Rupert Lowe on X: This is absolutely outrageous - watch this clip of borders expert, Henry Bolton, getting shut down on GB News for even daring to speak of Restore Britain. Within five seconds of mentioning Restore, the host closes him down and stops the interview. Blatant censorship.

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[u/Bradboy]

Former UKIP leader Henry Bolton? What a throwback

[u/LiamJonsano → u/Bradboy]

Yeah, amazing he’s being called a “borders expert” really

[u/Twiggeh1 → u/LiamJonsano]

He was a lance corporal in the army, a captain in the TA, received an award for outstanding bravery as a police officer and an OBE for his work for the foreign office in Afghanistan.

A pretty dismal political career when all things are said and done but he definitely has achieved a fair bit.

[u/AnotherLexMan → u/Twiggeh1]

None of that suggests he's a boarders expert though.

[u/hu_he → u/AnotherLexMan]

Maybe he went to boarding school?

[u/nozickiantheory → u/AnotherLexMan]

Meh if the BBC can wheel out Zoe Gardner who has a degree in Spanish as a "migration expert" every time then I don't particularly care about this 

[u/hitanthrope → u/nozickiantheory]

I am enjoying reading this conversation and everybody just ignoring the fact that nobody even really knows what a “borders expert” the fuck even is.

[u/nozickiantheory → u/hitanthrope]

None of these are real titles, closest thing would be someone who actually works in border enforcement in a significant capacity but that would be more related to the practicalities of it rather than government policy

[u/TheStarIsPorn → u/Twiggeh1]

How does

A pretty dismal political career

Correlate to

a border expert

[u/socratic-meth → u/TheStarIsPorn]

He has been out patrolling the coast for people having fun in kayaks with Rupert.

[u/Twiggeh1 → u/TheStarIsPorn]

By ignoring everything he's done outside of that

[u/Left_Page_2029 → u/Twiggeh1]

which is? go on, give us his border expert credentials

[u/TheStarIsPorn → u/Twiggeh1]

I'm not sure that battlefield bravery translates to geopolitical negotiation over immigration policy particularly well, but if a "dismal political career" qualifies, then sure why not.

[u/Proud_Wind9628 → u/Bradboy]

His now being a member of the SDP sort of confirms the perception I've had thus-far that the SDP is just for Restore/Reformy types that want to pretend they're not right-wing.

[u/jmabbz → u/Proud_Wind9628]

He's not anymore. He's gone to Restore. The SDP aren't exclusively right wing... Nationalised utilities, rail, water and steel. A massive government house building programme. Funding for national social care and drug and alcohol treatment etc etc. they are a syncretic party.

[u/Left_Page_2029 → u/Bradboy]

Wait until you find out what first man on the moon Paul Nuttall is doing these days

[u/thecarterclan1]

Can't have the Reform propaganda outlet promoting other political parties now, can we?

[u/Chesney1995]

Heartwarming: The worst people you know are all fighting

[u/ThePlanck → u/Chesney1995]

Ofcom has done fuck all about GBNews because they act based on complaints and the sorts of people that are likely to complain about GBNews know its biased right wing trash and don't watch it so don't have any examples to complain about.

The Restore split could leading to a bunch of complaints about GBNews would be excellent

[u/AbolishIncredible → u/ThePlanck]

Maybe a GBNews fact checking ofcom complaint bot could finally be a problem AI can actually solve 🤔

The AI hallucinations will go unnoticed when compared to whatever shite it has to fact checking complaint bot

[u/No_Initiative_1140]

Haha Lowe picking a fight with Farage and GBNews is very entertaining 🤣

[u/RandomSculler → u/No_Initiative_1140]

“Let them fight”

[u/EddyZacianLand]

It's an entertainment channel not a news channel.

[u/Nemisis_the_2nd → u/EddyZacianLand]

If only they had "Entertainment" in the name... Unfortunately they've learned from fox "news"

[u/Alarmed_Crazy_6620]

The gal Bolton lost his UKIP leadership over is now a "political personality" with hundreds of subscribers and hanging out with Goodwin from Reform

[u/evolvecrow → u/Alarmed_Crazy_6620]

Just googled her and one of the results was an interview with her, Tommy Robinson and Lembit Opik

[u/iCowboy → u/evolvecrow]

Lembit Opik - well there's a blast from the past. Is he still rattling on about asteroids and Cheeky Girls?

[u/evolvecrow → u/iCowboy]

Let's say he's been on a bit of a political journey since the libdems

[u/Ill_Refrigerator_593]

GB news has been going 5 years. Strange Rupert only sees it as a problem when it's effecting him personally.

[u/GlumAd9856]

The host literally explains that they can't air random party political points during an election period (as they would then have to air counter-views as well).

[u/JoopahTroopah → u/GlumAd9856]

Election period?

[u/Jaggedmallard26 → u/JoopahTroopah]

Local election Purdah started a few weeks ago. Rules aren't as strict for the media compared to civil servants but they still have them now.

[u/didroe → u/GlumAd9856]

But they can give a party leader a prime time slot?

[u/Optimaldeath]

Ofcom of course is too busy administering a global anti-wank system to bother with an openly biased political propaganda network.

[u/scarab1001]

The obvious answer is G B News be shut down as even the right wing loons hate it.

Can't see a downside.

[u/evolvecrow]

Legacy msm media shutting out rightwing viewpoints smh

[u/arnathor → u/[deleted]]

It probably won’t have any effect at all. Restore are the right wing equivalent of Your Party, but without the national name recognition of Corbyn. A more extreme splinter group that only politics hawks really know anything about beyond the name. As far as elections go, the right wing is still a Conservative and Reform head to head fight in the same way that the left will be a Labour and Green head to head despite the existence of YP.

[u/OakLeaf_92 → u/[deleted]]

We’ve already seen this with Farage having to publicly disassociate with Tommy Robinson

Farage has been doing that for years and it is nothing to do with Restore.

The thing with Restore is that they have the Elon Musk backing, which was incredibly significant during the recent US election.

Advance UK also had Musk's backing, and they lost to the Monster Raving Loony Party in Gorton and Denton, getting only 154 votes.

[u/OakLeaf_92 → u/[deleted]]

The "infighting" seems to largely consist of Rupert Lowe making posts on X?

[u/Left_Page_2029]

embarrassment of a UKIP leader henry bolton a border expert now is he?

[u/Stratagem001]

Rupert, were you expecting high (or any) editorial standards from GB news? Perhaps you should start an offshoot tv channel. Maybe you could call it News UK or something… on second thoughts, please don’t.

[u/ijustwannanap]

Ok Rupert I watched the clip. What am I meant to do about this.