wouldn't have taken another four and a half, five hour operation.
	So, week later, I was meant to be amputated on the Friday.
	Turns out there was some kind of small infection, so it got put off.
	And the Saturday, by this point, I had went through a really ridiculous amount of morphine.
	Over the course of seven days, I think in the course of eight days all in, I went through a litre and a half of morphine in hospital to try and combat the pain.
	By the Saturday, it wasn't working anymore.
	And they decided to do a nerve inhibitor.
	The anesthetist came in and explained that this procedure that he'd done a couple of times And it worked great, but his students hadn't seen it with that in mind.
	And being the type, you know, you want to help, so you say, yeah.
	And then they tell you what's involved.
	He says, I'm going to deaden the nerve, but I'm going to go in through your butter.
	I went, right.
	He said, it's all going to be on ultrasound, so you'll see it on the TV.
	And I said, TV?
	He said, yeah, you've You said it would be okay if my students watched.
	And I went, yeah.
	And just at that, the door opened.
	And I was in a private room.
	They shut the curtains, pushed my bed against the door, brought all this machinery, and there must have been about 15 people piled into this room behind me.
	And the way to get to this is through your buttocks.
	So I had to, it was me with my ass in the air.
	With MTV watching this, 15 people behind me watching this, needle going through my arse.
	I didn't feel a thing, I think, at that point.
	The pain levels I was at, a needle going into my arse, I didn't feel anything.
	And it was strange, he pointed to a little cluster, and he said, that's what I'm aiming for with the needle.
	You can see the needle going in.
	And he touched it, and it was like the old electric pulse lighters, when you get the shock off them.
	Yeah.
	That's what it was like, going through my whole body.
	And he pulled back, He said, right, how does it feel now?
	And I went from, at that level, my pain was about an 18.
	We weren't counting 1 to 10, we were now counting 10 to 20.
	That's how bad the pain levels were.
	And I dropped from 18 to 5 instantly.
	92 within two minutes and then nothing.
	I never felt a thing.
	And that lasted for about, I want to say six hours, seven hours.
	And then that's when At that point they needed to take in a blood sample, and thankfully they had.
	When they checked it, there was an anomaly in my blood, and they had to scrap the eight pints of blood.
	I didn't know they could do this, manufacture eight pints of blood, so that they could put me through the amputation.
	Where does the blood come from?
	Is it manufactured?
	No, it was manufactured.
	Artificial blood?
	Yeah.
	Apparently they made up this blood with an anomaly in it for whatever it was in my system at that point.
	If they had to use that blood, I wouldn't have survived the operation.
	What are you thinking at this point?
	Are you thinking, I don't care, I want to live, I want to live, I want to live, whatever, you know?
	Yeah, there's an element of I made a promise to somebody and I don't make promises I can't keep.
	And I promised my wife that was coming back.
	Oh.
	Oh, how touching and lovely.
	That's really nice.
	So, that was the truth.
	You know, I've always told the truth.
	Yeah, of course, of course.
	So, they put the blood in you and then you had, and did they have to do below, above the knee?
	He said to me that if I was below the knee, I would be in there for an hour and a half.
	If I was above the knee, two and a half hours because there's more veins below the knee.
	And when I come round from surgery, just before I went into surgery, I'd say to them, I've said goodbye once to my family on a phone call.
	I'm not doing it.
	On a phone call, I'm not going into that operating theatre to say goodbye to my wife and two daughters.
	Now this was the height of Covid against every regulation, so I'm not going to name the hospital and the staff, but there was a cloak and dagger exercise where my wife and daughter appeared at the door, where I could say goodbye to them.
	That's good.
	And actually I made the promise that I would be coming home.
	And so I went in, and when I came out of the operating, I'm actually I've come round very quickly, and the first thing I've done is looked under the covers.
	And I'm not going to lie, that was the lowest point.
	That was my bottomless pit at the moment, shall we say.
	I was absolutely decimated.
	That was the worst news I could think of.
	And I'm absolutely devastated.
	I'm crushed.
	And I'm sitting in something, I'm looking at the clock, and I'm going, There's five and a half hours going.
	So something's not right.
	And about 10 minutes after that, the vascular surgeon that did the amputation came in and he was absolutely devastated.
	He said, I'm so, so sorry.
	And I said, well, don't, please hold on a second.
	There's two hours out.
	Something's went wrong.
	What happened?
	And he explained that even down to the smallest atrial vein, it was collapsing.
	And where they ended up with the amputation was a risk in itself, because at that point, there was that much dead veins and vessels, and it had to be on above the knee.
	You know, I was so hoping that the anecdote ended with them saving your leg below the knee, but it wasn't to be.
	But, anyway, carry on.
	No, it wasn't to be.
	As I say, he was absolutely really devastated because I think he realised just how much it meant to me.
	Not just in the sense of, you know, being a scaffolder, but being a mod.
	Because I love my northern soul and I love to dance northern soul.
	I love my skirts, I love my suits.
