Rupert Lowe has found another set of undesirable visitors to rant about. The Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, normally incensed by asylum seekers on small boats, is now outraged about the activities of the seagulls who – for reasons that may have something to do with the sea – he has spotted in great numbers in his constituency.
“We need to do something about the seagulls plaguing the town,” he wrote on Facebook last week. “I’m exploring potential solutions – what are your thoughts?” Lowe has also used one of his seemingly endless list of Commons questions to ask environment secretary Steve Reed to “make an assessment of the potential merits of removing the protected status of seagulls” and last week was promoting a local business survey that included the question: “Do seagulls negatively impact your business?”
We wait with excitement to see what Lowe’s “potential solutions” for stopping seagulls visiting the seaside might be, but surely this independent thinker will rule nothing out – perhaps a Norfolk version of Israel’s Iron Dome defence system or a task force of patriots turning the annoying birds round in the channel and sending them back to Calais to claim seagull sanctuary there?
