Reform UK’s nomination of an anti-immigration GB News presenter for Gorton and Denton may be a shot directly into their own foot – 23 spoilt ballots
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Running an overt white ethno-nationalist in a constituency with nearly a 45% ethnic minority population is quite the move.
— Oswyn (@timeforheroes.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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I do think Matt Goodwin may just be personally unpleasant enough to make it unwinnable?
— Tom Roberts (@tpgroberts.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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Goodwin’s Law is where the first person to be Matt Goodwin instantly loses the argument.
— Rich Neville (@richneville.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Gonna be a *long* few weeks for Matt Goodwin
Well, just as well that he seems to like all the attention
— Peter Geoghegan (@petergeoghegan.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Ah yes. Reform candidate Matt Goodwin. Not known for anything else.
Certainly not one of our own in the press.
— Jack (@jackinpogform.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Looking forward to the electorate discovering more widely that Lil' Matt Goodwin is an obnoxious, self-interested, deeply unlikeable prick.
— James Butler (@piercepenniless.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Never elect a man who's eaten more books than he's read.
— Sam Whyte (@samwhyte.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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One of the few consolations of having to stare at the right wing grift-o-sphere every day is those days when one of the foot soldiers discovers that, just because the dear leader cannot be destroyed by negative press coverage, the same does not apply to them.
— Jonn Elledge (@jonnelledge.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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In a Reform government, perish the thought, Goodwin would be the UK's Stephen Miller.
— Parker (@parkertron.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Stunned and betrayed to discover that Professor Matt Goodwin was not the wholly neutral and unbiased expert on the far right which I believed him to be!?!?!?
— Nute Year, Nute You (@nutedawn.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Mancunians are no fools and can spot a bullshitter at 1000 paces. They will expose the charlatan Matt Goodwin without breaking sweat.
— Peter Smith (@redpeter99.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Green Party leader Zack Polanski summed up Reform’s ill-thought-out move.
It tells you everything you need to know that Reform are parachuting in a rent-an-extremist – this isn't about representing the people of Gorton and Denton, it's about using this place as a platform for their careers.
Manchester will show him the door.
— Zack Polanski (@zackpolanski.bsky.social) January 27, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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