Gorton and Denton, what have you done?

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You have elected as an MP to stand in the UK&NI parliament a person who said in a panel interview with Annabel Tiffin from BBC Northwest Tonight that the Manchester Arena bombing was caused by people sewing division by questioning immigration.

That statement is so outrageous I don't even know where to start.

😂😂 lessons for children on how to take drugs

I despair, some people really will believe anything!

And there we have the attempt at a patronising little put-down.

SOP.

That's a patronising comment.

Tag team!

SOP.

You know the Great in Great Britain refers to the size right? Like in Greater Manchester. Britain has pretty much the same greatness it has had for the last 100 years.

It'll be like IT lessons when I was a teenager where the teacher doesn't know as much as the nerdier kids and it's all a bit of a doss.
Imagine the teacher trying and failing to get the crack pipe to work so you spend the lesson practicing rolling spliffs for the umpteenth time.

Actually teaching kids to do drugs in schools could be quite a good way to put them of it.

As the saying goes: Britain may be Great but Manchester is greater.

I think we can we can all agree on one thing. The state of British politics has never been so low. Lets hope the only way is up. We deserve better.

Muslim schools and mosques do have security, partially funded by government, just as Jewish schools and synagogues do.

And the greatest proportion of hate crime incidents are towards Muslim people and religious sites. The second highest proportion is against Jewish people and religious sites.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025/hate-crime-england-and-wales-year-ending-march-2025

By accident. There were only 2 in the church and I went right and she followed me but before we happened to get in we were stopped

to be fair they aren’t booths. Its a table with a breaker in the middle

As previously mentioned. We both went to the right and were stopped

re family voting. Given my relative knowledge on politics etc I didn’t realise this was a thing until we left and I saw the reports in the morning

in future I absolutely will be calling it out knowing what our area is like

Well, if she made a mistake and you accept that, why do you assume (as your other post seemed to) that the other people you say you saw were doing it for nefarious purposes and not also just making a mistake? I still think it's bad if the staff weren't stopping them. I think if there are reports of this happening then there needs to be more training for staff and maybe a better setup of the booths. The process of democracy matters. But it wouldn't have made a difference to the result in this case as the actual margins were so high.

I guess if you want to give your wife grace and assume she wasn't planning to force you to tick the Green box, you should also give the other family you saw grace and not assume the wife/husband was desperate to vote Reform but made to vote Green by their spouse.

Absolutely this!! Thank you BrendaThePoodle

because there were 2 of us, not 7 like the ones that followed us in.

If there were 2 then I could get on board with it being an accident.

I don't agree with that.

Yes, Green voters are famous for their high intellect and real world experience

You think Matt Goodwin is thick? He’s a literal Academic. I’m sure that fact really annoys you

To be honest, it’s probably one of the main reasons he didn’t win. He’s too middle class and well spoken for your average Gorton & Denton voter. They probably needed someone a bit more working class to resonate with

Wow !

Do you mean 7 different couples? Or 7 people all in the same group? That sort of makes me wonder how they all fit and is probably an argument for booths rather than just dividers.
You said yourself, you didn't realise family voting was a thing until you got home. So maybe, just maybe, the other people you saw also didn't realise? Why assume based on "what the area is like" that there must have been something sinister happening. What is it about the area?
I do think that the process of voting matters and any possibility of bad practice should be prevented even if (as in this case) the voting margins aren't narrow enough for it to have affected the vote. In the future there should be:

• better training of election officers
• more awareness raising (posters in polling stations) that everyone must go into the booths alone
• actual booths rather than the weird setup your station had. Since 7 people wouldn't fit in a booth. Thats why they are like that.

But I find the assumption the other people you saw must have known family voting was bad and been doing it on purpose when you admit you didn't quite unfair.

Christ, the naivety of people who think this is a benign situation. We’re doomed, heading for a civil war.

Lots of us ‘own’ homes worth a lot of money, but we share that ownership with the mortgage lender!

By the sounds of it she had a house with her former partner and then they’ve bought a wreck to renovate. I’m not a fan of owning a second home for holidays in places where locals then struggle to buy or even rent. But I don’t get the impression that’s what’s happening here. Do you know better?

Are we? Because the Green Party won a by-election?

Or, next time, cardboard voting booths with three sides and maybe even a little curtain. Plus a sign with a picture of one person in the booth with a tick/smiley face and another picture of 2 people in a booth with a cross/ sad face.

I just think that would be less bother than a civil war.

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Get a grip!

Civil war between whom?