	You know, so he knew What this meant to me in many ways, and I thought about and I thought, I said, well, you know, hold on.
	You've done everything you can to save my leg.
	I know I've done everything I can to save my leg.
	Clearly it can't be saved.
	Yeah.
	So stop beating myself up.
	And that's very much always been my attitude in life.
	My mother, she brought us up in a way with a philosophy that was, it is what it is.
	You either deal with it or you don't.
	You can't change it.
	Yeah.
	And that's been very much how I've always looked at my life.
	You know, if that is what it is in front of you, so you can't change it.
	You can't go back.
	So you either deal with it or you don't.
	If you deal with it, you'll move on.
	If you don't, in 10 years time, you're still going to be sitting there trying to deal with something you didn't deal with in the first place.
	Yeah.
	And that doesn't work for me.
	So I've always been a very positive person.
	I think that's part of the mod philosophy that I believe in.
	I believe it's a way of life.
	That being a mod is being the best possible version of you that you can be at all times.
	Now, I feel like that every day, miserably.
	But I do try every day to try and change something about me that makes me a slightly better person.
	Not for anybody else, but for me.
	I'm quite happy being me.
	And I suppose that's a part of it.
	I was happy being Alec the Mod.
	That's what I was known locally as.
	You know, everybody knows me as a mod.
	You know, they knew me.
	You know, I was in a band at one point for two and a bit years and the mod scene, they're still going.
	It just got too much for me.
	What started off as a bit of fun and maybe having the odd gig once a month became Friday, Saturday, Sunday, rehearsing on Monday.
	This was every week.
	It was great at the time and I loved it and I don't look back with anything other than nostalgic wonderful memories and the fact that I was able to do that because every guy I suppose wants to you know to be said they've been in a band you know and it was great fun.
	It was great fun.
	We managed to headline a scooter rally, which was, for me, as a mod, that's playing the Albert Hall.
	It doesn't get much better than that as a local mod.
	Second, I thought, you know, no, you're trying to change me and I'm not prepared to do that.
	I sold my scooter two days after it was amputated.
	And I realised two days later that I'd done the wrong thing.
	That scooter I had for nine and a half years, that's the scooter I would have bought when I was 16, 17 if I could afford.
	I spent seven years looking for one.
	And I had it for nine years and I did a full bare metal restoration from the ground up on that scooter and I sold it.
	And I knew two days later I'd done the wrong thing.
	Oh dear.
	But I couldn't go back.
	I couldn't go back and do it to say to someone I've changed my mind.
	But it's okay.
	I'm comforted in the knowledge that I knew at that point I've got a good friend who had two very rare scooters that had been stripped to bare metal 20 years ago and put in boxes.
	That was his pension fund.
	So I phoned him from the hospital and, I'll be honest, I blackmailed him and he'd sell me one of the scooters.
	I then blackmailed him and he'd sell me it for the price that he paid for it a long time ago.
	And I have to apologise publicly to him.
	I even got him to build the scooter and it's a week away from being finished.
	And it's a 1970 Vespa Gran Turismo Rapido.
	And she's absolutely beautiful.
	It's been a year in the making.
	We'll have a rider again.
	I know I will.
	Let's put it that way.
	I know I will.
	That's really good.
	I mean, I don't know what the practicalities are of riding a scooter when you've only got one leg, when one leg's amputated above the knee.
	It's essentially easier than you think, luckily, because it's my left leg.
	On a geared scooter, a vintage scooter, your left leg is only there for one thing, and that's balance, when you're sitting at the lights.
	Yeah.
	Because everything else, your hand controls your gears, and your clutch on your left hand, your front brake and your accelerator on your right hand, and your back brake is at your right foot, on the floor, on a scooter.
	So I don't need my left leg to technically go a scooter.
	Had it been my right leg, it would have been serious trouble.
	So there's always small bonuses you have to look at.
	Every cloud.
	Well done on that one.
	And just generally, tell me, I mean, I imagine when you were growing up, most of us able-bodied people, we never imagined we're going to get crippled in any way.
	We always feel sort of sorry, and we think there for the grace of God, go up, but for the grace of God, go on.
	What's it like now having one leg?
	I mean, how bad is it?
	How much of an inconvenience?
	There is nothing in your world that stays the same, James.
	And I mean nothing.
	There is nothing that you do that is anything remotely similar to anything you've ever done before.
	Your body's not geared up for that.
	So everything's a challenge at the beginning.
	And it's still a challenge because it's funny, where I used to see Streets and roads, when I was walking, I now see pavements and potholes and rough terrain or slopes, because sometimes I'm on a wheelchair now, because I'm not always fat enough to wear my prosthetic leg.
	I've had some issues.
	The last nine months have been pretty horrific with regards to sort of a setback.
	But we're through it, or we're nearly through it.
	And it's behind us.
	I think what made it harder for me was within three months, I was walking without sticks on the prosthetic leg.
	I was doing fantastic.
