Clive Palmer refers to Health Minister Greg Hunt as Greg C*** during vaccination rant

Speaking on the Gold Coast on Friday morning, Clive Palmer was at his bamboozling, bewildering best, but did he drop a clanger while he doubled down on his anti-vaccination stance? What do you think? Listen for yourself here.

Did Clive Palmer just drop a clanger?

Speaking to media on the Gold Coast on Friday morning, Mr Palmer was at his bamboozling, bewildering best, announcing that his United Australia Party was now the country’s biggest political organisation with more than 70,000 members.

Mr Palmer also declared he was not vaccinated and likened the national vaccination push to Nazi scientists before appearing to drop the C bomb when referring to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt.

“Scott Morrison’s government has ordered over 380 million doses of the vaccine and Greg **** is announcing another 90 million boosters are coming,” he said.

“There’s only 26 million Australians.”

He said he would not receive a vaccine that had not been subjected to rigorous testing and bizarrely compared the vaccination push to the actions of Nazis in World War II.

“In 1948 the Australian constitution was amended following the Nazi holocaust and the medical experiments carried out on people in the Second World War to say that in Australia you couldn’t coerce doctors or medical staff to require a medical treatment of any sense,” he said.

Clive Palmer. Picture: Lyndon Mechielsen

Greg Hunt. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

“And although that may not be right on point, it gives the spirit of the country that we should be able to be free to decide what we ingest in our bodies and what we vaccinate with.”

Mr Palmer was also pleased to announce the United Australia Party, of which he is chairman, had surpassed 70,000 members, making it the largest political party in the country.

He said the fact membership was free did not diminish the achievement.

Mr Palmer is not the first Queensland politician to be caught in a C-bomb controversy, after Deputy Premier Steven Miles appeared to make a similar slip referring to Mr Morrison at a Labor Day address.

Mr Palmer said he would not receive a Covid jab “because there is no Covid in Queensland.”

When told there was a man in Gold Coast University Hospital with Covid so sick he can not tell authorities where he can barely speak, Mr Palmer said there were a lot of people in hospital.

“There are 150,000 people who have died in Australia this year and you haven’t reported one of their deaths,” he said.

“The road toll in Queensland over the holiday period is bigger than the total number of deaths from COVID in Australia and we don’t shut the economy down.”