Rupert Lowe has branded Manchester city centre and diverse cities across the UK, “third world shithole[s]”.
While this sort of talk is common from Restore, you’d think the party would have the sense to tone it down a bit while running for the Greater Manchester mayor position.
Go and look at that video of Restore Britain’s Greater Manchester mayoral candidate, Marlon West, walking around Piccadilly Gardens late at night. It’s just disgusting, honestly. What a vile place.
Let’s call it what it is.
A shithole.
A third world shithole.
And it’s not…
— Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) July 14, 2026
Rupert Lowe: Who is he?
If you’re unfamiliar with Lowe, he’s the leader of Restore Britain. This breakaway party exists because Reform wasn’t far right enough and it’s had some success in taking voters away from Nigel Farage.
Lowe recently attracted controversy for lying about the victims of the Dunblane massacre, seemingly to curry favour with the Yanks.
16 children and a teacher died in Dunblane. But daddy's gun being taken away is more serious. Fuck rupert lowe https://t.co/WboflCqtHX
— BatesyBhoy
(@BatesyBhoy1967) July 9, 2026
As the commenter alluded to, Lowe’s dad had his gun taken away, which must have been harrowing for him. Lowe still has some firearms, though, including the shotgun he had his groundskeeper execute his pet dog with.
Lowe didn’t just attack Manchester; he also said:
And it’s not just in the middle of Manchester.
It’s everywhere, absolutely everywhere.
London, Birmingham, Glasgow. Even places like Norwich, Exeter, Cardiff, Nottingham, Rochdale, Bristol, Reading, Newcastle. It is everywhere.
It’s become a common refrain for far-right politicians to say “Britain is broken”. We don’t disagree with this statement; we just differ on what the cause is.
In our opinion, Britain is in a sorry state of affairs because 40 years of neoliberalism stripped everything to the bone. This is the political ideology of flogging everything that isn’t nailed down and then renting it back from the greedy, no-good c*nts who fund Reform UK, the Tories, and yes, even Labour.
If you leave everything to the whims of the market, towns and cities will deteriorate because there’s no profit in maintaining them. When you’ve got worn down towns filled with worn down people, of course, the vibes won’t be uniformly pleasant.
Lowe then added, with casual xenophobia:
Nowhere is safe from the third worldification of Britain – absolutely nowhere.
It’s the same feel, the same scene. Young foreign men just loitering around. Deliveroo bikes skimming about, it stinks of weed, foreign languages fill the air.
Gig work
On top of neoliberalism, we’ve had the slow death of organised labour. With that comes the gig economy and the Deliveroo bikes Lowe complained about.
In Lowe’s mind, these foreign men brought the poverty, destitution and Deliveroo bikes with them. He thinks this because it’s politically beneficial for him to do so.
The reality is the private sector hollowed Britain out, and the people Lowe complains about are plugging the gaps. If we deported every gig economy worker who wasn’t born in the UK, Britain wouldn’t become a workers’ utopia; the poorest white people would just take their place.
Now, we’re not saying we need to encourage migration for the sake of Deliver-f*cking-roo. We think all work should be well paid and rewarding. What we are saying is Lowe and others like him are selling their voters a fairytale and they’re doing it for the benefit of the people who profit from Britain breaking.
Lowest of the Lowe
Lowe ended his hate screed as follows:
A Restore Britain Government will deport millions. We will make Britain safe again.
We will not allow our country to remain a third world shithole.
That I promise you.
Migration increased under the Tories despite the constant fear mongering against migrants. This happened because it was beneficial for everyone at the top. The migrants plugged employment gaps and protected the pension pot against our ageing population while also serving as a political target for constant scapegoating.
This situation couldn’t last, of course, because eventually voters started to ask: ‘If they’re so bad, why are the Tories letting them in?‘ This is why we now have politicians like Nigel Farage and Rupert Lowe.
Potentially, these men will pull the same trick as the Tories if they take power. Regardless, if we continue down this path, we will eventually end up with someone who’s deadly serious about following through on this violent ideology. And it never ends with deportations.
Featured image via the Canary
By Willem Moore
