Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Sees for Monday the 10th of March 2025. I'm joined by Stelios.

It is unfortunately a Monday, but should be a good show today. We have a lot on. So in fact, let's just crack on with it because it's been a stressful weekend.

Friday, Friday evening, stuff started exploding and then it kept exploding all weekend and it's

still exploding on Monday. So it has been unbelievably bad and also I'm going to talk about the

massacre of Christians and Aloysia. And I had to look at all these videos during the weekend.

So it's horrifying. Yeah. So yeah so um rupert low a reform MP

and possibly the most popular reform MP after nigel farage has been suspended from the party

following a series of allegations that we are going to go through um these allegations are very

strangely worded and things have come out that suggest that maybe the wording was designed to make people think one thing while actually saying another.

So we'll get to that shortly. Before we do, Islander number three is on sale. It's on sale for I think another two weeks. so get it while you can because when it's gone, it won't be coming back. And let's begin. So, Rupert Lowe is a known quantity. A lot of people didn't know who Rupert Lowe was before he became an MP for a former. And I didn't. And but this is something that is down to the fact that he was involved in an area of

life that if you weren't paying attention to, of course you would have never heard of him.

He was a successful businessman.

He began in banking, became a successful businessman managing nursing homes, and then in the 1990s

took over Southampton Football Club, which is my dad's football club,

and became the manager for a decade.

Now, I don't follow football at all, so I had no idea about any of this.

He did for more than a decade, in fact.

And in 2019, Nigel Farage asked him to stand for the Brexit Party, and he became an MEP.

In 2023, he returned to Reform UK as their business and agriculture

spokesman. Then he contested the 2024-Kingswood by-election came in third place with more than 10%,

which was the best by-election they'd ever received until Ben Habib got 13% in a by-election.

And then in the July 2024 election,

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