Rupert Lowe & Restore Britain new party

[RogueFemale]

https://www.restorebritain.org.uk/

He's been very good about pursuing rape gangs. But I wonder if it's motivated purely by concern for women and girls. I saw on the party website FAQs that 'high level" donors will receive a tie (presumably branded). No apparent thought given to the possibility of a high level female donor.

Well, some councillors were kicked out in Kent, and they've now gone to join Rupert. I expect they'll fall out with him soon enough.

And some councillors in Cornwall left because they couldn't understand that a national party might have national priorities and not just local Cornish priorities. That's Cornwall for you.

If you distrust Farage, fair enough. I have reservations about him myself. But there's a definite FDS thing where people assume that anyone who falls out with Farage is "credible".

Rupert's spokesman Charlie Downes is currently doing the media rounds and sounding like an absolute clown. He doesn't seem to realise that showing some leg to white nationalists, while maintaining plausible deniabilty due to your edgelord vibes, is something you can do on Lotus Eaters, but it's not something you can do when journalists ask you questions.

Ben Habib has had the same issue of trying to project himself as serious and principled, and then at his launch event some woman got up and started rambling about Jews and the Talmud, and when was Ben going to name the real influence destroying the country. Ben, to be fair, looked a bit uncomfortable.

The problem with Rupert and Ben, I'm afraid, is they've both founded their projects based mostly on personal spite, they've both become a magnet for racist lunatics, and Ben is quite pathetically begging Rupert to merge with him, when it's really obvious Rupert is not returning his calls.

I'm politically homeless, was left wing, but seem to have nothing in common with their current iteration. Rupert Lowe has promised to repeal the GRA ( and is v anti transgender ideology in general ). He's the only politician who has said this. This is something that many women have been advocating for years ( including Kellie Jay Keen ). Is this a good enough reason to vote for him?

Strange user name for someone who clearly doesn't give a shit about wildlife or the environment.

Depends whether you're more scared of 4000 men who can put an F on their passport but still can't access women's single sex spaces... or a misogynist, ranting lunatic who'd deport people with British passports and is campaigning for men to be welcomed into women's spaces. Its a tough call.

Are detention camps safe spaces for women? Because that's where they want to send women who aren't "ethnically British".

On page 103 of their deportation plan they propose changing the law to revoke citizenship and declare people "illegal" even if they were born here.

Their spokesman said on GB news that you need to be ethnically British and Christian to be considered British. So British women and girls who don't appear sufficiently white are in danger of having their citizenship revoked and being disappeared.

They are neo nazis. Depressing to see supposed feminists on here disregard he humanity of other women and embrace a male fascist.

I'll say this again, I would be amazed if Restore still exists in any serious form 12 months from now.

Because, even if you find Rupert Lowe impressive (and latest polling shows only 8% of voters can recognise a photo of him), everyone else involved is a card carrying weirdo.

• Lowe's official spokesman Charlie Downes, who thinks England deserved the grooming gangs as punishment for turning its back on God;
• Steve Laws, who thinks deporting Andrew Gold to Israel should be a national priority;
• Connor Tomlinson, who thinks he's an intellectual but seems weirdly preoccupied with Bonnie Blue interacting with black men's todgers;
• Some 17 year old calling himself "Young Bob", who obviously thinks making himself permanently unemployable is worthwhile if he gets to appear for a few minutes on Talk TV.

There's a very strong incel vibe, and they all seem extremely keen to talk about "usury".

I do not like Rupert Lowe. But Rupert is 68 and is well known not to write his own tweets, and I think he might be in for a surprise if he's confronted with the unvarnished views of the "clever young men" who he's pleased to see flocking around him. Because I'm absolutely certain that some of the journalists who they troll on X would like to ask Rupert about them.

I'm on the side of whoever doesn't dismiss the concern's of women in a cavalier, belittling fashion, so not the same side as you.

Did we ever get to the bottom of what it was about some British-born MPs that made you consider them non-British?

They are neo nazis. Depressing to see supposed feminists on here disregard he humanity of other women and embrace a male fascist.

Depressing to see so many hyper hysterical, ill-informed posts, enough with the neo-nazis, fascists all ready, tired clichés and emotional blackmail are no substitute for informed opinions.

I was born in Aden does that make me an Arab?

If your response to my post is to take a cheap shot at my personal integrity rather than explain why you disagree, then i expect you and I have little in common beyond a shared belief in sex realism. So im not unduly worried about that.
I wouldn't dream of belittling women's concerns about TI. I share them entirely. However unlike some, I don't blatantly exploit them to garner support for equally dangerous misogynists.
Oh and while you're on your high horse 'hysterical' is an extremely misogynist way to dismiss women's concerns.

