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Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 8:36 pm I see that Fargle is claiming that the election was rendered unfair and illegitimate because Byline Times and many others drew attention to Goodwin's racist, fascist and misogynistic social media history.
And that Muslim women were deterred from voting Reform by their families even though Reform has spent years denigrating and insulting them.

Cunt.

A wiser man might consider selecting more likeable candidates.

But its Farage - not as wise as he thinks.
And it's reform - where likeability is like a downpour in the Atacama.

Picking Goodwin does confuse me slightly, surely they had better choices, their previous candidate here was elected as a councillor in Wigan when I looked it up.

mattomac wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:56 pm Picking Goodwin does confuse me slightly, surely they had better choices, their previous candidate here was elected as a councillor in Wigan when I looked it up.

The spud head "Patriots" and bots on Facebook were excited at the prospect of a "Full Professor" in the shadow cabinet.

And dogwhistles like a shipyard siren.

mattomac wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2026 11:56 pm Picking Goodwin does confuse me slightly, surely they had better choices, their previous candidate here was elected as a councillor in Wigan when I looked it up.

If Zia Yusuf stood for Reform, wouldn't the alleged sectarian Muslim voters have supported one of their own instead of a blonde plumber led by a gay Jew?
A rhetorical question of course. There's scant evidence affinity candidates sway political loyalties in this country. This isn't America.

When UKIP came quite close in Heywood and Middleton back in the day, they ran someone called John Bickley. No idea what he was like, but less high profile. Diane James in Eastleigh was more presentable than the Tory candidate.

This might be a better tactic than running a Goodwin.

I recently saw a clip of a young Matt Goodwin taking part in a TV debate with Tommy Ten-Names (judging by their ages it must have been about 15 years ago) and I was struck by how reasonable Goodwin seemed and how robustly he condemned the EDL, he's certainly been on a journey.

Edit: Found a different clip of the same show I saw.

Spencer's victory speech was all about the cost of living crisis but there's radio silence from Goodwin and Farage in response. They learned nothing and just carried on with race baiting and culture war crap.

My first exposure to Goodwin was him co-authoring this with the mostly rational Rob Ford. I definitely wonder what Mr. Ford thinks of him these days, and what that writing process was like.

They fell out long ago.

That's a relief.

https://smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2 ... parsons%2F

Tony Parsehole on the by-election. Nige wuz robbed, and thingy wore a scarf like a terrorist. Meanwhile stop bashing the Queen for indulging her nonce son and here are some pretty young women with big tits.

Samanfur wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 10:14 am My first exposure to Goodwin was him co-authoring this with the mostly rational Rob Ford. I definitely wonder what Mr. Ford thinks of him these days, and what that writing process was like.

I remember him disparaging him a fair bit on Twitter before the X knob took it over.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 3:50 pm https://smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2 ... parsons%2F

Tony Parsehole on the by-election. Nige wuz robbed, and thingy wore a scarf like a terrorist. Meanwhile stop bashing the Queen for indulging her nonce son and here are some pretty young women with big tits.

Didn't know Tony Parsons was still a thing, has a weekly Sun column?

I was at a Labour curry evening last night, and I spoke to my MP about the by-election. He said that they put a lot of work into Gorton, but not enough into Denton, which is where Reform got a lot of their votes from, in contrast to Gorton, where the Greens got their support from.

I understand that Reform have been reported to the electoral commission for overspending on their by-election campaign. This might be premature if final expenses have not been filed but it is quite clear that they threw the kitchen sink at the election. It will be interesting to see how they account for the use of the battle bus during the campaign because that must have cost around a £1000 a day if the driver was paid the going rate and the cost of fuel. There seemed to be lots of most on social media of people delivering leaflets on a daily basis which must have pushed up costs.

Sadly the electoral commission seems to have a soft spot for Farage probably because he has used the excuse that Reform is a very new party that occasionally makes the odd mistake. I'd like to think that the commission will now start treating Reform like any other established party.

satnav wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2026 7:52 pm I understand that Reform have been reported to the electoral commission for overspending on their by-election campaign. This might be premature if final expenses have not been filed but it is quite clear that they threw the kitchen sink at the election. It will be interesting to see how they account for the use of the battle bus during the campaign because that must have cost around a £1000 a day if the driver was paid the going rate and the cost of fuel. There seemed to be lots of most on social media of people delivering leaflets on a daily basis which must have pushed up costs.

Sadly the electoral commission seems to have a soft spot for Farage probably because he has used the excuse that Reform is a very new party that occasionally makes the odd mistake. I'd like to think that the commission will now start treating Reform like any other established party.

That might shut them up about faily voting for about fve minutes.

But: Electoral Commission enforcing against Reform sounds as likely as.
* Ofcom enforcing against Reform politicians presenting GB News.
* Speaker in the commons enforcing against Reform un-parliamentary language.

This must be the only election in history where the winners get criticised for being good at politics.

Released with a lot less fanfare than the allegations:

Cultists will see nothing except "Two-Tier police".

Their playbook has a three word answer to everything.