Indians, Pakistanis taking our jobs: UK MP’s racist remarks spark outrage

London (TIP): British Independent MP Rupert Lowe has sparked major controversy after posting a series of inflammatory comments targeting Indian and Pakistani immigrants in the UK, claiming they were taking jobs from British citizens and altering the country’s cultural identity. Lowe, who recently launched the right-wing political movement and party ‘Restore Britain’ after splitting from Reform UK, said he was unconcerned about being labelled racist for his remarks.
“I don’t believe we should import millions of Pakistanis and Indians to do jobs that unemployed Brits should be doing. If that makes me a racist, then so be it,” the MP representing the Great Yarmouth constituency in eastern England wrote in a thread of posts on X.
He further claimed that parts of north-west England had become “like being transported to a foreign country” because of immigration and accused mainstream British parties of allowing “millions of low-skilled migrants from the Third World” into the country.
In a series of posts focused heavily on Muslim communities, Lowe wrote that areas in Manchester were becoming “Islamic” and described immigration as a form of “colonisation”.
He alleged that British family-run businesses had been displaced and claimed British women no longer felt comfortable in certain neighbourhoods.
He also criticised burqas, sharia courts, halal slaughter and public prayer gatherings, while pledging that a future Restore Britain government would “ban the burqa”, “ban cousin marriage” and “ban the Kirpan in public spaces”.
Lowe also linked his anti-immigration rhetoric to his campaign around grooming gang investigations.
Referring to an upcoming parliamentary debate, he posted, “Progress to report – our rape gang inquiry debate is finally taking place in Parliament on Monday”. He urged supporters to pressure MPs to attend the discussion.
The remarks triggered criticism online, with opponents accusing Lowe of stoking racial and religious tensions through sweeping generalisations about immigrants and Muslim communities.
Official demographic and labour-market data, however, do not support Lowe’s assertion that Indian and Pakistani migrants dominate employment or are depriving local Britons of jobs, particularly in constituencies such as Great Yarmouth.
According to the Office for National Statistics, Great Yarmouth’s population increased modestly between 2011 and 2021, rising from around 97,300 to nearly 99,800 residents — growth of roughly 2.5 percent, significantly below both the East of England and national averages.