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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2026-02-27 09:40 am

Gorton And Denton

 The Greens won in Gorton and Denton. 

They won with a 34 year old woman who works as a plumber.

It was one in the eye for Farage's Reform party- who thought they had it sewn up.

And it humiliates Labour- whose ex-MP was forced out for being an entitled arse.

The values of the Green Party align fairly well with my own so I'm pleased. 

The media- including the bloody BBC- insist on treating Farage like he's a Prime Minister in waiting, but I can't see it and never have done.

1. Because his lot have never performed well in elections

2. Because the only other "names" in his party are ex-Tory sleaze merchants and incompetents.

3. He is associated with the American president- whom the British people loathe and despise and find funny.

The media talk him up because they are owned by people who would find a far-right dictatorship agreeable to themselves and amenable to their aims and because he's a card.....

I sort of know Gorton and Denton- or did. Whether I would recognise it now I'm not sure because it has undergone several makeovers down the years. It used to be Coronation Street, then it was gangland and now, I gather, it's becoming gentrified. Lots of students and Muslims. 

Farage says there was cheating.

O fuck off, Farage.....
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2026-02-27 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
The MRLP came fifth! :o)
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[personal profile] paserbyp 2026-02-27 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Green against Trump?
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[personal profile] paserbyp 2026-02-27 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Who will win? Reform or Green?