Tory MP Marcus Fysh panned for comparing Covid passes to Nazi Germany

Oonagh Keating. Updated December 14th, 2021

The Brexit-supporting MP for Yeovil, Marcus Fysh, who voted in favour of making ID compulsory to vote, earned widespread condemnation on Monday, when he told Radio 5 Live’s Rachel Burden that Covid passes are like something from Nazi Germany.

🗣'We are not a papers please society… this is not Nazi Germany.'

🗣'I think there is a long, long way between what people are being asked to do and Nazi Germany.'

Conservative MP, Marcus Fysh told @rachelburden why he's against vaccine passports.

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— BBC Radio 5 Live (@bbc5live) December 13, 2021

You are segregating society based on an unacceptable thing.

We are not a ‘papers, please’ society. This is not Nazi Germany.

Tweeters were appalled, with many pointing out the hypocrisy of his hysterical reaction to the Covid pass when compared to his voting record.

dear God, this is so obnoxious. Showing your vaccine or negative test status is not like "Nazi Germany", and it's deeply offensive to suggest it is. https://t.co/adiChUvo9K

— It's Katemas Time (@katebevan) December 13, 2021

Tories:
The left are trying to erase history!

Also Tories:
The horrors of Nazi Germany was where you needed to prove you were immunized to get into Nandos https://t.co/2otCXuyjuo

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 13, 2021

I had forgotten that bit in Schindler's List where the Nazis demand people show them an app on their phone or they can't go into the nightclub and have a really fun night without getting ill. https://t.co/hklXdM7f9N

— Tiernan Douieb (@TiernanDouieb) December 13, 2021

Boundary changes and voter ID proposals will remove the vote from almost 10 million of us. The party wants to cancel human rights, and just passed a law letting them throw 6 million – almost all non-white – out of the country.

But a QR code outside a nightclub is fascism. https://t.co/MtD1LarKOU

— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) December 13, 2021

Never mind the appalling Nazi Germany reference, it’s impressive to see Tories who a couple of weeks ago backed voter ID saying we’re not a “papers please” society. https://t.co/wmOmAidy6i

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 13, 2021

Will vote to end our freedom of movement.

Won't vote to end a virus's freedom of movement. https://t.co/YaxuXrmEM3

— THE SECRET TORY (@secrettory12) December 13, 2021

Siri! Show me someone who knows not the first thing about Nazi Germany! https://t.co/yLXg1pKRdg

— Dan Rebellato (@DanRebellato) December 13, 2021

Nazi authoritarians are famous for trying to keep people alive, yes, this is a totally normal thing to say https://t.co/C3BFhL0YTS

— James Moran (@jamesmoran) December 13, 2021

BREAKING: Conservatives are comparing pandemic Britain to Nazi Germany and the parallels are truly alarming. For example, in Nazi Germany they built concentration camps, whereas in pandemic Britain, we must put a tiny cloth on our faces in Tesco so people with asthma don't die.

— Laura Kuenssberg Translator (@BBCLauraKT) December 13, 2021

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My grandparents were amongst the lucky few to flee Nazi Germany. Sadly they're no longer around to ask whether vaccine passports was the final straw for them … https://t.co/HFnJwbKase

— Nick Robinson (@bbcnickrobinson) December 13, 2021

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“I will NOT be voting for Covid passports because this is NOT Nazi Germany. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a bunch of protesters to jail, a boat carrying asylum seekers to sink and some brown people to strip of their citizenship.”

— Max Morgan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@SpillerOfTea) December 13, 2021

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But if it's like Nazi Germany why don't the neo-Nazis like it?

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) December 13, 2021

Here’s a handy guide to comparisons with Nasi Germany, from the Mirror’s Pippa Crerar.

It’s quite simple. Don’t compare anything to Nazi Germany apart from… Nazi Germany. https://t.co/A3tOAyvutZ

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 13, 2021

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