Charlie Downes✓

Restoration or death. There is no other option.

It is the honour of my life to be standing as Restore Britain's parliamentary candidate for Sittingbourne and Sheppey. These towns were once at the heart of the British Empire. Under the leadership of Restore Britain, that greatness and prosperity will return.

This guy was a senior advisor to Tony Blair. Anti-White hatred - especially towards the English - is the ideology of Britain’s ruling class. It has captured every one of our nation’s institutions: the state, the media, academia, the judiciary, the police, and more. That’s why I say Britain needs a revolution. We need to use the instruments of power to eradicate every trace of this ideology, and chase out of public life anyone who would seek to advance it.

@thepublicgets @ItsTaz1989 @FT I simply said the strange belief in English ethicity was a racist evil

RT @jonatanpallesen: New numbers from Denmark about second generation immigrants from the Middle East: They are exceedingly criminal and violent. More than 5% of second generation immigrants from Syria aged 20-24 are convicted for grievous assault within a 4 year period.

Our existence is not up for debate, you anti-White freak.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Do you have to be White to be English? I say no. My St. George’s Bill that I’m putting forward in Parliament on Tuesday will settle this question, once and for all. Let’s let non-White people identify as ethnically English in the census. Let’s have this debate out in the Commons. You in, @SuellaBraverman?

RT @RupertLowe10: Our latest Restore Britain prospective parliamentary candidate announcement - Charlie Downes in Sittingbourne and Sheppey. I look forward to visiting Kent again to help get Charlie into Parliament. We can win this seat, and many others in the county.

RT @RupertLowe10: @bruceraffertyy The answer is yes.

RT @TradBritGroup: CHARLIE DOWNES of Restore Britain talks at the Traditional Britain Conference in London October 2026

RT @RupertLowe10: I want to address an allegation directly, because Reform politicians seem determined to spread the idea that I am somehow working in coordination with the Conservative Party and Kemi Badenoch. Yes, I was a member of the Conservative Party. In 1993. My children have since been born and grown up. It was more than thirty years ago. Literally, a lifetime ago. Many of the Reform leadership certainly can’t say the same. Yes, I've met Kemi Badenoch. I speak to her occasionally. I like her personally. We have worked together in Parliament. She spoke positively about our rape gang inquiry, and I thanked her for it. Numerous Conservative MPs have supported my parliamentary work, including our inquiry. Esther McVey. Nick Timothy. Jack Rankin. Peter Bedford. I could go on. I am not going to apologise for that. I will work with anyone in Parliament who is prepared to help deliver meaningful change. We have achieved results by doing precisely that. Does that mean I forgive the Conservatives for what they did to Britain between 2010 and 2024? Absolutely not. It was a betrayal. I have literally established a national political party to fight them at the ballot box. I am delighted when we beat them, which is a growing amount. All that should be a fairly substantial clue… But opposing a political party does not require you to behave like a petulant child towards every single person associated with it. Conservative MPs believed I would do a good job on the Public Accounts Committee. I accepted the opportunity to scrutinise government spending and fight for British taxpayers. Again, absolutely no apologies. I think we have delivered results. Now let's compare that with Reform. Reform tried to have me imprisoned over false allegations. I would be in prison today if they had their way. Despite everything, I have repeatedly attempted to work with Reform MPs in Parliament. I have invited them to support initiatives, collaborate on important issues and help deliver results. Time and again, those invitations have been ignored. My emails don’t even get a reply. I happily sign their motions and support their efforts, I did earlier this week. The feeling is not mutual. They complain. They moan. They attack. They endlessly manufacture personal grievances. But ask them to put their animosities aside and actually achieve something together? Suddenly, it's total silence. I've received more constructive support in Parliament from Labour MPs than from Reform. Think about that. It is grievance politics at its most pathetic. Negative, unproductive and deeply unprofessional. My position is incredibly straightforward. At elections, we are opponents. In Parliament, we have a responsibility to get things done. I believe that is what our constituents want us to do. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think not. Reform claim we stand in more local council Reform seats than anyone else. Yes, because so many more Reform councillors resign in disgrace than any other party. We are moving towards standing in 100% of local council by-elections. We’ve stood in Reform seats, Labour seats, Tory seats. Everywhere and anywhere. I intend to fight both Reform and the Conservatives for every vote. I want Restore Britain to win over millions of people who previously voted for those parties. But that does not mean I have to insult everyone I disagree with, refuse to speak to political opponents or sabotage decent initiatives because somebody else might receive a little credit. I was elected to represent my constituents, not to participate in an endless Westminster playground feud. Do I like Kemi Badenoch and some other Conservative MPs personally? Yes. Will I work with them when it benefits the British people? Yes. Do I fundamentally oppose the Conservative Party's record and want Restore Britain to defeat them electorally? Yes. Their 14 years of power was an utter betrayal, and is largely responsible for the social, economic and demographic vandalism we have endured. All three things can be true. Any serious adult should be capable of understanding that. It is not difficult to comprehend. I will work with Conservatives. I will work with Labour. I will work with Reform, if they ever decide to behave constructively. Reform's increasingly nasty, brash and personally unpleasant approach to politics says far more about them than it does about me. It’s just downright rude. They seem to believe that refusing to work with anyone is a demonstration of strength. In my view, it’s a weakness that erodes our politics and fails our constituents. I have said it again and again. I will work with anyone in parliament to deliver for the British people. And I make no apologies for doing so.