	I was doing, I was, I was going brilliant.
	And then I put some of the weight on that I lost.
	And that's where in lies the start of the problem.
	Because like, custom fitted shoes, your prosthetic socket that goes around your amputation stump, these things are, Made to measure.
	And obviously, if you put too stone on, they don't fit anymore.
	So try to put your favourite suit on.
	So it meant I had to be recast.
	And it's not a case of you go in one day in the recast and you come out the next day with it.
	It takes about two months from start to finish.
	And we knew as soon as we got it, about 10 weeks later, There was a problem since I put it on.
	The pain was horrific.
	We couldn't figure it out.
	And we thought there was something wrong with the cast.
	And we did it again.
	And that meant another two, over two months.
	I've now sat for nearly six months doing nothing for want of a better word.
	And it turns out it wasn't the cast.
	It was actually muscle dystrophy.
	It was issues in the stump.
	So the concern there was that there was a bone infection and you would have to operate.
	But it turned out, thankfully, it wasn't.
	There was nothing there other than some air.
	I know that sounds silly.
	There's pockets of air around where some joints were.
	It was causing some issues.
	But now, coming out of that, I've got intense physio starting on Monday, where they're going to work on... If you sit for too long, So for eight months, if you sit in that chair and you don't do anything other than lie down and sit in that chair, you get a thing called seat tendon.
	And it's the tendons in your groin that actually shorten and tighten up because you're not used to stretch.
	So yeah, you can imagine.
	So that's pretty intense physio.
	But we're getting there.
	The only big concern that we have now really with myself is that the condition that I have, which is VIT, V-I-T-T, that's vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombothenia.
	That's the condition that's been classified as could only be caused by the vaccine.
	That's from hematology experts who actually defined and verified the actual condition.
	What VIT does is it drops your platelets It raises your D-dimer and it changes an antibody in your blood called negative PF4.
	It turns that positive.
	Now, PF4 antibody is what keeps your blood the consistency it is.
	So you don't, it's not too thick and it's not too thin.
	That's roughly about 96 to 97% of the consistency of your 100% blood count.
	In vets, that becomes positive.
	Which means your blood just instantly wants to clot.
	So if you take half a pint of blood out and you sit it on a counter for half an hour, when you go back, it'll go like dead cement.
	It just goes gloop.
	And unfortunately, in my case at the moment, I am still 100% PF negative, PF4 positive.
	And it's not changed in the last seven months.
	And it's unlikely to change.
	I've been lucky in getting some of the vits are now clear by using steroids.
	But in my case, that's unlikely to, unless the technology changes in the foreseeable future, that's the condition I'm left with.
	So are you on... We don't know what else he's going to do.
	Are you on blood thinners then?
	Thinners?
	Yes.
	What, warfarin?
	I'll be on two types of thinners.
	I'm on aspirin, believe it or not, which is a very common blood thinner.
	It's probably the safest one that we have.
	Although there is issues with any drug, but it's as safe as we can get.
	And a drug called rivaroxaban.
	I've done that.
	It's better than warfarin.
	You don't have to go for an adjustment test every few days, isn't it?
	You can take it.
	You can nick it and it's fine.
	Right.
	Well, originally they had me on a stuff called Fondinapru which is a self-injecting thinners.
	So every morning I had to inject myself either left or right side of my belly button and oh I hated it.
	I could take a lot of things but For such a small needle, it was such a stingy, bloody thing.
	Because in your stomach muscles?
	Yeah, just at your lower abdomen.
	You've got to do that every day.
	Thankfully they've changed that and I'm now on just taking oral forms or tablets.
	If I don't take my thinners, I have about three weeks maximum.
	Oh, Alex, I'm just, I feel for you so much.
	There's so many questions I want to ask you.
	I mean, you're basically at the mercy of the health service, aren't you?
	I mean, if the health service breaks down, you're stuffed.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, at the moment, pretty much, yeah, unless they come up with something.
	I'm surprised, actually, that they've even admitted a degree of, well, I'm not going to say liability, but they've actually made explicitly the connection between your jab and what happened afterwards.
	Because, I mean, you must have noticed this.
	The medical industry, the establishment, is in complete denial about vaccine injuries.
	I'm very, very lucky.
	I don't know Whether it's a combination of because the Scottish National Health Service is a separate entity to a certain extent from the English National Health Service, although it's all run from the UK Health Regulations Authority, it's a nightmare.
	So yes, the Scottish Government were responsible The NHS, they don't have a vested interest in the government, shall we say, because they want to be independent.
	And they decided, no, this is the truth.
	And we're going to stick to it.
	I think the other part of it was in January 2020, there was a haematology task force set up I've been working with eight teams around the world, and it's eight teams of six, and Hairmire's University Hospital in East Kilbride was one of them.
	So that's the world's leading haematologists.
	They're the people that come up with the workaround to save me.
