Brian Rose, one of the 18 candidates in the local vote, has been criticized for spreading false theories about the infection.
A Bulgarian son-in-law turned out to be among the 18 candidates for mayor of London in the elections to be held on May 6.
Brian Rose, 49, is an American who settled in the British capital 10 years ago after a banking career in New York. He created the information channel London Real on YouTube and married the Bulgarian Mariana, who at that time was a single mother with one daughter.
Today, their family is now 5 members with two more sons, and Rose has decided to see if his growing popularity as a presenter on the Internet could launch him into politics. Currently, the podcast he makes from home enjoys 2 million subscribers. An impressive number, but according to opinion polls, it will hardly be enough to head the British capital. Polls suggest the current Labor mayor, Sadiq Khan, is likely to be re-elected.
Brian Rose appears to be independent, which is not difficult to do, but rarely leads to success.
They are needed
66 signatures from
voters and
£ 10,000
a deposit that is refundable if it manages to collect 5% of the votes in the first round. It is unclear whether he is able to achieve them. Although she started her campaign at the beginning of the year, Rose received almost no place in the traditional media on the Island. His podcast London Real was defined by them as a place for spreading conspiracy theories.
Criticism of him has intensified, especially with regard to the information he spreads about the pandemic. Stop lying to us, COVID infections do not mean COVID death is one of the topics Rose offers to her followers. The American also interviewed several times one of the most famous British propagandists of conspiracy theories, David Ike. In one of them, he claims that there is a connection between the pandemic and the newly built 5G telephone network. This appearance was removed from YouTube due to complaints. The platform even tightened its rules for disseminating information about COVID-19 after it.
The media regulator Ofcom comes out with an opinion that the interview risks causing significant harm to the viewers. “We are particularly concerned about Ike’s comments, which call into question the motives behind official advice on how to protect the public from the virus,” Ofcom said.
However, Rose believes that this is exactly the strength of the new online media – to present interesting people without editing and restrictions.
According to him, so
is defended
freedom
of the word
In January, when England again blocked the pandemic, he and six of his employees were fined £ 200 each for filming a campaign video for his campaign.
In an interview with BTV, the American said that his family had changed him and made him a better person. “I know Gabby is watching me, my daughter. I know that my boys are watching me and that makes me give more of myself “, explained the mayoral candidate.
After his speech for the Bulgarian audience, however, some viewers recalled that behind his personal family happiness now lies a lot of pain in the past. The daughter Gabriela, whom he adopted, left Bulgaria in 2011 under extremely difficult circumstances. Her biological father Borislav Kalchev makes a living chain with his relatives and friends at the airport in Burgas, which leads to a delay in the plane in which Mariana and the child are. The man claims that he has a decision of the court in Aytos that the mother should not approach Gabby, but she has a counter-decision from an English court, which awards her parental rights.
Borislav and Mariana live together in England on a family basis, but they separate and the father returns to Bulgaria. When
his protest
action through
January 2011
at the airport in Burgas
he was escorted by border police to the plane so he could say goodbye to 7-year-old Gabby. “I could not hug her. They just waved at me through the glass, ”says Borislav.
So she returned to live in England with her mother and became part of a new life with Brian Rose. In his program for candidate for mayor of London, the needs of the family play a key role. He promises to build tens of thousands of new homes, provide more police on the streets to stop attacks on young people, and have a one-month festival in August with millions of guests from around the world.
Rose has rented a bus equipped with Internet broadcasting equipment, which he will use during his campaign to avoid being fined again. Due to the pandemic, agitation will probably be limited to only 2 weeks and large meetings will not be allowed. However, the American hopes that thanks to modern technology he will reach more people, as he already successfully does through his channel London Real.
He claims that he loves challenges and his candidacy is one of them. 3 years ago he participated in the Iron Man tournament, while eating only vegetables. The competition is a triathlon of long swimming, marathon and cycling and is considered one of the most difficult in the world.
The vote for mayor of London is among the most crucial, as it is about managing a place through which the main financial flows of the world pass.
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