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Report dustybin February 27, 2026 10:34 AM GMT
The sooner the islamo-faction go it alone the better, atm they are taking hostages who are simply propping up their international manifesto.

Anyone who voted Green on the premise they think they have morals to keep them warm, have absolutely nothing other than those it seems.
Report Jumper45 February 27, 2026 10:43 AM GMT

Feb 27, 2026 -- 10:34AM, dustybin wrote:


The sooner the islamo-faction go it alone the better, atm they are taking hostages who are simply propping up their international manifesto.Anyone who voted Green on the premise they think they have morals to keep them warm, have absolutely nothing other than those it seems.


Which is what happened in Tower Hamlets. Piggybacked onto Labour initially, then once they had the numbers, off they went out on their own. Has anyone translated the leaflets that were in Urdu, into English? And was it the only election leaflet those voters could actually read?

And now the allegations about vote fixing. Of course the ever so polite media can't, or won't, offer any detail. Was the family voting, younger family members trying to show older, non  English members where to put their X, or was it men telling their women where to so? For the life of me I just cannot see it being the women showing the men.

Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 10:45 AM GMT
People are waking up to the fact they can vote for whoever
they want.

Corbyn v May saw 82% of voters vote for those
2 parties, less than 10 years ago.
Report sageform February 27, 2026 10:48 AM GMT
And of course all of the postal votes were filled in by the individual voter with no pressure from any one else. It is not just one party of course, we need urgent reform of our very outdated election system. Counting bits of paper in the middle of the night-really?
Report Escapee February 27, 2026 10:53 AM GMT
As the dust settles and the post mortems begin, The greens victory stands out a seismic victory because they got
there without a host of billionaires spending £millions, and without any media like GBNews or Daily Express whipping up their voters.


UK politics has never been won by a non celebrity without media and £Billionaire backing before
Report Cider February 27, 2026 10:57 AM GMT
Who is funding their urdu output?
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 10:58 AM GMT
Elon Musk.
Report sageform February 27, 2026 10:58 AM GMT
who was backing Corbyn apart from the Unions? I agree though that it has been a seismic event for a "new" party (Polanski has changed it 180 degrees from where it was a year ago) to win so decisively. Isn't Polanski a Russian name?
Report Cider February 27, 2026 10:59 AM GMT
momentum
Report Slicer February 27, 2026 11:00 AM GMT
The Islamic Green Party led by a Self Hating Jew. You just couldn't make it up. Sir Keir Al Starmer, Fatima Rayner & Dave The Slug Lammy weren't extreme enough for the Gortonistanis, so of course they turned to the Party of the Paly Pals. Labour put the U K in F*CK*ED & the Greens would lead to the Islamic Republic Of Britain while allowing the Russians to walk right in. And while this is going on, the Police watched as a statue of Sir Winston Churchill was defaced by a Dutch terrorist sympathiser. End of message, back to hibernation.
Report Slicer February 27, 2026 11:01 AM GMT
Btw- Greetings my old friend Alun!
Report Cider February 27, 2026 11:02 AM GMT
David Paulden I suppose is a bit boring.
Report dustybin February 27, 2026 11:14 AM GMT
The Islamic Green Party led by a Self Hating Jew

Self hating Gay Jew at that

But then that shows exactly how superficial it all is, the idea that the conservative Muslim block vote happens to be supporting such a character shows it for the facade it is….he and they will be jettisoned at the first opportunity, it’s like holding a hostage.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 11:16 AM GMT
Good day Young Slicer.... less of the 'old' if you don't mind....
Report Slicer February 27, 2026 11:21 AM GMT
Being old is better than the alternative, Alun. Although, the way the country's going & the implication of last night's result, I'm beginning to wonder. Thankfully, I've got no more than 1 more election in front of me. I hope you're prospering.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 11:28 AM GMT
Being old is better than the alternative, Alun

Sadly that's true, possibly for the first time in this or any Western country. It is the young that will mainly inherit the tsunami that will be caused by the car-crash of Open Borders , Cultural Enrichment and the types of "Progressive" politics and DEI that led (fr example) to the slaughter of three innocents in Nottingham by a savage allied his freedom because of his colour.

