Rupert Lowe branded a ‘hypocrite’ as speech backfires

Restore leader Rupert Lowe recently argued that Twitter user ‘Ginger Tom’ should face jail time because of a tweet. The problem is Lowe previously said no one should face jail time because of a tweet.

In other words, he’s another ‘one rule for them and another for us’ politician:

Rupert Lowe — Faceswapped

In the clip above, Lowe says (emphasis added):

I want to thank the more than 190,000 British people who signed the petition that we initiated, calling for an end to the creeping use of prison as a punishment for what people say online. A post that is deemed sharp criticism one month somehow becomes grossly offensive the next. It is arbitrary, it is inconsistent and it is fundamentally incompatible with a healthy democracy.

I don’t want people in prison for social media posts.

Lucy Connolly was imprisoned for one foolish social media post, soon deleted. Where is the fairness in that?

In Britain, nobody should ever be sent to prison for an offensive social media post, full stop.

To Lucy, and to every other person who has found themselves dragged through the system for a post online, you deserve better from your government and I sincerely hope today marks the beginning of a serious rethink in this house.

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So this is pretty clear, right?

Apparently not.

First things first, we should note GT is notorious for doing ‘faceswaps’:

The faceswap which attracted Lowe’s attention was admittedly somewhat risque. The image below sees Lowe’s face superimposed on Charlie Kirk’s head at the moment of his assassination:

Lowe described this as a death threat, writing:

As a direct result of Reform labelling Restore Britain as ‘neo-nazi’ on national television, this vile death threat was posted online. A picture of me getting shot in the neck, just as Charlie Kirk was.

I am furious. Labelling millions of Brits as nazis has consequences. This dangerous and foul rhetoric is putting my team and I at risk.

I am getting the police involved about this threat to my life.

Tom later apologised for the tweet, and you know what — fair enough.

Every so often you need to ask if you’ve become too desensitised to the things you see online, and this may have been one of those times.

At the same time, Tom also highlighted the tweet from Lucy Connolly that Lowe defended:

Ginger Tom didn’t stop there either:

Shifting opinions

Of course, there is another faceswap Rupert Lowe should be worried about.

Clearly someone has swapped his face from the body of a man who supports free speech to the body of a man who does not.

If Ginger Tom was responsible for that one, yeah — maybe we should get the police involved.

The guy has clearly become too powerful.

Featured image via X