	Because apparently, and this is very good, it's really nefarious, in late January, early February, by early February I mean 4th of February, The Norwegian Health Regulations Authority alerted all the other health regulations around the world that they had 16 cases of individuals presenting with these similar symptoms, which we now know as VIT.
	And unfortunately, they were all fatal.
	They sent that round then, and the only connection they could make was that they all had had the AstraZeneca vaccine.
	And it was alerted that it was an issue then, That was the 1st or 4th of February.
	The UK government didn't tell anyone until the 11th of April.
	And on the 25th of March, AstraZeneca changed its name to Vaxzevia or Covishield.
	They didn't change the ingredients.
	They didn't change the product.
	They changed the name.
	Why?
	Because then it suddenly became aware that AstraZeneca wasn't getting used anymore.
	So who was this health warning issued to?
	Who would have received it in the UK?
	All the UK health.
	Any health regulations, health authority in the world got this from the Norwegian government.
	So the NHS would certainly have been aware of it, the whatever the regulatory authorities, they would all have been aware of this.
	And yet you were injected after that warning had been issued.
	No, I was injected on the 20th of March.
	And when did they get the warning?
	The 4th of February.
	And they didn't pull, they didn't pull, that's the same, because they kept on running.
	So you were injected after they'd been warned that it had the vit effect.
	That must make you feel very happy, like you trust the system.
	Oh, yeah.
	Yeah, there's certain individuals that wouldn't be safe to put them in a six by two room with me right now.
	I can imagine.
	And so this, in a decent world, you would have a cast iron case against AstraZeneca and against the British government. - you would have a cast iron case against AstraZeneca and against You would be in line for millions in compensation.
	And yet, as far as I know, the maximum that the British government is paying out is 120,000.
	Yes, that's another story.
	Tell me.
	The Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme.
	It was run by the DWP and then transferred to the National Health Service Business Service Authority on the 1st of November 2021.
	Now I submitted the... The Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme is a one-off payment of £120,000 for anyone That's been badly damaged by a vaccine.
	You have to prove two things.
	One has to be most likely caused by a vaccine, which is highly, really, really difficult to get medical people to do.
	And two, you have to be at least severely disabled of at least 60% and above.
	Now that was only changed in 2012.
	From 80% and 80% disabled, I wouldn't have qualified for £120,000.
	I submitted now, there's been, until date, there has been in excess of 1,200 claims made to the Vaccine Damage Payment System in the last two years.
	There's not one payment being made out to anyone.
	There's at least 30 death certificates, but it says only solely caused by AstraZeneca vaccine, and they're still not paying out these widows, husbands, mothers.
	It's horrific.
	Fascinating.
	Because I've seen the adverts which show a dear old lady who's looking slightly puzzled.
	She doesn't look like she's got 60% disability or that she's had a near-death experience.
	It's just like, oh, I'm feeling a bit funny.
	I may be eligible for 120.
	So that advert in itself is a massive lie.
	And can I ask you another thing?
	Because I've heard a lot of people, you know how there's so much misinformation, rumours spreading about all sorts of things.
	And the number of people that I've heard say, oh, well, I wouldn't take the Pfizer, but I wouldn't mind the AstraZeneca.
	That seems to be the least bad because it's not a kind of an mRNA vaccine or that they think it's the lesser of several evils.
	But I'm not sure that's the case, is it?
	It's certainly not the case.
	There's a report that was published over 20 years ago showing that the adrenals vector mechanism that AstraZeneca used caused clots then.
	They knew 20 years ago it caused clots.
	They knew in the two animal tests that they did it caused clots because every animal had to be put down for humane reasons.
	They were dying horrific deaths with clots.
	They then went straight to the Emergency Use Act and went straight to humans.
	Am I right in thinking that you have no legal recourse here?
	Because AstraZeneca along with the other companies have so arranged it that they are not liable.
	Is that right?
	Yes, all the pharmaceutical companies have a thing called indemnity under the Emergency Use Act.
	That indemnifies them from being liable should anything go wrong because under the Emergency Use Act, they've had to speed things up.
	The government takes responsibility for that.
	What they don't tell you in the small print is that the only option you have is to sue the British government in a civil case.
	Not a legal case, a civil case.
	So that's not an option.
	I don't have a spare two or three million pounds to throw at the Ego Cost to try and win something I know I'm going to win.
	What about a class action?
	I mean, there must be enough VACs injured now.
	There is.
	There is a class action being raised for the VIC cases only, because that's been classified as a medical condition.
	There's 438 VIC cases in the UK only.
	Sadly, 78 of them were fatalities.
	So there's 360 surviving fits from amputations to neurological to heart issues to lung issues and that's just AstraZeneca.
	We know there's fit cases, there's one or two in the USA, only one or two, because AstraZeneca wasn't granted emergency use in the USA because the data that they supplied was incorrect.
	Out of date and incomplete.
	Funnily enough, it's the same data they supplied to the UK Health Regulations Authority, who went ahead with it.
	Yeah, do you see the legal problem now?
	So there will be a civil action for that.
	A class action, sorry, for that.
