Yesterday’s announcement by Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe that he will convert his far-right, anti-migrant lobby group, Restore Britain, into a political party has been celebrated by some of Britain’s most blatant, undisguised nazis.
The first test for Lowe’s new party, announced in a video shot on his Gloucestershire farm, will be whether he continues to pander to extremists, or has the bottle to boot out the Hitler fan club that has already attached itself to his movement.
Last night there was a coordinated and long-planned decision by most of the faction that split from the Homeland Party last year, often seen as the “online right”, to line up 100% with Lowe. Searchlight has predicted this for some time.
The leader of this faction Steve Laws, whose most recent public speech was last weekend at a rally in Warwick organised by Britain’s largest nazi group Patriotic Alternative, wrote last night in block capitals so that even his dimmest followers couldn’t miss the message, “RUPERT LOWE IS OUR LEADER”.
Laws added several more posts last night, “All of us have to do all we can to help Rupert become known nationwide. It’s time to get to work patriots.” And later, “This is our one and only chance. Support Rupert.”
Fanatical nazi
Callum Barker, former Homeland activist best known for leading racist protests outside an Essex hotel, is now one of Laws’ main allies. He recently travelled with Laws to a fascist demonstration in Paris. Barker quickly echoed Laws’ endorsement of the new party, tweeting “Rupert Lowe is our leader.”
Another fanatical nazi and anti-semitic conspiracy theorist who left Homeland in alliance with Steve Laws, the Guernsey-based Sam Wilkes, known as “Zoomer Historian”, was so ecstatic at the news of Lowe’s new party that he kept coming back to X to post ever more lyrical historical metaphors designed for his fascist followers.
“My Prime Minister.” “We’re with Lord Protector Lowe.” “The crown was in the gutter and Rupert Lowe picked it up. We have three years to cook. He will become Prime Minister.”
“Rupert Lowe is our Ian Smith. When the establishment lets people down year after year they will turn to the man who says it like it is with enough financial backing to make things happen. The public have been crying out for Rupert, just like they were crying out for Ian. He will sweep to the top of the polls in no time.”
Vote splitter
Other leading nazis from several different factions have been less keen.
Nick Griffin moaned to his declining fan club that Lowe would merely be another failed vote splitter.
What Griffin wants is for his type of fascist to give up electoral politics and engage in some form of culture war. His former acolyte Mark Collett takes a similar line.
Except as our readers can probably guess, Griffin and Collett would no longer dream of working together. What they really mean is “donate to me”.
Alek Yerbury, who quit Collett’s PA to form his own tiny “National Rebirth Party”, has so far been the most persistent and outspoken critic of the Lowe project.
Yerbury has pointed out some awkward truths that Laws and Wilkes are trying to hide from their online nazi cult.
Describing Lowe’s launch statement as sounding “like the lovechild of Thatcherite Conservatism and brain-dead populism”, Yerbury noted that Lowe is on record as a strong supporter of Israel, and that “Restore Britain is ideologically free market capitalism with racism. Like Thatcher on steroids.”
Many of the young fogey “dissident right” once associated with UKIP have lined up with Lowe and some were even present at his campaign launch, but this faction is split, with some reluctant to abandon Farage’s Reform UK.
The Scottish YouTube “comedian” Mark Meechan, known as “Count Dankula”, wrote, “I really like Rupert and would much prefer him over Farage but I have concerns over vote splitting.”
Early this morning, and very predictably, the nazis’ favourite billionaire Elon Musk posted his support, “Join Rupert Lowe in Restore Britain, because he is the only one who will actually do it!”
After the big names on the British nazi scene took contrasting lines last night, this morning their followers predictably followed their leaders’ divergent lines.
Another former Homeland organiser Andrew Piper retweeted a Restore Britain membership link and wrote that existing far right parties should “just fold and unite under one banner. We all broadly want the same thing, this is the vehicle to get us there. Together we’re stronger.”
Piers Mellor, the Australian nazi occultist now in Yerbury’s party, wrote: “British ‘nationalists’ fall for the latest pro-Zionist, pro-capitalist false dawn with such mechanical regularity, at this stage it’s looking less like delusion and more like an existential condition of inner slavery.”
Searchlight knows that several well-known nazis have already signed up to Lowe’s new party.
We’ve no reason to believe that Lowe himself has any truck with nazism or anti-semitism, but the leader himself has to accept responsibility for a stream of extremist rhetoric online that is obviously designed to appeal to the most racist elements of Reform’s activist base, trying to prise them away from Farage.
Collaboration
As we’ve come to expect, sections of the Israeli right including some associated with the Netanyahu government are prepared to align with even the most despicable European racists in a bid to encourage Islamophobia.
This is more than short-sighted, it’s disgraceful and amounts to collaboration with fascism. The vast majority of Britain’s Jewish community has repudiated this aspect of Israel’s right-wing.
Not only the Jewish community but all decent conservatives will be watching Lowe closely over the next 48 hours. Unless he acts quickly to repudiate his nazi fans and excludes far-right infiltrators, we shall know that Restore Britain is happy to be a Trojan horse for Hitlerites.
