Daniel Trilling
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And, you know, to make that your sole campaigning point around issues of sexual abuse, when you've got historic scandals like Jimmy Savile being allowed to operate as a very well-known BBC entertainer for years and years.
So there is plenty to talk about in that area.
And I think it's always a big red flag when you have a political campaigner
Like Rupert Lowe, just homing in on the one area of systematic abuse that allows him and others to make claims about Muslims, immigrants, cultural difference and so on.
So Rupert Lowe has also in the past praised Tommy Robinson.
He said he deserves credit for all the work that he's done around grooming gangs.
Because Robinson has for a long time agitated around this in an especially unhelpful way, I would say.
And there are other figures associated with Restore Britain who have called for re-migration, you know, which is the far-right's euphemism for policies of mass deportation and often is used to apply to legally settled migrants as well as, say, asylum seekers.
So,
That could potentially cover very large numbers of people living in the UK.
And Lowe even said that he would be happy to send asylum seekers to Scotland in the form of internal exile, I suppose.
And in his word, let the midges do their work.
Yeah.
And I think this really sums up what's happening.
You know, reform have tried to tread this line very carefully where they say we don't accept fascists and neo-Nazis in our party associated with us.
Rupert Lowe has positioned Restore Britain slightly to the right of reform, but is still trying to mount a respectable electoral project.
The thing is, the sliver of ground between where reform ends and where the fascists and neo-Nazis start is very, very thin.
And so it's clear that Restore is attracting the support of neo-Nazi and fascist activists.
So Hope Not Hate, the anti-fascist monitoring organisation, recently have reported that members of Patriotic Alternative, which is a fascist group formed by former members of the British National Party, have been out in Makerfield campaigning for Restore.
Well, I think it's appealing to people who...