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Manchester’s Gorton and Denton by-election is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. The Green Party has dropped a campaign ad entirely in Urdu, featuring photos of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and plenty of shade thrown at Reform and Keir Starmer. Sectarian politics, anyone? “We are through the looking glass now, aren’t we?” asked Harry Cole. Winston Marshall thinks we’re not just through it—we’re stuck there. Marshall didn’t mince words. “We’re witnessing the Lebanonization of Britain,” he declared. Forget shared language, legal system, history, or religion—Britain’s got none of that anymore, according to him. He blames turbocharged mass migration for the growing cultural chasm. With Thursday’s by-election looming, Marshall predicts a Green win—left-wing territory, after all. Reform might be rising, but the seat’s been Labour for a century. Marshall calls the Greens “extreme far left: legalise all drugs, no borders”. Combine Labour and Greens, and the majority’s secure. Cole says it’s a preview of the “grim time” ahead for British politics, with splits everywhere.

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