Rupert Lowe, elected as a Reform UK MP but now sitting as an Independent, posted a picture on social media on Thursday night showing a boat near some wind turbines off the Norfolk coast.
“Authorities alerted, and I am urgently chasing. If these are illegal migrants, I will be using every tool at my disposal to ensure these individuals are deported.
But the vessel pictured was an ocean rowing boat crewed by ROW4MND, a team of four who are attempting to row from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for motor neurone disease (MND).
Mr Bates, a former Royal Marine and British record holder for rowing across the Atlantic solo, told the PA news agency: “I looked to my right and there was maybe a dozen individuals stood on the shoreline staring at us.”
Eventually, a friend forwarded Mr Lowe’s post, which Mr Bates said provided “a moment of light relief”.
“The best comment was the one asking where the Royal Navy were when you need them. I’m a former Royal Marine, so the Royal Navy were on the boat.”
The quartet set off from Land’s End on 25 July and initially headed north into the Irish Sea before bad weather forced them to stop at Milford Haven in Wales.
The journey is the first of four challenges over four years, with the group aiming to row from John O’Groats to Land’s End next year, from California to Hawaii in 2027 and New York to London in 2028, with a target of raising £57m for MND research.
Mr Bates said: “We’re rowing for hope, we’re rowing to find a cure, and hopefully we’ll raise £57m.
A spokesperson for ROW4MND said: “The crew are quite clearly an ocean rowing team, and no one was more surprised to be contacted by the coastguard than Matt, Mike, Aaron and Liz. Over the past two weeks they have faced big waves, high winds, route changes and Storm Floris, but being shopped as illegal immigrants by a sitting Member of Parliament really takes the biscuit.”
“That said, the crew would like to personally thank Rupert Lowe MP for increasing the profile of the ROW4MND project immeasurably.”
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