Thankfully, I've got no more than 1 more election in front of me. I hope you're prospering.

I'm sorry to learn this. Prospering as best as I can.

Kind regards to you and yours.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 11:29 AM GMT
Typo

* allowed his freedom
Report Slicer February 27, 2026 11:34 AM GMT
Thanks Alun. I was going to say keep your chin up. But these days, if you do that, it gets punched while the Police make the perp a cup of tea. Never mind, I've had the absolute best, never, ever to be repeated. Good luck.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 11:38 AM GMT
No surprise Starmer is trotting out the same old tosh this morning.
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 12:08 PM GMT

Feb 27, 2026 -- 10:30AM, Cider wrote:


What's your take, PP?


I think Labour did a fair bit better than what I'd have said a couple of weeks ago.

Reform picked an awful candidate.

Greens mostly won as a protest/keep Reform out vote, but were helped by having a very likeable local candidate who understood local issues.

I'd have expected Advance (was it?) to have done a bit better than they did.

Tories - oh dear.

Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 12:15 PM GMT
I expected advance to beat the monster raving loony party
but despite a cracking campaign, they did not.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 12:24 PM GMT
Make no mistake, Labour took a pasting.
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 12:30 PM GMT
Labour Party did, starmer did.. Of course, a proper hiding.

Labour maybe did not.
Report Jumper45 February 27, 2026 12:39 PM GMT
More evidence that UK politics is finally shedding its long standing 2 party image, but it could be argued it’s just a move to more radical players who mobilise around the specific sensitivities of demographic subgroups rather than building broad national coalitions. I find it hard to see The Greens being such a force nationally.


Surely, this identity based populism risks alienating their traditional middle-class environmentalist base? And is their Green agenda becoming more secondary more and if so, what separates them from either the Labour Left or even Your Party?


Also, when Gaza fades into history, where do those votes gained last night go. Does anyone seriously think they will stay with the Greens?
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 12:42 PM GMT
Good questions.

Who wants the votes, who can hold the votes without alienating
other parts of the electorate.

Thats what tories and Labour used to be good at!!!
Report Cider February 27, 2026 12:54 PM GMT

Feb 27, 2026 -- 12:08PM, PorcupineorPineapple wrote:


Feb 27, 2026 -- 10:30AM, Cider wrote:What's your take, PP?I think Labour did a fair bit better than what I'd have said a couple of weeks ago. Reform picked an awful candidate.Greens mostly won as a protest/keep Reform out vote, but were helped by having a very likeable local candidate who understood local issues.I'd have expected Advance (was it?) to have done a bit better than they did.Tories - oh dear.


The other day you were expecting Labour to do very well.

I'm surprised you don't think it turned on the sectarian vote.

You're entitled to your own interpretation (obviously!) but on the data, many Labour votes swung to Reform from the last general election. I don't think the personalities are pivotal, it's about the parties 95% of the time. Certainly this by election. And this is pretty much the ceiling for Reform in a seat historically very left wing with a huge Pakistani population. For now that's the exception rather than the norm in the UK.

Report Cider February 27, 2026 12:59 PM GMT
On Sky's analysis they said it was 55K potential voters in Gorton and 26K in Denton. With Gorton massively muslim.


This is factual from Sky, I'm assuming. I've got to be honest I thought that it was circa 50/50 split across the two regions, I was unaware it was more than 2/3 Gorton. Bit of a miss on my part.
Report dustybin February 27, 2026 1:04 PM GMT
I heard a summing up of the sectarianism a couple of years ago that pretty much nailed it then.

It was from a tory standpoint who highlighted the allegations of voter fraud, and stated that they were aware of it but from a (then tory government) perspective they were votes they would never have expected on getting anyway, so didn’t highlight the fact that voting rules were being abused.

Now it’s a problem that can’t afford to be ignored, it’s not that the votes are contended in as much as they are becoming their own lobby.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 1:10 PM GMT
The Labour lot will be demanding they follow the green model and overtly chase the islamist vote. Only chance of keeping their jobs as they'd see it. It won't work either for self preservation reasons, or nationally.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 1:23 PM GMT
Genocide Keir can't chase the Muslim vote.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 1:28 PM GMT
I'm surprised you don't think it turned on the sectarian vote.



You forget. The Progressives would prefer to die on the cross, rather than admit the blatantly obvious where their sacred Special Voting Community is concerned.
Report the old nanny ;-) February 27, 2026 1:41 PM GMT
Carl turner long term MP for Hull  is threatening to resign over the no jury trials and the way Starmer handled the Burnham business , would spark another By Election ,which he says they wont win

if he does Starmer is Toast

Starmers response to all these problems is that he Will fight on , no one even knows what he is talking about anymore

He turned up in Gorton to show support , I would say his Visit Cost them 2nd place ,plenty of other MPs and activists were there , was all going well

Till goggles arrived
Report the old nanny ;-) February 27, 2026 1:50 PM GMT
CHANGE , the first change needs to be Starmer Gone , the man is a disaster for the party
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 1:59 PM GMT
The Muslims are entitled to vote en-masse if a party has policies that attract them. Just as the Jews are.
Report Escapee February 27, 2026 2:03 PM GMT

On Sky's analysis they said it was 55K potential voters in Gorton and 26K in Denton. With Gorton massively muslim.


This is factual from Sky, I'm assuming. I've got to be honest I thought that it was circa 50/50 split across the two regions, I was unaware it was more than 2/3 Gorton. Bit of a miss on my part.


Before the event they were saying 30% of the 75,000 potential voters were muslim.

Which is it?

Report the old nanny ;-) February 27, 2026 2:10 PM GMT
https://x.com/i/status/2027334078995759297

Only Labour can beat reform in this By Election Laugh

does he live on a different planet ?
Report the old nanny ;-) February 27, 2026 2:11 PM GMT
Were Labour not aware the cabbages  were leading the Polls  for some time ?
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 2:17 PM GMT
It's funny how Reform and the Conservatives are complaining how muslims voted for the only mainstream party that called the genocide in Gaza a genocide. Crazy
Report Cider February 27, 2026 2:19 PM GMT
It's nonsense. But even if you are convinced that's the case, why would that be decisive in a UK election?
Report Cider February 27, 2026 2:22 PM GMT
Gaza is a twatter rabbit hole, 90% of British people I'd estimate couldn't give a schitt about Gaza, apart from making the right noises.

There are however non British people that get to vote in British elections, and would like to see all Jews exterminated. For them that is a critical issue.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 2:24 PM GMT
I'd venture, it's generally not positive or helpful that MPs get elected to Westminster on that ticket, then push for cousin marriage, banning Jews from the UK etc
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 2:25 PM GMT
Before the event they were saying 30% of the 75,000 potential voters were muslim.

Which is it?


White people made up 57% of the population at the 2021 census. Asians (mainly Pakistanis) formed the largest ethnic minority group at 27% and Black people were 9%. The Asian population is concentrated in Longsight, where they make up a majority of residents, whilst Denton is over 90% white.
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 2:27 PM GMT
Imagine these Muslims were to vote for a gay Jewish bloke

Cider really taking this badly, no work, spamming forum for trade,
totally radicalised by YouTube...
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 2:42 PM GMT

Feb 27, 2026 -- 12:54PM, Cider wrote:


Feb 27, 2026 -- 12:08PM, PorcupineorPineapple wrote:Feb 27, 2026 -- 10:30AM, Cider wrote:What's your take, PP?I think Labour did a fair bit better than what I'd have said a couple of weeks ago. Reform picked an awful candidate.Greens mostly won as a protest/keep Reform out vote, but were helped by having a very likeable local candidate who understood local issues.I'd have expected Advance (was it?) to have done a bit better than they did.Tories - oh dear.The other day you were expecting Labour to do very well. I'm surprised you don't think it turned on the sectarian vote. You're entitled to your own interpretation (obviously!) but on the data, many Labour votes swung to Reform from the last general election. I don't think the personalities are pivotal, it's about the parties 95% of the time. Certainly this by election. And this is pretty much the ceiling for Reform in a seat historically very left wing with a huge Pakistani population. For now that's the exception rather than the norm in the UK.


That's why I said a couple of weeks ago re Labour. Starmer turning up indicated they had some hope.


And I'm on record from weeks before the vote on why I thought the Greens should be odds on for it. Genuinely one of the easiest betting heats I've been involved in.

Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 2:47 PM GMT
2 posts from me exactly a month ago at the top of this page that pretty much nailed this entire by-election. Doddle this game.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 2:55 PM GMT
Oh yes greens had been short on bf all long, bar the market getting briefly excited about a poll. It was the result the market and people expected. Especially given the Mandy charade and workers pulling out.

But you had cooled very recently and were claiming that Starmer visiting the constituency was significant. It wasn't.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 2:56 PM GMT
same as that yak hunt character, hopefully he is ok lol
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 3:05 PM GMT
Was it policies like the desire to legally heroin/crack cocaine, and/or to have a No Borders World that proved so popular with the locals of Gorton and Denton?  Will these policies be vote winners, for example, in the Cotswolds constituencies?
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 3:11 PM GMT
When I posted a month ago Greens were 11-8 or 6-4 I think with Reform favs.


As for Starmer being significant, (and I really have explained this a couple of times now) it was significant in what it showed Labour believed. It wasn't a big get out the vote moment, but I never claimed it was. I said it showed that Labour thought they had a chance. They even sent their deputy leader up there last night for the vote. They wouldn't have done either of those things if they thought they were dead ducks.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 3:14 PM GMT

They wouldn't have done either of those things if they thought they were dead ducks.


Deluded till the end.

Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 3:31 PM GMT
Their ground polling must have been miles out if they thought
they were winning.

They clearly thought they had a chance for starmer to rock up
at the weekend.
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 3:35 PM GMT
Yeah, they got duff info. But they definitely got given something positive, as otherwise they'd have all done a Nige and been off to the Maldives for a few days instead.
Report yak hunt February 27, 2026 3:37 PM GMT
It occurred to me that the bloc Muslim vote may vote Labour, hence Starmer visit.
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 3:42 PM GMT
He was wrong guy if that was what the aim was.

SNC likely correct too, in that they are deluded, at least
temporarily so,...
Report DixieDean60 February 27, 2026 3:44 PM GMT
An excerpt below of an article published earlier in the week which highlights the Green party tactics in the run up to the by-election, interesting (and worrying) stuff 


A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in the “Green Party” originally referred to the environment.’ By this point, the etymological origins of Britain’s sectional Islamic party will be as obscure as the relationship between British Conservatives and 17th century Irish bandits.

A key milestone, our mid-century quiz regular will inform his teammates, was the 2026 Gorton and Denton by-election in which the Greens stood neck and neck in a three-way race with Labour and Reform.

Eagle-eyed observers these past weeks will have noted how the once environment-focused party have been pitching at particular sections of ‘the community’, with campaign Written in Urdu, the pamphlet calls for voters to: ‘Push the falling walls one more time. Labour must be punished for Gaza. Reform must be defeated and Green must be voted for. Vote for the Green Party for a strong Muslims voice.’ Then it adds, in English, ‘Stop Islamophobia. Stop Reform.’

There was also an Urdu-language video linking Reform Party candidate Matt Goodwin and leader Nigel Farage with Donald Trump and ICE deportation raids. The video then cuts to Gaza, before showing Keir Starmer beside India’s Narendra Modi. Subtle stuff.leaflets featuring candidate Hannah Spencer wearing a red and black keffiyeh while posing in front of a mosque.

The video states in Urdu: ‘A cruel politician can win if we don’t vote Green to stop the Reforms… Workers, cleaners, drivers, mothers – it’s us who keep this area running. But the politicians are not working for us… The Reforms want to break up our communities. They want to deport families who have lived here for years, and they want to tax people born abroad even more. They give air to Islamophobia, and they put our safety and dignity at risk.’