RT @RupertLowe10: 'Conservative Friends of Pakistan' 'Labour Friends of India' 'Reform Friends of Israel' Restore Britain will not allow foreign lobby groups to operate within our party - promoting their own interests, shaping policy or dictating priorities. We will not allow it. We will put one group of people first, each and every time. The British people. Our name is Restore Britain. We exist to represent Britain and the British people. Nothing else.

RT @Harry_pitt: Trump squandered an historic opportunity to reverse half a century of betrayal in America by launching a foolish war on behalf of Israel - a war that you and Reform UK cheerled like obedient little vassals. That is the lesson. He did not lose because he was too right-wing.

There is a battle for the soul of the right in our country. And many lessons to learn from the US especially how NOT to govern. Voters want results. As I wrote in The Right Way, democratic legitimacy now demands performance legitimacy. Brilliant analysis from Allister Heath👇

Burnham has suggested that cutting benefits would “force people into crime.” According to the OBR’s latest forecasts, returning welfare spending to its pre-pandemic level as a percentage of GDP - around 10% - would save approximately £40–45 billion a year by 2030/31. There is nothing extreme or ideological about cuts of that scale and chaos will not ensue. It would simply mark a return to normal. What will lead to chaos is a bond market crisis and having the IMF called in. Burnham has a moral duty to reduce welfare. Let’s remember that the Centre for Social Justice say the cost of paying welfare to foreigners will hit £27 billion by 2030 - that’s a good place to start cutting.

RT @RupertLowe10: "You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in."

RT @cfdownes_: Israel's war is the reason it costs me £80 to fill up my car. I couldn't care less about what they "represent" or how much wealth they're creating for themselves. They're making life harder for British people. Moreover, they appear to wield undue influence over many politicians in Britain and across the West. I don't like that. It is not the behaviour of an honest ally. Ethnic solidarity is the natural condition of mankind. The Israelis understand this. In fact, every group apart from Europeans does. Over the last 80 years, Europeans have been encouraged to subdue their natural preference for their own people in the name of the universal values of progress, tolerance, and multiculturalism. We are told this is virtuous, but it has actually made us weak and vulnerable to those who do not share such high-minded ideals. A society that expects everyone to transcend their in-group loyalties will not last long if some groups continue to organise around theirs. Thanks to our leaders, we are now surrounded by such people. So now we face a situation where we must reawaken that long-dormant part of our nature in order to save our nations. I don't care if you think that's "not British" - it has to be now. Anything less will see us reduced to hated and marginalised minorities in our homelands.

