@2legged Did I just read that right?

" The hair’s breadth that appeared to separate the two progressive options – a split vote that might have enabled a Reform victory – turned out to be a chasm."

Regressive/retrogressive ≠ progressive

... compared again near the end of the article:

"most striking is that all traditional parties were beaten by two insurgents taking 70 per cent of the vote"

the political roots of GPUK go back more than 50 yrs!

sorry, yet another edit - but a redeeming one to quote the end of the article

"Perhaps a prime minister for whom the bell tolls... might pause to wonder how it came to be that a plumber who speaks of the value of hard work and equal treatment came to stand for a party other than the party of organised labour. He might even consider [his refusal to] reform the unrepresentative and capricious electoral system, now that his party is unlikely to be its beneficiary."

#GortonAndDenton

@wavesculptor No you didn't read it right.

1/ The apparent hairs breadth split was between Green and Labour, both progressive to some degree.

2/ The Greens have been around for fifty years, but were marginal until recently, and ignored in every one of the 87 by-elections they had contsted. Their highest vote share in any previous by-election was 10.2%. They got four times that in #GortonAndDenton

@2legged "1/ The apparent hairs breadth split was between Green and Labour, both progressive to some degree."

See day-before infographic in your own post https://mastodon.ie/@2legged/116132538037770051

and prev in