Friday 27th Feb 2026

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

Phew!

[Frog222]

First lol of the day !

[Frog222]

Liveblog --

Patrick Wintour corrects NR ? -- "" Nick Robinson on BBC fairly said many will dismiss the Gorton & Denton result by pointing to a "large Muslim vote still motivated and angry about what happened in Gaza”. Many are wrong.

It is not just Muslims that are motivated by the treatment of Palestinians, and these voters are not just angry about what happened in Gaza, but about what is happening in Gaza.

Maybe this vote is not as big as the stop the boats lot, but Gaza is still a large part of what is driving the alienation from Labour. Little sign in the foreign office or No 10 of any recognition of this. ""

The Starmer-Labour (Friends of Israel) government has predictably shot itself in both feet with their military assistance** to Israel since the 7th Oct 2023.
You can't condemn Russia and 99% Support Israel .

**those daily RAF spy plane flights were not just photographing the scenes below , like our family friend Denis's reconnaissance Spitfire photos of 1944 Hamburg ....

[gilsey]

Good morning.

Good turnout for a byelection, 47.5%.

Peter Kellner:

For Labour the result is plainly catastrophic.

Curtice:

the Conservatives lost their deposit with just 1.9% of the vote, their worst ever byelection result.

[refitman]

Americans finding out about MRLP is amazing

[gilsey]

[Frog222]

Adding to the now -terminal (?) decline of FPTP you have the extremist left-hatred of those greedy accomplices of Corporations and the Filthy Rich™ now ruling the LP.

This is a psychologically decisive development. It convinces voters that other parties can win and therefore reduces the barriers to supporting them. Unless Labour stops the bleeding soon, it could already be all over for them.

The blame falls on McSweeney, but there is plenty to go round. Starmer employed him. He chose to make him chief of staff. He adopted his strategy, despite the moral abyss it opened up underneath him and the utter lack of progressive leadership it entailed.

He then blocked Andy Burnham, probably the only Labour figure who could have won this seat, from standing in the by-election because of his own sense of short-term personal self-interest. He risked his own political authority by visiting the constituency this week and spoke of a “battle of values” against “toxic” Reform.

How can that possibly make any sense when Labour has moved more than halfway towards Reform’s policy position? Is there really such a vast distinction between retrospectively changing people’s indefinite leave to remain status while they are undergoing the process and retrospectively repealing their indefinite leave to remain status once they have it? No. Plainly not. Once you adopt Reform policy positions you neutralise your ability to counter them or to motivate your voters by speaking about your own values.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/labours-ugl ... ed-4253516

[refitman]

Haha

[refitman]

Starmer - learning all the wrong lessons.

[refitman]

[refitman]

Meanwhile Badenoch is living in a world of her own

[Sky'sGoneOut]

This is utterly delusional.

[Sky'sGoneOut]

Even Dan's not having the 'family voting' bollocks.

[Frog222]

This is utterly delusional.

I liked this bit about the constituents who " now have a representative who is more interested in dividing people than uniting them. "

Very rich from one who threw out so many of the real left from the LP, including whole squads of faithful LP Jewish anti-Zionists.

[refitman]

I can't believe that all the left leaning people that Labour told not to vote for them, didn't actually vote for them. Starmer's master-plan of alienating his base back-fired for some reason.

[Frog222]

"" The shadow local government minister, James Cleverly, has written to the Electoral Commission requesting a fully inquiry into reports of breaches of electoral law in Gorton and Denton.

In his letter, which was shared on social media, he said: “There is clear evidence that electoral offences were committed, and a blind eye was turned to corruption and criminal activity.”

He continued: “Any cultural practices of husbands being allowed to instruct their wives how to vote is an insult to the hard-fought liberty of female suffrage. The rights of all British voters — across class, colour and creed — must be defended.”

Evidence was collected then ????? IF witnessed it shows a sad lack of supervision by staff ?

Historically the white males were known to do this, but that was alright ......

[refitman]

Perfect, no notes

[Frog222]

off with his head

[Frog222]

Sovereignty NEWS !

[Frog222]

Some pipeline maps showing how product from Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan could get to EU avoiding Russia ...

[refitman]

Karl Turner went off on one, on LBC earlier. Not sure about his defence of Starmer as leader, but his incredulousness over the removal of jury trials is pure gold.

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[gilsey]