Pete Sinclair

How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour | George Monbiot This byelection should have been a stroll for Keir Starmer’s party. Instead, all hope of defeating Matt Goodwin now seems to lie with the Greens, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How is Reform’s charmless candidate still a contender in Gorton and Denton? Ask Labour | George Monbiot

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

The Green Party are ahead among likely voters in Gorton and Denton.

But only just.

They'll only win if more people sign up to knock on doors on election day - tomorrow.

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Reform UK: 25% Greens: 18% Labour: 16% Conservatives: 16% Lib Dems: 11% Restore Britain: 7% ) Your Party: 1% Turnout adjusted, Don't knows excluded [Find Out Now, 20-21 February, N=3,029] Voting intention With Restore Britain and Your Party included as vote options Reform UK Greens 18 Labour Conservatives 16 Liberal Democrats Restore Britain SNP 2 Other Plaid Cymru Your Party O findoutnow 25

Latest national poll puts Green Party second as Reform loses momentum.

Yeah, come on guys. Mandelson gave the police his solemn assurance that he has no plans to leave the UK and move abroad. I mean, why on earth shouldn't they believe him...?

Exclusive Poll: Anti-Reform Tactical Voters Poised to Defeat Nigel Farage's Party in Gorton and Denton By-election Greens and Labour are in an effective dead heat against Reform UK, with tactical voters leaning towards Zack Polanski’s party

🚨EXCLUSIVE: New poll for Byline Times finds Greens and Labour in a dead heat with Reform in the Gorton and Denton by-election

- Greens and Labour on 28%, one point ahead of Reform
- But among most likely and tactical voters, Greens edge ahead
- Pollsters Opinium say final result “too close to call”

A lie, and he knows it. They are SO rattled.

Disappointed that no-one went with I'M MANDY, TRY ME

Thanks to everyone who's started following me on here. While I've got your attention, can I recommend the podcast that I do with Mark Steel? It's called What The F*** Is Going On? We've had great guests like Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Dawn Butler, Alexei Sayle, Caitlin Moran. pod.link/1573424189

Reform: "Stop the Nanny State telling us what to do!"

Also Reform: "How dare the Green Party suggest that drugs should be treated as a health issue not a criminal one!"

#VoteGreen

Thanks for all your messages about my decision to join the Green Party (including those disagreeing with it!) You won't be surprised to learn that the replies on X/Twitter have been somewhat different. Childish, predictable, tedious right-wing name-calling and bile. Reminds me why I moved over here.

Crucially, it’s clearly not enough for the electorate, which is why Reform is ahead in the polls. Radical change is needed – and pandering to Reform’s anti-immigrant prejudices only helps them. As does allowing Mandelson to hold positions of power and influence your strategy!

Thanks! Unsurprisingly, Mark deserves the lion's share of the credit - but it's a show that I'm very proud to be involved with.

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together.

That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election.

We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.

I've joined the Green Party. I'm sick of Labour betraying everything they're meant to stand for. The Green Party is now a serious political force, and is the best chance of defeating Reform by offering a genuine alternative to the rotten politics of the mainstream parties. join.greenparty.org.uk

How strong is support for the greens?

New polling shows something is in the air.

It's hope and a plan.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

If you denounce the Iranian massacre of protesters, but not the Gaza genocide, you're wrong

If you denounce the Gaza genocide, but not the Iranian massacre of protesters, you're wrong

The very same applies to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

It's called *consistency*.

Tactical voting groups say greens - not labour - will stop Reform in byelection.

On Thursday only Greens can beat Reform in Gorton and Denton. And we will beat their hate with a message of hope.

On Thursday help us make hope normal again.

Playgrounds would become crack dens if greens were in power policing minister says.

Drug deaths have risen every year for 13 years.

That’s 13 years of a failed “war on drugs”.

Labour should be looking at legalisation, control and regulation - not playing politics with people’s lives.

This is a public health crisis. Treat it like one. Not a game.

Finished watching Small Prophets. Loved it. Congratulations to Mackenzie Crook, the wonderful cast and everyone else involved.

Dear Lucy Three weeks ago you wrote me a bizarre letter in an attempt to hold on to voters who Labour have for too long taken for granted in Gorton and Denton. First, I’d like to give my apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I've been busy on the ground with Hannah Spencer talking to voters about the issues that matter to them – lowering bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding our public services. You'll appreciate most of your letter is out of date now, but I'm sure you'll have seen the poll that came out today, that puts us in first place and Reform in second. Labour are a distant third and it’s now clearer than ever that your party cannot win in Gorton and Denton. If you are as concerned about stopping Reform as you proposed in your letter, the course is now clear: in the spirit in which you wrote to me, you should now urge your members and former voters to back Hannah Spencer on the 26th February to stop Reform and make hope normal again. Kind regards, Zack Polanski Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales P.S – Hannah looks forward to saying hi in Parliament!

Dear Lucy Powell,

A response to your letter:

Labour to come third in key byelection

You can smell the Labour Governments panic.

They're trying their hardest to discredit the new poll because it tells everyone that the alternative has well and truly arrived.

Gorton & Denton is the Green Party Vs Reform.

Discredited Tories re-form as Reform. How could anyone vote for the Reformed Tory Party?

They've voted Labour all their lives.

Now they'll never vote Labour again.

"Appearing in the Epstein files is not an indication of wrongdoing. Andrew has always denied any wrongdoing."
... I'm sure these disclaimers are for legal reasons, but do they apply to everything?
"Appearing in Mein Kampf is not an indication of wrongdoing. Adolf has always denied any wrongdoing."

I am pleased the Government has done another u turn.

Attempting to cancel elections, on top of scrapping jury trials, mandatory ID cards, criminalising peaceful protest and harassment of journalists is part of a disturbing authoritarian trend of this caretaker Prime Minister.

Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik Who is his constituency now? Not the left or the right – and not the centre any more. That’s why there’s been a nosedive in the polls, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Keir Starmer has a unique talent – to alienate absolutely everyone | Nesrine Malik

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Whenever Farage says jump, [Labour] say how high. You will never appease the right by doing that. They will just get more and more extreme"

Spot on. This is what people mean when they say Labour is ushering in the far right.

It is getting very boring being told that "the youth love reform on tiktok" with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.

This Alexei Sayle quote gets to the heart of the Mandelson scandal. The people who worked so hard to destroy Corbyn are close allies of Mandelson. They had no qualms at all about him having stayed at the house of a convicted paedophile. Mandelson stood for their values. They are truly vile people...