Matt I’m very proud of you and all from Reform and all the hundreds and hundreds of supporters who joined you to campaign. I would have joined you too but because of my age I would have been a liability rather than as asset. Brilliant result for Reform just a shame this sectarian voting was allowed. You’re always victors in my eyes. 🩵
Do you really believe that if it wasn't for 'family voting' then Muslim women would have voted for one of the other parties? Come on. The Greens explicitly courted the Muslim vote and they duly received it.
OK, so sectarianism has arrived and is demonstrably effective. So now what?
Continue telling the native White British population that identitarianism is wrong? Let's see how that plays out.
I think it's much more likely that rather than voting for a different party they wouldn't have voted at all. The same goes for postal vote "harvesting" - it gives a much bigger effective turnout by returning ballots that the individuals concerned wouldn't have bothered with / even understood.
Exactly correct. I saw stats that said there was a 100% turnout among the 'minorities' compared with around 45% for the general population. No doubt that 'family voting' skewed the result. That said, it cannot be beyond the wit of man to set up polling stations so that voting one at a time is the only option (families/groups admitted one at time for example. Next one in when the previous one comes out for example. Or groups of family voters given different coloured ballots so they can be discarded at the count). That combined with a major reduction in postal voting should overcome the problem.
Unfortunately this would cause huge queues and when the polls close, people might still be waiting having arrived in good time, say 21:15 for a 22:00 close.
A partial solution is not to allow people who are not born here (from non-English, Scottish, N.Irish or Welsh parents), or cannot speak English to vote.
Gutted you didn't win Matt but your standing for election has highlighted so much of what is actually happening. Horrified to see our "fluffy Greens" supporting the wrong side of the Iran issue over the weekend. Good to see you back and I feel sure it's only a matter of time until you win your deserved place in the HOC. Good luck with your future.
Fantastic effort, well done Matt. But I completely agree with you about the depressing number of problems that have been imported into what used to be a high trust, low crime country. I’m angered, sickened and disgusted at the people in charge who’ve not only allowed this to happen, they’ve positively encouraged it. I can only hope that the be kind brigade will wake up and vote accordingly before it’s too late. And for that we need the leftie MSM to start behaving responsibly rather than as mouth pieces for the state. Some hope!
Nature abhors a vacuum! We need to fill it now with a party that unequivocally has the best interests of our country at heart! Keep going Matt! We are all marching beside you!
Quite, quite wrong Jos - in the 30+years I have been following his political career, he has been very, very constant - people don't like him for many reasons but that accusation is 100% wrong.
Jane. I am a former UKIP, Brexit and Reform Party supporter. I have done some footslogging delivering leaflets for them. I used to admire Nigel in the UKIP days - he did a magnificent job. But UKIP was a one issue party. Nigel has shown he has little grasp of the multiple issues that government has to grapple with. That is understandable and every reason to surround oneself with capable people who can fill in one's own gaps. But Nigel does not. He does the opposite, apparently seeing them as threats to his own position. And then there is his frequent change of position on the issue threatening our very existence. It seems he will follow the wind because his aim is to be PM, not to solve the problems we face. He is not "constant" in his views. I no longer trust him.
I have campaigned for UKIP, Brexit and Reform. I started in 1999 and worked closely with Nigel in the early 2000s. He is de dove, an excellent tactician and works hard.
The reputation the media snd Tories try to tell about his falling out with people contrasts sharply with the huge numbers who continue to support him.
Those who fall out are usually trying to push him or the party in the wrong direction. Many I have observed as self serving and money grabbing.
Farage is not the only person of influence in Reform. However, his message re: the state of our nation has always been consistent. With Labour U-turns on steroids, Green loons and the clowns in the Lib Democrats. For me, a ‘best fit’ of my priorities and the track records of those who created this mess, is what I shall be voting for. I’m not going to let perfection get in the way of achieving good!
Well, you may not have a vote for three years and much can change in that time. If the problem is not fixed in the next Parliament, you can say goodbye to everything you value in this country. In fact, start looking round for another home now because if you leave it too late you will swamped in the rush for the exit.
That’s what we’re all aiming for! Hopefully, we can start re-building sooner rather than later! (Meanwhile my vote will be ready, waiting and thoroughly researched!)
Is it possible to have a break down by wards. As google suggests Denton is 95% white so the Muslim community are concentrated in Gorton. The results would paint a clearer picture of likely voting intentions.