Depressing to see supposed feminists on here disregard he humanity of other women and embrace a male fascist.

Perhaps you should have a word with any one of Diane Abbott, Zack Polanski and Daniel Kebede, and ask them why they were happy to appear on a platform organised by the extremely rapey Socialist Workers Party only days ago.

There aren't many feminists on here who will openly defend the SWP, but there are plenty of tribal leftists who really don't like their activities being mentioned, because that upsets their worldview saying that left wing people are nicer and specifically better for women.

I know I bore people by repeating this, but it should not be difficult to say "I don't like Tommy Robinson, but I don't accept that, because I don't like Tommy Robinson, that means I'm happy for left wing politicos to appear on a platform with SWP bigwigs like Lewis Nielsen and Samira Ali."

Yet it seems to be very difficult for tribal leftists to say that. Curious. I sometimes wonder how many raped girls in the SWP would have to come to public notice before Diane and Zack and Daniel would have an unfortunate diary conflict.

No you just ignored them in order to take a cheap shot at someone you don't approve of.
The choice is down to far more than 4000 men, who can't accept the reality of who they are and a blow hard little Englander, who's got zero support and is not going to be having any impact on any political decisions any time soon.

They're not feminists embracing misogynist, racist ideologies. They're misogynist, racist ideologues using feminist concerns for single sex spaces to lend them credibility.

If there was a cheap shot in my post it was at the GRA. Just 4000 TIM have a GRC. Following the SCJ (when the government gets its finger out) it's as good as worthless.
Of far greater concern to me is the emergence from the sewers of the likes of Lowe, now emboldened to openly spout misogyny and racism, and this influx of people mascarading as feminists defending him because 'he knows what a woman is'.

I don’t know. Are you? You didn’t answer the question btw.

I don’t know much about him and think his party might not get far but gender ideology is more harmful than just the GRA certificates.

It is indeed. My response was to a poster who specifically referenced repeal of the act as a possible reason to support Lowe. I'd like to see the act repealed, but as a specific action its not nearly significant enough to even consider overlooking Lowe's misogyny and racism. Tbf, I'm not sure anything would be.

You keep banging this drum. The truth is SWP platforms are widely condemned and avoided. It’s generally the same usual suspects that turn up. As your examples illustrate.

No, they aren't. Their latest campaign has been endorsed by dozens of Labour and Green politicos, and will be funded by the unions. Nobody seems interested in challenging any of them.

You keep banging this drum.

Nice of you to say that. For some people, this is very personal.

I get definite echoes of the Labour partisans who say about grooming gangs "well, it was all a long time ago, and in just a few northern towns, and it's been thoroughly investigated, so just shut up and stay loyal to the tribe."

I saw racist Rupert having a cry about people calling him a Nazi.

It is hypocritical how the far-right think they have a free pass to call anyone they dislike names and throw accusations towards (LGBT people, foreigners etc) because it's just "free speech" or "hurty words" or "a tweet" but racists don't like it when they are on the receiving end.

Maybe he doesn’t identify as a racist. You’re all for that are you not?

Apologies. It wasn’t meant like that. It was probably too harsh. I suppose it’s because my experience is very much of being around lots of, I guess you’d call them mainstream, Labour supporters, some members some not, who absolutely distance themselves from the SWP and caution other people to do likewise. The SWP has historically been very clever at disappearing into the shadows, and some events/demos are very opaque in terms of knowing clearly who’s behind them If it helps there are lots of us around on the left who do keep wanging on about it when we can. Currently it’s the Together Alliance or whatever it’s called which does seem to have the grubby mitts of various SWP groups all over it.

I mean, we're here having a discussion about a political movement whose audience is approximately the audience of "Breakfast with Beau Dade" on the Lotus Eaters platform, and yet again I hear that I'm unreasonable for drawing attention to the labour movement's long-term involvement with what's effectively a grooming gang.

Would you like to hear about the woman in Dublin who was abused by her partner to the point where friends feared he'd kill her? Do you know that the SWP expelled, not the perpetrator who was allowed to quietly disappear, but the comrades who called the cops on him? Do you know that Richard Boyd Barrett smeared them as informers? Do you know the consequences of that smear in Ireland?

Plenty of people, including on FWR, think Richard Boyd Barrett is a good bloke, because of his stances on Gaza and abortion. I've seen him up close and respectfully disagree.

If that annoys you, I can't help that.

Thank you. If I get irritable on this point, it's because I get scolded for even mentioning it.

I don't like Rupert Lowe either, as it goes, and hope I have explained why.