My folks, I have the pleasure to be joined by Rupert Lowe, independent MP for Great Yarmouth,

husband, father, business owner, grandfather, in fact, and social media firebrand.

Well, I think that's probably a bit flattering, Carl.

And again, it's irony really.

I owe my social media representation to Nigel Farage because when I got so frustrated with

Theresa May that as you probably know I stood for the referendum party, I did a lot against the Maastricht

Treaty. I then did a lot of business of selling. I did a lot for vote leave. And when I came forward

to stand for the Brexit Party because our establishment as usual, we make it complete cock of it. I decided that I should go and see Nigel, which I did and basically he said

to me, if you want to stand and I'd like you to stand, you have to have an ex account, what was

a Twitter account in those days. So I said, well, I can't believe that anybody wants to read

the rubbish that I might put out, but if you insist, if that's part of the deal, then I'll

set one up. So hence, I'm now active on social media, not just on X, I mean, we found

other platforms, Facebook locally and Great Yarmouth, Facebook nationally, LinkedIn incredibly powerful.

And I think those people, the Luddites who say social media is a bad thing and therefore

don't use it are missing a big trick.

And if anything, my own view is it's an agent for freedom because if you have enough people following you

on social media then any injustices that you suffer can be made public and I think that's

a that is a shield to protect at least some of this nonsense which would protect you one

against it this sort of lawfare, which I think

the Western states are now employing against their honest, decent tax-beying citizens.

I completely agree, and it's a wonderful thing to have someone like Elon Musk in control of

one of the most important social media platforms, because Elon has

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