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  "description": "The legacy media successfully gelded Nigel Farage, but Rupert Lowe still has his stones.",
  "path": "/now-its-restore-in-their-sights/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-27T23:30:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://goodoil.news",
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    "The Makerfield by-election"
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  "textContent": "As the saying goes, when the flak is heaviest, you’re over the target. Pauline Hanson knows this only too well: with One Nation dominating poll after poll and winning key electoral battles, the media and political establishment knives are out. The hit pieces were – _were_ – coming thick and fast: at least, until the establishment realised that every attack might as well have been a One Nation campaign ad. The more the establishment pour scorn on her, the more disgruntled voters conclude **Pauline Hanson** must be on to something.\n\nThe British legacy media and political establishment are a bit slower learning the same lesson about **Rupert Lowe**.\n\nHaving successfully gelded **Nigel Farage** with their time-honoured strategy of simply shouting ‘far-right!’ and ‘racist!’ on an endless loop, they’re trying the same gambit with Lowe and Restore Britain. What they haven’t figured out, yet, is that Lowe just doesn’t care. Nor do the growing number of Britons who support him and his party. Like Hanson, Lowe has turned ‘We’ve got the guts to say what you’re thinking’ into his most effective weapon.\n\nHence, you get teeth-gnashing guff like this from normiecon establishment rag, the _Times_.\n\n> The Makerfield by-election has turned even more unpredictable. The assumption that the battle for the seat is between Reform and Labour is out of date. Restore, the party created by former Reform MP Rupert Lowe after his volcanic falling out with Nigel Farage, threatens to snatch votes from Reform and hand victory to **Andy Burnham**.\n>\n> Polling suggests that Restore is currently on seven per cent support. In a tight race, with Reform at present three points behind Labour, this can make a critical difference to the result. Support for Restore in Makerfield seems to be growing, with anecdotal evidence that Lowe is being seen as the real deal while Farage is not.\n\nAs well they should. Farage is increasingly outing himself as yet another **Boris Johnson** : all big talk, but masking just another establishment shill.\n\nThe _Times_ wrings its hands that Lowe’s ‘eye-wateringly hard line’ on immigration, ritual slaughter, the burka, sharia courts and deporting dual nationals who failed to stop the rape gangs has stolen Farage’s mantle of authenticity. So, what is a legacy media normiecon rag to do?\n\nWhat they always do, dredge up a fringe nutbar, and point and shriek.\n\nA street interview with one Restore supporter, **Frank Wright** , degenerated into some vaguely antisemitic conspiracy nonsense about Israel driving Western wars.\n\n> The impressively articulate Wright said Britain was facing a moral, financial and diplomatic crisis. Whomever you voted for, the same mad policies had been enacted to bankrupt the country.\n>\n> Britain had turned into a borderless international bazaar, where the competent were excluded from employment for holding the wrong views, the Tories’ worship of the free market had demolished traditional communities and values, and nowhere seemed like home.\n\nThen the legacy media hit the paydirt they’d been digging for.\n\n> “The reason we have a mass migration crisis in Europe,” he said, “is because of the wars in the Middle East that the United States has wholeheartedly fought, which serves only the grand strategy of the Israelis.”\n\nThe paper presents this as proof that Restore is a dangerous fringe attracting ‘unattractive or dubious people’.\n\nIt is all very familiar. The same people who spent years pretending **Jeremy Corbyn** ’s long record of antisemitism and tolerance for actual Jew-haters was just a bit of harmless lefty eccentricity are suddenly clutching their pearls when a single Restore supporter says something vile. To damn Wright with faint praise, his views are no worse than the average Greens or Labour voter in many inner-city seats. Labour, remember, tried to install a man with a decades-long record of antisemitism and association with terrorist sympathisers in Number 10. The worst ‘far-right’ example the _Times_ can dredge up is still operating well within the moral universe the mainstream left has normalised for years.\n\nBut Rupert Lowe himself is on the record as a strong supporter of Israel and a vocal condemner of antisemitism. **Donald Trump** , routinely smeared with the same ‘far-right’ brush, has a Jewish extended family and was the first president in half a century to have a rabbi officiate at his inauguration. The attempt to paint the entire movement as a groyper-style antisemitic cult collapses the moment you look at the actual principals rather than the worst bloke they can find on a street corner.\n\nRestore Britain, remember, only started a few months ago. It has contested just one round of local government elections and won every seat it contested by a landslide. That is not the record of a fringe crank operation. It is the record of a party whose policies upset the fashionable dinner parties in Islington but register as plain commonsense to millions of ordinary Britons who have watched their communities transformed, their wages undercut, their daughters raped by grooming gangs and their politicians lie about it for decades.\n\n> Lowe, who has pledged to ban Muslim and Jewish ritual slaughter, the burka and sharia courts, has proposed not only the mass deportations of illegal immigrants; not only, in addition, deporting “legal migrants who refuse to speak English, don’t work, claim benefits, live in social housing or actively hate us”, but also dual nationals who have done nothing to stop the rape gangs.\n>\n> So a wife who knew her husband had been involved but said nothing “can go back to Pakistan”, apparently even if she holds British citizenship.\n\nProblem?\n\nAs **Carl Benjamin** has pointed out, whatever the by-election result in Makerfield, Labour will still be in government. At least if Burnham wins he is not anywhere near as awful as **Keir Starmer** , and he is genuinely popular in the area. The bigger story is that a party that barely existed a few months ago is already forcing the establishment to hyperventilate. Every attack on Lowe simply confirms to voters that he is saying the things the political class has spent years refusing to say.\n\nIf Britain has become a “tinderbox”, as the _Times_ warns, it is not because of so-called populists like Lowe or Farage. It is because the establishment parties spent decades importing incompatible cultures at scale, refusing to enforce borders or assimilation, turning a blind eye to grooming gangs for fear of racism accusations and then gaslighting the public when the predictable social breakdown arrived.\n\nThe street politics and loss of trust did not start with Restore Britain. They started with the very people now complaining that someone else is finally offering voters an alternative.\n\n* * *\n\n💡\n\n****If you enjoyed this article please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.****",
  "title": "Now It’s Restore in Their Sights",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-27T23:30:44.074Z"
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