	There is a criminal case that's being started.
	That's happening in quite a few places around the world where evidence of Injuries from vaccines that have been medically certified as happening by vaccines and statements from people like myself of the damage it's done to them have been handed in because obviously if they knew 20 years ago it was causing issues, then that's criminal.
	If AstraZeneca safety data that they provided proves to be incorrect and completely out of date, as the FDA have stated, Then the indemnity goes out the window because the safety data has to be, what shall we say, robust and sufficient.
	Is that so?
	Because I wondered about this, that I was concerned that they may have so arranged it that they have complete indemnity regardless, even if they knew in every detail.
	So if you can prove a criminal element, you've still got a possible case.
	Yes.
	There's also a possible private case with regards to myself against AstraZeneca because I couldn't prove that they knew that the report shows it was faulty 20 years ago.
	So therefore, why did they go ahead with a product they knew was already faulted?
	There's so many legal avenues to this.
	I was a scaffolder a year ago.
	I now seem to know more about Class actions, criminal cases, judicial reviews, and medical conditions that, you know, that is a wonderful condition, it really is, it's something to behold.
	In an odd way though, Alex, I think, you know, although what's happened to you is terrible, It's wonderful in a way that somebody as strong as you and articulate as you and determined as you is able to put the case.
	I mean, you're presumably going to go out there now and speak on behalf of numerous people.
	I mean, you are one of the figureheads.
	You make the whole thing real.
	It's funny, I didn't set out to be where I am.
	I set out a year ago.
	I was actually thinking about this today.
	A year ago today, I was sitting wondering, I know I'm not the only person in the UK.
	There's others out there.
	How do I reach them?
	How do I do this?
	I knew at that point that the media didn't want to know.
	Mainstream media didn't want to help us, they didn't want to talk to us.
	Actually, tell me about that.
	So did you try and talk to the mainstream media about it, or did you just knew it was a waste of time?
	Yeah, none of them wanted to know.
	I had a friend who is a freelance photographer who took a photo of me about nine years ago on a scooter down in Ayr, a crowd of us, and I kept in touch with a few of them and somebody told them what had happened.
	And he said, I'll do some pictures of you.
	And that's the picture you see on my Twitter account, me sitting on my scooter.
	Right.
	He took those photographs and he went round a few outlets and a newspaper ran a story, did an interview.
	And when the story went out, it was one in a million inspirational amputee are just people to go and get the vaccine.
	I never urged anybody to do anything, James.
	And that's a fact.
	They said that in the piece, that you urged them to get the vaccine despite your injury.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I still urge... I found over the last year, what I've found is that there's 15 other people, and I'm talking widows, widowers, mothers of people that have lost their sons or their daughters, Giving a newspaper a statement to certain mainstream media, and it always being portrayed as being, don't let it put off, go and own a vaccine, go and get vaccinated, when none of us felt that way.
	That's interesting, because you know the general public's reaction, or let's say the reaction of people like me and people who are kind of awake, we read these stories and we go, What an idiot.
	How can you not realise that it's the vaccine that did this damage to you or to your loved one?
	Why are you shilling for it?
	But you're saying that the lie comes from the newspapers.
	Oh, that was a narrative push because I've spoke to, I can name a few people, but I've certainly spoke to the husband of a lady, the partner of her husband of 21 years is no longer here.
	The daughter of a mother who lost her life to this.
	And every one of us have had at some point, don't let this put you off, go and get your vaccine.
	And I fought that article for a year.
	And it still comes up on a regular basis, particularly on social media.
	I don't do Facebook very much now.
	I do a lot on Twitter, as you've obviously seen.
	I spend a lot of time on there.
	I spend a lot of time calling people out.
	And I don't mean in a bad way.
	I mean, you know, there's people who really need to take a good look at themselves.
	There's some certain people in the media that really need to have a good look in the mirror and think of what they're doing just now.
	They're still encouraging people to go and get this when we now know above everything scientifically, this is wrong.
	Yes.
	If you suspend all the legalities of it, it's wrong.
	We know it's wrong.
	It's killing people.
	They're all killing people for something we now know had a 1% chance of dying from.
	I mean, obviously it's changed you physically and it means your life is never going to be the same.
	I'm just wondering how it's affected your understanding of the world and how it's run.
	How it's run?
	I grew up in an area that was supposedly the hardest area in the UK to grow up in.
	And these people that they call criminals, lowlife and scum have got more honour, moral compass, principles, ethics, standards and character than these people will ever have.
	That's what these people say the words, they speak the words, but they don't know how to live them.
	I was brought up to have a certain attitude in life, and I made my standards, and I made my limits in life what I wanted, what I would accept.
	I've never sold my standards out, my principles, my ethics.
	These people have sold them out every day because they don't know what they are.
	That's the difference.
	I have standards, James, and I'm not prepared to lower them.
	They don't.
	And by these people, who do you mean?
	Oh, I mean the government.
	There's no getting away from this now.
