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Gorton and Denton by-election result

Well, there it is. It seems that a considerable proportion of the Green votes may have been tainted by coercive “family voting” by Pakistanis (12% at polling stations, and an unknown number via postal voting), but even that might not have changed the result.

Social media is already alive with idiotic white “me-too” type anti-Reform tweeters etc, all saying what a humiliation this has been for Reform and for Matt Goodwin personally. Really? Reform doubled its percentage share of the vote since 2024, less than 2 years ago. True, the Greens tripled their 2024 vote, but Labour halved their share.

The real story here is that the traditional “mainstream” parties have all been rejected by the voters, both white and non-white.

Labour lost a seat, and in an area, which has been a Labour stronghold throughout living memory. Labour’s vote-share fell from 50.8% in 2024 to exactly half of that, 25.4%, at the by-election.

The Conservative Party scored 7.9% in 2024, but now only 1.9%.

The LibDems scored 3.8% in 2024, but only 1.8% this time.

Contrary to what the pseudo-“Green” supporters on social media are saying, the big loser at Gorton and Denton was not Reform but the Labour Party.

Gorton and Denton was only 440th on the Reform UK target list, and/but was considered a very safe Labour seat.

Fairly disastrous for Labour. If Labour cannot win, or even come second, in a place like that, where can it win?

As for Reform, well…had it been social-national, rather than nlibertarian fake “conservative”-nationalist (if “nationalist” at all), if it were not so pro-finance capitalist, not so very pro-Jew, pro-Israel, not so hostile (Tice and Farage) to employed persons and to people cheated out of property-ownership (and so having to rent from the likes of Tice), it might have won handsomely in this by-election.

The new Green Party MP, Hannah Spencer, looks to me like both a fake and a freak.

I think that head-counting “democracy” of this sort is washed-up in the UK. It just does not work in a so-called “multicultural society”.

As for Starmer-stein, and as blogged previously, I doubt he will resign. He likes the status and money and the rest too much. He loves to parade, albeit comically, on the world stage, and play the “world statesman”, however implausibly. He will cling on until people stamp on his fingers.

The other big loser out of the by-election might be the pathetic Corbyn/Sultana “Your Party”, which did not contest the seat, but has now been totally overshadowed and made irrelevant by the Green triumph.