The win of new pro Gaza Greens is bad news for Labour. It will mean Starmer’s MPs will intensify the pressure to spend more, borrow more and tax more and give in to the EU and foreign governments more. This will intensify the problems this government’s policies are causing. It will add to Labour’s unpopularity with most of us. They will prove beyond doubt that high taxes kill enterprise and jobs, spending more does not solve public sector management problems, and being nice to foreigners does not boost growth. It makes government financial stress more likely and condemns us to high youth unemployment.
February 27, 2026
I see the monster raving looney party ie the Greens won the by-election in Gorton and Denton with a back drop of accusations of vote family rigging how can this sort of thing still be going on, anyway they asked the winning Green candidate what she won it on and a presto , Asked about two of her key campaign issues, the cost of living and Gaza, she replies: “I am really clear and really proud about my record of standing up for people in Palestine. What the bloody hell as Palestine got to do with the United Kingdom answers on the back of a postage stamp please
February 27, 2026
@Mick – sorry you are wrong ‘The Monster Raving Looney’ party was always more on message with the people of the country than this current crop of MPs.
February 27, 2026
and campaigning leaflets in Urdu tells us more of the disparity in former English bedrock areas as a new colonial situation takes hold.
February 27, 2026
Anyone know how big the postal vote was? And how much went to the Greens?
Postal voting is prevalent in Muslim households – just sayin’
Reply Postal voting is perfectly legal. An individual getting a PV addressed to them needs to ensure they use it as they wish.
February 27, 2026
Did they ask the Green candidate what her party’s policies are on halal meat and gay rights?
February 27, 2026
Despite the uniparty doing its best to repopulate the country it is obvious that the ethnic vote has now abandoned the liebour party in favour of fictional voting.
It was the best result for Reform as it shows their support us solid amongst the general population which is what matters at a General Election.
The problem Gaza Greens will soin be ditched in favour of real Gaza supporters.
It’s essential that 2TK stays in post to continue as recruiting sergeant for Reform.
It would be interesting to j ow how many postal votes were cast.
February 27, 2026
Good for Reform until your general population is outnumbered.
February 27, 2026
Yes but Labour will never out-spend, out-green, out-diversify or out-tax the Green proposals. If they do as you propose, will just push the few old Labour remaining voters right to Reform. Libdems equally will not out-loony the Greens so the sandals will wander there. Good for Reform in Wokingham. 2 horse race now Reform or Green. Faites vos jeux.
February 27, 2026
Forget casino voting, it is flipping the coin as to who wins.
February 27, 2026
@Sir Joe Soap – you lost me there. The LibDems are out campaigning in Wokingham, the have their council banners up saying how good they are for community and its cohesion. The Local but not living in Wokingham LibDem MP has been turning up at road traffic incidents for local media photo shoot to proclaim how good he and his party is for Wokingham. The others? they seem to be AWOL
February 27, 2026
It’s a disaster for the country, but so is Labour.
Thanks to decades of mass immigration and state enforced multi-culturalism, we now have Sectarian politics with a campaign conducted in a foreign language; completely corrupt voting practices in one particular “community” which are condoned by the Establishment because they are scared of being called waycist and economically-illiterate Marxists who are proposing to legalise hard drugs and give every criminal migrant a house and welfare.
Thirty years of the Uni-Party, ignoring the wishes of the British people as they imported millions from the third world, has created this situation.
The only positive is that the national Reform polling of around 30% held up in a left-wing, Labour stronghold: they got 28.7% ….. without cheating.
February 27, 2026
Welcome to the future unless Reform get to implement their policies.
February 27, 2026
@Donna +1
February 27, 2026
@Donna
There is no evidence for ‘cheating’ whatsever. Farage has made this statement without evidence. A previously unheard-of shadowy group calling itself “Democracy Volunteers” has made claims while again, providing no evidence. Of course, the Chair of Reform Mr Bull has immediately claimed “electoral fraud”.
The acting returning officer spokesperson says “Polling station staff are trained to look out for evidence of undue influence on voters. No such issues have been reported today. If the Democracy Volunteers saw evidence they should have reported it before the polls closed. This they failed to do “
February 27, 2026
As predicted here in my (moderated) post of ten days ago, the local Green candidate – a hard working lady plumber – handsomely won the Gorton and Denton by-election with 14,980 votes, (41%) 12 points in front of the Reform candidate (10,578) – a large majority of 4,402 over Reform. In bad news for Starmer, Labour came third with 9,364 votes
The Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates both polled less than 2% and lost their deposits, for the Conservatives their worst ever by-election result
Yet another humiliating by-election defeat for the dreadful Nigel Farage and his anti-swans Reform limited company. Despite Farage himself visiting the constituency several times, surrounded by phalanxes of burly minders who prevented him from engaging with the public. Farage, like Trump, is now alleging “cheating”
Taken together, 24344 voters went for pro-net zero parties, or ~70%. Reform and their anti-net zero, pro-fossil fuel policies were decisively rejected by the ethnically mixed Gorton and Denton voters
February 27, 2026
The Green candidate didn’t seem to be saying much about the environment. Maybe she said it in Urdu and I missed it.