Also Reform needs to scream from the rooftops, in heavily Muslim populated areas, that the Greens are pro transgender, completely happy with homosexuality and want to legalise all drugs. You can bet your life that would put many off voting Green.
Of course it wouldn't. They know exactly what they are doing. They don't yet have an explicitly Muslim party to vote for, yet. Once they do they will drop Greens like the useful idiots they are.
And they want to legalise prostitution and privatise the NHS . And get rid of defense .why don't people read policy before they vote .The green party is full of extremely dangoures individuals .Spencer is a Trojen horse .a lot of middle class women need to wake up this is not the green party anymore 😕
It wasn't a "Green" vote that won this election, it was a mass Muslim/sectarian vote - without which the Greens would have been relegated to 4th or 5th place. It's not the "warm and fuzzy Green Party" voters that need to be discouraged.
Not for the first time, Matt highlights the ticking timebomb that is the sectarian take-over of Britain and the reduction of native Brits to a minority.
But, once again, Matt fails to explain how this threat will be reversed by a Reform government.
Reform don’t need to tell us what the problems are - we know what they are. What we need is a credible plan for returning the UK to the country of decency it was until relatively recently.
Decency has fallen as immigration has increased and Reform have given me no confidence whatsoever on resolving the problem of decades of mass immigration - many feel the flip-flopping on what can and can’t be done is mostly in response to the rising popularity of Restore, not that Reform actually believe what they’re saying.
People believe Restore on immigration because they’ve been consistent and loud whereas Reform has given voters as much confidence as we have in the Uniparty which is terrible politics bearing in mind how immigration is now the number 1 issue for many.
The ideological gulf between the Greens and Islamic beliefs means this marriage of convenience will not last long. The Muslim vote has realised it no longer needs the Labour label and it won't need the Green label very long either.
You did as well as you possibly could Matt but what worries me is the apathy among white British voters who seem to have given up. Maybe things have to get even worse before they can improve? And finally let’s pray Labour don’t panic into introducing proportional representation as Burnham has threatened. God help us if that happens.
If the White British have given up, it's because Reform UK has gone mask off as Tories 2.0 and started to deride them as a basket of deplorables if they think of themselves as a group with its own interests that they want served. They perceive that there's nobody left to vote for.
Like you, I'm uneasy about the "high profile" tory MPs who have recently (and suddenly!) discovered that Reform is their true home. They are needed in a support role to try and counter the criticism that Reform has absolutely no experience of government, but putting them "front and centre" of the potential cabinet gives the wrong impression that Reform == Tories 2.0.
A Reform cabinet needs people who are intelligent, educated, experienced in the real world and have had "proper jobs" in said real world, but "ordinary" in the truest sense of the word.
I note Nadine Dorries and Nadhim Zahawi came on board and promptly disappeared from view. Others, such as Kruger, Jenrick and Braverman have convincing explanations and, provide some popular heavyweight. Also, Nigel has promised, at today's press conference, two Labour defectors next week, albeit not serving MP's. The 2.0 thing is a genuine concern but, it stands to reason that a centre-right political party will be made up mostly of conservatives. It was the Tory party that moved Left after all, leaving the genuine conservatives among their ranks isolated.
There is always a risk of closet opportunists. Zahawi and Dorries strike me as two such people. I was cautious about Jenrick, but then he did resign as a minister over immigration and that cannot be taken away from him. Braverman was fired for her views, yet here we have a Labour Home Secretary saying exactly the same and nobody bats an eyelid. Both women are ethnic minorities, so it cannot be that.
The party needs people with experience of handling the civil service and the government machine while being robust enough to challenge it. There is waste and incompetence everywhere. It will take a team of varied experience and talent to get it working properly again.
In defence of both Labour and the Tories, the parliamentary party stopped ministers doing what needed doing, hence the term uniparty. In both cases, the leadership was woke and weak. As the saying goes, go woke, go broke. Well, here we are living the dream.
Nigel and his team have all been consistent in their messaging, some issuing warnings for decades. The key element are back benchers who share the leadership's beliefs. When that happens, we will be off and away. My fear is welcoming closet wokes into the party to dilute the will and generally throw sand in the gears.
Considering all that was stated against you .You smashed it .we can not allow this to go on. This is Feudalism. Tony Blair lost his deposit when he first stood ,but went on to become PM .You have not failed this is your Journey. Normal people want normality .bring it on Matt .
