If Labour really wants to stop Reform winning Gorton & Denton, they should stand aside

Labour and its press allies continue to try to undermine popular Green party candidate Hannah Spencer in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Predictably, the tactics on show are the most hypocritical and tin-eared imaginable.

In an Observer article yesterday, Labour’s corporate-lobbyist, NHS privatiser candidate Angeliki Stogia tried laughably to claim that Spencer should stand aside because:

Every Green vote is going to make Reform very happy.

With hypocrisy that should be astonishing but isn’t, she also claimed the Greens had shared “misleading” polling showing they are the main hope of defeating Reform UK.

Labour just got caught using a poll based on responses from just 51 people to try to claim it is in a good position. Even Labour fan and war criminal Alistair Campbell dismissed it as “bullshit”.

Labour hypocrisy

The hypocrisy didn’t end there. Stogia also claimed to be angry that Reform is “spread[ing] division” in the constituency. Reform’s whole playbook is division, of course, but Stogia’s boss Keir Starmer constantly tries to out-Reform Reform. Remember his “island of strangers” speech, compared to racist Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” incitement? Or how about Labour boasting about how many people it has deported?

Stogia’s Guardian-assisted nonsense comes shortly after Labour’s deputy leader Lucy Powell begged and stamped her feet to demand the Greens step aside. But the bookies – not known for throwing their money away – make Spencer odds-on (5/6) favourite to win, with Reform next on 13/8. Labour trail miles behind – 9/1 in a three-horse race is dire.

If Labour was really interested in ‘stopping Reform’, Starmer would be telling Stogia to stand aside and begging the public to support the Greens.

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