From chemistry to politics

Shane Fudge interviews David Kurten of the Heritage Party

Shane Fudge [SF]: Perhaps we could start with you telling The Light readers a bit about yourself and about your background, David?

David Kurten [DK]: I was a chemistry teacher for nearly 20 years. I became very concerned about what the EU was doing, so I then got involved in politics. I joined UKIP in 2012. Obviously, that was back in the days before the referendum, so that was the focal point to fight the referendum, and also political correctness. Sadly, after the referendum, UKIP disintegrated, so I left and started the Heritage Party in 2020.

SF: What made you start to question things in 2020?

DK: We first started to hear about the coronavirus in January 2020. The narrative for about two months was 'there is nothing to worry about; it is no worse than the flu'. This suddenly changed, and straight away it was obvious: you had Sadiq Khan, Boris Johnson, the BBC, CNN, left and right, and politicians all over the world agreeing together. This was a sign that they were up to something. It's always a sign when you have an alliance of Tory, Labour, and the BBC all acting together, that all of this was pre-planned.

SF: You were heavily criticised for the quote you made in October 2020: "Covid-19 is no worse than a bad flu season"?

DK: Professor Ferguson from Imperial College said in March 2020 that if they didn't lock the country down, half a million people were going to die. On the very day that the MPs voted through the Coronavirus Act, he changed his modelling in a new report which stated: "It's not going to be half a million people, it's only going to be fifty thousand." By then it was too late because the Coronavirus Act was already a done deal. Science is about making observations with data, but this was about creating a political result - lockdowns, and then vaccines.