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Originally published on Millenial Woes’ Substack: https://www.woes.blog/p/the-crown-from-the-gutter 

So, it has happened. Rupert Lowe has announced that his organisation Restore Britain is now a political party and will stand in general elections around the country.

In a very well-judged publicity video, Lowe presents himself (truthfully) as a farmer: a man who thinks about the long term, understands the link between effort and reward, understands the need to cultivate and nurture, and accepts that there are no short cuts. He outright says that what needs to be done will be “incredibly painful”. This is no feel-good Faragist showmannery. This is a serious man being honest.

At another point in the video he goes farther than any other politician in opposing diversity by saying that a Restore government would outlaw “halal and kosher slaughter”. I wonder if he knows what he is taking on by saying those words.

Later, he explicitly contrasts himself not just with the culture of Britain’s mainstream political centre, but with that centre itself. No politicians from it will be involved with Restore. They will be barred, as the verminous traitors and destroyers that they are.

This is a fresh start, and it genuinely has a radically different mindset from the ossified edifice that has governed this country for a hundred years and driven it – and its people – into the ground.

Duncan Bannatyne and Elon Musk (who a year ago condemned Nigel Farage as weak and ineffectual) endorsed the party. John Cleese retweeted Musk.

Hours after the announcement, Twitter news outlet GB Politics ran a poll:

It’s encouraging, but we must remember that this is Twitter. The general public will be different. They will be much less aware of Farage’s crimes against Lowe, and indeed of Lowe himself. He’s a big hitter on social media but the MSM are very good at pretending he doesn’t exist. As Reform voters learn about him, many of them (being largely Boomers) find his talk of mass deportation troubling. Farage soothes their life-long civic-nationalist delusions, Lowe does not. So we have to accept that a lot of myopic normies will stick with Reform. The false consciousness they have been indoctrinated with is too strong.

But, to be brutal about it, Reform’s Boomer supporters will not be around forever. I am much more confident in the youthful Right. They know how bad things are and accept what must be done. They even yearn for it. They don’t have a yacht or a holiday home to lose. They don’t really have much at all. Most crucially, they don’t have the prospect of a comfortable future – and that lack is incendiary.

There is something mythical about Lowe’s rise. After a successful long career in big business, he entered politics by campaigning for Brexit, and was later in the Reform UK party under Nigel Farage. This is how he gained enough public prominence to get voted in as the MP for Great Yarmouth. This won him access to the House of Commons and the resources unique to politicians. Using these, he began holding our corrupt governmental system to account. In doing so he proved himself a genuine firebrand and maverick, and was soon out-performing his leader Nigel Farage, both in Parliament and on social media.

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Farage did what he has done countless times with colleagues who threaten his position: he ousted Lowe from Reform. But he went much farther than that. He levelled false criminal charges against Lowe, trying to get him imprisoned. He made many accusations (listed here). The overall goal, clearly, was to discredit Lowe to the maximum extent possible. I don’t think I have ever seen a character assassination so ruthless, or so obviously malicious. But Farage did it.

While Lowe dealt with the police investigation (including a disgusting night-time raid on his farm), the legal tit-for-tat and the stress of the whole crisis, he created an organisation, Restore Britain, which he envisaged as a campaign group. Meantime, he remained in Parliament, constantly building his reputation and credibility with the public with a relentless stream of good works. This culminated with the independent Rape Gang Inquiry, launched, funded, organised and chaired by Lowe after he concluded that the Labour government had no intention of running an honest inquiry into this most important matter.

