What Rupert Lowe needs to remember is that we, the British government, caused most of the problems in Palestine/Israel with the ridiculous Balfour Treaty. We had an armed police force in Palestine right up to the creation of the state of Israel. We managed spectacularly to screw up the Middle East. Therefore we have a duty to care for damaged children. Rant over.
I find this piece of outrage from Mr Lowe particularly offensive. He really has outdone himself this time. Not forgetting that the UK has historically spectacularly f*cked up the Middle East, & through its continued supply of ordinance & intel to the Israeli forces has probably contributed to more than a few of those children’s horrific injuries. And he has the nerve to say this is not our problem! We should be taking more of these kids and their families, not less.
What have we become. That we would turn away an injured child. Or complain about it. How soon we forget WWI.
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was signed one hundred years ago this week. What is often forgotten is that this treaty—or better yet, set of treaties—did recognize and advance, albeit in a limited way, the religious freedom of average citizens.
Well I am glad you do, and what you write makes an important difference. Just make sure you can take a break before going social media mad like JK Rowling or the Father Ted guy 🤣.
What a sad, pathetic, soulless excuse for a man he is. The charity rowers thing was stupid and laughable, but this is simply disgusting. Utterly unfit to be an MP.
What has happened to humanity? These are children with appalling injuries/ life threatening illnesses.
I read Lowe’s letter on Tw**ter this morning and was appalled at the opinions expressed in the responses. How have we come to this? How can some people have so little compassion for children’s suffering?
I would like to believe that it’s a very small but unfortunately very vocal minority who think like this.
Thank you Bear for the detailed explanation in your response.
A suggestion. Make the tw4t walk to Gaza, look up every single child and explain to each one, face to face, that:
- their life is utterly worthless to him
- that their families lives are utterly worthless to him
- that he is choosing to condem them to a slow painful death rather than lose his Westminster meal sudsidy for a couple of weeks
God forbid, but it leads one to consider it a form of justice if his family ended up paying a similar price. At least then the low life scumbag might get to experience just a smidgen of those kids suffering.
Talking of walking to Gaza - reminded me of Mark Thomas's "Extreme Ramblings" - a brilliant book and great concept. He somehow manages to be even-handed (as far as any sane, humane being can be). Background, as ever with Mark, was perfectly researched.
I think any decent person would be on pretty safe ground to adopt a very simple policy. Namely, if Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage or any of their ilk are in favour of anything then oppose it. If they are against it support it with all the passion you can muster. You will very, very rarely, if ever be wrong.
The untold damage done by the British Empire is coming back to haunt us. Politicians who have never visited places drew random borders to carve the world up and decide who got which bit. The land wasn’t theirs to give away. Like Balfour giving away Palestine and T***p deciding he can tell Putin which bits of Ukraine he can keep.
A moral compass and compassion, empathy and respect for the dignity of people not-like-us are all sadly lacking. If we can help then we should. I know why I can’t get a GP appointment or have to wait ages to see a gastroenterologist (I was referred three weeks ago, and I’m not holding my breath) and it isn’t because of immigration (many legal migrants have to pay the NHS surcharge). It’s because, despite this country’s many talented and innovative healthcare professionals, it has been underfunded for years.
Lowe is a caricature of the sort of white supremacists who ran much of the British Empire.
Self entitled, mean, wilfully ignorant, cruel and authoritarian. And sadly the electoral system, Farage, the body politic and the news media who these days are like a 24 hour circus, as a whole makes space for him to run his mouth off. He is far from a lone case.
(Incidentally today, Robert Jenrick has been revealed as having attended a demonstration run by a nazi who was involved with Combat 18, white supremacist nazis.
Lowe dehumanises children by his rhetoric and is beyond any sort of redemption. That you have felt the need to spent a valuable part of your life writing a rebuttal of his foul views is an injustice.
Unlike a certain Mr. Lowe, who has discarded all semblance of beauty from his soul.
We simply must start viewing the planet as a whole as our home, which we must look after, taking care of one another, rather than this ridiculous notion of "them and us" based on a random line drawn on a map to denote which tribe/group/country we belong to & therefore what level of empathy we deserve to receive.
Brilliantly written, Bear. It's so utterly sad and depressing that right wing rabble- rousers like Mr Lowe are allowed to continue their appalling racist nonsense, aided and abetted by some of our so-called 'news'papers. The terrible, tragic plight of those Palestinian children should never be turned into an anti- immigrant rant by anyone.
Lowe is the lowest form of life. He's a vile, odious, greedy piece of work. No one with even the smallest iota of humanity could possibly deny these children the treatment they need.
Dear god. Have the masses of humanity. Lost touch with reality. The Children are helpless. There are no facilities left in Gaza strip
I’ll pray for your souls. Did he not say. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
What Rupert Lowe needs to remember is that we, the British government, caused most of the problems in Palestine/Israel with the ridiculous Balfour Treaty. We had an armed police force in Palestine right up to the creation of the state of Israel. We managed spectacularly to screw up the Middle East. Therefore we have a duty to care for damaged children. Rant over.
Not to mention the British Empire
Quite right.
