Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lutzerge for Friday the 27th of February, 2026. I'm joined by Nick and Harry. And, well, our cortisol isn't being spiked today, is it always?

Absolutely mugging this election. You've, you've spiked my cortisol straight away. I've been enjoying the Zuma looks maxingly, uh, lingo.

He's got, he's bought a new set of hammers that are on his desk. He's gonna start smashing them bones. You know what? Just a little bit, so I'm already pretty getting out. I'm joking. Right, yeah, no, everything's, uh, everything's, well, interesting and in a, in process, right? So we're going to be talking about the Gordon and Denton by-election.

What the country is going to be talking about the Gordon and Denton by-election,

what the country is going to look like more of when we eventually get the green dictatorship

and the obvious sci-op that is Bonnie Blue. So that's going to be fun. If you're a

gold tier member to the website, which you should be, obviously, come and join me and I can't remember

who else I'm going to be with. Probably me. Me and Harry probably. Doing the gold tier Zoom call afterwards where we just hang out and chat with you about current events. So see us then. But in the meantime, let's get into the sectarian nightmare that is modern British politics, shall we? Happy to. All right, so this is a big one. So we just had the Gorton and Denton by-election. And for those of you, perhaps not in this country or following this very closely, that sounds kind of boring, but it's actually massive for a couple of reasons. One is that Kyrs-Arma blocked Andy Burnham from standing because he knew he was going to be a rival for the leadership.

And then Labour came third, as we see in this graphic, which looks particularly bad for Starman now because he could have won. It was a Labour stronghold and now he's lost quite badly

and come in third as we see there. And the second reason it's important is because it's very

much the, not the very beginning, but a very bad sign of sectarian

voting and very aggressive ethnic voting divisions, let's say, and also out and out cheating,

which is known as family voting, which we'll get into as well. So here are the results. So

Green Party has won the Gorton and Declaturedalen, that's the other big thing, by the way, that I

didn't mention, the Greens won, which they've never That's the other big thing, by the way, that I didn't mention.

The Greens won, which they've never won in the north of by-election.

So this is estranged in itself.

So they get 14,980, reformed 10,578.

Not too bad. Labor, third, 9,364. Conservatives, 706.

Completely irrelevant.

Not even in the game. Lib Dems, 653. Shocking. Didn't go down enough waterslides, Ed Davy. Maybe if he'd rented a bouncy castle. I imagine many people in

Gorton and Denton don't have big gardens. Yes, they're not Nimbys. They don't even have a house.

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