The Government are planning on extending workers' rights to illegal immigrants meaning they could take employers to court and earn huge payouts. Far from removing pull factors, Labour is introducing ever greater incentives for illegals to cross the Channel. More worryingly, bringing illegal immigrants into the workers rights framework moves us further down the path to a mass amnesty. The only thing a Restore Britain government will offer illegals is a plane ticket home.

RT @RupertLowe10: Soaring fertiliser costs are yet ANOTHER reason why the war in Iran has hit British families in the pocket. People understand that war in the Middle East hikes up petrol and diesel prices, driving inflation. We all know that. Do not underestimate what it does to the cost of producing our food. Speaking as a farmer, it has ROCKETED. Your food shop is SO much more expensive because of what has happened in Iran. Modern farming depends on fertiliser. Much of that fertiliser depends on natural gas to manufacture - disrupt energy supplies and international shipping, and fertiliser prices rise. Quickly and brutally. That means British farmers paying more to grow wheat, barley, potatoes and vegetables. More to produce the crops that feed our livestock. Everything costs more for us. More expensive fertiliser means more expensive farming. More expensive farming means more expensive food. And who pays? You. Your family. Your friends. Businesses you use. What does that do? Drive inflation, especially along with fuel costs soaring. This is what the politicians who enthusiastically cheered on another Middle Eastern war apparently entirely failed to consider - Reform and the Tories were happy to drop the bombs but thought nothing of what would come next. Restore Britain opposed this war from day one, because it was INCREDIBLY clear that throwing more bombs around the Middle East was going to disrupt everything. Sadly, that region is of massive importance. British farmers need affordable fertiliser. British families need affordable food. Neither needs another catastrophic foreign war. Any farmer looking at their fertiliser costs over the last 12 months will agree with me - with more taxes to come, and the lunacy of Net Zero meaning our power is the most expensive in the world while we sit on abundant supplies. Expensive fertiliser and expensive fuel directly from bombing Iran have delivered the soaring cost of living for working British men and women. Restore Britain will slash the tax on fertiliser and produce it in OUR country. Most importantly? No more pointless foreign wars.

Small boat migrants working in Britain illegally 'can sue their bosses under Angela Rayner's strengthened workers' rights laws'

RT @RestoreBritain: The Iran war has cost the British people dearly - life is now so much more expensive. Reform backed it. The Tories backed it. Restore Britain opposed it from day one. We will never sacrifice British lives, livelihoods or prosperity for somebody else's war.

Identity is the central question of our age. While the present regime encourages every other group to celebrate and politically organise around its identity, it does everything in its power to prevent the native British people - and Europeans in general - from doing the same. That ends now. Before anything else, our first consideration must be "how does this benefit our people?" If something benefits us, we do it. If something hurts us, we crush it. It's that simple.

RT @OwainClatworthy: I am SICK to my stomach that I ever believed Nigel Farage was on our side. He sold himself as the man who would smash the establishment elites and put the British people FIRST. Instead he turned out to be one of their most useful puppets. Takes the money. Enjoys the access. Delivers just enough outrage to keep the real globalist machine running while nothing fundamentally changes. I was wrong. A lot of us were. Farage isn’t anti establishment. He’s the establishment’s pressure valve. Wake up.

Restore Britain is the only political party that is prepared to put the native British people first

RT @RestoreBritain: The Iran war, backed by Reform and the Tories, has made life so much more expensive for working British families. Restore Britain said no.

100 years ago, we ruled the world. Today, Britain is a "promising emerging market." All by choice. All by design. This regime cannot fall soon enough.

Conservative Friends of Pakistan. Labour Friends of India. Reform Friends of Israel. Every other party has foreign lobbying groups built into its structure. It's gross. Restore Britain is the lone exception. There will never be a "Restore Friends of Pakistan, India, Israel," or anywhere else. Foreign interference must be driven out of our politics. Britain first, always.