Any of us who have lived and worked in these types of areas (Bradford in my case) will not be in the least bit surprised by anything you have documented. The problem is convincing those who live in bubbles in twee villages/towns who have yet to feel the impact of these vast community changes (they will but by then it will be too late). The reality is scary, very scary and I agree with those that say we have only one General Election to change this. Matt take a rest and then keep going we desperately need people like you.
I’m very sorry it didn’t go your way, I hope the effort by the volunteers can be replicated elsewhere when the time comes. It’s a worry to see evidence of cheating, we used to be the leader in honest democracy but sadly we all know whats changed. What strategy can be used to awaken the silent majority into voting, something like Brexit. Have we left yet?
The Gorton & Denton by election has shown us that sectarian politics is a reality now. In fact it has been since at least 2024, with the election of several pro-Gaza MPs.
The Green Party is now very much pro-Islam. The (presumably) non-Muslim candidate dressed in Islamic clothes, and prayed alongside Muslim men. Usually Muslim women are allocated a separate room in a mosque, at the back of the main room for men. I visited a mosque once, as it had a public open day. And I asked why the women have a separate room. It is so that the men and women do not have sexual thoughts when they are supposed to be praying.
Your Party did not stand a candidate. Jeremy Corbyn supported the Green candidate on this occasion.
The pro-Islam campaign is very well organised to avoid having competing candidates. There is a website that makes recommendations, and this is the way to maximise the effectiveness of the Muslim vote. The website is “The Muslim Vote”:
The very existence of this website, and the clear tactical voting in this election, proves that sectarian politics is here to stay.
HOW SHOULD MAINSTREAM PARTIES REACT?
For mainstream parties to have any hope of competing, particularly where the Muslim population of a constituency is above around 10%, is to strictly enforce tactical voting too. This is the stark reality now. The genie cannot be put back into the bottle. Face and acknowledge this reality.
It is no use pretending that it is not happening. A strategy must be devised, across parties, or it will be impossible to compete. Particularly in coming years and decades, as the Muslim population increases and the non-Muslim population continues to decline. The UK can expect a future, within a few decades, resembling Lebanon. It was 80% Christian a century ago.
It is quite hopeless to expect the mainstream parties to attract the Muslim vote, in any significant numbers. Here is the proof:
A survey of 30,000 Muslims in October 2023 shows that Labour and Conservatives have lost the Muslim vote very dramatically. There is no mention of Reform, as it was insignificant at that date. The vote for Reform is probably comparable to that for the Conservatives, at around half a percent of the Muslim voters. Just not significant. A waste of time and effort trying to chase it.
Quote from the report:
Responses show a drop of 66% in potential Labour votes, from 71% to just 5%.
Conservative vote also dropping from 9%, to just 0.6% amongst survey participants.
Almost all respondents claimed the change in voting intention has been as a result of the reaction to events in Israel and Palestine.
The majority of respondents stated that their votes moved away from Labour or Conservative, to one of the following: abstaining to vote, Independent candidates, and the Green Party.
THERE IS ZERO POINT IN MAINSTREAM PARTIES CHASING THE MUSLIM VOTE
The Lib Dems are favourable towards Islam, but that is certainly not reciprocated. There is an article on the Lib Dem Voice website that claims Islam is liberal! (It decidely is NOT liberal.) Ed Davey is fasting for Ramadan. In Gorton & Denton, the Lib Dems lost their deposit. He should give up fasting. Muslims tend to put ON weight during Ramadan, it is unhealthy.
Reform is trying to court the Muslim vote, by having a few token Muslims in prominent positions. It did not help them in this by election. It is unlikely to help them anywhere else.
The Conservatives should just not even bother to attract the Muslim vote. At 0.6% it just is not worth it. And it would involve compromising traditional Conservative values, and lose them even more of their core voters.
Many Labour MPs are on very slim majorities from the 2024 election. They should expect to be wiped put by the tactical voting of “The Muslim Vote”. That will ensure there are no Your Party / Green / pro-Gaza independents competing against each other in each constituency. The first loyalty of Muslims is to each other. And NOT to the particular party they may be in.
The best that Labour can hope for is to return to its traditional core values of equality and fairness. Which decidedly are NOT Islamic values. And thereby hope to stem the tide of votes going to Reform UK, and now to the new Restore Britain party.
Labour must urgently acknowledge that many of the Muslim rape gangs operated in Labour areas. And were covered up, for the sake of “community cohesion”. Labour MUST accept culpability, or be wiped out by the new Restore Britain party.