	This is the UK government and the Scottish government.
	They can't get away from it.
	Nicola Sturgeon now knows there's at least 15 people in Scotland who are in as much a bad condition as me, and not one of them have received one bit of comfort, support, compassion.
	That's the problem here.
	Compassion.
	You know, people band about numbers all the time.
	They forget behind those numbers is a person.
	Yeah.
	I'm number one.
	I was the first person in the world to survive with that.
	That's quite a thing to take on board.
	You know, and then you go, you know what?
	The world should know about this.
	And I'm not shy.
	I've never been shy.
	It's the mod in me.
	You know, so therefore I stuck my head above the parapet a year ago to try and find others like me to support each other, to talk to each other.
	And I found this, wow, this tsunami of people that are floating about, wanting for help, crying for support.
	You know, people go to doctors when they're at their lowest.
	They don't go to their doctors when they're feeling great.
	You know, I don't think I'm any different than most people.
	I really need to be in a bad way before I want to speak to a doctor.
	So if I'm in front of you, saying to you, can you help me?
	Then I'm in a bad place.
	And that's just what we're facing.
	For you to turn to me and say it's in your head, it's PTSD, it's anxiety.
	I'm lucky I didn't get that.
	My doctors very quickly defined that this was vaccine related and I've stuck with that.
	The paperwork I've got, can you tell by the smile on my face?
	My lawyers have seen that.
	And my lawyer's just said, the words, I'll use the word from a very famous lawyer, not, can I swear on here?
	I think we'll add one cheeky swear word, go on.
	He said, no fucking brainer.
	This was a top lawyer who isn't dealing with my case.
	He actually said to me, I would love to deal with that case because what I've seen in the paperwork that you have got, nevermind your medical notes, Is there enough to win in this case?
	And I think because I know I've got it 100%, there's no doubt, there's no arguments.
	They can't turn round and say, it's because I like Taurus juice.
	That's not going to wash.
	You know, this is solely caused by the AstraZeneca vaccine and there's no doubt about it.
	Now that I'm in that frame of mind, yeah, I stood up a year ago.
	I didn't stand up to be a spokesman or ambassador or anything.
	I just wanted To find others in the same place as me.
	And it's kind of went out of control.
	I'm in a canoe boat without a paddle and I'm just hanging on to the edges.
	This thing's out of control.
	I don't know where it's going.
	Do you get any sense?
	I mean, you must have met a lot of new people.
	Do you get the sense that people are waking up to what's going on?
	Or do you think people are mostly still asleep?
	I screamed from April to, I want to say, in the middle of December there.
	No one was listening.
	I had 167 followers in December, James.
	And I put a tweet out, and I don't know what happened.
	I don't know how it happened.
	It just seemed to catch and it went global.
	It went over 2 million views.
	I went to 7,500 followers in a weekend.
	I had to switch my Twitter off because you'll maybe notice that your notifications go that fast that you can't actually watch the feed.
	So it's pointless because you've seen two words off somebody putting an answer and then it disappears.
	And it comes up with 395 notifications.
	You know what?
	No chance!
	And I'd never... I actually just switched my phone off for a weekend, because I couldn't get near it.
	And I noticed a change then.
	Then in April, I noticed a change in people's perception, because up till then, a lot of it was, I could've deserved it, you know.
	You should have been both legs.
	You should have just took it.
	You deserve all you get.
	What lovely, warm people in this world, you know, at times.
	Unfortunately for them, I don't listen to that shit.
	I call it for what it is.
	And if I see it, I'll call it.
	You'll probably see I've ripped up a few people.
	I'm not here to make you feel happy and nice about me.
	You know, if you'd be nice to me, I'd be nice to you.
	But if you want to be nice to me, I'm a scaffolder.
	You've got no idea of the things I can say to people, you know, because I can call them every day.
	That was a good thing about being a speaker.
	Because everybody calls you for everything every day, you know.
	So I knew that then in April I noticed a change, but in the last four weeks, six weeks, it's been a bit of a whirlwind, because for a month there, It was just constant interviews, podcasts, TV, documentaries.
	I've still got a couple of things to come out.
	And it's not about, I keep saying that to people, this is not about me.
	This is about everybody.
	Because if we are good, because I've got the, we're playing to our strengths, aren't we?
	These people are very clever.
	They've worded the law, they've worded everything, so we need to play to their strengths.
	And my strength is, I'm a gobby shite.
	I'll stand up and shout at you all day, and I'm not going to go away.
	And that's basically where we are.
	And I think people have realised that what you see is what you get.
	If you ask me the hard question in a nice way, you'll get the answer.
	If you hand me the hard question in the heartbeat, you'll get the hard answer.
	You know, somebody said something at the World Health Council last weekend or the weekend before, and it was very, actually poignant.
	I'm not here to make you feel comfortable.
	I'm beyond making you feel comfortable.
	I'm here to make you feel uncomfortable.
	Not because of wanting you to feel sorry for me.
