Reform UK’s Purge of Rupert Lowe: Has the Party Been “Got To”? And Why Restore Britain Now Looks Like the Real Alternative, By Richard Miller (London)
The video clip circulating from Nigel Farage's own mouth is damning. Speaking about the removal of Great Yarmouth MP Rupert Lowe from Reform UK, Farage says: "And that was the moment at which, I realised we just had to get rid of him, and get rid of him as quickly as we could. And I think, in terms of the way we dealt with that, we were probably more brutal than the other parties. But you know what? That's the way it's going to be."
This wasn't a measured parting of ways. It was a rapid, ruthless expulsion in March 2025 after Lowe publicly criticised Reform as "a protest party led by the Messiah" and clashed with party chairman Zia Yusuf. Allegations of bullying and threats flew; the Crown Prosecution Service later found insufficient evidence to charge Lowe. He has always maintained the claims were vexatious and malicious. Lowe now sits as an independent and, on 13 February 2026, formally launched Restore Britain as a full national political party — an umbrella for hardline local groups with policies centred on mass deportations of illegals, net-negative immigration, secure borders, and restoring British (and Christian) principles.
Connor Tomlinson's widely shared thread lay out the darker interpretation: Farage purged Lowe to protect the grooming/rape gang networks that Lowe has made it his mission to expose. Lowe chairs an independent national inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal, has raised hundreds of thousands via crowdfunding for survivor testimonies, and repeatedly highlights in Parliament the ethnic pattern — vulnerable white British girls, enabled by decades of institutional fear of "racism" accusations. Rotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Telford: the scandal is one of the darkest stains on modern Britain, with official reports (Quilliam, Jay Report, etc.) confirming the demographic reality that authorities long denied.
Is the "got to" claim fair? Not in the cartoonish sense of Farage suddenly taking orders from an ethnic mafia. Reform UK still talks tough on immigration, net zero, and woke excess. But the pattern is unmistakable and worrying:
Reform has repeatedly distanced itself from "extremist" voices on the right to stay electable.
Farage's "brutal" speed in removing a sitting MP who was laser-focused on the grooming gangs — the single biggest betrayal of working-class girls in living memory — sends a chilling signal. When a party chooses internal discipline and image management over full-throated support for exposing ethnic grooming networks, it looks compromised.
This is not abstract. The grooming gangs issue isn't "standard crime." It is organised, ethnic, and cultural — rooted in attitudes toward white girls that exist in parts of Britain's ethnic communities and were protected by multiculturalism, political correctness, and Labour-dominated local authorities. Any party serious about "Britain first" cannot treat this as a side issue or flinch when one of its own demands real accountability, including mass deportations of foreign-born offenders and their enablers.
Lowe's Restore Britain platform is explicitly harder-line: mass deportations with "legitimacy, legality, and logistics" spelled out; zero tolerance on grooming cover-ups; rejection of the soft-pedalling that has infected even Reform. Elon Musk has signalled support for Lowe over Farage. Young reactionaries and disillusioned Reform members (including many who attended the recent Restore conference) are migrating. The party is positioning itself as the vehicle for those who believe Reform has already begun the familiar journey from insurgency to controlled opposition.
Of course, splitting the Right-wing vote is risky. Farage remains the most recognisable figure, and Reform still polls strongly. A fractured patriotic vote could hand seats back to Labour or the Tories. But loyalty to a compromised vehicle is worse than temporary weakness. If Reform is willing to "brutally" purge an MP for pushing too hard on deportations and grooming gangs — while keeping figures with potential conflicts of interest close — then it is signalling that electoral pragmatism will always trump principle when the heat is on.
Britain does not need another "protest party" that talks big during elections then trims its sails in power. It needs restoration: borders that mean something, communities protected from imported criminality and parallel societies, and politicians willing to name the ethnic, racial and cultural realities of scandals like the grooming gangs without apology.
Rupert Lowe has put himself on the line — suspended, smeared, yet still standing as an MP and now leading a new party explicitly built for this fight. The evidence of Reform's internal purge, combined with its lukewarm engagement on Lowe's grooming inquiry, gives patriots every reason to conclude the party has indeed been "got to" — not necessarily captured outright, but diluted and disciplined into respectability.
The choice is clear. If Brits want cosmetic reform that fears its own shadow on the hardest issues, stay with Farage. If you want actual restoration — no more kicking the can, no more protecting sacred cows — then Restore Britain is where the uncompromising fight now sits.
The grooming gangs victims deserved better than institutional betrayal. Britain's native working class deserves better than managed decline. Patriots who see the pattern should not hesitate: back Restore Britain. The window for polite half-measures closed long ago.
