12/11/2025
Another busy day for Rupert Lowe MP — posting divisive rhetoric. Three of his posts stand out for all the wrong reasons.
First, he claimed that “Gazan migrants” shouldn’t be treated on the NHS, suggesting that helping refugees takes appointments away from British people. There’s zero evidence for this. In fact, only a handful of Palestinian children — three reported as of August 2025 — have been treated in the UK. Would Lowe really deny medical care to children from Gaza, many of whom have been horrifically maimed by the IDF?
It’s worth remembering that UK weapons, intelligence, and foreign policy have directly contributed to Gaza’s devastation. Tens of thousands — likely hundreds of thousands — of civilians have been killed or injured.
In another post, Lowe called for the return of the death penalty, even raising it in Parliament. Yet all the evidence shows it doesn’t deter crime — murder rates didn’t rise after abolition in 1965. What it did do was end the risk of executing innocent people.
And earlier, he again attacked immigrants — this time over the NHS — claiming we should accept foreign doctors and surgeons but no one else. What about the nurses, cleaners, canteen staff, administrators, and receptionists who keep hospitals running? Without migrant workers, the NHS would collapse.
Lowe’s repeated use of fear and division — blaming immigrants, refugees, and minorities — is dangerous and cynical. It’s designed to distract from real issues and to build power through hate. Most people, thankfully, see through it. But this kind of rhetoric pushes us down a dark, familiar path: one where the vulnerable are scapegoated and the powerful go unchallenged.
Let’s not forget: our NHS, agriculture, and care systems depend on migrant workers. Undermining them harms everyone.
Lowe’s politics fit neatly within a broader far-right strategy — spreading conspiracy theories, posturing as a “strongman,” attacking human rights, and exploiting faith and nationalism, all while aligning with billionaires like Elon Musk — a man who thinks it’s fine to give N**i salutes on live TV.
As we mark Remembrance Day, we’d do well to remember what those who fought fascism stood for — and why we can’t let its echoes take root here again.