Assuming ideological and political change the United Kingdom would be the world's most promising emerging market.

Restore Britain will answer to Britain, and nobody else.

RT @SamoBurja: The current regime risks Britain becoming old before it becomes rich, missing out both on gains from robotics and AI, as well as squandering its talented and educated workforce.

RT @JoshFerme: "What we need are genuine nation-first conservatives who don’t get sucked into Forever Wars or mass migration globalism." From the party that wanted to bomb Iran and called mass deportations "impossible."

Covid, Ukraine, Iran. If the last six years have taught us anything, it’s that we need to exploit our own natural resources and reduce dependency on imports in critical sectors. Banning new North Sea drilling after the economic shocks since 2020 is a suicidal policy both economically and for national security. The British public are sick to death of politicians deliberately undermining our national wellbeing. Restore Britain will reverse this ban and exploit the full natural resources of our nation.

Britons are living through the worst decade for income growth on record and Andy Burnham is talking about paying reparations. Brits are getting poorer and poorer while our government spends tens of billions on asylum, foreign aid, climate aid, welfare for foreigners, and now reparations. These are the kind of conditions that lead to riots.

What do Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have in common? They are two conservative leaders who were handed historic realignments but squandered them. What we need are genuine nation-first conservatives who don’t get sucked into Forever Wars or mass migration globalism.

UK government to outlaw new North Sea drilling

RT @RupertLowe10: On behalf of every British taxpayer in the country, I just gave the Chancellor and his pygmy ministers the honest assessment of our public finances. They did not like it.

Aligning with a lobby whose first concern is the regional ambitions of a distant foreign nation killed MAGA. Similar forces have taken root in Reform UK. If they were in power, Britain would be at war with Iran at a time when we can barely afford to keep the lights on. Restore will never sell out our country. Britain first, always.

RT @RupertLowe10: Restore Britain opposed our involvement in the costly Iran war on day one and we were absolutely right to do so. We will put British interests first, each and every time.

RT @RestoreBritain: Restore Britain has transformed the entire political debate in this country. What was once unacceptable is now considered moderate. What was unsayable is now being said. What was impossible is now probable. And what was once unthinkable is now inevitable. Keep fighting.

Who are you backing on the Iran war?

Alan Mendoza predicted that the Libyan intervention in 2011 would "expunge the ghosts of the Iraq War," and the Henry Jackson Society (which he has run for 20 years) said in 2012 that "Libya is not collapsing" and that "Libya’s militias are much less of a problem than sometimes portrayed in the international press." Libya subsequently descended into civil war, state collapse, became a safe haven for jihadists, and blew wide open a route for mass third-world immigration into Europe. Mendoza was also a cheerleader for the toppling of Assad. In 2012, he signed an open letter to David Cameron advocating military intervention in Syria, including a no-fly zone, Turkish ground forces, and British supplies of weapons to Syrian rebels. During his tenure at HJS, the organisation also hosted an event entitled "Bringing Down the Last Dictatorship in Europe," concerning Belarus, and published proposals for bringing about regime collapse in Iran through military strikes, covert operations, and support for opposition groups. How’s that going? He is the President of the Jewish National Fund UK, which has donated more than £1 million to HaShomer HaChadash, an organisation described by the Israeli media as "Israel’s largest militia," and has funded projects linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. HJS was also exposed in 2017 for reportedly taking approximately £10,000 a month from the Japanese government to run a campaign influencing British political and media opinion against China. The organisation subsequently apologised to former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind for failing to disclose relevant circumstances when seeking his involvement in an article concerning China. For some inexplicable reason, Farage has chosen this man to be his "Chief Advisor on Global Affairs." According to Lois Perry, the head of Reform Friends of Israel (wtf?), he is in fact Reform’s "de facto shadow Foreign Secretary" (see recording below). Under a Restore Britain government, the kind of lobbying Mendoza engages in will be curtailed, and those responsible for dragging Britain into disastrous foreign wars - and the migration waves, blowback terrorism, and tremendous cost in blood and treasure they have entailed - will be purged from the British state apparatus. Mendoza and his ilk would be pariahs. I do not for one moment believe it is a coincidence that the Middle Eastern wars he so passionately cheerleads align so closely with Israeli foreign policy objectives. Whose interests does this guy actually serve? Britain’s foreign policy must serve Britain, and Britain alone.

