Despite barely being known in his own country, Rupert Lowe, leader of one-man-band extreme right outfit Restore Britain, is unfathomably popular with the American podosphere, which appears to believe him to be on the cusp of Downing Street. But his appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast – the world’s biggest – may have finally earned Lowe infamy, if not outright fame, back home.
The Great Yarmouth MP, who formed Reform after falling out with Nigel Farage, is in the US to seek financial support from Elon Musk, who has declared a party with a handful of councillors in Norfolk to be the “last and only hope” for the UK. Musk, who flirted with the idea of giving $100 million to Reform before deciding Farage was a woke leftie, is said to be considering stumping up for Restore instead.
Prior to his meeting with Musk on Sunday, Lowe stopped off for a rambling two-hour appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, where he voiced his support for the niche position – in Britain, at least – that gun ownership should be legal.
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“They don’t want the public to have guns,” he moaned of the UK authorities. “As you probably know, they banned handguns in the ‘90s, right in the late ‘90s, because there was a murder up in Dunblane.”
Asked by an incredulous Rogan if guns had really been banned over just “one murder”, Lowe confirmed that was the case, adding: “My father used to shoot pistols and he had all his pistols taken away.”
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How awful for him – but as New World readers will know, Dunblane was not “one murder”. In March 1996, Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself in what remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history. The ensuing Cullen Report led directly to the prohibition of the private ownership of most handguns in Britain.
Lowe himself had his guns, for which he had a licence, removed from him by Gloucestershire Police last year after allegations that he had made threats against Reform UK’s then chairman, now absurdly self-styled “shadow home secretary”, Zia Yusuf. They were returned after the investigation concluded without charges five months later.
Incidentally, there has not been a single mass shooting at a UK school since Dunblane. But in the US, 216 people have died of gunshot wounds in schools since 1999 – something we can look forward to here if Musk’s millions somehow manage to put Lowe in No 10 and he is able to overturn the ban he loathes so much.
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