This is the political reality now. Traditional parties simply cannot compete in constituencies where there is a sizeable Muslim vote.
For the UK overall, the “point of no return” tipping point is when the Muslim population reaches around 20%. Some constituencies are already beyond that point. Past that point it becomes impossible to reverse. Their future is Islamic, with no going back.
For the UK overall, a spreadsheet calculation has projected the point of no return to be the year 2040, at the latest. It could well be sooner in practice. Younger non-Muslims already see they have no future for themselves and their young families in an Islam-dominated UK, and are emigrating at an increasing pace. And who can blame them?
Fortunately, Muslim's currently represent only 4% of the population. Subject to a successful result at the next General Election, we can set about reversing the trends to which you refer.
True, but they are concentrated into growing communities that can and will vote for Muslim candidates. These guys do layered loyalty and no matter how much they might hate each other, they will coalesce as Mulsims against the non believers.
What an excellent post. It is a pity that Substack (and most of the other serious competitors) attract few lengthy and thought-provoking contributions. I’ll probably respond more later but one immediate reaction is: if you can create a Muslim Party - inadmissible title - and call it the Green Party, let’s create an Anti-Muslim Party - inadmissible title - and call it the White Party. And let’s see if the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties have enough bottle to form a local coalition where such a party would be advantageous. And let’s see if the Electoral Commission would approve such a name!
Reform is actually proving how multiculturism should work. Those Muslims in senior positions are there on merit, not on some woke minority rationing scheme.
I have no problem with people worshipping their God in their way. It is when they start to colonise the place and force their views on others, including those within their community, that the trouble starts.
There are an estimated 1.2 million illegals in the UK. You can certainly double, if not triple that number. Any illegal needs to be interned and deported. I would have a 6 month amnesty (not for those coming over on boats or trucks) during which time they can sell up and leave, taking the money with them. After that, anybody found here illegally, including children born here of illegals, will be interned and deported. Furthermore, their assets will be seized to fund it. Those who sell up and leave will be able to re-apply for a visa. For those caught here illegally, they will face a lifetime ban.
Any nonsense about not accepting criminals back, for that is what they are, will result in no more visas, the option of cancelling existing visas and punitive tariffs on their exports. A lot of cheap clothes are made in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. We should also look at kicking them out of the Commonwealth.
"There are an estimated 1.2 million illegals in the UK. You can certainly double, if not triple that number. Any illegal needs to be interned and deported. I would have a 6 month amnesty (not for those coming over on boats or trucks) during which time they can sell up and leave, taking the money with them. After that, anybody found here illegally, including children born here of illegals, will be interned and deported."
Farage has directly addressed this in an interview with Stephen Edgington and declared that deporting millions is a "political impossibility"
It should not be. As soon as people discover that they can see a doctor, find somewhere affordable to live, get their kids into schools and find work, they will rather like the idea. Of course, they might be a bit cross about having to wash their own cars, but such is life.
The impossible bit is doing so within a decent time frame. It would take many years and some real will. Trump got rid of far more in a year, so it is perfectly achievable.
What makes it difficult is if they kick off on charter aircraft. So, rather than selling our Hercules aircraft, re-task them to repatriation flights. They can be chained to the deck and guarded by armed soldiers using low velcity rounds and fixed bayonets. They can land on pretty rough ground and have a pretty short take off requirement, especially with booster rocket.
Matt I’m very proud of you and all from Reform and all the hundreds and hundreds of supporters who joined you to campaign. I would have joined you too but because of my age I would have been a liability rather than as asset. Brilliant result for Reform just a shame this sectarian voting was allowed. You’re always victors in my eyes. 🩵
Do you really believe that if it wasn't for 'family voting' then Muslim women would have voted for one of the other parties? Come on. The Greens explicitly courted the Muslim vote and they duly received it.
OK, so sectarianism has arrived and is demonstrably effective. So now what?
Continue telling the native White British population that identitarianism is wrong? Let's see how that plays out.
I think it's much more likely that rather than voting for a different party they wouldn't have voted at all. The same goes for postal vote "harvesting" - it gives a much bigger effective turnout by returning ballots that the individuals concerned wouldn't have bothered with / even understood.
