#gortonanddenton — Public Fediverse posts

A newspaper from the #GreenParty this morning about the #GreaterManchester #GMMayor by-election next week is full of fibs.

The headline reads "Shock new poll: Greens can win Mayor". A graph shows the Greens pulling ahead of #UKLabour.

The poll cited is by Find Out Now from 13th July. Find Out Now are a member of the British Polling Council, but I couldn't find the raw data on their website. I did however find the results of the poll on a polling aggregator, where it puts Labour at 38% to the Greens on 22%. That is not suggesting that the Greens can win the Mayoralty - it puts them firmly second, within margin of error above Reform.

The poll even asks about #SupplementaryVote preferences. Assuming the Greens come second, Labour still wins 2:1.

I like most of the Greens' policies and their overall vibe; I voted for them in the locals and #GortonAndDenton. But I wish they'd stop pulling this shit.

#Manchester #GPEW

Will Burnham keep the likes of Mahmood in the Cabinet?

#ShabanaMahmood #AndyBurnham #UKPol #UKPolitics #Labour #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #GortonAndDenton

I have just written to my MP Hannah Spencer, thanking her for supporting EDM 240 calling for the EHRC's transphobic "guidance" to be withdrawn.

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/65938

Not only should you lobby your MP to sign this, you should thank them if they do! Most of an MP's job is thankless.

#ukpol #trans #lgbtq #Manchester #GortonAndDenton

Rayner's Gambit: Burnham's Parliamentary Echo and Starmer's Tightrope

Angela Rayner believes it was wrong to stop Andy Burnham from returning to Parliament. This causes problems for Keir Starmer.

#AngelaRayner, #AndyBurnham, #KeirStarmer, #LabourParty, #GortonAndDenton

https://newsletter.tf/rayner-says-blocking-burnham-return-was-mistake/

Angela Rayner, a key Labour figure, has publicly stated that preventing Andy Burnham from standing for Parliament was a mistake. This adds to the pressure on Labour leader Keir Starmer.

#AngelaRayner, #AndyBurnham, #KeirStarmer, #LabourParty, #GortonAndDenton
https://newsletter.tf/rayner-says-blocking-burnham-return-was-mistake/

In the 2010 General Election, this #Levenshulme #Manchester estate agent shop was the election office for #LibDems candidate Qassim Afzal.

Now it seems to be the election office for #WorkersPartyGB, the ego trip party of all round horrible person George Galloway. Weird how things change over time.

#LocalElections #GortonAndDenton

It was so great to meet Hannah Spencer today in Denton and talk about both of our Bye-Election campaigns. Hannah has proved that a message of hope in the face of hate, and positivity can really resonate with people. That doesn’t mean ignoring serious issues or abandoning your values, but bringing solutions instead of just negativity.

#GortonAndDenton #DublinCentral #VoteGreen #TheDublinWeDeserve

Really nice, pleasant and interesting interview with the new MP Hannah Spencer for Gorton and Denton in the Graniad:
#guardian #hannahspencer #gortonanddenton

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/30/wow-people-were-so-angry-at-labour-green-mp-hannah-spencer-on-politics-plumbing-smears-and-snobbery

RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116302975307425435

RE: Family Voting Allegations being disproven

#UKPol #UKpolitics #GortonAndDenton #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW #FamilyVoting #Islamophobia #Whiteness #Media

RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116302778295805433

Dirty tricks is all the Establishment has, they can't govern....

#UKpol #UKPolitics #ZackPolanski #Greens #GPEW #GreenParty #GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer

The Epstein Class think we're all just as depraved and racist as they are. But we are not.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/24/labour-party-lost-white-working-class-voters-greens-gorton-and-denton-analysis

#Labour #EpsteinClass #Greens #GortonAndDenton #GPEW #Class #Classism #ReformUK #Whiteness #UKpol #UKpolitics

Lol, Reform are sore, racist losers.

What there was evidence of from that byelection is that the Working class is not as racist and petty as Westminster likes to think it is.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25975568.no-evidence-family-voting-greater-manchester-by-election/

#Manchester #GortonAndDenton #UKPol #UKPolitics #FamilyVoting #Racism #ReformUK #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW

Perhaps there is something wrong with the Polls?
The Green victory in Gorton and Denton was a surprise to them, but not the Bookies (who literally have money on it)

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-overtake-labour-as-party-people-are-most-likely-to-vote-against-403786/

#ReformUK #PoliticalPolling #GreenParty #GPEW #Greens #NigelFarage #Farage #GortonAndDenton #UKPol #UKPolitics

Nice little article quoting Nottingham people who contributed to the Green Party win in Gorton & Denton. Some visited and did door-knocking, some did phone calls.

"Nottingham Greens and the Game-changer By-election"
https://nottingham.greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/08/nottingham-greens-and-the-game-changer-by-election/

#GreenParty #Nottingham #GortonAndDenton #HannahSpencer

https://www.europesays.com/uk/811924/ Britain needs a tsar focused on Islamism, not Islamophobia #Britain #England #GortonAndDenton #GreatBritain #GreenParty #Islam #Islamophobia #KeirStarmer #mulsims #NorthernIreland #Scotland #UK #Uncategorized #UnitedKingdom #Wales

The Far Right are the same the world over when they lose.