Farage completely ignored Lowe’s inquiry. In the meantime, he had turned Reform UK into an absolute farce. It started with bringing in progressive David Bull, who said that immigration was and always has been “the lifeblood” of Britain. Then he brought in countless Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and other non-whites. Most recently, he delivered what could have been calculated as the most insulting move possible against the British people: he brought in various Conservative politicians who had been at the helm of government during the Boriswave (a historic spike in mass immigration) and the Afghan asylum debacle (in which they not only invited in many thousands of Afghans, but sought to keep it secret from the British people). Farage even said it is inevitable that Reform will make an electoral pact with the Conservative Party or even merge into it. With this, and repeated assurances that mass deportation is “a political impossibility” and that English ethnicity doesn’t matter, Reform is clearly not the anti-establishment party Farage once claimed. In fact, it is a barely-veiled continuation of the Conservative Party, famed for betraying the British people time and time again. Farage did this.

At a time when the country is aching for renewal, and when the young are screaming to be heard, Farage chooses to dole out Boomer slop at his conferences and keep his supporters occupied with bingo nights and 2000s-esque lies that Britain has always been diverse. The situation has become so ridiculous that a Twitter account has been created solely to document it: ReformYookay_.

When Farage could give the British people hope, he instead wastes their time, good will, energy and money. The treachery is disgusting. The weakness is lamentable. The lack of imagination, the sheer refusal to grasp a historic opportunity, is unforgivable.

Thus the relief was huge when, the very day after completing his groundbreaking rape gang inquiry, Rupert Lowe announced he would convert Restore Britain into a political party. A national one. He would do what had been promised by Nigel Farage – his nemesis who had tried to cut him down.

The sheer contrasts of good and evil, integrity and dishonesty, seriousness and frivolity, courage and cowardice, benevolence and malice… As I say, it is mythical stuff.

For the first time in my life, a British political party exists that is led by someone I admire and trust, and someone I believe actually has the interests of the British people at heart. It seems incredible that this would be unusual in a British politician. Given the sheer corruption of our age, it is literally unique.

Lowe is not an aristocrat but he has the gravitas one associates with “officer class” – a natural leader. But it is not just an aura. He has a proven track record as a competent leader, a capable organiser, a good delegator. This is shown not just in his career in business or his running of a farm, but more recently, and poignantly, in the rape gang inquiry which happened solely because of him and his relentless efforts. That alone must have been a Herculean undertaking.

There is also a straightforwardness to him which I think will be very appealing to the British people. One does not get a sense that this is a liar or an obfuscator, still less a frightened lackey of some unseen group, as one does with virtually every other politician. Neither does he peddle the trite catchphrases and euphemisms that have come to dominate our politics, our whole culture. He is a “no-nonsense” kind of man, and this is like fresh air streaming into a space that has become hideously dank.

Also, slightly contrasting with all of the above, there is a certain sadness about Lowe’s demeanour. I take it to be a sign of honesty – with wisdom comes sorrow. This man understands the world is fallen. He grew up in a Britain of affluence, pride, integrity and social cohesion but is growing old amid dysfunction, nihilism and corruption. At 68, I think he is old enough to know the difference, but still young enough to see the difference. (People over 70 seem not to realise that life has changed drastically since the 1990s.)

Let me put it another way. I am pretty sure that Rupert Lowe would have the same feeling as I do if he saw these two buildings, on the very same spot in Bromley:

Now, I am sure that Lowe is a pragmatist – far less of a hopeless romantic than me – but nevertheless I believe he has a soul. And frankly, that is more than I can say for any other British political leader in the last fifty years (with the possible exception of John Smith).

This should help Restore avoid the insane excesses of libertarianism. I think this is why they have, for example, a policy plan for restoring the British pub. I think it is why Lowe recently said he doesn’t want “Larry Fink buying up Britain”.

Finally, there is a perhaps equally important trait: Lowe is a reluctant politician. He doesn’t crave power for its own sake. As Academic Agent noted, there is a sense that he is motivated by a sense of grim duty. He understands his country is in a dire state, and he understands that apparently no other man of his means has the guts to do what is right – so he has to.