	I don't need your pity.
	I don't need your sympathy.
	I'm a big ugly boy.
	I can take care of myself.
	I do need your voice and your support.
	And that's the only way we're going to change what's happening, is with people getting behind people.
	Not just me, there's others out there that are quite vocal and saying, we're not taking this.
	You know, we're trying to help people and support people.
	Because the gaslighting, particularly for the government, you know, I'm a year down the road.
	It took me 10 months to get basic state benefits checks.
	10 months just to get anything.
	And that's all I'm on, basic state benefits.
	That is so wrong.
	That's just one totally new word that you get for trying to do the right thing.
	You know.
	I will never ever do anything voluntary again for any officialdom.
	Census?
	You know you can stick your census.
	You know you can stick any of your paperwork.
	Now we're coming up for local elections.
	And I've said this publicly, and I keep saying it publicly, I don't care what party you're from, you shut my door, and I open the door, you're not getting away for at least two hours.
	I'm dragging you in, and I ain't letting you go.
	Yeah.
	You've all listened to me.
	You know, I'm not here to make you feel comfortable, I'm here to make you feel uncomfortable.
	And I try and... I've realised that the life I had is gone.
	I'm really glad that you're speaking out and that you're finding like-minded spirits.
	I mean, it's been quite interesting, hasn't it?
	I mean, I haven't had your experiences, thank goodness, but in the last two years, I've met an extraordinary number of people that I'd never have met otherwise.
	I've met some of the bravest, most intelligent, most caring people, compassionate people.
	I've never met in my life, particularly in the last year, and not all of them have been medical, which obviously people that have been medically very good, privately, you know, through social media that have contacted me, reached out to try and help.
	Some of these people have turned out to be good friends and some of the people that I've met, they're in a bad place.
	I've been the bravest, most courageous, funniest people.
	Because I think one thing I've realised is that everybody's got a sense of humour, you know?
	So my wife asked me if you can walk past the door. - Oh yeah, yeah, no, I quite like, I can wave to your wife as she goes past if I see her.
	I quite like a bit of... Oh no, she's never doing anything.
	Oh, I see.
	I quite like a bit of real life intruding.
	I mean, I just had to let the dog out because it was annoying me because it thinks it's... I don't see someone out in the garden either.
	Is that my wife?
	I did see someone out in your garden earlier.
	Yeah, that's probably my wife wondering.
	Oh, I just saw a figure.
	She'll be thinking, why is he spending his Sunday afternoon doing another bloody podcast when he could be helping me gardening?
	But, you know, we all have to do our bit, don't we, Alex, to fight the fight.
	Yeah, you know, we've got to put our priorities in the right place.
	You know, your priority is using your skills, which is doing podcasts.
	Clearly your wife's a better gardener than you are.
	Yeah, yeah.
	You know, most women are.
	Yeah, totally.
	I love gardens, as long as they're not mine.
	And I don't have to do it anymore.
	You were telling me, before we started, you burnt your... you got sunburnt stump the other day, which you'd never had before.
	Yesterday, yes.
	I sat in the garden for a couple of hours with a pair of shorts on.
	I wasn't a big shorts wearer before but I seem to wear an awful lot now I think.
	It's a bit more comfortable.
	So I'm sitting out there and I've noticed I've actually got a red line across my stunt.
	Which is unusual.
	It's not sore or anything.
	- Oh, that's good.
	That side of it, the amputation side's all fine.
	I'm having a bit of a muscle issue with one of the muscles, but that's part of the physio that we're going through tomorrow.
	They've already told me to bring my own lunch with me, so that worries me, seeing as I'm going in there at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
	I'm going to have to take my lunch.
	I'm not sure what kind of pain I'm going to be in tomorrow night, so it's maybe a good idea we did this today.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	Have you met lots of other vaccine-injured people since you sort of became a public figure?
	I've met hundreds upon hundreds.
	A lot of the vets were in touch with each other.
	I've met other people who have been affected by other vaccines.
	I've met other people who are fighting just to be recognised that they've been affected by the vaccine.
	There's a whole range.
	People contacted me because either a partner, a son, or someone who's taken a vaccine or had a vaccine, they're having what they think's reactions to it, is can I help them?
	And I say the same.
	I'm not a doctor, but, you know, if there's certain things happening, That's common, I'll say.
	Well, that seems to be a very common thing.
	You'd maybe want to go and see a doctor about that, or people that have had that.
	You know, you're just trying to point people in the direction of support because I know what it feels like.
	Yeah.
	What's the commonest injuries that people suffer in your experience?
	Mostly it's myocarditis, pyocarditis, POTS, trachea, tedia, all heart issues.
	These are the main.
	Are they?
	With the fits, it's a range of neurological, some people, a lot of people have brain issues.
	A lot of people have other issues with their hearts and their lungs.
	It doesn't seem to be, you know, it's not as if one virus fits one place.
	They all cause issues in all around the body.
