Labour became a right wing party, so the Greens are now the leading left/progressive party. Despite what the media would you have you think (see last night’s Question Time, which didn’t have a single left wing voice) there is still a substantial amount of people in this country who will vote progressive.
mixxituk on
It might convince me to vote green believe it or not
HeadBat1863 on
Watch the usual media outlets make excuses for Reform’s failure to win this seat but fail to name one of the biggest: Twitter bots don’t vote.Â
MoffTanner on
So it’s been demonstrated the core anti reform vote will be Green, next major election should see substantial Green voting allowing a Reform majority! Very worrying result.
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An election observer group has claimed its team witnessed “concerningly high levels” of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Family voting is an offence that can be committed when a person casting a ballot in an election is joined in a polling booth by someone who intends to influence how they vote.
Electoral law protects the secrecy of ballots in polling stations.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each.
The group said it had seen family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.
The group said they observed a sample of 545 individuals casting their vote and saw 32 cases of family voting in total, including nine cases in one polling station.
John Ault, director of Democracy Volunteers, said: “Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton.
“Based on our assessment of today’s observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.
“We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
“In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
“In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed.”
NoTitleChamp on
Moral of the story
1) Labour has to stop trying to appeal to Reform voters, its not working at its actively losing them their voter base.
2) Despite the media’s insistence, Reform is NOT unbeatable.
PearljamAndEarl on
Matt Goodwin and David Bull look like they were made from the same mould in an estate agent factory.
throwawayeventually_ on
I’m still somewhat sceptical of the Greens but this was the best outcome. Hopefully this forces Labour to reconsider the path McSweeney was leading them down. No-one wants a watered down Reform party. I’m sure we’ll still be seeing more of Matt Goodwin than Hannah Spencer in our day-to-day but at least he’s still officially a loser.
Appropriate-Divide64 on
Fantastic news. I was worried for a second but let this at the very least be a wake up call for labour.
Beneficial-Pitch-430 on
They will need to drastically change a few of their policies if they want any chance of winning an election.
BlackCaesarNT on
I remember when Labour fucked themselves in my constituency by removing the candidates who had worked hard to build a reputation in the area and would have unseated the incumbent Tory MP. Then they kicked her out of the party based on fucking nothing, parachuted a no name in and lost the seat.
As a paid up member of the Labour party, who this must support Starmer and the Labour govt, fuck me do they like stepping on rakes…
OkMap3209 on
It’s actually ridiculous that a nazi eugenicist that wanted to target women for not having kids got the number 2 spot in a left wing district. What are we heading towards?
infinitude_ on
Seems the majority of the UK is still progressive – I thought this was the case I mean reform and restore have no real plan
Labour finding out trying to appeal to reform voters is not the move.
trevstan1 on
Sadly we don’t have a party worthy of voting for. Reform are Cons 2.0. Greens are vegan libs. Cons are gone. And labour are a mess.
thebrowncanary on
Extremism on both sides is becoming more and more attractive to voters.
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Labour became a right wing party, so the Greens are now the leading left/progressive party. Despite what the media would you have you think (see last night’s Question Time, which didn’t have a single left wing voice) there is still a substantial amount of people in this country who will vote progressive.
It might convince me to vote green believe it or not
Watch the usual media outlets make excuses for Reform’s failure to win this seat but fail to name one of the biggest: Twitter bots don’t vote.Â
So it’s been demonstrated the core anti reform vote will be Green, next major election should see substantial Green voting allowing a Reform majority! Very worrying result.
An election observer group has claimed its team witnessed “concerningly high levels” of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
Family voting is an offence that can be committed when a person casting a ballot in an election is joined in a polling booth by someone who intends to influence how they vote.
Electoral law protects the secrecy of ballots in polling stations.
Democracy Volunteers said they attended 22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, spending 30 to 45 minutes in each.
The group said it had seen family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed.
The group said they observed a sample of 545 individuals casting their vote and saw 32 cases of family voting in total, including nine cases in one polling station.
John Ault, director of Democracy Volunteers, said: “Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton.
“Based on our assessment of today’s observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.
“We rarely issue a report on the night of an election, but the data we have collected today on family voting, when compared to other recent by-elections, is extremely high.
“In the other recent Westminster parliamentary by-election in Runcorn and Helsby we saw family voting in 12% of polling stations, affecting 1% of voters.
“In Gorton and Denton, we observed family voting in 68% of polling stations, affecting 12% of those voters observed.”
Moral of the story
1) Labour has to stop trying to appeal to Reform voters, its not working at its actively losing them their voter base.
2) Despite the media’s insistence, Reform is NOT unbeatable.
Matt Goodwin and David Bull look like they were made from the same mould in an estate agent factory.
I’m still somewhat sceptical of the Greens but this was the best outcome. Hopefully this forces Labour to reconsider the path McSweeney was leading them down. No-one wants a watered down Reform party. I’m sure we’ll still be seeing more of Matt Goodwin than Hannah Spencer in our day-to-day but at least he’s still officially a loser.
Fantastic news. I was worried for a second but let this at the very least be a wake up call for labour.
They will need to drastically change a few of their policies if they want any chance of winning an election.
I remember when Labour fucked themselves in my constituency by removing the candidates who had worked hard to build a reputation in the area and would have unseated the incumbent Tory MP. Then they kicked her out of the party based on fucking nothing, parachuted a no name in and lost the seat.
As a paid up member of the Labour party, who this must support Starmer and the Labour govt, fuck me do they like stepping on rakes…
It’s actually ridiculous that a nazi eugenicist that wanted to target women for not having kids got the number 2 spot in a left wing district. What are we heading towards?
Seems the majority of the UK is still progressive – I thought this was the case I mean reform and restore have no real plan
Labour finding out trying to appeal to reform voters is not the move.
Sadly we don’t have a party worthy of voting for. Reform are Cons 2.0. Greens are vegan libs. Cons are gone. And labour are a mess.
Extremism on both sides is becoming more and more attractive to voters.