Ugly, loveless people who repel the voters, and then shriek 'victim' when they lose. Aren't we all so fucking sick of these people now?

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/05/anti-lgbtq-republican-claims-voting-was-rigged-after-losing-primary-by-landslide/

#FarRight #Fascism #Homophobia #Hate #Politics #texas #GortonAndDenton

Reform fury as someone else wins.

#PrivateEye #GortonAndDenton #Satire #ukpol

Latest Private Eye.

#HannahThePlumber #PrivateEye #GortonAndDenton

Clearly, the stupid Labour party has learned nothing from the #GortonandDenton by-election and has decided to carry on in the same trajectory, inexorably toward further failure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2jy74895eo

Green Party Achieves Landmark Victory in Gorton and Denton By-election, Unseating Labour

Why did the Green Party win the Gorton and Denton by-election on 27 February 2026? Hannah Spencer beat Labour with 14,980 votes to change the local leadership.

#gortonanddenton, #greenpartyuk, #manchesterpolitics, #hannahspencer, #ukbyelection

https://newsletter.tf/green-party-wins-gorton-denton-election-2026/

The Green Party got 14,980 votes, which is 4,402 more than the second-place party. This is the first time the Greens have ever won a by-election for a seat in Parliament.

#gortonanddenton, #greenpartyuk, #manchesterpolitics, #hannahspencer, #ukbyelection

https://newsletter.tf/green-party-wins-gorton-denton-election-2026/

Green Party Gains Ground, Challenging Labour's Traditional Base

Green Party wins first by-election in Gorton and Denton, taking votes from Labour. Find out why voters are shifting and what it means for the UK left.

#GreenPartyWin, #GortonAndDenton, #LabourVoterShift, #UKPolitics, #ByElection

https://newsletter.tf/green-party-wins-gorton-denton-by-election-from-labour/

The Green Party won 40.7% of the vote in Gorton and Denton, their first by-election victory. This is a significant shift from Labour's traditional support.

#GreenPartyWin, #GortonAndDenton, #LabourVoterShift, #UKPolitics, #ByElection

https://newsletter.tf/green-party-wins-gorton-denton-by-election-from-labour/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@katemorley/116164581027674779

Note that for the last 6 months, #YouGov has consistently reported lower numbers for the Greens #GPEW than reported by other pollsters.

So the 5-point Green lead over the so-called "#LabourParty" is likely to be an underestimate of the post-#GortonAndDenton Green surge.

#ukpol

RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116163842432197463

On #HannahSpencer victory for #GreenParty in key UK by-election

"Our politics had become too poll-driven, too cautious, and too obsessed with respectability to allow community to break through.

This by-election shattered that assumption"

#GortonAndDenton

#UKPolitics: Why “ #HannahThePlumber” and the #GreenParty Offer Hope (Hasan Patel)

#HannahSpencer #GortonAndDenton

https://eaworldview.com/2026/03/hannah-the-plumber-green-party-offer-hope/

@wavesculptor No you didn't read it right.

1/ The apparent hairs breadth split was between Green and Labour, both progressive to some degree.

2/ The Greens have been around for fifty years, but were marginal until recently, and ignored in every one of the 87 by-elections they had contsted. Their highest vote share in any previous by-election was 10.2%. They got four times that in #GortonAndDenton

James Butler's article on #GortonAndDenton in #LRB is astute, especially about the strategic folly of the so-called "#LabourParty". A fine read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/february/just-voting / https://archive.is/xgwDa

But I was very struck by Butler's comments on the divide in #ReformUK. I assume that the billionaire media which fuels Reform will drive the #cultureWar as far as it can go without splitting Reform until Reform has had power to do phase 1 damage. Then they back the ultras.

Any other thoughts?

#ukpol

Ooh I just found out yet another delightful thing about #GortonAndDenton:

> in an embarrassing loss for the Conservatives [...] the party’s vote share was so decimated that it lost its deposit for the first time in 40 years, attracting less than 2% of the vote.

🥰

https://www.wearequeeraf.com/you-can-support-trans-rights-and-win-a-british-election-a-consequential-green-victory/

The #ScottishLabourParty has — to put it mildly —;not adapted & prospered under devolution. In the weekend after its annual conference & #GortonAndDenton does it have any future? Could it finally become #ScottishLabour?

#GerryHassan's essay in the #SundayNational is not optimistic.

https://archive.is/HCHbt / https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25896510.late-scottish-labour-party-become-scottish-party/

#scotpol #ukpol #LabourParty #Sarwar

"On Thursday morning, when most pundits were still calling the #GortonAndDenton byelection a three-way fight that was impossible to call, the #GreenParty sent a note to journalists. Come to the first press conference of Hannah Spencer MP tomorrow. And while you’re about it, stay on to join her for her first constituency surgery. What could possibly go wrong? As it happens … absolutely nothing."

#UKPol #Greens

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/27/hannah-spencer-speech-gorton-denton-byelection-sketch