From Matt Goodwin

What happened at the Gorton and Denton by-election, where I stood as a Reform UK candidate, was nothing short of extraordinary.

On one level, it was a political earthquake. We finished second, ahead of Labour, in what is the sixth safest Labour seat in the entire country. We beat a party that has controlled this area for a century, preparing the ground for a major invasion of Labour’s heartlands at the local elections and next general election. We more than doubled Reform’s vote in just eighteen months ago, securing 29 per cent in a highly diverse, urban constituency, and delivering a 14-point swing. In a constituency ranked 440th on Reform’s target list, we pushed aside the political duopoly that has dominated for British politics for generations. As Sir John Curtice observed, this is only the second time since 1945 that the top two places have not been held by Labour and the Conservatives. We also built one of the most formidable grassroots campaigns seen in a modern by-election. More than 13,000 local pledges of support, hundreds of thousands of doors knocked, and thousands of volunteers mobilised in just four weeks. If the numbers that we mobilised in Gorton and Denton were repeated nationally, at the next general election, then Reform would win a comfortable parliamentary majority. So, yes - I am very proud of what we achieved. But on another level, the result exposed something that is much darker. Something more troubling. Something insidious. Something that should concern anybody who still believes in British democracy, no matter their personal political loyalties. Because the Green Party’s victory was not a triumph of pluralism, democratic renewal, or people power. It was a triumph of a dangerous sectarian politics - something I have been warning about, right here in this newsletter, for some time.

The evidence appeared on polling day itself.

The impartial and respected group Democracy Volunteers was given access to polling stations by the Electoral Commission and could watch what was happening. It found “family voting” was taking place in at least 15 of the 22 polling stations they observed, influencing roughly one in every eight voters. Let us be absolutely clear what that means. Family voting is illegal. It occurs when fathers or husbands exert coercive control over members of their family, telling them how to vote. It is coercive. It is illiberal. It is unBritish. It is fundamentally undemocratic.

According to Democracy Volunteers, this was the highest levels of family voting they had witnessed “at any election in our 10-year history of observing elections in the UK”.

In fact, they were so deeply alarmed they took the rare step of publishing their findings on the night itself, right after polls had closed. That tells you something.

Comment: Another example of muslim corruption.  This is why we need to get rid of ALL muslims from this country.