Restore party launch speech

[Puddlewoman]

Having just spent 25 minutes that I won't get back, watching the launch speech before I formed an opinion, and then the thread being removed I was left with some thoughts I wanted to put down somewhere. So here we go.
I think amongst all the waffle and fearmongering of which there was a lot,
There were some quite scary snippets.

Reverse immigration presumably ala some sort of u.k version of ICE. Surely nobody is looking across the pond and thinking that sounds like a fab idea lets give that a go.

He wants to staff the government with people who are heads of their fields but have no prior experience in parliment, which on the face of it sounds ideal but I don't think I would have much confidence in a government that has no idea what its supposed to be doing, as far as I am aware there arent any "So youve been elected now what." style training videos

He stated that he wanted to burn down regulatory framework in businesses, yes everyone hates red tape, but again this smacks of trump and getting rid of Fema etc. Regulations are written usually after its become apparent that they are needed, this along with twice mentioning being risk averse as if it were a bad thing and that employers would no longer be blackmailed by HR screams a large scale scrapping of employee rights.

He stated that he wanted to reindustrialise britain, rely on our own energy this is obviously positive but, when he said it my first thought was oh god they are going to try and bring coal back.

There was an interesting slip almost when talking about families He started with MEN and women like we were tagged on the end and almost forgotten about

Then we had lots about returning to being a christian country baning the burka stopping halal slaughter and getting rid of sharia law, which as far as I know we dont have in this country. Which just felt like throwing an Islamophobic bone to get the racists to focus on that and slip the rest through without notice.

The whole thing felt like a page out of trumps play book along with the idea of returning to a nostalgic time which never actually existed he even said that british people were the best in the world MAGA anyone?

That said I think personally the best thing they can do is continue to exist, split the votes and ensure that none of the right/far right parties get a look in

Sorry its quite garbled I don't really follow politics but i don't feel that we can afford to not pay attention. I would be interested to hear back from people who support this new party particularly in regards to the employment rights.

He's not a good man - he's a racist loon.

He's been on X claiming that as there are more SIM cards in existence than recorded population that the Govt is lying about how many people are in the country - not realising that a) some people have more than one phone b) many smart meters and card readers in shops etc also have a SIM. Other argument is that that illegal immigrants are making the roads dangerous - without any evidence whatsoever that this is the case. His only interest in the grooming gangs is if they are brown. And he thinks no-one of foreign birth should claim benefits, even if they paid tax in UK for 30 years. He is a racist thicko.

Oh look at this from him. Evil courts and mothers keeping children from their fathers. I am sure there are injustices but...

Europe makes up just 15% of the global economy (and decreasing), yet accounts for over 60% of the worlds welfare spending, with around 53% of UK households being net recipients (receiving more from the state than they pay in taxes). This is not sustainable, and because of our high borrowing levels, the cost of government borrowing on the guilt market is now at the highest it has ever been. We (the taxpayers) are paying £110 billion in the UK annually in debt interest alone. That's roughly what we spend on schools and defence combined.

Chasing an unachievable net zero has left the UK with the highest industrial energy prices in the world, ruining the competitiveness and the viability of manufacturing here in the UK, and pushing costs up for domestic consumers (reducing their spending power in the general economy).

Brexit, yeah some disruption but little change overall. There has indeed been a 23% drop in goods exported to the EU from the UK since 2019 but also a large increase (19%) in services sold to the EU since 2019. And since services make up 81% of the UK economy, that's a net gain overall.

Yet all the above is of small beer compared to the decimation of the UK stock market over the last 30 years thanks in part to Gordon Brown's regulations on dividend income (another Labour financial disaster).

You might think that the stock market is just a load of rich traders shouting at each other, yet in realty it is the whole driver of the UK economy, where companies go to raise money to invest and grow. It impacts everything in the UK, yet we have now lost nearly half of all UK listed companies to overseas markets since these regulations came into force. And once they list outside of the UK, they often also move or reorganise their structure to pay more tax outside of the UK, rather than in the UK. This is the real reason we are in deep trouble. It has been a total disaster for the UK economy, and the decline continues, yet seldom anyone outside financial circles seems to know, care or talk about the issue or how to address it.

He gives his entire MP's salary each month to local good causes. How many other MP's can you say do that?

Oh, hes one of those.

He is a multi-millonaire. Plus he can claim tax relief on charitable donations. Anyway, how do you know he actually does this? Does he publish his tax return?

Do you have a link for that?

If that's true it certainly sped up with Brexit, as we know.

A significant percentage of MP's are multimillionaires but do any others do this? Kier Starmer perhaps with a net worth of £7.7 million?

The information is all out there in the public domain. Just Google 'rupert lowe donates salary to charity' and all will be revealed.

Google is your friend.

Ah. I thought you might actually have evidence. No two people get the same results on Google.

Decades of underinvestment in public services

Failure to build social housing

Free market capitalism giving us cheap flipflops and coffee tables and shampoo but unaffordable groceries, utilities and housing

The ultra rich and huge corporations avoiding billions in tax sums that wouldn't even have made any difference to them

Businesses paying wages that don't begin to cover the cost of living

Just a few of the real big problems, none of which is immigration - what's caused 'issues' with immigration in the UK is politicians, international political social media meddlers and billionaire press barons who either want to create division to destabilise the country, or don't want you not notice that they are the problem.

The sad thing is most people agree billionaires and big business should pay more taxes, and want more spending on public services. But too many our swept away by distraction tactics pitting us against immigrants, or one another, because the last thing those in power is for people to stop bickering and focus on the real problem - which is them.

What is it telling you?

He’s an out and out racist - the worst - nothing good about him.

Excellent post @Echobelly sums it all up.

Lots of articles about a charity that refused his donation, and the info that it's £5k a month done very publicly. Hardly great philanthropy.

He is very keen to let everyone know about his donations!

https://www.rupertlowe.co.uk/donations/

I am glad charities are getting some money from him, good can come of bad sometimes

Immigration (or rather the extremely high level of it in the last 10 or so years) is a big problem. I'm guessing you don't live in an area where it directly affects you to much of a degree, hence you can dismiss it because 'you're alright jack'?

Immigration is pretty big where I am. Thank goodness. I have no idea how our hospitals or care homes would operate otherwise, for a start.

He says he's not bothered if you call him a racist. You'll have to think of a new slur perhaps?

And by the way Islam is not a race, it is a religion.

A religion where the vast majority happen to be non white 🤔

We left the uk because of people like him.

Perhaps if hospitals and care homes (with support from the government) invested in training local young people instead then their wouldn't be the need for so many immigrants? Perhaps if the young were given more incentive to work rather than survive on hand-outs then they would be keener to take up these roles.

Of note, my elderly next door neighbour died recently in hospital and her son said that none of the staff treating her spoke English with enough clarity that she could understand what was going on. Yes the end of life treatment she had was okay, but a travesty surely that aside from when her son could visit, there was no-one she could talk to or relate to in the hour of her greatest need. Cruelty if you ask me.

Not racist though.