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HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 08:29

While the vote in Gorton and Denton may be described as a 'protest' vote the strength of both the Greens and Reform performance is something to worry all of us not just Labour.

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Livelovebehappy · 28/02/2026 07:53

scottishgirl69 · 27/02/2026 23:22

This is absurd. I'm in my 50s and I have voted for both labour and the Snp in my life. No point in voting tactically where I live as its one or the other in my area. I'm not part of THE left. I have my own opinions. I didn't agree with all Labours policies when I voted for them and ditto snp but I would rather vote than not

I don't like Blair either - I think he's a fucking war criminal. But the hill I will die on - is not being lumped in with the "left". Just because I'm not right wing

I also believe it or not get off my arse and campaign for the party I vote for. I try and make a difference

There has been immigration for decades. It was fine when the UK needed immigrant labour in the 50s.

My family are Irish. They came over here in the 60s due to the troubles. No Blacks. No Irish. Do we really want to go down that path again?

My mum had melanoma in 2017. An immigrant surgeon saved her life - he went home a few years ago

Yes, there has been immigration for decades. It worked once. And now it doesn’t. Just because something was okay decades ago, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t revisit the issue now that it’s become untenable. We have AI marching into the 21st century which will all but squeeze out many jobs. It’s already being reflected in unemployment on the increase. We have increasing numbers claiming benefits. More people entering the country who are only suitable for unskilled jobs, which are fast disappearing. It doesn’t take a genius to see how this will pan out. We will soon be in the perilous position of unemployment through the roof, with more people coming into the UK, with more people taking out than putting in. Our entire infrastructure will collapse, and still people will shriek out ‘all welcome’. Utter madness.

Marmalademorning · 28/02/2026 02:05

PortSalutPlease · 28/02/2026 01:24

Do you think taxing women for not having children is good for women?

I don’t like all of Reform’s policies, but I would be a LOT more worried about life in the UK if the Greens ever got into power. They are far more extreme than Reform. I can’t understand why anyone with children who have any care for their kids future would ever wish to vote the Greens in.

PortSalutPlease · 28/02/2026 01:24

Screamingabdabz · 27/02/2026 09:13

They don’t believe it. Nobody does. They just want to diminish actual women and this is the perfect ‘hate in plain sight’ way to do it.

Do you think taxing women for not having children is good for women?

SquirrelSoShiny · 28/02/2026 00:40

I find Polanski creepy in the same way I find David Walliams creepy. They're all teeth and smiles but they're somehow dead behind the eyes. Farage is similar ironically.

quantumbutterfly · 27/02/2026 23:55

The greens used to bang on about bringing birth rates down and have gone a bit quiet there. Mind you, if you give kids puberty blockers then cross sex hormones it will achieve a similar thing.
Other accepted wisdom is that educating and empowering women tends to do it, but maybe they've done the maths on cost effectiveness.
Matey girl in Denton sounds promising and as long as she's effective at local level it's all good. Time will tell.

TheKittenswithMittens · 27/02/2026 23:49

Lib Dems will legalise weed. So there are alternatives.

quantumbutterfly · 27/02/2026 23:46

TalkToTheHand123 · 27/02/2026 23:13

I vote green just for the crack.

Arf.

TheKittenswithMittens · 27/02/2026 23:45

If the Greens do come to power, we will be able to get a nice stash of LSD, Mushrooms, crack or skunk and pretend it isn't happening.

phoneisoff · 27/02/2026 23:45

ProfMummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking · 27/02/2026 10:15

I've heard very very little what is "green" about the Greens. The environment seems to have gone out of the window.

Also not a fan of the way they'd like no holds barred, self id for pervert men to enjoy unfettered access to single sex women and girls spaces.

Captain Hypno-tits gives me the creeps also, he just seems so smarmy. Don't know why, but even if that's just me judging his mannerisms etc, the hypnosis your boobs thing is just eurgh.

And Farage is just so fucking appealing....

quantumbutterfly · 27/02/2026 23:45

EsmaCannonball · 27/02/2026 23:16

He tortured cats for personal 'medical experiments' and he personally executed children. Don't know why people want him on a t-shirt.

Amazing what PR and a photogenic face can achieve.

phoneisoff · 27/02/2026 23:33

Just a thought, maybe Greens message of hope got them votes.

Look at OP's title 'doomed', so fucking sick of the wringing of hands of Reform, boats, migrants, rapists young men. Then Labour and Lib Dems wringing their hands on the grifter Farage.

