After the win in Gorton & Denton, the Greens' narrative will (rightly) be that they are in the ascendance & people thinking of voting for them should not be concerned its a 'wasted vote'.
Labour will be trying to maintain by-elections are always anomalous & should be ignored or at least discounted, which in this case may be mistaken?
ReformUK Ltd are already telling a story of conspiracy & voter manipulation.... which is right out of the Trump playbook.
The sick, demented attacks on the Greens showed an extreme moral corruption. They went well beyond 'dirty tricks'.
The thing which really comes across is Labour's sense of entitlement. That electoral support is their birthright and therefore that any level of filth and deceit is morally justified.
They will have to relearn basic decency, not just revise policies, if they are to recover.
@ChrisMayLA6 Always accuse your opponent of that which you are probably guilty yourself!
@ChrisMayLA6 #Farage should be called out by media and required to provide evidence of the cheating that he is alleging.
Indeed, the Guardian carried a piece highlight the issue of 'family voting' raised by a right vote watch group, but as the electoral officials noted, they didn't raise these concerns during the day when they could have actually been checked.... I didn't post the G story as I thought it a but of placed rights disinformation
@ChrisMayLA6 I’ve already asked who these monitors are? Who accredits them? How are they trained? Who are the individuals? Has the monitor group been infiltrated by malicious agents? Where is their documented evidence? Why are media simply repeating this without verification?
Exactly; the whole thing seemed pretty dodgy to me (as I said, hence no post on it) - they have some links to the Tory party the article indicated, but other than that mostly juts repeated unsubstantiated accusations - classic case of muddying the waters
@HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 Very important questions. The bit about not raising it at the time feels important to me. Why wouldn't you do that, if you were actually trying to help?
@RolloTreadway @HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 Democracy Volunteers say they did raise it at the time.
@dianaprobst @RolloTreadway @ChrisMayLA6 The officials say they did not, and so does the person in charge of the whole election. I find it difficult to believe all those officials saw nothing at all, and have a conspiracy that no one contacted them. I think we should know who these Democracy Volunteers are and how they are trained. Given ID was badly introduced by a previous government to deal with personation that was almost negligible, I detect some funny business about this.
@RolloTreadway @HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 ah, but the most helpful thing for everyone is another obnoxious Reform MP so who cares how they win, as long as they win? Voting irregularities are only a problem if the (far) right candidate doesn't win, so can't be reported until after the result is declared. /s 🤡🤥
@mjr @HarriettMB @ChrisMayLA6 Seems a bit weird that their claim of 12% of votes being affected by family voting is precisely what Reform would've needed to win.
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Matt Goodwin acting shocked that all the people he wants to hurt could get together and vote against him.
@ChrisMayLA6 And also an immediate commencement of hostilities on minority cultures and languages.
This is 19th century English exceptionalism: attach and destroy all that is not their imagined identity and superiority, even when that superiority is based on English inferiority (e.g. monoglotism, a very long source of English insecurity).
Luckily, in May, we have a form of PR for the Senedd elections.
@ChrisMayLA6 When will the right learn that they are and always will be a minority party? - As soon as those who have been manipulated into voting to keep the rich rich wake up! OK, so not sometime soon 😉
@ChrisMayLA6 <sighing> of course they are following the fascist playbook-their mindset won't allow them to go down without fighting tooth and nail. 🤬
