NickWho’s staying up for Gorty Dents?
Matt Goodwin’s divorce went through this year. I wonder if it was because his wife realised he’d become a fascist cunt. #gortonanddenton #UKpol #GortyDents
Well done Gorty Dents and well done Hannah Spencer of the Green Party!
Nicovel0 🍉@Nickiquote good, the less we hear from that fascist shit the better.
ʙᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴛᴛᴇяɪʟʟ@Nickiquote Memories of Truss sneaking from the count.
David Cohen@BenCotterill @Nickiquote Lucy Powell did a runner pretty sharpish last night too
Bob Thomson@Nickiquote a coalition of X Y Z that came together to dominate a constiuency - so a majority you mean then eh? Get a grip ffs.
@bobthomson70 “The mean voters ganged up on me just because I’m a Nazi!”
RolloTreadway@Nickiquote Famously, Islamists are always devoted in their support for parties with gay Jewish leaders.
Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ
Robin Adams@Nickiquote The progressives were told to hold their nose and vote Labour.
Cat!@robinadams @Nickiquote But the thing is, if the progressives had voted for Labour, he would still have lost.
Green and Labour together got 24,614 votes. No matter how you split it, one party or the other is going to get at least half that. That's 12,307 votes, which is still more than the 10,578 he got.
The only way he wins is if progressives (a) don't vote, or (b) vote with their eyes closed.
Tattie@Nickiquote by whom, Matt, by whom? Let me guess: a "cabal of internationalists"? 🙄
Fash are always gonna fash.
Fash are always gonna fash.
@Nickiquote In my day, telling people how to vote was called 'campaigning.'
The sheer narcissism of the rancid little shit, imagining that there couldn't possibly be any legitimate way people would look at him and say, "Nope. Don't want that."
Esther Payne 
@Nickiquote every accusation is a confession.
Gary 
@Nickiquote it’s like they don’t actually understand how voting and democracy work 😀
Schroedingers_Cat@Nickiquote Becasue progressives, Muslims and woke people should not be allowed to vote, according to them.
@SteveClough The way they just get away with casually implying that all Muslims are “Islamists” is shocking.
@Nickiquote Given the number of times Reform have posted "This is the last chance to save your country - you must vote Reform at every opportunity" this seems like a rather pathetic argument.
Maybe it is OK to tell the regressives how to vote but not the progressives?
I think his response to this shows that the voters are really fortunate to not have him as their representative. Whinging, moaning, vile toxic baby. Like his boss.
Caz Mockett@Nickiquote brilliant result all round! 💪🏻 And my god, isn't it nice to have some positive politcal news for a change. 🙀
Sci Fi Brickyards 🚀@Nickiquote
Lol lmao
Lol lmao
@Nickiquote I heard a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives came together to dominate his personal life.
Patrick Hadfield@Nickiquote wot and miss the excitement of waking up to a result?!
@patrickhadfield I am very familiar with the fun of waking up at 4am, checking your phone, finding out that fascism has won again, then trying to get back to sleep.
kat donegan 🇵🇸✊@Nickiquote @patrickhadfield ah, so i'm *not* alone in this particular form of self-flagellation!
@Nickiquote not this time, Nick, not this time! :)
Patrick Hadfield (@[email protected])
Thank fuck! And not as close as polls had suggested: Greens on 14,980, Reform 10,578 and Labour 9,364. Tbh I didn't care if it were Greens or Labour - anyone but Reform! The people of Gorton & Denton have chosen well. Nice to wake up to good news! "Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win - BBC News." #UKpol #GoodNews https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8rjk02r0jt?post=asset%3Aa20ba8fa-6e47-4411-b687-d987337f8fe7#post
Hotter, More Cross BunnyI don't know what this means, but I'm in. I'll be there. Will I need riding boots?
@HCBunny Waders possibly, as we might be in deep shit.
I'll vacuum the spiders from my galoshes.
@Nickiquote @HCBunny is there a projected time for the results? i did an awful thing & looked on xcancel. all the talk's about the drama over a supposed preponderance of 'family voting' or some shit.
@kathimmel @HCBunny Between 3 and 4.
@Nickiquote @HCBunny taaaaaa! probably see you then, then.
BeeCycling@Nickiquote If this was an election in Sunderland or Newcastle we'd have the result by midnight at the latest.
Just saying.
@beecycling In the past few years those results have indeed been very fast as usual, but not exactly uplifting.
@Nickiquote Sadly true. For Sunderland anyway. Newcastle hasn't fallen for the Reform BS yet. They don't even have any councillors never mind MPs.
@beecycling Good for Newcastle.
@Nickiquote The council is nearly always Labour controlled, with occasional flips to the Lib Dems. (There's only one Tory councillor in the whole city right now.) It's currently no overall control, because a bunch of Labour councillors left the party to sit as independents due to some internal party shenanigans, but Labour are still in charge as a minority administration.
All seats up for grabs in May, and new ward boundaries. Should be interesting.
@Nickiquote Anyway, I'm not staying up for the by-election. I bet there will be recounts, given how close the result appears likely to be.
@Nickiquote Gorty Dents is the new Platty Jubes.
🌖 Pipistrelle Bat 🦇@Nickiquote I'm trying not to, better to sleep now but I'm going to need to deploy my most relaxing yet distracting podcast for this
@Nickiquote what is this thing i'm feeling? whatever it is, i'm going to savour it for a while. felicitations, gorty dents!