47 Years Of Lies, Decline – And Why I’m Ready To Back Rupert Lowe
I’ve watched British politics for nearly half a century. I started before Thatcher, when Labour was in and our lights kept going out. We sat playing cards by candlelight because the power was off again and the people running the country had lost control.
Ever since, one thing has stayed the same: every five years, we’re told things will change if we just vote for the other lot. So people vote Labour to punish the Tories, then Tory to punish Labour. And every time, life for ordinary English people gets harder, more chaotic, and frankly more unbearable.
At some point you have to stop pretending this is bad luck. It’s a pattern.
How everyday life has been wrecked
Look around you.
- Money. Wages crawling, prices racing. Families working flat out and still worrying if they can pay the next bill. Government after government promising “growth”, “levelling up”, “help with the cost of living”, and delivering next to nothing for the people who actually keep the country going.
- Housing. Young people priced out. Rents through the roof. Whole areas of England turned into investor playgrounds and transient housing while locals are squeezed.
- Crime and grooming gangs. Girls in English towns raped and passed around by gangs of men, for years, under the noses of police, councils and social services. The grooming gangs scandal and Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry have exposed something truly evil: the state knew enough to act, and chose not to.
- National identity. Mass immigration, “woke” nonsense in schools and institutions, and politicians who sneer at anyone who still says “I’m English” and wants their own country taken seriously.
Meanwhile, Westminster obsesses over reshuffles, leadership contests and speeches. The people living with the consequences – us – are expected to clap, vote and shut up.
Every Prime Minister: a new lie to get the keys
Let’s drop the polite language. Every PM in my lifetime has sold a story to get into office, then broken it. Some have done a few good things along the way, most have done damage, but all have lied.
- Labour in the 70s promised fairness and a social contract. What we got was inflation, wage squeezes, strikes all over the country and the Winter of Discontent that helped finish them off.
- Thatcher promised to fix the chaos, tame the unions, and make Britain strong again. She smashed plenty of things – including whole communities and industries – and left deep scars that still haven’t healed.
- Major promised decency and “back to basics”. We got sleaze and a government that couldn’t live up to its own sermons.
- Blair’s New Labour promised “things can only get better”. For a bit, life felt lighter. Then came Iraq, uncontrolled immigration and a smug attitude to anyone who wasn’t part of the metropolitan club. British workers were told to shut up and enjoy the new global Britain while their wages and security were hollowed out.
- Cameron and Clegg promised modern, sensible government – “we’re all in it together”. The reality was austerity, shrinking services, and a political class that walked us into the Brexit earthquake while pretending everything was fine.
- May, Johnson, Sunak each promised that they would finally “get Brexit done”, restore trust and govern like adults. Instead, we got chaos, childish politics, broken pledges and a country more divided and worn down than ever.
Same game, different faces. They talk a good game, they get their hands on the levers, and then we discover – again – that most of it was spin.
Labour now: same old shambles in a new suit
So where are we now? Labour is back saying “trust us, we’re the answer”. Keir Starmer dresses up as Mr Sensible, tells the country he’s learned from “past mistakes” and tries to act like the adults have re‑entered the room.
Let’s be blunt:
- Labour has spent years drifting away from the people it was meant to represent. Working‑class English voters are treated like an embarrassment, lectured about what they’re allowed to think and say, and told that concerns about immigration, crime or national identity are “backwards”.
- On grooming gangs, Labour is tangled in the mess – from councils and police forces under Labour control to national figures who downplayed or dodged the issue. You don’t see Labour shouting from the rooftops about prosecuting every official who turned a blind eye.
- Inside Labour, the same old culture wars are bubbling: MPs who still think patriotism is suspicious, activists more interested in pronouns than in protecting girls in care homes.
So when Labour says “we’ll fix what the Tories broke”, all I hear is: “We’d like our turn. Trust us again. Ignore the last few decades.”
The trust crisis: people have had enough
Here’s the reality: most people have had enough of all of them.
Polls show trust in politicians at record lows. Well over half of people think MPs are “just out for themselves”. Huge numbers say they don’t feel represented by any main party. Many who don’t vote say it’s because they don’t trust politics at all.
You don’t need a think tank to tell you that. You can hear it in pubs, on building sites, in WhatsApp chats and in families where people argue about politics and conclude, “They’re all the same.”
That’s why movements like Reform UK and now Restore Britain exist – because there’s a huge, angry chunk of the country that wants nothing to do with the old game anymore.
We’ve even seen how “outsiders” can disappoint. Nigel Farage built a brand on being anti‑establishment, then stood aside to help Boris Johnson. We all saw how that turned out. That told me everything I needed to know about where he sits when it really matters.
