I can’t quite believe that a parliamentarian has just called for the deportation of family members of offenders of a specific ethnicity. - ThreadSky

benansell.bsky.social • 46 days ago

I can’t quite believe that a parliamentarian has just called for the deportation of family members of offenders of a specific ethnicity.

Reposted from Peter Walker

Reform MP Rupert Lowe condemns “the mass rape of young, white working glass girls by gangs of Pakistani rapists", saying the victims "may well be in the millions”. He calls for a pause to visas from Pakistan and for the “wives, sisters, mothers, cousins” of perpetrators to also be deported.

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strokebystroke.bsky.social•46 days ago

Focussing on the one ethnicity when it is a problem that runs across the country and across different ethnicity's of all colours that are to the larger degree British. Back into deportations the right wing rhetoric continues to be there to with one intention to gain right wing votes and stir hatred

hughster.bsky.social•46 days ago

Is no one on the Tory benches going to say anything? No one?

lucypitman.bsky.social•46 days ago

Probably no as he is a Reform MP and they appear to be modelling themselves on them

schrencki.bsky.social•46 days ago

they seem to be playing leap frog and jumping over each other to get the furthest right the quickest as they chase the all important Musk retweet.

Lowe has gone one notch up from Jenrick... Tories turn next.

wolfp.bsky.social•46 days ago

tbh also imagine saying this less than 24h after channel four aired a documentary about a girl who lied about being raped by men of Pakistani descent

garethrichards1.bsky.social•46 days ago

You really surprised? Some MPs will say anything to get a reaction and play to what they think are thier crowd. Grifting hyperbole

kennystewart.bsky.social•46 days ago

Looking forward to a robust response from the EHRC which I’m sure will be incoming any moment.

ledredman.bsky.social•46 days ago

I can believe anything of fascists.

benansell.bsky.social•46 days ago

Short note - ‘I can’t quite believe’ is just rhetorical.

davidneilhamilton.bsky.social•46 days ago

I wouldn't expect a Reform MP to say anything different

benansell.bsky.social•46 days ago

Here is the Hansard. Lowe is arguing that if family members ‘knew’ they should be deported, which I suppose mildly qualifies this, but I would suggest likely also deports many people who were themselves potentially victims of abuse or coercive control.

da.videvans.uk•46 days ago

And just in case the general thrust of his remarks wasn't clear enough, here he is on the same day praising what happened immediately after the Weimar government fell. Apparently it was really good for their economy 😱

murmeration.bsky.social•44 days ago

Didn’t the Weimar lead directly to an even less benevolent government?? (Especially if you were handicapped; Jewish; left wing; etc)

benansell.bsky.social•46 days ago

I encourage people to read through his full speech. It’s like something from the Monday Club in the early 1970s.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-01-08/debates/656F7D15-EA9D-46EA-8D8A-795738402CE9/Children’SWellbeingAndSchoolsBill?highlight=rupert%20lowe#contribution-6A10A611-D2FA-4200-A81A-DB6A25240542

theglassisempty.bsky.social•46 days ago

Your summary is more than enough. But thanks.

paulgriffiths77.bsky.social•46 days ago

He doesn't come across as the sharpest knife in the draw. Not really surprised he would come out with such bigoted nonsense.

martymcd.bsky.social•46 days ago

Ben, have a read of the @roberthutton.co.uk sketch I've just posted, he absolutely nails this point

murmeration.bsky.social•44 days ago

Not sure that’s currently the law of the land. Just being aware of someone else’s criminal acts doesn’t make you guilty of them - think you have to do something to help/cover up/ frustrate police etc.

Would Lowe deport all the police who “knew” but turned away?

Cooper wants to change that!

west13.bsky.social•46 days ago

I’m sorry this has been on the cards for the past 20 years

johndoe123123.bsky.social•46 days ago

We are passed" can't quite believe". These people live amongst us, they always have, but now they feel free to vent their hatred freely.Who are the voters who thought this utter POS should be an MP?

katyshep.bsky.social•45 days ago

He's my local MP. Since his election the "quiet" racists have felt emboldened enough to share their nasty views with anyone they think might give them a sympathetic ear. Usually start with a little 'joke' to test the water. At least I know who to avoid now. Bigots & cunts, the lot of them.

johndoe123123.bsky.social•46 days ago

Sorry "past"

jwsidders.bsky.social•46 days ago

I can.

dannymcbride.bsky.social•46 days ago

Absolutely appalling. It'll no doubt please Musk though. They only seem motivated by getting his retweet at the moment.

bduke01.bsky.social•46 days ago

I can. He is just giving voice to what quite a few Reform voters think

ronaoh.bsky.social•46 days ago

Not one bit surprised by anything that comes from reform uk!!!

scm.bsky.social•46 days ago

He’s advertising himself to Space Nazi.

pamfde.bsky.social•46 days ago

looks like that to me. Sissy SpaceX had already tipped him to replace Farage

centristmum.bsky.social•46 days ago

Just the female relatives. Their fathers, brothers, and sons are all fine apparently

murmeration.bsky.social•44 days ago

Showing his true agenda and moral philosophy

benstanley.eu•46 days ago

What next? A former academic attempts to give him intellectual cover for this through the medium of a long and badly-argued Substack post?

benansell.bsky.social•46 days ago

I am enjoying not having to imagine this hypothetical situation

danjdevine.bsky.social•46 days ago

Don't forget the questionable polling!

jamesrball.com•46 days ago

🔥

jones-the-gas.bsky.social•46 days ago

It is difficult to know whether to emphasize one’s incredulity at this or one’s entire lack of surprise.

bartislatfass.bsky.social•46 days ago

rogermccarthy.bsky.social•46 days ago

daemonaac.bsky.social•46 days ago

or that his suggestion is there are 'millions' of victims?! (these people need to stop recounting their shameful fantasies & trying to 'govern' on the basis of them)

ajcclark.bsky.social•46 days ago

The victims are obviously not in the millions.

newtongrunnion.bsky.social•46 days ago

We have a word for it in German:

Sippenhaft or Sippenhaftung (German: [ˈzɪpənˌhaft(ʊŋ)], kin liability) is a German term for the idea that a family or clan shares the responsibility for a crime or act committed by one of its members, justifying collective punishment.

The Nazis loved it.

lesleya.bsky.social•46 days ago

Not the whole family here though, just women and cousins. No fathers or brothers…

schrencki.bsky.social•46 days ago

and I'm sure Rupert Lowe would get all offended if he was labelled as far-right or a fascist.

tokitaneko.bsky.social•46 days ago

Im not remotely surprised the racist MP from the racist party is a racist POS.

baxterblue.bsky.social•46 days ago

Oh I can. Bunch of racist twats.

short-drain.bsky.social•45 days ago

I don’t recognise him as a “parliamentarian”…we need to set much higher standards on those chosen as candidates to give our electorate better representation. That’s a cross party thing too.

msbluewednesday.bsky.social•44 days ago

Huge agree.

andraswf.bsky.social•46 days ago

I can

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