Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe mistakes charity rowers for ‘illegal migrants’

Another 400 boat people arrived today and more on the water apparently.

At least he apologised for his mistake & donated money, he didn’t have to do that but that’s the nice type of bloke he is. I like RL.

ayse

I think he should have donated more!

He donates his entire MP’s salary every month to charities.

He lives on income from his farm.

I think he should have donated more!

Grantanow

I can't understand how an ex-Reform MP could have made such an error. Perhaps a visit to the optician is needed.

In Norfolk and in our neighbouring county of Suffolk there have been reports of illegal immigrants arriving on boats up our many small creeks and quays for several years.

We have also had them arriving illegally in cars and lorries in the dead of night, being dropped off in car parks and then running off into the night.

I imagine when it was reported to Rupert Lowe he had to act fast because, like those already mentioned above, they were never found. Yes, it was incorrect information but he has apologised and made a charity donation.

I can't understand how an ex-Reform MP could have made such an error. Perhaps a visit to the optician is needed.

This man has form. It isn't the first time he has got worked up about something that wasn't what he htought it was.

perhaps it is something they put in his tea.

To those who say its an OTT reaction,

I can easily imagine the furore that would erupt from some posters if a Labour Party politician had posted "news" on Social Media that turned out to be firstly incorrect, and secondly, incendiary

The next day at PMQ?

GrannyGravy13
He apologised on social media for his mistake as soon as the boat was identified and donated £1,000 to the rowers charity

Of course he did 🙄 Wonder why he didn’t do so before he published his nonsense and landed on his a*se

If only he was as vigilant when it came to the behaviour of rabble rousers (like his party leader), racist attacks, street gangs and ‘boring old crimes’ the media have lost interest in. But no - the one thing his party obsess about happens to wake him up. What a total ar*e of a man.

Allira

Casdon

It made me laugh, I was imagining him feverishly spending hours looking out to sea, eyes stuck to his binoculars, so he could get a coup!

😂😂😂

I'm remembering the crowds on Plymouth Hoe watching Sir Francis Chichester coming in after his round-the-world solo trip. I was there, but just as well Rupert Lowe was only a primary schoolboy then!

Had to read that comment twice, it’s late, am tired and a senior moment, I thought Francis Drake at first!🤣

proper channels not paper channels.

Frankly its pathetic at on level, at another, making announcements on Social Media and by passing the paper channels is actually a very very dangerous thing to do given the current situation and the power of Social Media.

Says he's sorry - pull the other one - it was a deliberate act to report on social media - shells out a thousand quid -

meanwhile gets loads of publicity whipping up more hatred.

I can only add:

"Should have gone to Specsavers".

GrannyGravy13

He apologised on social media for his mistake as soon as the boat was identified and donated £1,000 to the rowers charity…

Well done him!

Never assume anything 😁

Casdon

It made me laugh, I was imagining him feverishly spending hours looking out to sea, eyes stuck to his binoculars, so he could get a coup!

😂😂😂

I'm remembering the crowds on Plymouth Hoe watching Sir Francis Chichester coming in after his round-the-world solo trip. I was there, but just as well Rupert Lowe was only a primary schoolboy then!

wearing his Union Jack suit made in .... India.

LizzieDrip

What a sad, little man he is; looking out to sea for rubber dinghies; whipping up a frenzy on SM.

I agree with Jaxjacky, he’s a t***!

Get a life man!

This ^

What a sad, little man he is; looking out to sea for rubber dinghies; whipping up a frenzy on SM.

I agree with Jaxjacky, he’s a t***!

Get a life man!

He admitted he was wrong, but that's not the same as an apology.

His allegations had got people stirred up on the beach and it could have turned quite nasty. Report whatever you want to the police or the coastguard, but jumping onto social media with no proof is completely irresponsible.

It. is, de facto, encouraging vigilantism. Next time someone with the standing of an MP reports this sort of thing on Social Media - is supposedly have some credibility..

...some idiots might take a boat or two out to take matters into their own hands to go out there with their "friends", whipped up by passing the incorrect message on.

Spinnaker

I rather think the paranoia is with you Wyllow3 in your constant efforts to decry anything to do with illegal entry to the country. RL did state in his second paragraph the words if this is true, which one can only assume he wasn't sure but was getting it checked out ?

Far from it Spinnaker

Any responsible person would alert the Authorities.

Have you actually really forgotten what happened in Southport when someone posted irresponsible lies on Social Media

And this is from an MP, for goodness sake!

I poster more * than that!

He’s a total t***

Oreo

GrannyGravy13

He apologised on social media for his mistake as soon as the boat was identified and donated £1,000 to the rowers charity…

So it was worth it for the Charity.😃

And how much did the interception cost?