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A FIFA World Cup with the US, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Jordan in it only a few months away 😐

It was happening all through the last parliament in terms of council by-election results - the signs have been there for a very long time

Yes. The post-postwar order, so to speak

Not least the fact that drones now come into it and that Iran can hit back beyond its borders in a way Iraq couldn't in 2003 - and that's just one thing

A senior Danish guy in the Social Democrats said to me that Denmark does not think of itself as a multicultural country whereas Britain does, which makes our situation very different.

Thinking of you, David xxxxxxxxx

Now he will have even more time as our local MP to deal with me and my neighbours constantly raising the issue of rubbish/flytipping/rodents, so I think he should see that as a gain....! 😁

That well-known swing voter demographic upon which entire elections hang

The peers all start mysteriously falling out of high-rise buildings under Farage or we get the First Polanski Republic

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

This. So sodding *distant*

I think it fails to understand the coalition of voters that just voted Green, and why. And as usual you won’t get very far by implicitly slagging off the voters. The Green voter coalition was your coalition five minutes ago.

Starmer says she's the divisive candidate, chokingly unbelievable. Who does she divide? The plumbers from the billionaires?

‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech ‘We don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change,’ says Green party’s new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win

There is an enormous difference in voice and tone between the bombastic hyperbolic victory speech which Galloway gave in Rochdale in Feb 2024 and this one last night, esp on the priority to the motive of wanting to be a voice to unite
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Exactly. The contrast between Hannah Spencer and Galloway could not be starker

Both major parties suffering from "But I'm emotionally invested in this party, why aren't the voters?" syndrome.

That's what I saw in Lizzie Dearden's findings from reporting in Gorton and Denton - that voters defecting from Labour were ready to give them a second chance if they made amends. As has been said here, I'm not sure the Tories have that mileage

Article - Nuffield Politics Research Centre

@martamiori.bsky.social and I have been writing, since 2024, about why Labour's 'Reform' challenge and emphasis was based on a misunderstanding of Labour's vote. Here for anyone interested: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Over the past eighteen months, the political science consensus on the nature of Labour's vote has been absolutely correct - and yet also completely ignored by pundits and strategists who continue to get it wrong.

😁😁😁 A day too soon given the fact the House of Commons needs a plumber and repair people or a complete rebuild anyway lol. An appropriately physically dilapidated place 🫥 Hope you are well, Glenny xx

And now doing it without McSweeney's help. As I have said already, among other things I think Labour HQ knows Brexit was a terrible mistake and is just lashing out enviously at Polanski as a relaxed Rejoiny Europhile instead of saying 'ten years on, this is shit'

Or TARDISes on ballot box chameleon circuit mode

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

Sorry for repeating myself...!

Yep - it's idiot villain Dick Dastardly stuff

Not least because Starmer no longer has the excuse that he has been misled by McSweeney. He's not bad at politics because McSweeney made him do bad things, it's just to do with him

Save the really big attacks for Reform and their very dystopian view of what society should look like. Labour are screwing up and I suspect a lot of it is HQ desperate not to admit Brexit is a terrible mistake and taking it out on Polanski

Labour's line on the Greens should be: 'they are idealists and not bad people, but we fundamentally disagree with them in principle about how to achieve a better society.' Instead they have gone in today with studs showing, legitimised Polanski more, and Starmer looks like Dick Dastardly

My statement on the Gorton and Denton result. 👇