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

Wyllow3 he did alert the authorities.

Sorry the words were if these are illegal immigrants

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 ?

Casdon

I should hope so GrannyGravy13, otherwise the vigilantes would have been out to lynch them. It’s very irresponsible to post things like that on social media, letting the police and coastguard know his concerns, yes of course, but not making it public.

Yes I agree.

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.😃

I should hope so GrannyGravy13, otherwise the vigilantes would have been out to lynch them. It’s very irresponsible to post things like that on social media, letting the police and coastguard know his concerns, yes of course, but not making it public.

Wyllow3

Who next? A family out for a trip for the afternoon, skin the "wrong" colour? A summer school trip out to sea, that happens to have non white teenagers in perhaps?

*He's totally paranoid*

That’s OTT
The colour didn’t come int it, his constituents alerted him to this particular boat.
It was pretty funny and gave the rowers a laugh.
I don’t think there’s any migrants in The Wash, they tend to come over the Channel but you never know!😁

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

Who next? A family out for a trip for the afternoon, skin the "wrong" colour? A summer school trip out to sea, that happens to have non white teenagers in perhaps?

He's totally paranoid

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!