Greens are winning people over because they offer something other than rolling around in misery saying how screwed the country is.

phoneisoff · 27/02/2026 23:30

Teribus21 · 27/02/2026 08:48

A set of policies deliberately designed to appeal to idealistic students with limited life experience in other words. I expect Green policies will be subject to a lot more scrutiny during a general election. I am much more worried about Reform.

Lol, I'd vote for them and got my degree many many many moons ago!

queenofarles · 27/02/2026 23:28

So Farage thinks
the Muslim women were about to vote Reform and then Muslim men stopped them? And coerced them into voting for the white woman and gay Jewish guy ?
i can see why he thinks it should be investigated, Reform policies align with the average Muslim SAHM in Greater Manchester

scottishgirl69 · 27/02/2026 23:22

Dappy777 · 27/02/2026 23:01

Fascist?! Don’t make me laugh. The Left have IMPOSED a new, multicultural identity on us. No one asked for it and no one voted for it. The country I was born into no longer exists. And it was done deliberately. A speechwriter for Blair said in 1997 that the plan was “to rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” Now that is fascism.

No one is more cruel or hate-filled than the globalist Left, but because their spite is directed towards middle-class Daily Mail readers, somehow it’s OK. That doesn’t count. It’s OK to destroy their identity. It’s OK to tear down their statues, and demonise their national heroes. When a Native American has his culture and identity destroyed, it’s a crime and we call it colonialism. But when it’s done to British people, it's ‘enrichment’.

Then the Left expect me to care about Palestine! I’m too busy clinging on to what is left of my own identity to worry about Palestine.

This is absurd. I'm in my 50s and I have voted for both labour and the Snp in my life. No point in voting tactically where I live as its one or the other in my area. I'm not part of THE left. I have my own opinions. I didn't agree with all Labours policies when I voted for them and ditto snp but I would rather vote than not

I don't like Blair either - I think he's a fucking war criminal. But the hill I will die on - is not being lumped in with the "left". Just because I'm not right wing

I also believe it or not get off my arse and campaign for the party I vote for. I try and make a difference

There has been immigration for decades. It was fine when the UK needed immigrant labour in the 50s.

My family are Irish. They came over here in the 60s due to the troubles. No Blacks. No Irish. Do we really want to go down that path again?

My mum had melanoma in 2017. An immigrant surgeon saved her life - he went home a few years ago

RedToothBrush · 27/02/2026 23:19

TalkToTheHand123 · 27/02/2026 23:13

I vote green just for the crack.

Not the heroin or the GHB?

EsmaCannonball · 27/02/2026 23:16

quantumbutterfly · 27/02/2026 23:13

He strangled a puppy. Put me right off him.

He tortured cats for personal 'medical experiments' and he personally executed children. Don't know why people want him on a t-shirt.

TalkToTheHand123 · 27/02/2026 23:13

I vote green just for the crack.

quantumbutterfly · 27/02/2026 23:13

Jamesblonde2 · 27/02/2026 20:43

I love Che Guevara but I’m right wing so our politics clash. But he’s very cool Grin

He strangled a puppy. Put me right off him.

Psychosislotus · 27/02/2026 23:12

glitterpaperchain · 27/02/2026 20:44

'MG100. The Green Party wants to see a world without borders, until this happens the Green Party will implement a fair and humane system of managed immigration where people can move if they wish to do so.'

This states a world without borders is their ideology. But their actual practical policy is managed immigration.

Like Farages principle that he believes we are going to be a minority and his policies are ‘reopening a conversation’ on abortion rights and ‘take back control’ of immigration.

Yeah ideology not important at all. Doesn’t matter at all and isn’t an insight into who someone is and how far they might go

RafaistheKingofClay · 27/02/2026 23:10

Dappy777 · 27/02/2026 23:01

Fascist?! Don’t make me laugh. The Left have IMPOSED a new, multicultural identity on us. No one asked for it and no one voted for it. The country I was born into no longer exists. And it was done deliberately. A speechwriter for Blair said in 1997 that the plan was “to rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” Now that is fascism.

No one is more cruel or hate-filled than the globalist Left, but because their spite is directed towards middle-class Daily Mail readers, somehow it’s OK. That doesn’t count. It’s OK to destroy their identity. It’s OK to tear down their statues, and demonise their national heroes. When a Native American has his culture and identity destroyed, it’s a crime and we call it colonialism. But when it’s done to British people, it's ‘enrichment’.

Then the Left expect me to care about Palestine! I’m too busy clinging on to what is left of my own identity to worry about Palestine.

Who is stealing your culture? What can you not do now that was culturally fine before?