Exactly correct. I saw stats that said there was a 100% turnout among the 'minorities' compared with around 45% for the general population. No doubt that 'family voting' skewed the result. That said, it cannot be beyond the wit of man to set up polling stations so that voting one at a time is the only option (families/groups admitted one at time for example. Next one in when the previous one comes out for example. Or groups of family voters given different coloured ballots so they can be discarded at the count). That combined with a major reduction in postal voting should overcome the problem.
Even if they vote one at a time, a certain vote will still be the same. The women will have been trained beforehand and no doubt quizzed afterwards.
Unfortunately this would cause huge queues and when the polls close, people might still be waiting having arrived in good time, say 21:15 for a 22:00 close.
Like I said, it should not be beyond the wit of man to find a solution. Besides, not all polling stations are flat out all day.
A partial solution is not to allow people who are not born here (from non-English, Scottish, N.Irish or Welsh parents), or cannot speak English to vote.
Boglet gets it. When will Reform?
Whose pocket are you in?
Not sure the context of your question. I’m in no-one’s pocket.
If you mean who do I support politically, then it’s whoever has the strongest position on reversing decades of mass immigration.
Gutted you didn't win Matt but your standing for election has highlighted so much of what is actually happening. Horrified to see our "fluffy Greens" supporting the wrong side of the Iran issue over the weekend. Good to see you back and I feel sure it's only a matter of time until you win your deserved place in the HOC. Good luck with your future.
Fantastic effort Matt, incredible result in horrendous circumstances. Lots learned for the next election and a decisive win.
By some measures, according to Mark Littlewood, it is placed as high as 5th as a Labour safe seat. Well done Matt, an extraordinary result!
Fantastic effort, well done Matt. But I completely agree with you about the depressing number of problems that have been imported into what used to be a high trust, low crime country. I’m angered, sickened and disgusted at the people in charge who’ve not only allowed this to happen, they’ve positively encouraged it. I can only hope that the be kind brigade will wake up and vote accordingly before it’s too late. And for that we need the leftie MSM to start behaving responsibly rather than as mouth pieces for the state. Some hope!
Wait until their women folk get assaulted a few times. They will change their tune pretty quickly then.
Exactly. And when the hotel dwellers are spread into nice middle class areas.
Agreed - very well done, Matt, and thank you. Do you have a view on the almost 50% who did not vote?
Those who did not vote will probably the ones who moan the loudest about things not bring good and have no idea about personal responsibility.
Nature abhors a vacuum! We need to fill it now with a party that unequivocally has the best interests of our country at heart! Keep going Matt! We are all marching beside you!
But which party? Farage is like a sailing boat in the wind - tacks this way, then that - whatever seems easiest. Little evidence of a spine.
Quite, quite wrong Jos - in the 30+years I have been following his political career, he has been very, very constant - people don't like him for many reasons but that accusation is 100% wrong.
Jane. I am a former UKIP, Brexit and Reform Party supporter. I have done some footslogging delivering leaflets for them. I used to admire Nigel in the UKIP days - he did a magnificent job. But UKIP was a one issue party. Nigel has shown he has little grasp of the multiple issues that government has to grapple with. That is understandable and every reason to surround oneself with capable people who can fill in one's own gaps. But Nigel does not. He does the opposite, apparently seeing them as threats to his own position. And then there is his frequent change of position on the issue threatening our very existence. It seems he will follow the wind because his aim is to be PM, not to solve the problems we face. He is not "constant" in his views. I no longer trust him.
I have campaigned for UKIP, Brexit and Reform. I started in 1999 and worked closely with Nigel in the early 2000s. He is de dove, an excellent tactician and works hard.
The reputation the media snd Tories try to tell about his falling out with people contrasts sharply with the huge numbers who continue to support him.
Those who fall out are usually trying to push him or the party in the wrong direction. Many I have observed as self serving and money grabbing.
Farage is not the only person of influence in Reform. However, his message re: the state of our nation has always been consistent. With Labour U-turns on steroids, Green loons and the clowns in the Lib Democrats. For me, a ‘best fit’ of my priorities and the track records of those who created this mess, is what I shall be voting for. I’m not going to let perfection get in the way of achieving good!
Well, you may not have a vote for three years and much can change in that time. If the problem is not fixed in the next Parliament, you can say goodbye to everything you value in this country. In fact, start looking round for another home now because if you leave it too late you will swamped in the rush for the exit.
That’s what we’re all aiming for! Hopefully, we can start re-building sooner rather than later! (Meanwhile my vote will be ready, waiting and thoroughly researched!)