February 27, 2026
Yes it’s worrying that 70% of the population of inner city Manchester vote for a party that would ruin the UK economy, legalise drugs, ban landlords, and supports attacks on Israel, amongst other strange ideas. Even more strange is that its leader and some supporters are Jewish. But as they say up North, there’s nowt as strange as folks.
February 27, 2026
The international scrutineers, before the end of polling, put out a report so concerned were they about the breaking of U.K. election law.
February 27, 2026
The Greens, old or new, are the last ones we need to see gaining strength – they have more ideology than old labour. There are suggestions that the voting was managed in some way to give the greens a win.
If that is not the answer then we are back to the old days where voters switched between labour and Tory, only now it is labour and Greens.
February 27, 2026
This was a good result given the options available.
Starmer is finished.
Farage is finished.
Advance with the best candidate, a no show, must fold.
Tories also rans.
The Green MP will blurt out Green policy and shock everyone who missed that detail, and she won under a cloud. International scrutiny not happy with the conduct of the election.
February 27, 2026
I’m not sure how you’ve concluded that Farage is finished.
Reform got the vote which they are polling nationally (29%) in one of Labour’s safest seats.
Labour came third. The Tories got 2% and lost their deposit. The LibDems got 1.3% and lost their deposit. The Advance candidate (Ben Habib’s Ego Trip), a well-known local chap/podcaster got less than 150 votes and Restore didn’t even have a candidate.
What is the one thing that unifies Labour, Tories, LibDems, Advance and Restore? They all spent all their time attacking Reform and let the Islamist-Marxist Green’s win.
February 27, 2026
Just had notification from my electricity supplier that whilst the unit rate will go down from April, the standing charge per day will increase, so my monthly payments need to increase by £13.00 per month. !
They confirm I am already on the lowest rate plan they charge.
The difference between government spin and reality. l
February 27, 2026
My standing charges are now almost the same as my energy use, as my house is EPC C. The reduction is being financed by increased taxation or borrowing. The fixed charges are for the distribution network. The incoming mains to houses are now being upgraded. I asked the blokes who are digging up my newly surfaced road how much per house it’s costing. They are getting £4500. That’s £135 billion for 30 million dwellings to add to the charge over the next few years.
February 27, 2026
We have long known that the Greens may reasonably be described as the Watermelons – green on the outside, red on the inside. Their current version has revealed that the interior of the watermelon is putrid and maggot ridden, and only fit for the compost heap.
February 27, 2026
@David Cooper – well said
February 27, 2026
The Donald continues to force Ukraine to attend so-called “peace” talks with the war criminal Putin’s regime, whilst under fire. Exasperated at continuing Ukrainian resistance, Trump has now cut off all US military aid to Zelenskiy.
Forcing this brave nation, fighting for it’s survival whilst under direct attack, to negotiate with Putin is akin to Roosevelt forcing Churchill to negotiate with Hitler while the Luftwaffe was bombing London.
Clearly, Putin has no intention of conducting any meaningful peace negotiations whatsoever. At the conclusion of each round of “peace” talks, the same repetitious claptrap from the Russian side is repeated – no peace until Zelenskiy capitulates to Russian maximalist demands.
It is now obvious that the American people have had enough of Trump. His approval polling is dire and it seems clear that the mid-term elections in November will be bad for the Republicans. Many Americans are appalled at ICE killings of American citizens, Trump and Vance’s insults to their European NATO allies, Trump’s contemptible cowering to Putin and his incessant bullying of Zelensiy.
The only thing that is going to end this war is NATO boots on the ground – on Ukraine’s side
February 27, 2026
Are you volunteering Mr Gold or just sending others to suffer like you advocate for net zero.
You do like other people to suffer for your beliefs.
February 27, 2026
Zelensky will be alright. He’s got new homes and bank accounts all over the place. That’s if the Azovs don’t get him before he goes. Putin has said he wants a bit more of the Donbas plus neutrality and a buffer zone. Then the disaster can stop.