EsmaCannonball · 27/02/2026 23:10

RedToothBrush · 27/02/2026 14:28

I do think the Green party is in a massive state of flux right now that isn't fully appreciated. It's an uneasy alliance between two groups which really aren't obvious bedfellows. At some point that leads to crisis as we've seen in other parties both here and abroad. If you don't understand this you are missing a massive potential problem on the horizon.

For all its faults (of which there are an extraordinary amount) Reform do not have the same level of this. They have competing ego issues instead to contend with as well as a variety of people who are scandals waiting to happen. But for the most part I don't see a full on civil war in the same way. I see massive bickering and infighting between individuals instead. But on policy? Not so much to the same extent where it looks like an impossible square to circle.

I think any civil war in the Greens will be swift and brutal. Once the vegan/LGBTQ+/fossil-fuels-are-bad faction has served their purpose, the Islamic supremacist faction will Iran '79 them.

If only Zack Polanski had won a few auditions; he might not have had to find fame at the expense of doing a pact with misogynistic, homophobic, animal-abusing, oil-loving, racist jihadists.

TopPocketFind · 27/02/2026 23:09

Dappy777 · 27/02/2026 23:01

Fascist?! Don’t make me laugh. The Left have IMPOSED a new, multicultural identity on us. No one asked for it and no one voted for it. The country I was born into no longer exists. And it was done deliberately. A speechwriter for Blair said in 1997 that the plan was “to rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” Now that is fascism.

No one is more cruel or hate-filled than the globalist Left, but because their spite is directed towards middle-class Daily Mail readers, somehow it’s OK. That doesn’t count. It’s OK to destroy their identity. It’s OK to tear down their statues, and demonise their national heroes. When a Native American has his culture and identity destroyed, it’s a crime and we call it colonialism. But when it’s done to British people, it's ‘enrichment’.

Then the Left expect me to care about Palestine! I’m too busy clinging on to what is left of my own identity to worry about Palestine.

You typed that with a straight face?

Who did you vote for?

ManukaMoneyMaker · 27/02/2026 23:06

HappyFace2025 · 27/02/2026 20:36

How many billionaires do you think live in the UK? Last count was 156 and decreasing. By the time we get to the next GE there will be even fewer! So no, don't expect the coffers to be rolling with £ from billionaires!

Company tax? Cracking down on tax avoidance? We know Amazon pays hardly any UK tax, many other companies are the same. But they are happy to trade here. https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/tax-justice/tax-avoidance-rankings

Tax Avoidance Rankings | Ethical Consumer

We gave these companies 'zero' in our ratings system for their likely use of tax avoidance strategies.

https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/tax-justice/tax-avoidance-rankings

Dappy777 · 27/02/2026 23:01

Leftieinthewild · 27/02/2026 21:15

This thread is gold.
Left of centre wins a solitary seat, meaning absolutely no difference is made to parliament, and the facists lose their minds.

Despite all the campaigning, the far right party, full of failed tories failed because Britain is not a fascist country.

Can't possibly be that though- it must be allowed those mean Muslim men forcing their wives to vote for the gay jew party instead. Hmm Wtaf.

Fascist?! Don’t make me laugh. The Left have IMPOSED a new, multicultural identity on us. No one asked for it and no one voted for it. The country I was born into no longer exists. And it was done deliberately. A speechwriter for Blair said in 1997 that the plan was “to rub the right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date.” Now that is fascism.

No one is more cruel or hate-filled than the globalist Left, but because their spite is directed towards middle-class Daily Mail readers, somehow it’s OK. That doesn’t count. It’s OK to destroy their identity. It’s OK to tear down their statues, and demonise their national heroes. When a Native American has his culture and identity destroyed, it’s a crime and we call it colonialism. But when it’s done to British people, it's ‘enrichment’.

Then the Left expect me to care about Palestine! I’m too busy clinging on to what is left of my own identity to worry about Palestine.

1dayatatime · 27/02/2026 23:01

BIossomtoes · 27/02/2026 22:47

Yes I do. If it happened why didn’t they alert the polling clerks? Why didn’t they report it to the returning officer or police? Why aren’t there photos? Why didn’t the polling clerks see it? And why is it only Farage who’s frothing about it?

Interesting that you think that Democracy Volunteers a long established and respected electoral monitoring body would risk their global reputation and for political neutrality and hence their ability to operate over a relatively minor by election rather than say a national Presidential election.

Democracy Volunteers say they did report their concerns to the polling station officers. What the polling station officers chose to do with that information is up to them.

Photography of others in a polling station is an offence under the secrecy requirements set out in section 66 of the Representation of the People Act. That's why they don't have photographic evidence.

Democracy Volunteers also did not go public with their concerns whilst the election was live as this would also be illegal.

I hope this clarifies your concerns.

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