	But Pfizer, particularly, it's all heart, myocarditis, pyocarditis, POTS, hepatitis, pancreatic cancers, menstrual issues, and women who have been through the change of life are going back out after having these vaccines.
	If there was one or two of these, you could say they're very unusual, very rare.
	But it's not one or two.
	Literally thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people across the world.
	It's not just the UK.
	This is the thing, you know, I'm speaking to people in Chicago at four in the morning.
	Another wonderful condition of that is insomnia.
	I don't sleep much.
	Do you not?
	That's bad.
	That's really bad.
	I never was a great sleeper.
	I always survived a four, maybe five hour sleep, but now it seems to be two, two and a half some days.
	I forget, five.
	Last night, last week, I got seven and I felt as if I'd slept for a month.
	I felt like Van Winkle, you know, the way curtains can't move.
	I sat up to six o'clock this morning.
	Yeah, 6 o'clock this morning.
	And I was back up at 9, 10 o'clock.
	Right.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	What do you do?
	Yeah.
	I mean, lots of people know, as you do, that they were injured.
	But have you noticed large numbers of people are in denial that it's the vaccine?
	I mean, they're probably a bigger number, bigger percentage.
	People who've suffered blood clots or myocarditis or even had a family member die.
	And they haven't made the connection at all. .
	No, there is some people who won't make the connection, and maybe In some ways, they never make the connection if they've lost a loved one.
	I think what I find is people that are suffering from issues and don't want to talk about it, don't want to mention it, they don't want to admit that they've been conned.
	If that makes any sense?
	Yeah, yeah.
	And I get that.
	You know, I do get that, because people say to me, do you not feel as if you work on?
	Of course I do.
	That makes it, you know, at your base level as a human being, as a man, you think, I've been hoodwinked.
	You know, you get two options with that.
	You let it sit and chew and stew in you, or do you deal with it?
	And I think for me at the moment, the way I look at it is, I've got enough going on in my head.
	I think part of it is when you face that very thing that nobody ever wants to face.
	Even in your worst nightmare, that real face with that minute in time, you've got nothing else to fear.
	You know, that's the one thing I don't fear anything anymore.
	I didn't fear very much before, but I fear nothing now.
	I've got no fear left.
	I suppose that could be a good thing, or it could be a dangerous thing.
	No, no, no, it's a good thing.
	You can start to live when you don't have fear.
	Yeah, I've said to other people, you know, because lots of people are now coming out to, you know, being very vocal, supporting, and I've said to people, you know, Some of these people have not been vaccinated and they're fighting for people like myself, which is a wonderful thing, I think, and I appreciate it so much.
	And I say to them, you've got everything to lose and nothing to gain other than knowing that you were right.
	That's too high a gamble.
	Me, I've got nothing to lose anymore and everything to gain.
	So I'm not going to go away.
	And I think what we're finding is that I'm not just the only one that's got that attitude.
	There's more and more and more of us.
	And we're getting louder.
	And we're getting more vocal.
	You can't keep running away from a loud noise.
	At some point you've got to deal with it.
	And I ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
	So they're going to have to deal with me and the thousands like us.
	Because my attitude is, you've took everything from me.
	I've got nothing else to do with my time but spend all day thinking about how am I going to get here?
	Yeah, well done.
	Alex, it's been absolutely... I'm so glad I've met you online and we're definitely going to meet in real life at some stage, I'm sure.
	I look forward to it.
	Definitely.
	It's been really interesting and, you know, I salute you.
	Is there anything you'd like to say about where people can get a hold of you or anything?
	If you're ever looking for me, you'll always find me on Twitter at ake2306.
	If you're looking for any kind of support and help, whatever way possible, there's a couple of organisations.
	There is the Covid Vaccine UK family that look out for the vaccine bereaved.
	There's also a wonderful organisation called CAIM.
	They're trying to rewrite the patient's charter and look at another option of alternative medicine.
	Not alternative medicine, but alternative Medicine in the sense of, not the NHS, it's not private.
	Because we know that for people that's in issues, protocols that are working for others have to be shared for others.
	Yes.
	And the NHS isn't doing it.
	So we're having that.
	So CAME's a great place for that.
	I'm not saying I'm your perfect answer for everything, but if you're needing anything, reach out to me.
	If I don't know the answer, there's lots of clever people in this world that certainly will.
	Thank you, James.
	It's been an absolute pleasure.
	I've absolutely loved it.
	It's been one of my favourites.
	Of course, I don't have any favourites officially, but you were great.
	Everyone, if you've enjoyed this podcast, I really appreciate your support on Subscribestar, on Patreon, on Locals and on Substack.
	Thanks very much.
	Alex, again, I look forward to meeting you in real life once and, you know, good luck with your scooters, with that fantastic scooter.
	I hope you ride again.
	I'll send you a picture when she's finished.
	Brilliant.
	Great.
	Thanks a lot.
	Thank you.
	Right.
	Bye-bye.
	Good luck.
	Take care, everybody.
	Thank you.

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