What's the Point of Rupert Lowe?

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Gabriel Levine, Contributor

Vindictive, egotistical, and narrow-minded. Such words, used in the past to describe Farage, are more fitting to describe the hate-filled expeditions of Rupert Lowe. What's the point of him?

Maybe it’s all on Elon Musk. After Musk swapped his right-wing playthings in the summer of 2025 — as he declared that Farage was not fit to be PM — the ex-Reform Rupert Lowe finally found his sugar daddy in that same internet boss. The pair are united in their despising of Farage. However, Lowe’s anger is more intense as he publicly processes the allegations of his harassment of female staff in his Westminster office (a cosy shoebox of a place, I imagine).

Not that it matters, but he shot his own dog and sent Southampton Football Club tumbling down the football leagues. Not that it matters (it does!), but Lowe’s own legal action against allegations of harassment, and of a death threat against Yusuf was dismissed entirely this month. That bloated bureaucracy is at it again, Rupey?

Anyhow, Musk, like all good internet-circus backing sugar daddies, can buy you nice things. But whether a Tesla given for campaigning in Great Yarmouth, or a couple thousand chatbot praisers, or whatever else that South African American is planning on giving/donating/lending, Musk’s billions can still not buy Lowe a sense of direction, self, or purpose.

That is my issue with Rupert. If we are to think that Lowe has some autonomy over operations at Planet Restore, I fail to see his purpose. Restore is far more of a protest and a shot in the dark than critics could ever have accused Reform, the Brexit Party, or UKIP of being. Restore is a jealous failed farmer and a Wix.com starter package, really.

Rupert Lowe is leading Farage hate expeditions into the jungle of his own ego. Maybe he wants to scratch an itch of being overshadowed, once as a donor to the Brexit Party, then as an MEP, and then as a one-time Reform MP. He is splitting the vote on the right wilfully, making the prospect of a Burnham premiership that will undo all the proposed IDLtR reforms likely. And if Burnham takes his balls with him down on Avanti West Coast to London and calls an early election, as is theorised by some, then that rainbow coalition of the left that will emerge will be the fault of one 68-year-old egotist.

His party publishes ‘policy papers’ that are nothing more than copies and pastes from the SPD’s own website! A fulsome energy paper was published this week, but their candidate, Rebecca Shepherd, did not even bother to read it. On the upside, Rupert’s Papers must be an attraction, as the local businesswoman said that she was first drawn to Restore by reading one of their policies, although she could not confirm which one.

In writing this, I am not taking the advice that I would give to those in Millbank to ignore Restore completely. No mention of them. I probably am mentioning them out of some trepidation, curiosity, but mainly uncertainty about how they will fare in Makerfield. However, his party performs in the by-election, I remain confused about what the point of Rupert Lowe is, apart from being an advocate for click easy readers.

He has stirred an internet circus based on installing anyone but Farage, not Reform, but Farage. He has an ego and jealousy for the successes of Farage and Reform that he is too inarticulate to express. If he’s been wronged, he’s been wronged. If the allegations against him are wrong (they are not), then they are wrong. That does not take away from what I see him to be: increasingly stale, covetous, and tragically misguided.

I confess that Rupert Lowe and I are both alumni of the same school: Radley College. (Thank god we are separated by many decades, as I wonder how he would have fared at Wednesday Burger Nights, with the Politics Department when I knew it, or how he would respond to even getting his bed flipped). Whatever we did, or did not do, during our time at Radley, it is obvious that Lowe never took to heart the motto sicut serpentes, sicut columbae. For the English: ‘(Be ye) wise as serpents, (and harmless) as doves'. In sum, relative success in Makerfield or otherwise, the only attribute of the serpent that Lowe possesses is not its wisdom but its jealous venom.

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