The mainstream media are unified. From the Telegraph to the Guardian, they (having uniformly ignored Lowe’s rape gang inquiry) are united in condemning his new party. Hope Not Hate, of course, lamented the development. The despicable Spiked published a hit piece. The supposedly right-wing GB News showed its true colours. Eventually the right-wing press settled on a line: Lowe is being egotistical and vain by setting up a new party that will split the right-wing vote, instead of keeping quiet and letting Reform win squarely. This line was reiterated by Tim Stanley, along with other jibes at Restore, even while he lamented that Reform has become a useless party. (As ever, the conservative advises to do nothing, especially if the alternative would upset Trotsky.)

What is already clear is that we are going to see the mother of all smear campaigns against Rupert Lowe. I doubt if the MSM will work harder in our lifetimes against anyone than they will against him. He is our era’s equivalent of Enoch Powell or even Oswald Mosley. The truth about those two men is unknown to most people, who have been told again and again that each was a cartoon character of pure evil. The same will be attempted with Lowe.

They are currently trying to frame him as egotistical and messianic. That is unconvincing. Obviously, their preference would be to frame him as “evil/hateful”, but that too will be a difficult sell, given his affable and straightforward manner. Instead, they will probably settle on framing him as a befuddled old man who has no idea what he is saying, how it comes across, what the implications of it are, and how distant it is from reality. A kook, in other words. The “evil/hateful” thing will be used on the young men around him – “see how naive Lowe is, enabling these young maniacs!” – whose social media connections will be catalogued and megaphoned by the MSM. Lowe will be grilled on interactions that his underlings have on X. I implore everyone to bear this in mind when interacting with them.

Pete North, sad to say, is correct about this danger. Restore face a historic challenge. The last thing people should do is make it even harder for them by using language that will be used – disingenuously, sure, but constantly – against them. Lowe will not want his project being linked in the public’s mind with Twitter anon KebabRemover1488 from Cleethorpes. Even Millennial Woes, the famed bestialist and all-round dark horse, would be too much. I am acutely aware that my positive comments about Restore enable Hope Not Hate to crow “it has been endorsed by the likes of failed racist YouTuber Millennial Woes”.

Restore are already adept at swiping such nonsense aside, but it will be necessary for them to “step over” a great deal, because the petty attacks are going to come thick and fast. It will often be tempting for them to disavow, but I would urge them to heed this advice.

I think most people already understand that this is not a time for purity spiralling. Nevertheless, the following bears stating.

Restore will never be explicitly ethno-nationalist. Even if its leading figures are of that persuasion (and I have no reason to believe they are), the party can’t afford to be; the electoral commission would refuse to register it.

Of course they will not deport all the people I would want deported. but I think they will deport far more than any other party would, and I think that, by doing so, they will both improve our chances and advance “the situation”. In other words, it is both progress and accelerationism.

Is it perfect? No, but we are never going to get something better than this. If this fails, then it’s civil unrest, violence, breakdown, police state, and ultimately racial war. I don’t want that. You don’t want that. If Restore fails, there will be other parties that come after it, more hard-line, but by then demographics might mean it is too late to avoid catastrophe. This is our one shot at that. Maybe it will fail, but we have to try.

Richard the Fourth thinks it is too early for restoration, that the country needs to suffer more, to hit “rock bottom” before it can begin to regenerate. Asmongold disagrees and is full of enthusiasm for Restore, and the vast majority of the British online Right seem to be similarly inspired. At last, a chance…

While Nigel Farage drivels about abolishing work-from-home (someone commented “my funders are big into commercial real estate”) and boasts of his efforts to combat “extreme right ethno-nationalism”, the promise of Restore Britain continues to stir.

In the polar opposite of his rival’s cheap showmanship, Lowe has surrounded himself with talented young people. He has sought out the best and the brightest, the ones who can point a way forward over the heads of a rotten media and a tired, frightened regime. And now the call has gone out for the capable and experienced to get onboard as well.

One has the feeling – the hope – that arrangements are being made behind closed doors, that a new machine is being pieced together, that something momentous is slouching towards Albion to be born.