Why I’m looking at Rupert Lowe
Rupert Lowe is different. He’s not polished. He’s blunt. He says things that make the polite classes choke on their lattes. But that’s one reason I’m inclined to trust him.
He’s a businessman, farmer, former football club chairman, former MEP and now MP for Great Yarmouth. He could have played the usual game, kept his head down, chased a ministerial job and lived comfortably in the swamp. He hasn’t.
Instead:
- He’s launched Restore Britain as a party that openly says what many of us feel: that for decades the establishment has run this country into the ground.
- He’s put serious time, money and political capital into exposing the grooming gangs scandal through the Rape Gang Inquiry, when most of Westminster would rather pretend it’s all “sorted” and move on.
- He’s taken abuse, smears and attacks for daring to say that English white working‑class girls were sacrificed so politicians could protect their own power and reputations.
Is he perfect? No. Is Restore Britain going to make everyone happy? No. But after 47 years watching prime ministers lie, watching life for ordinary English people get worse, and watching the state fail to protect its own children, I’d rather take a chance on someone who actually seems angry about it and prepared to act.
2029: are you really going to do the same thing again?
We all know what’s coming.
In the run‑up to 2029, Labour and the Conservatives will roll out the same script:
- “This is the most important election of your lifetime.”
- “We’ve listened. We’ve changed. We’ll fix what went wrong.”
- “Don’t waste your vote on outsiders; it’s too dangerous.”
- Don’t vote X you will split the vote
You will be told, again, that if you just vote for their “big change”, everything will improve. And if you believe them, you’ll wake up a few years later to:
- Higher bills.
- More pressure on housing and services.
- More crime and more betrayal of victims.
- More excuses from the same faces.
I’ve heard this before somewhere:
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
For nearly 105 years, Britain has done the same thing in politics – switch between the same two parties, swallow the same kind of lies, and expect a different outcome. The result is the country you see around you now.
Your choice: keep trusting the establishment – or break the pattern
So here’s the blunt question I’m putting to you:
- Do you still trust Labour or the Conservatives to deliver the next “big thing” they’ll promise in 2029?
- Or have you reached the point where repeating the same behaviour and expecting a different outcome really does feel like the definition of insanity?
Are you going to keep doing the same thing – vote Lab/Tory, nod along to their speeches, hope they mean it this time – and then act surprised when nothing truly changes? Or is it finally time to break the pattern and give someone genuinely outside that stitched‑up game – like Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain – a real chance?
Tell me honestly:
- If you still trust Labour/Tories, explain why, and what you genuinely think they’ll fix.
- If you’re ready to back an outsider, say who, and what pushed you over the line – grooming gangs, cost of living, immigration, decades of lies, or all of the above.
Because if we, as English people, keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result… maybe it’s not just the politicians we need to start questioning. Maybe it’s our own habit of giving the same establishment another chance, when every instinct and every piece of evidence says they don’t deserve it.
FAQs
1. What is Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry?
Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry is a crowdfunded, independent investigation into grooming gangs and group‑based child sexual abuse in England, exposing how thousands of vulnerable girls were abused while police, councils and social services failed to protect them. It pulls together over 200 pages of evidence and testimony to show this was a nationwide scandal, not a handful of isolated cases.
2. Why are voters so disillusioned with UK politics?
Voters are disillusioned because, for decades, Labour and the Conservatives have promised “big change” at every election and delivered decline, broken services and endless scandals instead. Trust in politicians is now at record lows, with most people saying MPs are “just out for themselves” and many feeling that no major party represents them.
3. What does Restore Britain stand for?
Restore Britain, led by Rupert Lowe, is a nationalist, anti‑establishment party that says the country has been run into the ground by the political class for 30 years. It focuses on mass immigration, grooming gangs, economic decline and cultural issues, arguing for a tougher stance on crime, borders and British identity.
4. Has trust in British politicians ever been this low?
No. Recent research shows trust in British politicians is at or near the lowest levels ever recorded. Voters “almost never” believe politicians tell the truth or put the UK first, which is why more people are turning to outsider parties like Reform UK and Restore Britain or giving up on voting altogether.
5. What can ordinary people do about grooming gangs and political failure?
You can read the Rape Gang Inquiry report yourself, share it, and refuse to let the scandal be swept under the carpet. You can email your MP demanding a full statutory grooming gangs inquiry and real accountability, and you can complain to broadcasters like the BBC when they downplay or ignore the issue. Most importantly, you can stop rewarding the same failed establishment parties at the ballot box and back people who actually take this scandal seriously, such as Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain.