There was a local by-election in the United Kingdom yesterday, and, as with everything connected to Labour in these uncertain times, people were watching like hawks to see how it turned out.
These were held in a lower-income, working-class area called Gorton and Denton, which, while it has been a Labour stronghold for years (considered Labour's 38th safest seat), it has also undergone some demographic changes. The constituency is 30% Muslim, with some sections having a Muslim population as high as 60% of the locals. The election was a one-off, as the Labour MP who represented it had unexpectedly resigned for health reasons, and the vacancy needed to be filled.
This population graphic illustrates how the two ethnically diverse parts are 'shackled together' into one mismatched constituency. The deeper the blue hues, the higher the Muslim population in an area.
The data says Gorton and Denton is the one of the most religiously segregated seats in England and Wales. Pick two random people in the constituency, and the probability they'd share a religion is 48%. On the same street, it's 65%.
— Sam Ashworth-Hayes (@SAshworthHayes) February 26, 2026
Here's what that looks like in practice: pic.twitter.com/WVpvZVocEO
Starmer, unpopular enough on his own already, had further irritated members of his own party when the seat became available by blocking the popular Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, from running for the parliamentary seat. That forced the party local to cast about for a suitable substitute.
In the meantime, Nigel Farage's Reform candidate was feeling confident and, of all things, the Green Party nominee, a 34-year-old plumber named Hannah Spencer, was out campaigning among the locals, dancing to Palestinian jihadi anthems ('My Blood is Palestinian'), as Greens are wont to do.
The desperation and lengths to which the Green Party will go to attract the Muslim vote in Gorton & Denton is truly remarkable.
— Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 (@EssexPR) February 26, 2026
Adverts in Urdu and Bangla.
Dressing in traditional Muslim outfits.
Now this.
What a shit show of a political party. pic.twitter.com/5ZprZrTpwZ
Besides Reform and the Green parties, there was a spattering of other candidates from parties such as the Liberal Democrats and the Tories.
The @LibDems candidate for Gorton & Denton is the woefully ignorant Jackie Pearcey. Clearly pro-open borders she refers to Angles & Saxons coming over on boats & integrating. Firstly they are white & we became a Christian continent.
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) February 14, 2026
The New Scientist Reported in 2015: "Ancient… pic.twitter.com/ZGrr7cAvnc
...The New Scientist Reported in 2015: "Ancient invaders transformed Britain, but not its DNA."
We have been an indigenous people since the last Ice Age.
There was little expected in the way of a showing for those groups as Labour has safely held this seat for the better part of a hundred years.
Or they did until yesterday, when they came in third.
And the dancing Greens plumber walked away as the new MP from Gorton and Denton.
..."Whereas previously he's focused in a much more laser-like way on Reform... Labour will need to take the Green threat much more seriously," she told AFP.
The Greens had never won a parliamentary by-election before, and ran a grassroots campaign that sought to mobilise the constituency's 28 percent Muslim population.
The party, which under Polanski has embraced a full-throated left-wing agenda including higher taxes on the wealthy, is avowedly pro-Palestinian.
In a likely harbinger for upcoming elections, its campaign was less focused on environmental concerns -- the party's traditional rallying cry -- and more concerned with cost-of-living pressures and other issues.
It was a resounding defeat and a humiliating shock for Starmer.
This seismic by-election result shows the threat to Labour on its Left flank is far greater than Sir Keir Starmer believed.
On Thursday, the Greens gained their fifth MP and pushed Labour into third place in the party’s stronghold of Gorton and Denton, demonstrating they could steal the Prime Minister’s lunch with a radical platform of “eco-populism”.
Of course, there are the usual caveats about by-elections. As Anna Turley, the Labour chairman, pointed out within minutes of the result, mid-term elections are always difficult for the governing party.
But this one was especially tough. It came hot on the heels of the Lord Mandelson scandal, 15 about-turns by the Government and weeks of speculation about the Prime Minister’s political future.
There was also, inevitably, far greater national importance placed on this single seat than there ever would be in a general election campaign. Labour sources said the Greens would never be able to replicate this vote share on the national stage.
Add to the mix that the demographic makeup of Gorton and Denton was far from typical – with large Muslim and white working-class populations – and you had a campaign heavily influenced by specific local factors.
Immediately, Starmer's decision to keep the one 'for sure' fellow out of the race for Labour was called into question...
...Sir Keir and his aides, however, have enemies in the party who now have the ammunition to argue that his strategy to take on Reform is failing and that his plan to take on the Greens is dead on arrival. And there will be anger that the Prime Minister blocked the only person who, polls suggest, could have given the Green Party a run for its money in Gorton – Andy Burnham, the Greater Manchester Mayor.
There is already a feeling among Labour MPs that the best way to fight on both fronts is to be more confident about the party’s brand – not an empty vessel of statistics about public services.
Other Labour figures – who are more steeped in the party’s history and more authentic-sounding champions of the working class – are better placed to do that than the Prime Minister.
...and the inter-party pressure on him is now enormous.
...But it is Mr. Starmer who has the most to lose if his party stumbles. His approval rating is the lowest on record for a British prime minister, due partly to policy missteps and flip flops that have contributed to his reputation as a weak and indecisive leader.
“It would be a major blow to an already staggering leadership, because this seat started out as one of the safest Labour seats from the last general election,” said Professor Ford, of the University of Manchester, who once collaborated on a book with Mr. Goodwin.
“I mean his approval rating graph is — if you’re a Labour M.P. — it’s a terrifying sight,” he said, referring to the prime minister.
Tom Slater from Spiked calls it an election for 'Balkanised' Britain.
...If Labour can be humiliated here, it can be humiliated anywhere. At the General Election just 19 months ago, Labour won more than 50 per cent of the vote in the constituency. Gorton and Denton was its 38th safest seat. It had held it for generations. Now it has become a neat demonstration of this Labour Party’s ability to haemorrhage votes in all directions. Graduates and Muslims seem to have broken to the Greens, while white working-class voters plumped more for Reform. Once-coveted voter blocs are abandoning Starmer left and right. The Labour coalition has disintegrated.
This is a stunning win for the Greens. No one can take that away from them. But the manner in which they won bodes ill not just for Labour, but for our fractious nation, too. Spencer effectively rode Britain’s crisis of integration to victory – campaigning on Gaza, TikToking in Urdu and leaning into the Islamic sectarianism that has metastasised since October 7. It proved a potent combination in the inner-city wards, where as much as 40 per cent of residents are Muslim. Rather than appeal to voters on the basis of shared interests and a shared civic identity, the Greens didn’t even assume their voters spoke the same language. The Muslim Vote group endorsed them. George ‘Gaza’ Galloway stood down his Workers Party to give the Greens a clear run. In the future, we can expect more and more elections to come down to this depressing demographic headcount.
The Green Party has been shameless in ginning up anti-Israel grievances, even before Polanski hypnotised the membership. At the last election, 20 of its candidates were exposed in the press over their pondscum Israelophobia. One of them praised a ‘pro-Palestine’ march that disrupted a Holocaust remembrance march… at Auschwitz. Naturally, he was also the party’s diversity coordinator. Mothin Ali, the Greens’ new co-deputy leader, fond of chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’, posted a video on 8 October 2023, the day after Hamas’s pogrom in southern Israel, saying ‘Palestinians have the right to resist occupying forces’. The Greens are now Britain’s preeminent Islamo-left party, the party of choice for those who think Labour isn’t Jew-baity enough.
Farage, for his part, isn't taking the loss lying down. His party had been neck and neck in polls leading up to the election, and then fell some four thousand votes short.
While winning in a Labour stronghold was always going to be a challenge, losing to a late-charging Green candidate was never in the cards. Both Farage and Labour are crying 'foul' over the results. And not without some legitimate concerns about a practice I'd never heard of, but which was documented in numerous instances throughout the day at polling places during the election.
It's called 'family voting.'
Sounds benign enough, right?
An accredited elections monitor saw plenty of it - in fact, the organisation's director says it was the 'highest levels' they'd ever seen in their 10 years of election monitoring- happening at poll stations in the predominantly Muslim communities.
🇬🇧 Democracy Volunteers, an accredited UK election observer group, reported unusually high levels of "family voting" during the Gorton and Denton by-election.
— Europa.com (@europa) February 27, 2026
The practice was observed in 68% (15 of 22 sampled) of stations, affecting 12% of observed voters.
Family voting… pic.twitter.com/KcWmeNnVWG
...Family voting refers to illegal collusion or direction between voters, breaching ballot secrecy, often Muslim men forcing their wives and daughters to vote on sectarian lines.
John Ault, Director of Democracy Volunteers said: ''We have seen the highest levels of family voting at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK.”
It doesn't mean everyone gets in the Vauxhall and drives to the polling station together.
What it means is that the husband-and-wife unit literally marches into a polling station and then into a polling booth together. So the pater familia can direct his wives and/or female relatives on whom to vote for, ensuring they obey him by having them all under his watchful eye.
It's a cluster of voting bodies at one voting booth.
That would NEVER happen here...right?
Well, it happened enough yesterday that there's one helluva noise going up about it now.
🇬🇧 Both Labour and Reform have called foul on the Gorton & Denton by-election after independent observers report "extremely high" counts of "family voting".
— VoxPopuli (@vpopulimedia) February 27, 2026
This is where family members interfere with another members vote, for example by entering the booth at the same time. https://t.co/4BmNBZagyV pic.twitter.com/bEeBUzO2UN
The Green Party is saying it's all sore losers complaining.
But the estimate of the difference the cheating may have made in the election, based on the initial observers' reports, is as much as 12%, which is...oddly enough...the margin the Greens' plumber won by.
'I would welcome an investigation to clear this up.'
— GB News (@GBNEWS) February 27, 2026
Chair of the London Green Party Eugene McCarthy, addresses allegations of family voting in the Gorton and Denton by-election.
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The Green Party chair is getting his investigation, as police have said they are now on the case.
Police are assessing claims of “cheating” in the Gorton and Denton by-election after receiving a complaint from Nigel Farage.
The Reform UK leader referred reports of illegal family voting to the authorities on Friday amid concerns over the integrity of the ballot in “predominantly Muslim areas”.
He also urged the Electoral Commission, the UK’s elections watchdog, to launch an “immediate investigation” into the claims and assess whether the validity of the by-election result “may be called into question”.
Greater Manchester Police has announced that it is investigating the allegations highlighted by Reform.
A spokesman for the force said: “We are in the process of reviewing this report and will provide a further update in due course.”
Mr Farage has accused Muslim voters of cheating to elect the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, which has a large British-Pakistani population, claiming the result was a victory for “sectarian” politics.
CULTURAL PRACTICES
Give diversity an inch, and it'll take your head off. And honouring 'female suffrage' is the last thing on an Islamic male's 'could give a rat's ass about' list.
...In a letter to the quango, Sir James Cleverly, the shadow local government minister, said: “There is clear evidence that electoral offences were committed, and a blind eye was turned to corruption and criminal activity.”
He added: “Any cultural practices of husbands being allowed to instruct their wives how to vote is an insult to the hard-fought liberty of female suffrage. The rights of all British voters – across class, colour and creed – must be defended.”
So that's where that stands right now. Starmer's in a pickle, having lost the most recent two by-elections to Reform and now the Greens. They believe he'll be able to save his prime minister's chair only until the May local elections - the ones he hasn't managed to postpone - and if those are anywhere close to a washout, stick a fork in him, he's done.
As for this 'family voting' issue, they had best address it. With the burgeoning Muslim population in the country, if they don't, they'll lose their country at the ballot box even faster than they are on the street, as those husbands are instructing the females to vote for whom the local imams have directed.
The same malevolent, hate-filled imams that the 'Jew-batty' Labour has nurtured and coddled.
Jeez. This is so completely foreign to me.
Why do I feel like I've been writing about elections in Tehran or Kabul?
