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Could women’s anger turn Makerfield voters against Reform UK?

Reform’s candidate Robert Kenyon has been challenged over historic social media posts.

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Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Will say that, anecdotally, it felt to me that Goodwin's history of misogynistic comments cut through in Gorton and Denton too. I remember hearing that there was a surprising amount of anti Goodwin content coming from usually non political personal Instagram accounts of young women.

I also think it’s wrong to dismiss Muslim voters as just motivated solely by single issues as well as agency denying . As I said on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social last night voters we spoke to shred affordability and cost of living in common as reasons to turning to the Greens.

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre. Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

[Christopher M. Federico]@chrispps.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Labour did this to itself and it desperately needs to figure out what political scientists already know, which is that trying to appeal to xenophobic voters who may have voted left decades ago is a fool's errand for today's social-democratic parties & destructive to maintaining a viable coalition

Maybe broadcasters could take a breath, and think about checking their discourse against the common sense check. This is v obvious if take 60 seconds to think about ethnic minority voters not being monoliths (Pensioners, students, white working-class can all get narrativised as monolithic blocs)

The secrecy of the ballot matters Those on X with racalised and radicalised view using anecdotes about family voting do not mean that they want Asian women's autonomy to express their own vote; they mean they don't want Asians to be voters, and need mass deportations bsky.app/profile/did:...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Do you think there is a big shy Reform vote among Asian Muslim women, that is being unlawfully pressurised against voting for Zia Yusuf's mass deportation agenda?

Almost all of the discussion on X is based on the Reductio Ad Absurdum idea of monolithic ethnic minority bloc voting, based on real-time radicalisation and racialisation, underpinned by stoking the 32 examples reported about "family voting" into a weird incoherent explanation of a stolen election

I also had this come out in 2025 :) Immigrants Against Immigration: British Ethnic Minority Brexit Voter Attitudes to Immigration - cup.org/3WPrz1S

Pavlos Vasilopoulos@pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2025 #Throwbackpaper Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration in 🇫🇷 African and non-European origin immigrants are strongly more supportive of immigration compared to those of European origin, regardless of immigrant generation & other individual-level factors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Say the quiet part out loud about “family voting” & “South Asian-type election practices”. These assume Brown men are telling their wives how to vote & that Muslims, by nature, violate democratic norms. Trope of Muslim women being oppressed and unable to participate fully in democracy is tiresome

Gorton and Denton first thoughts - incredible result for the Greens who won the long battle to be the best placed anti-Reform candidate - helped by being the obvious anti-Labour candidate for disappointed progressives. As I noted in the Observer last month, a Revolt on the Left is growing

One casualty of the racialisation of class: people fail to recognise that most Bangladeshi and Pakistani people in Britain are working class That they have the highest rates of poverty And that historically economic and related factors have been the key driver of their voting behavior

Black women often carry out work their colleagues don’t, such as promoting equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Visible for diversity, invisible in research: the burdens Black female academics face in universities

Black women often carry out work their colleagues don’t, such as promoting equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives.

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New article in @journalrep.bsky.social on British Ethnic Minority Brexit Voter Attitudes to Immigration

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 9mo ago

#OpenAccess from @journalrep.bsky.social - Immigrants Against Immigration: British Ethnic Minority Brexit Voter Attitudes to Immigration - https://cup.org/3WPrz1S "White British Leave voters... rarely distinguished between EU and non-EU migrants" - @neemabegum.bsky.social #FirstView #Brexit