Over the weekend the party told activists that ‘We hit all 14 mosques this Friday… Our Ramadan cards went down a treat, even with the battle of the leaflets against Labour! We are now in our critical final 5 days, and we need volunteers to help with Taraweeh conversations and leafleting. Do you attend evening Taraweeh at any of these mosques? If so, can you help with leaflets and conversations after prayers?’ Spencer even shared on Instagram that she was fasting to observe the beginning of Ramadan, although she only fasted for a day – in February. In northern Europe.

Party leader Zack Polanski seems to think it’s all very funny, as does his deputy Mothin Ali. Look how the right-wing trolls are triggered! Ali justified the video on the ground that ‘We’ve tried to appeal to people from all kinds of backgrounds, Some of the slogans are based off Bangladeshi or Pakistani typical political slogans. The same slogans have been used to find a message that people can resonate with. That’s just about inclusivity.’ Sure – nothing says inclusivity like campaigning in a foreign language which 97 percent of the population cannot understand.

But then, in the worldview of some, ‘inclusivity’ is anything which furthers the interests of favoured minorities, just as ‘equality’ is anything that raises their status relative to less favoured groups. Everything is about power imbalances, the thinking behind asymmetrical multiculturalism, in which the sectional interests of minority groups are to be promoted and patronised (in both senses), without consideration about what this entails. It has even led white secular progressives to encourage overtly sectarian Islamic politics, playing with fire and laughing at how edgy and provocative they are.

Britain’s Green Party has historically been a thing of amusement to many, a bunch of harmless hippies and Quakers with wacky beliefs; at the time of their first breakthrough in the early 1990s their most high-profile figure was David Icke, then seen as an amusing crank with interests in new age mysticism and alternative medicine.

As traditional politics fractured, the Greens came to fill the space inhabited by high-education, low-income graduates, the group who most favour redistributive economics and highly progressive social policies. Yet political parties have no souls, as such, being merely vote-seeking businesses, and they go where the market is - and now they find the lowest hanging fruit in appealing to sectarian interests.

If decades of generous immigration policies have created constituencies where people vote along religious lines, and are more comfortable with the national language of Pakistan than English, there is nothing to stop someone appealing to that market. It’s within the rules of democracy, if not the spirit.

Gorton and Denton is among the increasing number of constituencies in which a candidate can win by appealing overtly to the Islamic vote; ‘Gaza independents’ won 5 seats in 2024 and could win 10 or 12 by 2029 and 20 or 30 by the election that follows; after that, the ceiling is limited by high levels of segregation. This could be good news for the Green Party, if that’s the path they want to go down, and they certainly don’t seem to shy away from the prospect.

Polanski has welcomed the endorsement of the Muslim Vote, an organisation which instructs people how to cast their ballot along religious lines, even if adding the caveat that people should vote as individuals. In February he told Politics Home that ‘I think any organisation that wants to back the Green Party because they align with our values is something that I applaud and welcome.’

It would be interesting to know to what extent he thinks they do align with their values. This is a party which supports giving children puberty blockers as part of ‘gender-affirming care’. A party which wants to legalise all drugs and prostitution. Having the most radical views on the gender issue of any party, even its co-chairs, historically a man and woman, have been described as ‘Self identifying Non-Male Co-Chair: (female)’ and ‘Self identifying Non-Female Co-Chair: (male)’. Back in January the former co-chair of Green Party Women ‘was found to have breached diversity rules by making “clearly antagonistic” comments about “fae/faer” pronouns, a type of “neopronoun” inspired by the mythical world.’

This is eccentric by the standards of the median British voter, and British Muslims have far more socially conservative views than the median voter, and by a huge distance. This is especially true regarding homosexuality and the role of women, and the most ruddy-faced bar room reactionary at the 19th hole is a blue-haired college radical in comparison. (Incidentally, I’m also not sure how the Green Party squares their environmental transport policy with the fact that British-Pakistanis tend to favour cars, as social conservatives with families.)...
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 3:44 PM GMT
The key for Labour is just learning the lesson. Under McSweeney it was obvious they wouldn't. I'm not so convinced they'll learn it now either to be fair. But the idea that annoyed voters will turn up when push comes to shove is for the birds. And if their leadership can't see that, then they deserve what they get.
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 3:46 PM GMT
Britain’s sectional Islamic party


Can we stop at the first obvious racist lie, or are we forced to plough on?
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 3:48 PM GMT
Lib dem are masters of by election campaigning
and have been for 40 years or so.

