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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Muslims voted Green because they set out a pro Palestinian platform that also played up to Muslim positions re an anti Modi dog whistle. Just as with Galloway's Workers Party of Britain, election literature was tailored for different sections of the electorate, with the Green Party's predilection for LGTB identity politics ignored for a socially conservative section of the electorate. The leftist Islamic alliance is likely to come unstuck further down the road. Green Deputy leader Mothin Ali for instance has already come under criticism from comrades unhappy with perceived foot dragging on these issues.
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