Returning to the implications of the Green Party of England & Wales winning the Gorton & Denton by-election, @sjwrenlewis offers an interesting (but also perhaps worrying) analysis of what this means for the necessary tactical voting to defeat the Right in at the next general election.

You may agree or disagree with his analysis of voters' intent, but its a usefully pragmatic analysis of the prospects for the progressive left.

#TacticalVoting #politics #Greens #FPTP
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-gorton-and-denton-is-still-good.html

One thing that makes me very happy about the Gorton & Denton by-election result is it shows that claiming you have to vote tactically for Labour if you want to keep Reform out is bollocks. This was one of the safest Labour seats in the country, and the Greens still won it.

If you want to keep Reform out, then the message is clear: vote Green. That way you even get a party with policies that are different from Reform.

#GortonAndDenton #GortonAndDentonByElection #TacticalVoting #UKPolitics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116136379616901542

Oh yeah, the Tories did do that, didn't they?

Labour are Epstein Class, nothing but tricks, lies and cuddling up to the Rich.

#Labour #Tories #EpsteinClass #GortonAndDenton #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #TacticalVoting

Stop the Tories and Reform - Vote Tactical

Join the movement forward.

#Voting together gives us more political power

Yes, we’re lending our votes this time just to get the #Tories & #Reform out, but they’ll have to be earned next time.

https://stopreformuk.vote/

#elections #UK #TacticalVoting #ToxicTories #ToxicReformUK #fascism #authoritarian

"If it’s the end of the two-horse race, how do we make sure we stand out among four or five horses?"

#UKPol #Elections #TacticalVoting

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/fragmented-political-system-spell-trouble-lib-dem-campaign-strategy

Polls and tactical voting: https://www.aurianneor.org/polls-and-tactical-voting/

#AnneHildalgo #aurianneor #candidate #citizens’initiativereferendum #democracy #directdemocracy #ecology #election #EvaJoly #FrançoisHollande #greenparty #JacquesChirac #Jean-LucMélenchon #Jean-MarieLePen #liberals #MaiaSandu #politicalparties #politics #polls #popularinitiativereferendum #progressive #referendum #representativedemocracy #social #tacticalvoting #usefulvote #VladimirPutin #VolodymyrZelensky #votingsystem

Of course, we should use tactical voting to stop the rightwing extremists who want to run every government at every level like Russia, China or Trump's America

#TacticalVoting

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/apr/30/tactical-voting-to-stop-reform-may-hamper-farage-in-local-elections