Others are later to the party, but the play book
is vast, and anything goes. Rigidity really hinders
those that want to be rigid.

Anybody surprised a gay Jewish bloke can attract votes
from unlikely sources hasn't read the book.
Report PorcupineorPineapple February 27, 2026 3:57 PM GMT
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 4:23 PM GMT
Was it the Party Political video in Urdu that persuaded lifelong Gorton residents Fred and Doris Higginbottom to vote Green ?
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 4:25 PM GMT
https://x.com/i/status/2027407844396417420

..
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 4:44 PM GMT
Excuses are for losers.
Report the old nanny ;-) February 27, 2026 4:48 PM GMT
In the real world this would never have happened , in a pre Starmer world , straight Fight Labour v Reform which Labour would have won .If anyone after the Election told you they would throw away a 13000  majority

within 2 years , you think they needed locking up ...

The man has become tiresome to look at and worse to listen to , He needs to go ASAP  perhaps Labour  can salvage something over the next 3 years ...  The question has to be asked do they now have a safe seat

anywhere ?
Report Cider February 27, 2026 4:52 PM GMT

Feb 27, 2026 -- 4:44PM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:


Excuses are for losers.


Illegal voting is illegal voting.

Either you think the independent observers are lying, or you don't care when it's for a party that you don't mind benefiting from. That mindset is ubiquitous now, anything is on the table as long as it's not impinging on what you want. Cancel elections, yeah well whatever.

Report dustybin February 27, 2026 4:56 PM GMT
While the Greens play at politics the real hard work is being done by the FSU who have just humiliated the CPS again.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 5:10 PM GMT
Maybe it was the Greens fragrant Deputy Leader that inspired Fred and Doris Higginbottom to vote Green?

.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/03/green-party-leader-zack-polanski-under-pressure-sack-deputy/

.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 5:14 PM GMT

Illegal voting is illegal voting


Cider, are you saying this illegal voting took place thousands of times yesterday?

Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 5:33 PM GMT
Those letters from concerned neighbours were illegal, and cheating.

No doubt refuk spending will be chanelled via other
means to avoid sanctions, like farrages jolly to
the Maldives to garner publicity.

Election laws routinely flouted by farrage
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 5:39 PM GMT
1. 2024 Election Spending Allegations
In late 2025, Farage was accused of overspending in his Clacton constituency during the 2024 General Election.

    The Allegation: A former Reform UK campaigner, Richard Everett, alleged the party failed to declare spending on leaflets, banners, and the refurbishment of a campaign office bar, potentially exceeding the £20,660 limit.



Farage was found to have breached parliamentary rules following his election as an MP.

    Findings: In January 2026, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards ruled that Farage breached the Code of Conduct for Members 17 times.
    Details: He failed to register more than £384,000 in financial interests within the required 28-day deadline, including payments from GB News and brand ambassador fees.
    Outcome: The Commissioner concluded the breaches were "inadvertent" due to administrative errors. Farage apologized, and the matter was resolved through a "rectification process" without further



    2014 Office Space: Farage was previously fined £200 by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare the value of free office space used for his EU parliamentary work.
    2018 Brexit Campaign: UKIP, under previous leadership, and other Brexit-related campaigns were fined for various spending return failures, though these were party-level infractions.



Then there's the underpaid stamp duty on the house
in Clacton he lied about buying...
Report pandora1963 February 27, 2026 5:43 PM GMT
The trump playbook is taking off among the cranky right in England. Accuse any opposition of rigging elections
Report Cider February 27, 2026 5:47 PM GMT
Cider, are you saying this illegal voting took place thousands of times yesterday?


