Which grifter MP earns big on X while you struggle to pay the bills?
One politician has pocketed more than £72,000 from a billionaire's website while families across Britain count every penny. So who is really paying the price?
While you scrape together the money for your energy bill, one MP has been quietly stuffing his pockets with cash from a billionaire’s social media platform.
Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe has trousered more than £72,000 from X since being elected in 2024. In April alone, he banked over £10,000. That’s more in one month just from X than many of us earn over months.
Think about that. While ordinary people work themselves into the ground, this politician gets paid simply for posting online.
Click bait
How does it work? Since US billionaire Elon Musk bought the platform, X pays users based on engagement. The more likes, reposts and replies you rack up, the more you earn. And Lowe knows exactly how to play the game.
His posts are packed with provocative language designed to get people riled up. The angrier the response, the fatter his payout. Outrage pays, and Lowe has turned it into a nice little earner.
It helps to have friends in high places. Musk, who has more than 240 million followers, has repeatedly amplified Lowe’s posts. Last June he cheered on Lowe’s breakaway party with a string of Union Jack emojis. Just last Sunday he did it again, sharing one of Lowe’s posts with the caption “Restore Britain”.
So a foreign billionaire boosts the politician, the politician rakes in the cash, and the rest of us are left footing the bill for everything else. Is this what passes for serving the public these days?
Not in it for the money?
Lowe insists he isn’t in it for the money. He told PoliticsHome: “If I were in politics to make money, I wouldn’t donate my entire net MP salary to charity in my constituency. Would I?”
“This is the most expensive job I’ve ever had. Trust me - if I wanted financial gain, I wouldn’t be doing this.”
Make of that what you will. But the numbers don’t lie. Lowe has earned more from the platform than Nigel Farage, Richard Tice and Lee Anderson combined. Farage managed £19,866. Tice and Anderson trail far behind. Lowe leaves the lot of them in the dust.
The system rewards division
And here’s the thing. This isn’t just one greedy MP. It’s a system that rewards division. The platform pushes the loudest, angriest voices to the top, while the quiet majority who just want to get on with their lives are drowned out. The more heat you generate, the more cash lands in your account.
So while you’re told there’s no money for clean air, decent healthcare or affordable energy, there’s apparently plenty sloshing around for politicians who shout the loudest online.
And don’t think this is about one party or one side. Politicians of every stripe have spotted the same trick. Others earn from the platform too, dressing it up as donations to good causes. But the game is the same. Say something inflammatory, watch the engagement roll in, collect the cheque.
The truth is they’re all feeding from the same trough. While we argue among ourselves, the people at the top keep cashing in.
That’s the real scandal here. Not just one greedy MP, but a system that rewards division and pays the powerful to keep us at each other’s throats.
We deserve better than this. We deserve politicians who serve us, not their own bank balances. It’s time we stopped being pitted against one another and started standing together. Because the only people who win when we’re divided are the ones already laughing all the way to the bank.