Wednesday, 11 March 2026

Why did Muslims in Gorton & Denton vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jew?

 

Green MP - Hannah Spencer

White people in the constituency of Gorton & Denton are not an "ethnic minority" as claimed by the Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin. White people still make up a majority of the population. 

There's a big Muslim/Asian population in the west of the constituency and they do speak and understand English, perfectly well; it's in their interests to do so. In four of the wards in the west of the constituency, those closest to Manchester city centre, around 40 per cent of the constituents are university graduates or university students. 

The Green Party did target the British Asian vote but if support for the Green's was orchestrated by 'family voting' or the 'Biradari' (brotherhood/caste), why did Muslims vote for a progressive party led by a gay Jewish person? I don't think it was down to the influence of George Galloway as Keir Starmer claimed, but probably down to the influence of the university educated young Asian people in the constituency. 

Reform UK are the Alf Garnett’s of British politics. They are an atavistic personality cult centred around their spiv leader, Nigel Farage. Some Reform UK MPs, like Sarah Pochin, talk like white supremacists. Pochin recently complained that there were too many black faces in British advertising and that this made her blood boil.

Parts of Gorton & Denton, are areas of high social deprivation and many people are on state benefits. Many young people feel they've been stuffed and abandoned by the mainstream political system. 

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