Interesting Times

 It's a strange old world and we've got another couple of wars to deal with in the interim.  We've had a wake up call or at least those of us who are interested in this sort of thing in the Gorton and Denton By Election. The Greens winning was perhaps inevitable but the style of the campaigning and the result should ring alarm bells a bit. The Greens do not seem to be the luvvies we were led to believe and have changed into a sort of far left of Attila the Hun sort of party.  It's a protest vote, of course and that's understandable given the complete shower of excrement we have a a government at the moment but it's how they went about their win that should worry people.  Quite a bit of the canvasing wasn't done in English.  The manner in which people voted is against the "rules" but they overturned the 6th safest seat for Labour demoting them to 3rd.

So it's pretty seismic I'd say, as the two uni-parties were in 3rd and 4th Places with Green in 1st and Reform in 2nd.  In 5th trailing in were the liberal democrats but they both must have lost their deposits as they were only in the hundreds of votes not the thousands.  

I think that people may be worried about this but it is a By Election and that is going to be different to a full election.  I also think that as a protest it works well but a party that wants opne borders, houses for illegals, legalizing Cannabis and Class A drugs, de-funding the police and so on aren't serious contenders.  Their stance on Middle East Politics will get them a certain % of the vote too but quite how they square the LQBTQ community with the Muslim community will be a very interesting mashup. 

What is for sure is that the old two party system has had a shakeup and a new left and new right are appearing.  It's all a bit bitter and squalid to my view and the ugly manner in which this campaign had been conducted doesn't bode well for the future.  I still look on with abject amazement and morbid curiosity as to why I'd want any of them in government at all?  The way this lot have behaved has been disgusting and their naivety is shocking.  Grab the popcorn, settle back and watch the horror show.