RT @Luca_Johnson96: Hang them.

RT @RestoreBritain: Rupert was right.

A nonsense argument. All the consequences of the Iran War would still have happened if he had magically found himself in charge of the UK when it broke out. The illusion he has created of being a man who can turn world events at his whim is entirely fake news. It betrays a complete lack of understanding about how international affairs actually function.

🚨JUST IN: Afghan migrants followed 14-year-old schoolgirl onto London train before raping her in the toilets, court told. • Baryalai Rahimi, 25, and Mirebadurahman Sadat, 29, are accused of following the girl onto a Southeastern train from Kent to London Bridge on 5 February and assaulting her • Prosecutors say the pair targeted the vulnerable teenager after seeing her alone, with Rahimi allegedly taking her to the toilets twice where she was raped • The court heard the girl repeatedly said no, told them she was 14, and later told police she was scared and felt under their control • DNA matching Rahimi was recovered from the train toilet floor and the girl's clothing • Rahimi, now of Southall, and Sadat, now of Cricklewood, deny a total of 20 charges including multiple counts of sexual activity with a child and rape • The pair appeared at Inner London Crown Court with dari and farsi interpreters and the trial is expected to last three weeks

RT @NewStatesman: NIGEL FARAGE'S BASTARDS by @emilylawford Two years ago, Connor Tomlinson, Charlie Downes and Harrison Pitt met Rupert Lowe at a private seminar organised by the late Peter Whittle, who ran the New Culture Forum, a right-wing think tank. Lowe gave a speech, arguing that they should still back Reform. He then sat for an hour with the young men, listening to their criticism of Farage. This was a multi-millionaire, Thatcherite, public-schooled farmer, giving an audience to young men with whom he had very little in common and about whose lives he knew nothing. “But he listened,” Tomlinson remembered, “and he just said, ‘Right, you know what lads, I’ll take all those criticisms on board. I think they’ll strengthen the party. You’re the exact kind of guys we want to get involved.’” Tomlinson thought Lowe was a man of principle, compared to other figures in Reform whom he saw as power-mad and dishonest. He found Reform’s increasingly campy vibe distasteful when the country was collapsing. “I went to a lot of caravan holidays as a kid, right? I know that there’s a place for it in British culture. But I don’t think when we’re staring down the gun barrel of complete national disaster, the Butlins and fireworks and Andrea Jenkyns singing in sequins is the way to go.” When Lowe was kicked out of Reform a few months later, Tomlinson was ready to follow him anywhere. “What Rupert Lowe realises,” Tomlinson said, “is there is a next generation of people who are essentially autodidacts, who haven’t been through the Eton, Oxbridge, Spad, MP, Lords pipeline that’s generated nothing but cowards and traitors.” Carl Benjamin told me he was certain that Restore would triumph eventually. “I’ve never been more convinced that essentially our victory is inevitable, as the horrors of multiculturalism become clear.” Yet as Restore kept eating into Reform’s vote share, people began to call for the right to unite. In early August, after Restore came fourth with 9 per cent in the Greater Manchester mayoral election, Lowe suggested his party and Reform “put our differences aside and cooperate for the good of the country”. He demanded a few things in return: mass deportation of illegal migrants “including women and children”, a referendum on the death penalty, and “the exclusion of former Tory ministers from any future cabinet”. Farage prevaricated, saying he was open to talks, but it quickly descended into a spat. Reform demanded Lowe get rid of Downes, citing concerns about “antisemitic and extreme racists at or near the top of the party”. Lowe refused to sack “a young Christian man”, and the deal fell apart. Tomlinson blamed the deal collapsing on Reform. “Interpersonally, I like Farage,” he said, “but also I’m just pissed off when he goes around calling my friends fascists.” He wasn’t surprised Lowe backed Downes: “Rupert stands by his men.” Yet there is another reason Lowe did not agree to the demands. Had he accepted, many of his supporters would have followed Downes and other young influencers to whatever new venture they decided to back. Lowe is not all that different from Farage. Both are wealthy, public-school boomers (69 and 62, respectively) and Tory supporters who are instinctively pro-Thatcher, pro-markets and anti-immigration. Yet the young men who once clung to Farage are from a different world: radicalised by the internet, the job market, the diversifying and declining high street. They are fiscally apathetic and culturally extreme. Think of them as the new, new right. Over the past six months, I’ve spoken to dozens of these men. (Although there are a few high-profile female provocateurs, this world is overwhelmingly male.) They dress formally and call each other “patriot” the same way a leftist might say “comrade”. Their references span the Old Testament, Marcus Aurelius and the video game Skyrim. They have a trollish streak, but many are Christian and morally serious; they advocate marriage and fret about degeneracy. And they are transforming politics in this country. Cover art by Nate Kitch