February 27, 2026
Looks like the typical Labour Protest vote put the Greens in place, because they could not bring themselves to vote for Farage.
Thus we now have another nutter supporter in Parliament with crazy party polices.
February 27, 2026
That ‘nutter’ spelt out in her winners’ speech just what has gone wrong in England over decades.
Admiration for spelling it out. However, will the other parties except Reform, take any notice …. put down to collateral damage.
February 27, 2026
Reform have made the mistake of placing themselves squarely right wing. Their whole rhetoric is as such. They should have gone for the centre ground, but it’s too late for them now. By going right wing they have secured a sizable section of the population but perhaps not enough to secure a Westminster majority, as they alienate anyone to the left of centre.
It’s quite possible to have sensible centre ground policies (see John Redwood in spite of what the press makes him out to be).
February 27, 2026
The result further proves that in local elections people vote for who they see as the best candidate for the locality, not for a future national government. Mr Farage can moan all he wants but that’s the simple reality.
February 27, 2026
From what I’ve been reading, there’s the worry that the Green Party will use all the same dirty tricks to win in other elections. That is very alarming!
An electoral watch dog observed in their spot checks of voting hubs yesterday, that at least 17% of the votes were ‘family votes.’ This was apparently made illegal in 2020.
Together with Labours potential response to this by-election – the outcome is frankly terrifying!
As one Telegraph reader commented this morning about the empowering of Muslim votes that the Green Party is encouraging, “Islam is unique, it’s a supremacist totalitarian ideology wrapped up to look like a religion.”
I believe the Green Party to be a danger to this country’s democracy.
February 27, 2026
@Sharon
Rubbish. The only threat to British democracy is Farage now apeing Trump by claiming “cheating” of which there is no evidence whatsoever, as confirmed by Manchester council today
February 27, 2026
As we’ve known for decades – persuade the head of the household and you have the other voters indoors onside.
February 27, 2026
@Sharon – it is seen by the government and its authorities as good outcome for community cohesion
February 27, 2026
I am staggered that open breaking of the election rules has been allowed to stand.
I am upset that segretarian racist voting blocs have been encouraged.
this country is doomed.
all decent people everywhere should back Rupert Lowe.
February 27, 2026
@iain gill – it is seen by the government and its authorities as good outcome for community cohesion
February 27, 2026
22 of the 45 polling stations in the constituency, witnessed family voting in 15 of them.
In 2023, the United Kingdom passed the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023 to make family voting a criminal offence.
Although it would be reasonable to suggest the same happens with postal votes, well intentioned but open to corruption.
February 27, 2026
This latest election shows collapsing support for Conservatives 706, LibDems 653 and Labour. Reform got more votes than Labour increasing its share. Voter apathy for the major 2 Parties meant a 28% increase for the winning Greens and 15% increase for Reform in second place. British politics in turmoil still.
February 27, 2026
Anyone but the Starmer government
February 27, 2026
It is, above all else, very bad news for ordinary people in this country. One look at what is and has been going on in Germany ought to suffice. But if people, i.e. voters, do want even more de-industrialisation, more restrictions on what to build, where to go, what to say – and if they’re happy to spend even more of their (they do pay taxes as well, don’t they) money on ‘helping poor refugees’ – well, who are we to judge, aye?
February 27, 2026
Sectarianism is writ large. A new dawn, and not one that fills me with enthusiasm.
February 27, 2026
Turnout was pretty much the same as at the General Election so the votes were shared around differently but the same number of votes.
The 40,000 voters who didn’t show up could just have come and spoiled their paper instead. Imagine this morning if that had happened. Dave Paulden would not be quite so smug and Nigel Farage would have others things to worry about than family voting (which Manchester City Council really should look into)
Spoiling the paper is so much better than apathy.
February 27, 2026
Now that Pakistan is at war with Afghanistan, it is inevitable that the Pakistani heritage people in the UK will end up in violent clashes with the Afghanistan people the British state has imported here. Lack of integration, segregated settlements, large communities living in isolation not speaking English, it’s not going to turn out well. The political class rubbing our noses in diversity has sowed its own chaos.
February 27, 2026
The Islamists and anarchists have found common cause – they both hate the UK.
February 27, 2026
So the Greens win Gorton and Denton. A female MP, representing the party of a Homosexual Jew, voted in by Muslims. You couldn’t make it up …
February 27, 2026
Absolutely frightening result for the country and democracy. But surely we must have thought that this day would come. Present and previous governments have a lot to answer for. You cannot indefinitely ignore the electorate.