Is it possible to have a break down by wards. As google suggests Denton is 95% white so the Muslim community are concentrated in Gorton. The results would paint a clearer picture of likely voting intentions.
Also Reform needs to scream from the rooftops, in heavily Muslim populated areas, that the Greens are pro transgender, completely happy with homosexuality and want to legalise all drugs. You can bet your life that would put many off voting Green.
Of course it wouldn't. They know exactly what they are doing. They don't yet have an explicitly Muslim party to vote for, yet. Once they do they will drop Greens like the useful idiots they are.
Nor will they get one!
Well, there is a Muslim party of some sort which will gradually expand into those areas.
And they want to legalise prostitution and privatise the NHS . And get rid of defense .why don't people read policy before they vote .The green party is full of extremely dangoures individuals .Spencer is a Trojen horse .a lot of middle class women need to wake up this is not the green party anymore 😕
It wasn't a "Green" vote that won this election, it was a mass Muslim/sectarian vote - without which the Greens would have been relegated to 4th or 5th place. It's not the "warm and fuzzy Green Party" voters that need to be discouraged.
Not for the first time, Matt highlights the ticking timebomb that is the sectarian take-over of Britain and the reduction of native Brits to a minority.
But, once again, Matt fails to explain how this threat will be reversed by a Reform government.
Reform don’t need to tell us what the problems are - we know what they are. What we need is a credible plan for returning the UK to the country of decency it was until relatively recently.
Decency has fallen as immigration has increased and Reform have given me no confidence whatsoever on resolving the problem of decades of mass immigration - many feel the flip-flopping on what can and can’t be done is mostly in response to the rising popularity of Restore, not that Reform actually believe what they’re saying.
People believe Restore on immigration because they’ve been consistent and loud whereas Reform has given voters as much confidence as we have in the Uniparty which is terrible politics bearing in mind how immigration is now the number 1 issue for many.
The ideological gulf between the Greens and Islamic beliefs means this marriage of convenience will not last long. The Muslim vote has realised it no longer needs the Labour label and it won't need the Green label very long either.
That's frightening .that's why I support Nigel .
You did as well as you possibly could Matt but what worries me is the apathy among white British voters who seem to have given up. Maybe things have to get even worse before they can improve? And finally let’s pray Labour don’t panic into introducing proportional representation as Burnham has threatened. God help us if that happens.
If the White British have given up, it's because Reform UK has gone mask off as Tories 2.0 and started to deride them as a basket of deplorables if they think of themselves as a group with its own interests that they want served. They perceive that there's nobody left to vote for.
You're always going on about Reform - afraid of something?
This is the substack of a Reform candidate, is it not?
Like you, I'm uneasy about the "high profile" tory MPs who have recently (and suddenly!) discovered that Reform is their true home. They are needed in a support role to try and counter the criticism that Reform has absolutely no experience of government, but putting them "front and centre" of the potential cabinet gives the wrong impression that Reform == Tories 2.0.
A Reform cabinet needs people who are intelligent, educated, experienced in the real world and have had "proper jobs" in said real world, but "ordinary" in the truest sense of the word.
I note Nadine Dorries and Nadhim Zahawi came on board and promptly disappeared from view. Others, such as Kruger, Jenrick and Braverman have convincing explanations and, provide some popular heavyweight. Also, Nigel has promised, at today's press conference, two Labour defectors next week, albeit not serving MP's. The 2.0 thing is a genuine concern but, it stands to reason that a centre-right political party will be made up mostly of conservatives. It was the Tory party that moved Left after all, leaving the genuine conservatives among their ranks isolated.
There is always a risk of closet opportunists. Zahawi and Dorries strike me as two such people. I was cautious about Jenrick, but then he did resign as a minister over immigration and that cannot be taken away from him. Braverman was fired for her views, yet here we have a Labour Home Secretary saying exactly the same and nobody bats an eyelid. Both women are ethnic minorities, so it cannot be that.
The party needs people with experience of handling the civil service and the government machine while being robust enough to challenge it. There is waste and incompetence everywhere. It will take a team of varied experience and talent to get it working properly again.
It will require all that you suggest plus, the key ingredient, political will, which has been missing for decades.
In defence of both Labour and the Tories, the parliamentary party stopped ministers doing what needed doing, hence the term uniparty. In both cases, the leadership was woke and weak. As the saying goes, go woke, go broke. Well, here we are living the dream.
