Sceptical

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

This has moved beyond insulting and ungrateful demands for cash and is now a hostile territorial claim. We should halt the issuing of all visas from the countries backing it.

[David Kurten @davidkurten]

The state pension is not a benefit.
It is one side of a verbal contract stated thousands of times by successive governments that if you pay National Insurance over your working life you will receive a state pension when you retire.

[Sceptical @Sc3ptic4l]

@SarahChampionMP Please explain your logic? Why is it madness to do this?

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The death of Ann Widdecombe is deeply distressing. I do not know the full circumstances or motivations, but it looks to be an act of appalling and wicked evil.

I am calling on Parliament and the Home Office to provide MPs who have received credible death threats receive proper state-funded security.

That absolutely includes Nigel Farage, Reform MPs and any other politician who has been threatened in a way that is beyond the usual social media insults.

I myself receive countless death threats, and arrests have been made because of those.

Personally, I have found Parliament’s response to be unacceptably relaxed about it all - it seems Reform feel the same. I agree.

I also believe that the temperature of political ‘debate' needs to be lowered. Of course there will be robust disagreement, and personal insults will inevitably be dragged into that, but too often, it’s too much.

In Britain, there is a line. Or at least there should be.

In the run up to the Makerfield by-election, the Daily Mail ran two front pages about Restore Britain in a row.

On the Sunday, they linked us to a ‘white supremacy’ summit.

On Monday, the headline labelled us as the home for ‘neo-nazis’, quoting somebody from Reform - Reform’s London Mayoral candidate also previously stated we were neo-nazi. Various other outrageous insults have been thrown at our party - from Reform, Green, Labour and other political figures.

This is not a healthy way of conducting political debate and it certainly fires people up in a reckless way.

But the point remains.

Any MP, from any party, who is subject to such foul abuse and threats should be protected by the state.

Britain is not the same country as it was 20 years ago, even 10.

There are a great number of very dangerous people living among us who want us dead.

Those who put themselves in serious harm’s way through engaging with the political process should receive proper security - I include Nigel Farage in that.

I will be looking to work with cross-party colleagues to implore the Home Office to reassess the current security arrangements for all MPs.

It needs to change.

[Sceptical @Sc3ptic4l]

@jomickane Peak clown world. People won’t stop noticing so it will get worse.

[Sceptical @Sc3ptic4l]

Yup, I’d place money on this outcome.

[Lee Hurst @LeeHurstComic]

Prediction.
The Pakistani paedo rapist will be deported to Pakistan.
Burnham wants a quick PR victory as the new PM.
Only after a long long time will we find out what horrendous price Britain will have paid to enable the deportation.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

If your country has enough money to give illegal migrants free stuff, your taxes are too high.

[Lewis Brackpool @Lewis_Brackpool]

A government that allows its country’s indigenous people to be replaced is extreme.

A government that puts its own women and children at risk of sexual violence and death is extreme.

A government that houses, feeds and protects foreign invaders over its own citizens is extreme.

A government that penalises and prosecutes its own people for talking about it is extreme.

The real extremists are in government, not us.

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

I am both humbled and thrilled to have been asked by @RupertLowe to be Restore Britain’s spokesman on National Security.

The security and defence of the nation, the British people, our overseas territories, and our interests at home and abroad is perhaps the most important task in British politics.

The appalling neglect of our defence and the erosion of our policing and border security over decades makes the task all the more crucial and urgent.

In formulating national security policy and coordinating relevant parts of our defence, policing, borders, and foreign policies, amongst others, I will ensure @RestoreBritain delivers the gold standard when it comes to keeping the British people safe. No other standard is acceptable.

[Sceptical @Sc3ptic4l]

@TheCanaryUK

[Sceptical @Sc3ptic4l]

@WriterHannahBT As genuine as they come. Never change for no one. Legend in the making! ;)

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Imagine a parent who spends far more than they earn every single month. FAR more.

Instead of cutting back, they keep borrowing. For a while, life is comfortable for the family. Nobody minds, the times are good. But the credit cards go up. The loans get bigger. The interest keeps mounting. It gets worse and worse. The interest payments soon outweigh the food costs, the energy bill, the mortgage.

It becomes unmanageable. The family’s income cannot cover it. It grows and grows and grows.

The parent retires - doesn’t want to work, but wants the easy life to continue. The burden is left with the children who had no say in how the debt was accumulated in the first place. They’re left to pay the interest every month. Life is hard, and getting harder. The payments are crushing, and so vast the idea of ever repaying the actual debt feels impossible.

Their entire financial existence is treading water in an attempt to manage the interest payments, all for decisions they did not take.

Not an acceptable situation, is it?

Clearly not.

That is exactly what my generation has done to Britain's young men and women.

In 2025/26 the government spent roughly £110 billion on debt interest. That’s 3.6% of GDP and 8.1% of total public spending. Almost double the defence budget.

Think about that for a minute.

It is INSANE.

Think about how many taxpayers are working to simply service that debt. Not to fund public services or to build infrastructure, or to look after those in need, but to pay debt interest.

To fund awful decisions.

That is Britain in 2026. 30 years of easy, lazy and selfish decisions.

