UK’s sorest loser Matt Goodwin claims Gorton by-election ‘rigged’

In February, the Green Party’s Hannah Spencer wiped the floor with Reform UK’s Matt Goodwin in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Goodwin proved to be such a sore loser that people started calling him ‘Matt Badloss’. And now, Badloss has saddled up his loser pony to take another tour around the rodeo of humiliation:

Matt Goodwin now on a tear about how the Gorton and Denton by-election, which he lost, by a lot, was "rigged".

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026

Matt Goodwin: tears of a clown

As a reminder, here’s what the results looked like in the Gorton & Denton by-election:

The Green Party didn't just win in Gorton & Denton, they beat Reform and Labour into a distant second and third – congratulations Greens!

By @willem_moore_uk https://t.co/iba6aIoRZa

— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) February 27, 2026

In the aftermath of the by-election, Goodwin and his dirtbag colleagues began claiming there was some sort of fix:

Straight into TRUMP MODE, blame cheating.

You pathetic little sore loser. You lost because you're a prick, not because of cheating. Because enough good people saw through your bull shit.

— OGDad (@OGDAD__) February 27, 2026

Matt Goodwin blames loss to white woman on Muslims

As we noted at the time:

You’ll note Farage blames two things here:

• Sectarian voting (by which he means Muslims refusing to vote for an openly Islamophobic candidate).
• Cheating (by which he means the Green Party being better at politics).

Blaming Muslims was an interesting choice given that Gorton & Denton is majority Christian. Reform also spoke about ‘family voting’, which is when a husband escorts his wife into a booth to tell her how to vote. This was a convoluted conspiracy, because Reform had to argue that culturally conservative Muslims were forcing their wives to vote for the culturally progressive Greens – a party led by a gay man. It was insulting to everyone involved and nobody bought it.

In March, it was confirmed that this family voting conspiracy was what we said it was in February:

So-called ‘family voting’ exposed as a Reform con job

Later in March, Goodwin would publish a heavily-criticised book that was riddled with factual errors – a book clearly written by ChatGPT. This is why people call him ‘MattGPT’ in addition to Matt Badloss.

The MattGPT affair was so embarrassing that Goodwin’s GB News colleagues joined in making fun of him. All in all, then, it’s not been Goodwin’s year. So of course he’d resort to lies and conspiracies to make himself feel better.

Cry baby

Here are some other highlights from Badloss’s speech:

There was also a line in Matt Goodwin's speech about sending £11m worth of condoms to Iran, which as far as I can tell is entirely made up. Perhaps a hallucination. #CPACGB

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026

We assume he got this claim from the same AI tool that made up the nonsense in his book.

Goodwin also said:

Matt Goodwin channels Tony Blair, saying the only three words he cares about are "deport, deport , deport".

Says he wants illegal immigrants immediately detained, "ideally in Labour or Green Party areas".

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 16, 2026

More politics of hate from a spiteful loser.

Thank God this man never won in Gorton & Denton!

And you can thank whichever god you like too, because it clearly wasn’t just Muslims who recognised this chump as the fraud that he is.

Featured image via the Canary