Nigel and his team have all been consistent in their messaging, some issuing warnings for decades. The key element are back benchers who share the leadership's beliefs. When that happens, we will be off and away. My fear is welcoming closet wokes into the party to dilute the will and generally throw sand in the gears.
Those who follow you will realise the importance of waking up our families, friends and the wider community.
We need to promote the democracy that is required to claim our country back from the abyss.
Well done to you Matt and thank you for telling us 'how it is' on the campaign trail.
Considering all that was stated against you .You smashed it .we can not allow this to go on. This is Feudalism. Tony Blair lost his deposit when he first stood ,but went on to become PM .You have not failed this is your Journey. Normal people want normality .bring it on Matt .
Any of us who have lived and worked in these types of areas (Bradford in my case) will not be in the least bit surprised by anything you have documented. The problem is convincing those who live in bubbles in twee villages/towns who have yet to feel the impact of these vast community changes (they will but by then it will be too late). The reality is scary, very scary and I agree with those that say we have only one General Election to change this. Matt take a rest and then keep going we desperately need people like you.
I think Richard may need help.
I’m very sorry it didn’t go your way, I hope the effort by the volunteers can be replicated elsewhere when the time comes. It’s a worry to see evidence of cheating, we used to be the leader in honest democracy but sadly we all know whats changed. What strategy can be used to awaken the silent majority into voting, something like Brexit. Have we left yet?
"Import the third world, become the third world"
SECTARIAN POLITICS IS HERE TO STAY
The Gorton & Denton by election has shown us that sectarian politics is a reality now. In fact it has been since at least 2024, with the election of several pro-Gaza MPs.
The Green Party is now very much pro-Islam. The (presumably) non-Muslim candidate dressed in Islamic clothes, and prayed alongside Muslim men. Usually Muslim women are allocated a separate room in a mosque, at the back of the main room for men. I visited a mosque once, as it had a public open day. And I asked why the women have a separate room. It is so that the men and women do not have sexual thoughts when they are supposed to be praying.
Your Party did not stand a candidate. Jeremy Corbyn supported the Green candidate on this occasion.
The pro-Islam campaign is very well organised to avoid having competing candidates. There is a website that makes recommendations, and this is the way to maximise the effectiveness of the Muslim vote. The website is “The Muslim Vote”:
https://themuslimvote.co.uk/who-should-i-vote-for/
The very existence of this website, and the clear tactical voting in this election, proves that sectarian politics is here to stay.
HOW SHOULD MAINSTREAM PARTIES REACT?
For mainstream parties to have any hope of competing, particularly where the Muslim population of a constituency is above around 10%, is to strictly enforce tactical voting too. This is the stark reality now. The genie cannot be put back into the bottle. Face and acknowledge this reality.
It is no use pretending that it is not happening. A strategy must be devised, across parties, or it will be impossible to compete. Particularly in coming years and decades, as the Muslim population increases and the non-Muslim population continues to decline. The UK can expect a future, within a few decades, resembling Lebanon. It was 80% Christian a century ago.
It is quite hopeless to expect the mainstream parties to attract the Muslim vote, in any significant numbers. Here is the proof:
A survey of 30,000 Muslims in October 2023 shows that Labour and Conservatives have lost the Muslim vote very dramatically. There is no mention of Reform, as it was insignificant at that date. The vote for Reform is probably comparable to that for the Conservatives, at around half a percent of the Muslim voters. Just not significant. A waste of time and effort trying to chase it.
Quote from the report:
Responses show a drop of 66% in potential Labour votes, from 71% to just 5%.
Conservative vote also dropping from 9%, to just 0.6% amongst survey participants.
Almost all respondents claimed the change in voting intention has been as a result of the reaction to events in Israel and Palestine.
The majority of respondents stated that their votes moved away from Labour or Conservative, to one of the following: abstaining to vote, Independent candidates, and the Green Party.
Source: Survey of over 30,000 suggests an emphatic drop of Labour support amongst Muslims. https://muslimcensus.co.uk/labour-losing-muslim-vote/
THERE IS ZERO POINT IN MAINSTREAM PARTIES CHASING THE MUSLIM VOTE
The Lib Dems are favourable towards Islam, but that is certainly not reciprocated. There is an article on the Lib Dem Voice website that claims Islam is liberal! (It decidely is NOT liberal.) Ed Davey is fasting for Ramadan. In Gorton & Denton, the Lib Dems lost their deposit. He should give up fasting. Muslims tend to put ON weight during Ramadan, it is unhealthy.