_

The observer team saw family voting in 15 of the 22 polling stations observed, some 32 cases in total, nine cases in one polling station alone. The team observed a sample of 545 voters casting their votes - meaning 12% of those voters observed either caused or were affected by family voting.


According to those independent observers. Yes.
Report lapsy pa February 27, 2026 5:49 PM GMT
Pretty,well spoken,white,tradesperson wins by election, well done her.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 5:57 PM GMT
The plumby plumbing landlord Happy I suppose you believe in fairies as well.
Report SirNorbertClarke February 27, 2026 5:58 PM GMT
32 cases Crazy
Report Cider February 27, 2026 5:59 PM GMT
Yes, out of watching 545 voters casting votes in total.

How's your mathematics?
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- February 27, 2026 6:08 PM GMT
Easy to see who done their cash
Report comingupthehill February 27, 2026 6:09 PM GMT
It’s outrageous that family members are helping others to the polling stations and helping them fill out ballot papers.

Thank god the tories brought a law in to stop this.

Hopefully at the next election,all the old ladies in the shires who are unsteady on their feet and have bad eyesight,can be stopped from letting their relatives take them to the polling booths.

It must be stopped.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 6:12 PM GMT
It's even more outrageous that a so called progressive party is chasing islamist votes. Be they illegally cast or not.

But liberalist hypocrisy is unlimited.
Report Cider February 27, 2026 6:16 PM GMT
Stands to reason that their leader David Paulden is a gay Jew. You couldn't make it up, territory.
Report comingupthehill February 27, 2026 6:18 PM GMT
Greens are promoted as they split the labour vote,they’ll never win,but are useful tools.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 6:21 PM GMT
Barely a fortnight after Sir Jim R made his well-observed remarks about the colonisation of Britain, we've seen our electoral process undeniably colonised before our very eyes.
Report alun2005 February 27, 2026 7:09 PM GMT
One very rare good piece of news emerged from the Courts today, on an otherwise catastrophic day for Britain.

We must hope that this particular outcome proves to be more significant and long-lasting than events in Gorton and Denton.

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https://order-order.com/2026/02/27/judges-slap-down-cps-attempt-to-prosecute-acquitted-quran-burner/
Report PorcupineorPineapple March 27, 2026 3:35 PM GMT
Greater Manchester Police: We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.




No, I'm as surprised as you are. Surely it's a c0n5p1rAcy!
Report saddo March 27, 2026 3:46 PM GMT
Cider 27 Feb 26 15:52 


Either you think the independent observers are lying, or you don't care when it's for a party that you don't mind benefiting from.

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I agree with this, the Police must think the observers made it up, or just had a bad day at the office (highly unlikely)
Report PorcupineorPineapple March 27, 2026 4:10 PM GMT
If only we had some people who could investigate it further...
Report PorcupineorPineapple March 27, 2026 4:15 PM GMT
We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.

Our investigation into alleged influencing of voters at a polling booth (under Section 62C Representation of the People Act 1983 (Ballot Secrecy Act 2023)) began after a criminal report from the Reform UK party following a public statement made by independent electoral observers at Democracy Volunteers.

We have spoken to the four Democracy Volunteers observers present at polling stations on the day of the by-election (26 February) who have shared with us their eyewitness account. This includes some instances of more than one voter going into a booth at the same time, and instances of people looking over the shoulder of voters.

The information they have provided to us estimates this may have happened on 32 occasions across 15 polling stations.

The observers do not allege any verbal instruction or physical conduct that indicated one person was directing or coercing another regarding how to vote. This is a crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.

Our investigation team, led by an experienced senior investigating officer, spoke to all four volunteers from Democracy Volunteers as part of our enquiries – obtaining a copy of their observations.

We also spoke to the Presiding Officers at 15 stations as well as the Acting Returning Officer, none of whom received any reports other than from Democracy Volunteers.

We have received no further criminal reports.

For us to investigate allegations, we require an understanding of who the potential suspects may be, and evidence that may corroborate eyewitness accounts. For an investigation to meet the criminal threshold for prosecution, we require admissible evidence of intent or action aimed at influencing the vote.