RT @RupertLowe10: Iran has cost the Republicans far more than anyone expected. It was a catastrophic mistake. And if Reform or the Tories were in charge, we would have gone to war right behind them. On day one, Restore Britain said no. It was not right for the British people, and we were absolutely right to draw that line in the sand. The consequences of ANOTHER pointless Middle Eastern war have reached far into the homes of ordinary British families. The price of petrol. The cost of heating. The weekly food shop. The mortgage. The small business struggling to pay its electricity bill. YOUR life has been made so much more expensive by THEIR war. Every pointless escalation has made life more expensive for people who are already being squeezed from every direction. For what? To what end? What has this war achieved? Absolutely nothing of worth. Restore Britain said no. Not because we support the Iranian regime. Obviously that is not the case. But because the first duty of a British government is to protect Britain and its people. And that very much includes protecting British families from the economic consequences of wars that are evidently and clearly not in our national interest. When oil prices rise, families pay more to fill their cars. Those moving goods face higher diesel costs. Farmers pay more to operate their machinery. Businesses face rising transport and production bills. Those costs do not stay at the petrol pump. That gets passed on. EVERYTHING gets more expensive. It is always the same people who end up paying. It’s not the politicians making grand speeches about international leadership. It’s not the commentators demanding military action from the comfort of television studios. It is British mums and dads trying to stretch the wage for a few extra days. It’s the pensioner frightened to put the heating on. The young couple wondering whether they can afford a home. The small business owner calculating whether another increase in costs will finally force them to close. They have been handed another bill for someone else’s war - a war backed by everyone on the right apart from Restore Britain. Farage said this is the ‘right one’, and 'the gloves need to come off’. That is VERY easy to say from a GB News studio. A Restore Britain government will put the interests of its own citizens before the approval of foreign leaders. Britain does not need another foreign war. We tried that. It failed, over and over. The abuse I received from Reform politicians for saying so was extreme. They were wrong. The Tories were wrong. Restore Britain was right. We need cheaper energy, affordable food, secure borders. We need to control inflation. We need to make our economy deliver for working men and women. THAT is our aim. Not getting dragged into another pointless foreign war. Our loyalty is to the British people. Our responsibility is to British families. Our aim is to make life affordable again for our people. And our answer to yet another unnecessary war was no, and remains no. No more pointless foreign wars.

Here's Lois Perry, strategic director of Reform Friends of Israel, boasting that Alan Mendoza is in fact Reform's "de facto shadow foreign secretary," but that announcing him as such would "piss everybody in the entire party off." Mendoza is as establishment as they come, and his first priority is clearly not Britain. Do you want this guy in control of Britain's foreign policy?

Vote Tory, get war.