Importance of Gorton and Denton

[Acommonreader]

I don’t want to get into the candidates or parties here! Please can someone tell me why huge attention is being given to this by election ?
I know that it’s been Labour for a long time but it seems to be publicised as hugely important to all concerned. Is it just a potential indication of future voting or something else?
I have been looking for information but it’s all about the candidates rather than the wider significance of the results beyond the victor. I’m genuinely just try to understand the wider picture. Thanks

Brilliant! Have loved the last few posts!

Those posts are talking about the Greens getting in aren’t they

Not really. Over the past year or so I have seen endless posts telling us that the UK is on the brink of an IMF bailout because of the current government. Hence the eyerolling.

And although I do not want the Greens to have an absolute majority, I would prefer them to Reform any day of the week if those are the only available options.

lol - the worst people ‘on the left’ have b moved into a party that was meant to be about the environment and is now very much not.
they are the useful idiots to be used by the media to kick Starmer. Their day will come - and I’ve got the popcorn waiting to see how the manage a coalition between a gay Jewish leader and a man whose wife cannot show their face publicly…

The post below from @1dayatatimere Greece was referring to the Greens.

If they overtake Labour I guess we’ll see how viable.

I had not realised that there was such poverty in Gorton & Denton . According to The Sunday Times it is the 15 most deprived constituency in England & Wales. I have never ben there, I did go to Bury once and thought it an extremely poor area. Anyone care to comment.

There’s only Radcliffe in Bury that could be described as an ‘extremely poor area’ and I’m not sure about the ‘extremely’ bit. Gordon is extremely deprived and makes Radcliffe look like Kingsbridge in comparison.

The big picture is the collapse of the old parties, Conservatives and Labour, along with the "centre" of British politics. Voters in both parties, appalled by the dismal efforts to provide a better economic future, have abandoned the mainstream parties, and are seeking change that will improve their lives.

Reform promises to make Britain Great again by stopping immigration, reducing taxes, reducing public services, and hoping that will result in the growth of jobs and opportunities. They propose to cut workers' rights and protections, and make Britain a place where billionaires and multinationals will want to invest in.

Greens promise to make Britain Great again by taxing billionaires and multinational companies, and investing in the economy to create jobs, housing and opportunities for the ordinary people.

The economic arguments for both approaches are debatable. Each has positives and negatives. So it comes down to an emotional, rather than an intellectual decision. What sort of country do you want for you and your children?

A country built for the benefit of the super rich, with ever increasing levels of obscene wealth and obscene poverty dividing the country? Or a country built for the benefit of it's citizens, with ever increasing levels of equality and social justice uniting the country?

So the importance of Gorton and Denton, to answer the original poster, is that it's the first insight into which way the voters of this country might lean. Which has been obscured by smoke about the particulars of whether Labour may or may not have won if, but, blah, blah blah....

The old centre parties that have held British politics in a stranglehold for a century are dying, and a new politics is being born. In front of our eyes. Reform and the Greens may be irrelevant in ten or twenty years; everything is changing so fast. Whether it's the Brave New World, or the last nail in the coffin, is a purely personal political viewpoint.