Reform is trying to court the Muslim vote, by having a few token Muslims in prominent positions. It did not help them in this by election. It is unlikely to help them anywhere else.
The Conservatives should just not even bother to attract the Muslim vote. At 0.6% it just is not worth it. And it would involve compromising traditional Conservative values, and lose them even more of their core voters.
Many Labour MPs are on very slim majorities from the 2024 election. They should expect to be wiped put by the tactical voting of “The Muslim Vote”. That will ensure there are no Your Party / Green / pro-Gaza independents competing against each other in each constituency. The first loyalty of Muslims is to each other. And NOT to the particular party they may be in.
The best that Labour can hope for is to return to its traditional core values of equality and fairness. Which decidedly are NOT Islamic values. And thereby hope to stem the tide of votes going to Reform UK, and now to the new Restore Britain party.
Labour must urgently acknowledge that many of the Muslim rape gangs operated in Labour areas. And were covered up, for the sake of “community cohesion”. Labour MUST accept culpability, or be wiped out by the new Restore Britain party.
This is the political reality now. Traditional parties simply cannot compete in constituencies where there is a sizeable Muslim vote.
For the UK overall, the “point of no return” tipping point is when the Muslim population reaches around 20%. Some constituencies are already beyond that point. Past that point it becomes impossible to reverse. Their future is Islamic, with no going back.
For the UK overall, a spreadsheet calculation has projected the point of no return to be the year 2040, at the latest. It could well be sooner in practice. Younger non-Muslims already see they have no future for themselves and their young families in an Islam-dominated UK, and are emigrating at an increasing pace. And who can blame them?
Fortunately, Muslim's currently represent only 4% of the population. Subject to a successful result at the next General Election, we can set about reversing the trends to which you refer.
True, but they are concentrated into growing communities that can and will vote for Muslim candidates. These guys do layered loyalty and no matter how much they might hate each other, they will coalesce as Mulsims against the non believers.
What an excellent post. It is a pity that Substack (and most of the other serious competitors) attract few lengthy and thought-provoking contributions. I’ll probably respond more later but one immediate reaction is: if you can create a Muslim Party - inadmissible title - and call it the Green Party, let’s create an Anti-Muslim Party - inadmissible title - and call it the White Party. And let’s see if the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties have enough bottle to form a local coalition where such a party would be advantageous. And let’s see if the Electoral Commission would approve such a name!
Reform is actually proving how multiculturism should work. Those Muslims in senior positions are there on merit, not on some woke minority rationing scheme.
I have no problem with people worshipping their God in their way. It is when they start to colonise the place and force their views on others, including those within their community, that the trouble starts.
There are an estimated 1.2 million illegals in the UK. You can certainly double, if not triple that number. Any illegal needs to be interned and deported. I would have a 6 month amnesty (not for those coming over on boats or trucks) during which time they can sell up and leave, taking the money with them. After that, anybody found here illegally, including children born here of illegals, will be interned and deported. Furthermore, their assets will be seized to fund it. Those who sell up and leave will be able to re-apply for a visa. For those caught here illegally, they will face a lifetime ban.
Any nonsense about not accepting criminals back, for that is what they are, will result in no more visas, the option of cancelling existing visas and punitive tariffs on their exports. A lot of cheap clothes are made in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. We should also look at kicking them out of the Commonwealth.
"There are an estimated 1.2 million illegals in the UK. You can certainly double, if not triple that number. Any illegal needs to be interned and deported. I would have a 6 month amnesty (not for those coming over on boats or trucks) during which time they can sell up and leave, taking the money with them. After that, anybody found here illegally, including children born here of illegals, will be interned and deported."
Farage has directly addressed this in an interview with Stephen Edgington and declared that deporting millions is a "political impossibility"
It should not be. As soon as people discover that they can see a doctor, find somewhere affordable to live, get their kids into schools and find work, they will rather like the idea. Of course, they might be a bit cross about having to wash their own cars, but such is life.
The impossible bit is doing so within a decent time frame. It would take many years and some real will. Trump got rid of far more in a year, so it is perfectly achievable.
What makes it difficult is if they kick off on charter aircraft. So, rather than selling our Hercules aircraft, re-task them to repatriation flights. They can be chained to the deck and guarded by armed soldiers using low velcity rounds and fixed bayonets. They can land on pretty rough ground and have a pretty short take off requirement, especially with booster rocket.