Graeme Bandeira @GraemeBandeira on #NigelFarage #hannahspencer #MattGoodwin #gortondenton – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Wow! Worth a listen. #Politicians #Voters #Trust #GortonDenton #UKpoli #EUpoli #USpoli #Cdnpoli #Cdnmedia

#ReformUk accuse everyone of cheating, they are projecting but the #BBCNews #BBCLauraK and #SkyNews never challenge their lies! #GortonDenton

Election Monitors Ordered to Show 'Sensitivity' Amid Family Voting Allegations Election monitors observing the Gorton and Denton by-election in Greater Manchester were instructed to approach any suspicions of illegal 'family voting' with 'sensitivity' towards cultural practices, according to reports. Family voting, where one person influences another's vote by accompanying them into the polling booth, was made a criminal offence in 2023. However, in a predominantly Muslim area, concerns were raised after reports suggested that voters were being accompanied into booths, leading to calls for further investigation. Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, has urged the Electoral Commission to ensure that all reported incidents are thoroughly examined. A monitoring group, Democracy Volunteers, claimed to have observed 32 separate family voting incidents at 15 polling stations, raising questions over the integrity of the election. Despite the controversy, the Green Party claimed a decisive victory, securing over 40% of the vote. Critics have voiced their displeasure at the guidance issued to election monitors, arguing that cultural considerations should not override the principle of secret voting in a democratic society. The Electoral Commission and Greater Manchester Police have both pledged to review the reports and investigate the allegations.

Election Monitors Ordered to Show 'Sensitivity' Amid Family Voting Allegations

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England take note:

"If your choices
are beautiful,
so too will you be"

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I'm happy to wake up to the news that Hannah Spencer has won the #GortonDenton by-election but this is more than any straight forward victory parade. This has very really specifics to it which should be analysed. 1/9

Immigration and asylum Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy 'plain wrong' calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters

Keep voting @greenparty.org.uk

#GortonDenton

Hope over Hate 💚

A quite brilliant analysis of the #GortonandDentonByElection and the failures of Reform and Labour

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"It was the Muslim vote!"

is the 2026 version of

"you're an antisemite!"

#GortonDenton

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Hannah Spencer is a better orator than the Prime Minister and almost all of the Labour cabinet.

#GortonDenton

IT'S NOT 'EXTREMISM' TO DEMAND CLIMATE ACTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS. GREEN WINS IN GORTON & DENTON SHOW WE CHOOSE HOPE OVER HATE. WHEN POLITICIANS SCAPEGOAT MUSLIMS THEY REVEAL THEIR TRUE COLOURS. WE DESERVE LEADERS WHO STAND WITH MIGRANTS, QUEER PEOPLE & OUR PLANET 🌍✊🏽 #GORTONDENTON #GREENVICTORY

The Greens, Your Party and Labour’s left challenge | LSE British Politics With the creation of Your Party and the Green's soaring popularity, Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.

Following the #GreenParty victory in the #GortonDenton #byelection, Labour is facing a more serious challenge on its left than on its right.

@lauraserra.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social and Jenevieve Treadwell trace the movement of voters to the Left on @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

Never punch down because occasionally we punch back! ✊👊💚

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What the hell happened to being professional in politics and just congratulating the winner?

#GortonDenton

Like all right wing grifters, Reform Ltd are nothing but whiney little babies when they don’t get what they want…

Labour already campaigning for 2029!

With strategies like this, it's no wonder they lost.

#GortonDenton

Hearty congratulations due to #ZackPolanski, who has buried the perception the Greens are a single-issue party.

Labour now needs to throw the Reform-lite policies into the bin with Morgan McSweeney.

#GortonDenton

Sheesh! Just dropped a W script for Hire a Fisher 🎣. Auto fish, auto sell, auto buy, ETC. COMBO WICK coming through! 🔥 #Roblox #MediaControl #GortonDenton See bio.

Wonderful of Heidi Alexander to criticise what the Greens campaigned on.

The Greens won, Heidi. You came third.

#GortonDenton #bbcr4today

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Now #Reform are saying they never expected to win.
So funny.
I suppose the horrendous things #Goodwin was saying and #Farage bogging off to Chagos to distance himself didn't help.
What a hoot!
#GortonDenton #byelection

With the same spirit of reserved political judgement, it is—in this kind of by-election result—the occupation by #Reform of the natural #Tory position at #GortonDenton that is for me the real shocker: The #Tories left sitting in a ‘Referendum Party’ type slot—whilst HM’s Opposition

Gorton and Denten to Reform, Goodwin and Farage today.

#ReformUK #GortonDentonByElection
#GortonDenton

It's probable that ReformUK got most of their vote out.
Labour and The Greens together got 66% of the vote.
This tells us the country does not want toxic ReformUK.
Govts lose by-elections so the hysteria over the Labour result is probably unwarranted.

#GortonDenton #Labour #Greens
#ReformUK

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Now the big picture. 🤷‍♂️

If Starmer was smart this should be a wake-up call that he's losing his core and if he's not careful he could wake up after the GE to the Labour equivalent of the Tories losing Oxfordshire and most of Surrey.

So the Blue Labour, anti-immigration stuff dies.

But if […]

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Also I feel sorry for the Lib Dem candidate. This is old now but there was a by-election in a predecessor seat in 2017, she was the candidate then. And she was strong.

Without having been on the campaign (and high up) I can never confirm this but reportedly she was leading. Then GE2017 was […]

Absolutely ecstatic that Hannah Spencer has won the Gorton & Denton by-election. Can we all appreciate the audacity of the Telegraph & Farage claiming the Greens used sectarianism, when all Reform have done is talk about restoring Christianity to Britian! #GortonDenton #Green #Reform #Sectarianism

A simple conclusion from #GortonDenton is that the majority of voters will choose hope over hate. Voters didn't respond well to Labour's #continuitycapitalism position, and all that effort trying to court the right has merely reduced its voter base. Maybe things would've been different with #Burnham

Green Party yeahhh, and also let me point out that that choice of colours is a memorable one #GortonDenton

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Well done to the Greens, so far as I'm aware this is their first by-election win of this nature.

The campaign generally looked pretty Lib Demmy (down to releasing data showing you just behind your scariest opponent) so I feel vindicated in sometimes lumping the two parties together when it […]