I find this piece of outrage from Mr Lowe particularly offensive. He really has outdone himself this time. Not forgetting that the UK has historically spectacularly f*cked up the Middle East, & through its continued supply of ordinance & intel to the Israeli forces has probably contributed to more than a few of those children’s horrific injuries. And he has the nerve to say this is not our problem! We should be taking more of these kids and their families, not less.
What have we become. That we would turn away an injured child. Or complain about it. How soon we forget WWI.
The Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I, was signed one hundred years ago this week. What is often forgotten is that this treaty—or better yet, set of treaties—did recognize and advance, albeit in a limited way, the religious freedom of average citizens.
You are a national treasure. How do you stay sane wading through all this crud on a regular basis?
I’m not 100% sure I do to be honest.
🐻
Perhaps sanity is judged in the eye of the beholder?
I judge you are still perfectly sane.
You may have a deliciously, slightly warped, sense of humour, but your sanity is intact.
Well I am glad you do, and what you write makes an important difference. Just make sure you can take a break before going social media mad like JK Rowling or the Father Ted guy 🤣.
What a sad, pathetic, soulless excuse for a man he is. The charity rowers thing was stupid and laughable, but this is simply disgusting. Utterly unfit to be an MP.
Unfit to be a Christian as he calls himself, let alone a human being.
What has happened to humanity? These are children with appalling injuries/ life threatening illnesses.
I read Lowe’s letter on Tw**ter this morning and was appalled at the opinions expressed in the responses. How have we come to this? How can some people have so little compassion for children’s suffering?
I would like to believe that it’s a very small but unfortunately very vocal minority who think like this.
Thank you Bear for the detailed explanation in your response.
Racist Rupert how low can you go Lowe
A suggestion. Make the tw4t walk to Gaza, look up every single child and explain to each one, face to face, that:
- their life is utterly worthless to him
- that their families lives are utterly worthless to him
- that he is choosing to condem them to a slow painful death rather than lose his Westminster meal sudsidy for a couple of weeks
God forbid, but it leads one to consider it a form of justice if his family ended up paying a similar price. At least then the low life scumbag might get to experience just a smidgen of those kids suffering.
Stop the world please, I want to get off...
Talking of walking to Gaza - reminded me of Mark Thomas's "Extreme Ramblings" - a brilliant book and great concept. He somehow manages to be even-handed (as far as any sane, humane being can be). Background, as ever with Mark, was perfectly researched.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9807301-extreme-rambling
The reason that stain on humanity will be called a vile monster is because that's what he is.
I think any decent person would be on pretty safe ground to adopt a very simple policy. Namely, if Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage or any of their ilk are in favour of anything then oppose it. If they are against it support it with all the passion you can muster. You will very, very rarely, if ever be wrong.
The untold damage done by the British Empire is coming back to haunt us. Politicians who have never visited places drew random borders to carve the world up and decide who got which bit. The land wasn’t theirs to give away. Like Balfour giving away Palestine and T***p deciding he can tell Putin which bits of Ukraine he can keep.
A moral compass and compassion, empathy and respect for the dignity of people not-like-us are all sadly lacking. If we can help then we should. I know why I can’t get a GP appointment or have to wait ages to see a gastroenterologist (I was referred three weeks ago, and I’m not holding my breath) and it isn’t because of immigration (many legal migrants have to pay the NHS surcharge). It’s because, despite this country’s many talented and innovative healthcare professionals, it has been underfunded for years.
Always get new insights from you Bear 🐻
Morning Bear.
Lowe is a caricature of the sort of white supremacists who ran much of the British Empire.
Self entitled, mean, wilfully ignorant, cruel and authoritarian. And sadly the electoral system, Farage, the body politic and the news media who these days are like a 24 hour circus, as a whole makes space for him to run his mouth off. He is far from a lone case.
(Incidentally today, Robert Jenrick has been revealed as having attended a demonstration run by a nazi who was involved with Combat 18, white supremacist nazis.
https://standuptoracism.org.uk/robert-jenrick-pictured-with-former-nazi-terror-chief-at-epping-anti-refugee-protest/ )
Lowe dehumanises children by his rhetoric and is beyond any sort of redemption. That you have felt the need to spent a valuable part of your life writing a rebuttal of his foul views is an injustice.
You might have gathered that I am angry!
Simply beautiful Mr. Bear.
Unlike a certain Mr. Lowe, who has discarded all semblance of beauty from his soul.
We simply must start viewing the planet as a whole as our home, which we must look after, taking care of one another, rather than this ridiculous notion of "them and us" based on a random line drawn on a map to denote which tribe/group/country we belong to & therefore what level of empathy we deserve to receive.
Oh, wouldn't that be wonderful? Imagine the world we could have...
Brilliantly written, Bear. It's so utterly sad and depressing that right wing rabble- rousers like Mr Lowe are allowed to continue their appalling racist nonsense, aided and abetted by some of our so-called 'news'papers. The terrible, tragic plight of those Palestinian children should never be turned into an anti- immigrant rant by anyone.
Bravo bear! A brilliant piece getting to the heart of the issue as ever!
Lowe is the lowest form of life. He's a vile, odious, greedy piece of work. No one with even the smallest iota of humanity could possibly deny these children the treatment they need.
Dear god. Have the masses of humanity. Lost touch with reality. The Children are helpless. There are no facilities left in Gaza strip
I’ll pray for your souls. Did he not say. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.