The Wind Up of the Easily Led is working in the UK

On Thursday, an MP in the British parliament, one Rupert Lowe, (now independent because he was thrown out of Reform UK) having mistaken a charity rowing event as it passed the Norfolk coast for immigrants trying to land in a small boat, without doing any further checking, gave into his paranoia and took to social media with a blurry photograph and a declaration that he was going to make sure that everyone in the boat was going to be deported.

Immediately groups of people rushed to the coast to defend British soil. They were riled up and had stopped thinking. No small boats have ever landed on the Norfolk coast. The weather was not conducive to such a landing. Even if it was, is vigilantism now going to be the order of the day for anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant?

In interviews on television news, they of course blamed the idiot MP for sparking rumours in a volatile situation. Some truth there, I think. However, they are the tinder to his spark and need to take some responsibility. If we continue to move in this direction, with divisive politicians winding up people with real concerns to act foolishly, we all have a problem. 🙁

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd32lnq445o

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Anniedlr · 26-30, F

One compensation is he’s giving £1,000 to MND the charity the rowers we’re raising money for🙂

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@Anniedlr It is a small compensation and possibly a mark of contrition, although I doubt in the grand scheme of things that amount of money means a lot to him. Real contrition would be to encourage people to be more measured in their response and to change his own behaviour.

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@FreddieUK I see he has also stood down as a Reform MP to become independant.

That was as I read reported, and I do not know if he had made any connection with his boat mistake.

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

@ArishMell He was under investigation within Reform for bullying including (I think his title was, the Chairman - the man who stood down and then rejoined immediately again) and he was suspended at that point. Then he resigned. The police did not find any cause for prosecution. He clearly is a supporter of Reform UK's agenda and possibly more extreme even than their leadership (if that's possible).

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@FreddieUK He's probably not done anything illegal but he does seem a very unpleasant character, and one no political party could do with!