Some of the most active British nazis of the past twenty years (including convicted criminals) are rallying behind Rupert Lowe’s newly registered political party Restore Britain. The virus has spread beyond a handful of online celebrity extremists and includes people with experience in the real political world as well as the virtual one. Lowe now […]
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Restore Britain and Advance UK in ‘full tilt’ feud
The far right’s much-hoped-for populist right realignment, meant to fuse Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, has turned into the car crash we predicted. Lowe had already failed conspicuously to respond to Habib’s offer of a merger when, on 5 March in a leaked voice note, Habib fired off both barrels. . […]
Meet Rupert Lowe’s latest recruit – a nazi jailbird linked to a terror group
Meet the latest recruit to be welcomed into Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain – one of the UK’s most notorious nazis who was linked to a neo-nazi terror group. Sam Melia, a leading member of Patriotic Alternative only recently released from jail, revealed yesterday that he has joined Restore and that he would be keen to […]
Far-right merger collapses as Ben Habib slams ‘dictator’ Lowe
The uneasy courtship between Ben Habib’s Advance UK and Rupert Lowe’s newly-launched Restore Britain party has collapsed into open hostility, with Habib issuing an extraordinary nine‑minute denunciation of Lowe’s leadership, structure and political direction. The intervention confirms Searchlight’s earlier reporting on the factional tensions simmering beneath the right‑populist realignment, and suggest that the attempted consolidation […]
Will Rupert Lowe ‘Unite the Right’?
The British far right has spent the past decade talking about “Uniting the Right” while doing almost everything possible to avoid it. From the wreckage of the BNP through the serial reinventions of UKIP and the endless splintering of various fascist micro‑parties, the movement has been defined less by ideological coherence than by personal fiefdoms, […]
Online nazis hail ‘Our Leader’ as Rupert Lowe launches new party
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 […]