We have asked Democracy Volunteers for descriptions of those alleged to be involved, and timings on when these are believed to have occurred. These details were not documented by observers or the complainant, and we have not been provided with any identities or descriptions to pursue.

The absence of this information means there is no remaining reasonable line of enquiry. This also includes limitations with CCTV as an absence of descriptions, and votes not being time-stamped, meaning we are not able to identify individuals from footage.

We have approached all 45 polling stations in the Gorton and Denton constituency to ask for CCTV from the day. Forty-one of those polling stations told us they did not have CCTV activated in the building as it would have compromised the secrecy of the vote during polling day, in line with advice given.

We have seized and viewed CCTV from three of the remaining four polling stations. These are three polling stations that Democracy Volunteers visited. We have spoken to the Presiding Officer from each one.

However, these stations do not show any evidence of anyone directing or coercing another regarding how to vote – the crucial part of the legislation to prove such an offence was committed.

There is no evidence to suggest any intent to influence or refrain a person from voting as stated in the Ballot Secrecy Act 2023.

We have been liaising with the Electoral Commission, who we have shared our findings with. We have also shared our findings with the Returning Officer.

We have updated the complainant about the work of our investigation and the conclusion we have reached.




A bl00dy C0n5p1rAcee!
Report saddo March 27, 2026 4:21 PM GMT
Perhaps the Police would have believed them if the miscreants looked different.
There are those who we must not upset, I suspect that is the case here.
No biggy, it's how things are.
Report SirNorbertClarke March 27, 2026 4:27 PM GMT
saddo, you always blame the brown man.
Report PorcupineorPineapple March 27, 2026 4:29 PM GMT
A bl00dy C0n5p1rAcee!
Report Stringvest March 27, 2026 4:42 PM GMT
F  I  L  T  H
Report SirNorbertClarke March 28, 2026 10:29 AM GMT
You'd think if you were going to report a crime you'd witnessed you'd provide the police with a little evidence.
Report PorcupineorPineapple March 28, 2026 11:35 AM GMT
Some interesting questions for these guys to answer. They decide to make a name for themselves by announcing ONE MINUTE after polling closes that they've seen some untoward things that causes a bit of a stir among the losing side. They've monitored loads of elections but never done anything like that before. So obviously it causes a stir and needs investigating. But upon that investigation, it all just falls apart. They might see two people at the booth together but, by their own admission, no signs of coercion whatsoever. I mean, surely there are loads of times when there are two people together. If I took my mum to vote now, what with her bad legs and failing eyesight, she'd most likely ask me to put the X in the spot she wants, never mind me helping her in. So why did they decide to make a fuss over this all of a sudden, and why has it fallen about their ears so embarrassingly? Maybe there's more to it.
Report Shrewd_dude March 28, 2026 10:43 PM GMT
https://x.com/FFS_WhatNow/status/2037966456340578791

How can anyone take these people seriously?
Report Escapee March 28, 2026 11:40 PM GMT

https://x.com/FFS_WhatNow/status/2037966456340578791

How can anyone take these people seriously?


Yeah, because one of the primary things to look for in deciding who is best to run the country is "Can They Rap?"


Good call bro

Report Shrewd_dude March 28, 2026 11:43 PM GMT
That was what you took from that video?

Yes bruv you are great with da maths.
Report Shrewd_dude March 29, 2026 12:23 AM GMT
https://x.com/EssexPR/status/2038038615394046273

Yeh it's about if they can rap.
Report Escapee March 29, 2026 12:31 AM GMT
your taste in videos is weird

I dunno whether to nickname you prude dude or lewd dude
Report Shrewd_dude March 29, 2026 12:39 AM GMT
That sounds like your typical obfuscation.

What is weird about the video?
Report the old nanny ;-) March 29, 2026 4:02 AM BST
Greens going to beat Labour in Locals ,What world are we living in ?
Report ----you-have-to-laugh--- March 29, 2026 2:27 PM BST
A one where drunks constantly rant on wrong freds
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