We've borrowed hundreds of billions of pounds to avoid making hard choices. The debt grew, the interest payments soared. We've expanded the fat state, lived so far beyond our means and convinced ourselves someone else would eventually pay for it.

That someone else is our children. Their children. Our grandchildren.

They are expected to buy homes we made unaffordable, pay taxes we’ve allowed to soar and work to service a national debt we accumulated.

Somehow survive the inflation that we have stoked and stoked with endless money printing and the growth of the parasitic state.

We should have left them a country with affordable homes, low debt, cheap energy, growing industries and money in the bank. We should have left them a home built on solid foundations.

As a country, we have failed.

Restore Britain is prepared to do what responsible parents do, to do what that parent should have done to begin with. Stop spending money we don't have.

Brutally cut back, live within our means and then some. Pay off the debt. Make the difficult choices. Not for us, but for them.

Does that approach make for easy decisions today? No. Does it win many votes? Probably not.

But it is the only way to restore fairness, responsibility and economic sanity.

Because I don’t know how else to put this.

The country is BROKE. Britain is bankrupt, and my generation bankrupt it. Zero point denying it.

And let me be clear about one thing.

The economy, and the country, is teetering on the edge of a very high, a very jagged and a very dangerous cliff.

Complete and total economic collapse awaits.

But the only good news is that there is finally a political party with the courage and the honesty to do something about it for our children and our grandchildren - to start the rebuild, the repair, the restoration.

Restore Britain.

And if you don't like the sound of those difficult decisions, then don't vote for us.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

A Restore Britain Government will front-load child benefit so that parents get more financial support at the most challenging time.

This would be exclusively for children with at least one British parent.

Pay higher amounts to parents of young infants to help cover essential early-years costs like prams, cots, and nappies.

It wouldn't cost a penny, and would mean more money in the pocket for parents when the pressures are the highest - particularly for new parents.

This would of course be part of a wider package to encourage/enable families to have more children.

A sensible cost-effective Restore Britain policy that would give parents that extra breathing room when they need it the most.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Restore Britain will ensure that every Bill before Parliament must pass the following test.

Will this make it easier or harder for a British family to...

Buy a home?
Get married?
Have children?
Find work?
Keep more of what they earn?
Build wealth?
Create a successful business.
Save money?
Access affordable energy?
Confidently raise a family?
Leave something to their own children?
Control the national debt those children will inherit?
Feel safe in their community?

If the answer is 'harder' to any of those things?

It will not happen.

But we will not stop there.

Every existing Act of Parliament, regulation, tax, quango and major government policy will be subject to exactly the same robust test.

If a law makes it harder for ordinary British families to buy a home, start a business, raise children, build wealth or leave a better future to the next generation, it has no place on the statute book.

Restore Britain will amend it, or more likely - repeal it.

Westminster has measured success by GDP figures, spending announcements and the number of new laws passed. Enough. That has not served British men and women.

Restore Britain will judge success by one question alone:

Will this help British families build a better life?

If the answer is no…

It goes.

The Restore Britain test.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

My generation has failed millions of young British men and women who now feel unable to raise a family in our country, in our home.

Inflation. Housing. Immigration. Energy. Crime. Jobs.

The last 30 years has been a catastrophic failure.

It’s very easy for people of my age to sit in mortgage-free homes bought for a fraction of what it’s proportionately worth today and blame young Brits for the hole they find themselves in.

I’m not going to do that.

Yes, there are people taking the piss. They were when I was younger.

The vast majority of young men and women in our country want to work hard, find their way in life and build a family.

It is NOT their fault that inflation continues to soar, wages lag, the housing market is stacked against them, brutal energy costs drive up everything, their town centres are filthy with no opportunities, hard work is taxed to oblivion, millions of third world migrants are prioritised ahead of them.

We force them through university for no good reason, then saddle them with outrageous interest which is essentially just another tax.

That is not their fault. That is our fault.

My generation should start taking some responsibility for the mess we have left.

And we should start being honest about the pain required to fix it. Because we have had it easy, and our children and grandchildren will be the ones who have to pay for it - our eye-watering national debt is a shame on my generation. It is a genuine disgrace.

A false reality, all propped up by borrowed and printed money. It’s a con.

I feel guilty about it. I am trying to do something about it. It’s what Restore Britain is all about.

To leave a better country than the one handed to us.

A country where young men and women feel able to raise their family. That’s the aim.

A Britain restored.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I am calling on Restore Britain, the Tories, independents, Northern Irish MPs and Reform to work together in Parliament to end Labour's disgraceful new Sudan/Eritrea 'refugee' scheme before it starts.

Enough.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

It has now reached the point where I truly believe that public officials and politicians who continue to knowingly import third world savages into our communities should be prosecuted.

It is that reckless, that irresponsible, that dangerous.

People need to go to prison.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Blimey. The Guardian has acknowledged that I donate my entire MP salary to local charities.

The heat must be getting to them.

[Burnside @BurnsideWasTosh]

Well, here we go again, British economy grinds to a halt while everyone speculates in which manner Labour will shake down the private sector. Another cohort gives up on the country and foreign investors hold off.

A country held to ransom by 400 lanyards.