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Farage vs. Lowe 3. The Big Tent vs. The One-Man Island. Farage: Even when he’s the “dictator” of a party, he keeps the machinery moving toward a single goal (Brexit, Reform). Lowe: Recently launched Restore Britain (Feb 2026) because he couldn’t play nice with others. His “my way or the highway” approach suggests a Prime Minister who would resign by lunchtime if his Cabinet didn’t like his choice of stationery.
– Steve Scrase
Read the whole thing, its both on the money & quite humorous.
I met Rupert Lowe at the Paul Staines Guido Fawkes goodbye dinner, SWMBO was next to him and I was next to her. Well, a couple hours at the same table turned my previously very favourable opinion of Lowe 180 degrees. He does not like to be questioned and trots out personal prejudices as if they were evidence. If he can piss off natural supporters who come predisposed to like and agree with him, I don’t think this is a man who can build a party machine to “restore” anything.
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So what happened to those allegations Reform made against Lowe about making threats and bullying? Although they managed to get the armed police to raid Lowe’s home and seize his legally owned firearms, the CPS ended the investigation with no charges made. People can draw their own conclusions…..I have issues with Lowe but on this none of my conclusions are favourable to Reform.
It does not really matter if Perry is correct about Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib.
The laws of mathematics would apply even if they were both angels from Heaven.
Splitting the right vote by setting up a new parties – plays into the hands of the left.
The main argument of both Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib is that Nigel Farage is out of date – that Mr Farage does not understand that “immigration” is no longer the main issue, if mass immigration had been ended in, say, 1968 (when Enoch Powell called for it to be ended) things would have been fine – but it is NOT 1968, or even 1997, it is 2026 – and now the main threat is from the NATURAL INCREASE (births) of hostile populations that are already here, Ben Habib adds that, as a man from Pakistan, he understands what Islam is better than Nigel Farage does – with Mr Farage thinking of religion as just a private (individual) belief system – which Islam is NOT.
Rupert Lowe and Ben Habib may be entirely correct about all of the above, but that does NOT alter the laws of mathematics.
Splitting the right vote is still a disaster.
“Advance U.K.” has picked a popular local person as its candidate in the by-election in the Manchester area – but he has no chance of winning the by-election.
“Reclaim Britain” may well pick Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”) as its candidate at the next by-election – and Carl Benjamin is an intelligent man, but he also has no chance of winning an election.
I am reminded of the claims of Imperial Japanese commanders that “spirit”, courage, could overcome the basic laws of warfare – of logistics.
They were mistaken – “spirit” can not overcome the laws of warfare, or the laws that govern elections.
Imperial Japanese soldiers were starved of supplies, indeed (sometimes) even literally starved – of food (“we can fight for ever on a handful of rice” was proved to be incorrect), and the candidates of Advance U.K. and Reclaim Britain have no chance at all of winning elections.
“But we are correct about…..” – it-does-not-matter.