This Halloween, the ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe spoke out on behalf of all the new fathers. While we’re in favour of enhancing UK healthcare wherever we can, we’re not convinced Lowe feels the same way:

In March there was a vote in Parliament to make a paltry two weeks of paternity leave a statutory right for all new fathers.

Rupert Lowe didn’t bother to turn up to vote. https://t.co/uei8RYyrrK

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 1, 2025

Lowe point

Let’s look at what Lowe said in full – go line by line with it:

Giving birth is obviously an incredibly challenging experience for the mother – trust me, nobody is denying that. I do think though, that fathers should be shown more respect by the NHS during the whole process.

No food provided, no basic bedding, nothing.

He’s right, that is bad.

Has something happened to the NHS, like years of underfunding, maybe – or years of creeping privatisation?

Blah, blah, that has happened, yes.

Lowe knows this too, and yet he ran to be an MP for Reform UK – a party which wants to expand NHS privatisation (and may want to end the NHS as a public service altogether).

Back to his plea, Lowe continued:

The father is having a child too – potentially staying multiple nights, sleeping on the floor or in a chair?

Sorry to cut in again, but isn’t Lowe one of those politicians who are always complaining people are too soft these days?

In my day, sleeping on a chair was a luxury; we used to sleep standing on our heads in the pouring rain while we waited for our spouses to give birth.

If the NHS can find hundreds of millions for translation/interpretation and the rest of the diversity bullshit, then surely a few campbeds in each ward isn’t such an impossible investment? A bowl of pasta for the dad, who does actually pay for that meal through his own taxes?

This is the problem with these shitehawks; they always have to present everything as being in opposition to something else.

Asking for ‘translation’ is ‘bullshit’, but a camp bed is patriotic – heroic, even – the sort of thing King Arthur would ask for.

I’ve asked the Department of Health to reconsider their approach.

It would be nice if fathers weren’t treated as some awkward afterthought, during the process and so often across wider society.

Yes, won’t someone think of the poor fathers and their feelings – their endless fucking feelings.

Lowe finished as follows:

Let’s give dads the respect they deserve.

We’ll tell you this for nothing, there’s usually a reason guys like this whine about ‘not getting respect’, and it’s because they stomp around like a nobhead, and then they wonder why everyone is treating them like a nobhead.

IT’S BECAUSE YOU’RE A NOBHEAD, NOBHEAD!

Rupert Lowe — He could have done something

As Ally Fogg noted, Lowe could have got his vote out for the dads, and yet…

…he didn’t.

Fogg threw him a bone, speculating:

TBF he maybe didn’t turn up because he was suspended from the Reform whip.

Had he been a Reform MP at the time, he would presumably have voted *against*, like the rest of them did.

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 1, 2025

As Fogg went on to note, this wouldn’t have prevented him voting, but his hurt feelings would have given him an excuse (and we know this guy has a lot of hurt feelings).

At the same time, it’s not in any way surprising Lowe missed the vote given the fact he’s only attended 83 votes out of 206 as of today’s date.

That’s 40.3% of the votes, by the way.

Huh.

We’re beginning to understand why this guy gets no respect.

Featured image via Andrew Gold (YouTube)

By Willem Moore

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