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.

To where?

OK. He is a vile bigot. He also appears to have some misogynistic leanings.

He's a fucking millionaire!

I don't think he or his supporters care, you'll have to come up with some new insults.

See Restore are up to 60,000 members already and 10% in the polls. That's level with the Liberal Democrats in numbers after less than 1 week. 60,000 racists, who'd have thought ;)

Not racist if you want to remove a load of non whites? If you believe that, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.

So is Keir Starmer and a significant proportion of other MP's, but do they donate their salary too?

60,000 racists, who'd have thought
Pretty embarrassing for the country really.

Albanians that he mentioned are white.

Who knows? Who cares? They don't sing and dance about it if they do. £5k a month is no doubt small fry to Rupe.

Hmm, there's white and there's white...

You're trying yourself in knots here aren't you. You seemed to care greatly but now when it's inconvenient for your argument, you don't. Make your mind up.

I have no idea - maybe they give to charity and don't post on X about it. What they aren't doing is blaming brown people for all the problems of society.

Well when Elon Musk starts bankrolling my fantasies I’ll be giving more to charity as well.
I work for a charity and well known people often donate without any fanfare - let alone a dedicated website about it.

Are all the members in the UK, I wonder?

Anyway, good news for Lowe. He will have coined in more than a million quid so far.

Good news for us is that he is splitting the far right vote.

Farage will be spitting tacks and regretting he ever selected Lowe. I look forward to them tearing into each other.

I'm really not. I never cared. I was curious to know if it was true, hence asking for a link.

It's not my opinion though, is it? It's what we see in front of us. Albanians = bad, Americans = good.

Do you always have to ask someone for a link or are you capable of finding out things for yourself and forming your own opinion via a variety of news channels, both left and right leaning, and independent, for balance?

Between 2021 and 2023, Albanians had the highest conviction rate of all nationalities in England and Wales at 4,028 per 10,000 of the population. This rate was 30 times the rate of British nationals whom had a conviction rate of 136 per 10,000 of the population. Do we have the same issue with Americans?

I already covered this. I was expecting you to have a link to something you actually found useful. I also know that no two people get the same results when they put something into Google, remember?

If I had a point I wanted to make i would be happy to provide evidence rather than copping out to say go Google. That can lead anywhere.

Nahhh, you're just being lazy and/or trying to catch me out, but if you didn't know this about the chap anyway then you really don't know a lot. Yet you are happy to jump on board with all the 'heresay' about why he's such a horrible person. Double standards much?

Hmm, shall we have a look at the crimes of Americans? We could start with the Epstein files, although of course as Hilary has said today, that's one huge cover up.

Have you been to Albania? I have, several times. It's as safe as houses. Have you stopped to wonder why the stats might be so bad here for Albanians?

I'll give you a clue. Black teens are hugely more likely to be stopped randomly by the police than white teens. Can you see where that leads?

I got randomly stopped by the police recently when they were doing some checks. They looked at me, a middle aged white woman, and waved me by.

Are you struggling to comprehend? Or do you really not understand how Google algorithms work? Have I called Rupe a horrible person? Or are you just lumping all of us who don't agree with you together?

Well at least he’ll be splitting the Far Right vote.

The fact is, if 40% of Albanians in the UK are criminals, we have a big problem with Albanians. My friend who is a detective in the West Midlands police is almost entirely assigned to investigating Albanian gangs. Drugs trafficking, abduction, armed robbery, child trafficking, vehicle theft, you name it, some vile stuff happening.

But your argument = quick look over there, a squirrel.