Politicians try not to lie and use cheap scare tactics challenge: impossible
Yuzral on
So they need a new polling firm? Unless you’ve got the full poll and can show that it was predicting a Green romp, it’s a bit of a stretch to say the leaflet was misleading.
JHock93 on
These bar charts are a staple of elections here in the UK. Historically the Liberal Democrats are generally associated with them.
They’re always miles off. Sometimes the data they pick is cherry picked to the extent that it’s laughable if you look at the source data.
escalinci on
The poll they were sourcing this from had them neck and neck with the greens (and 2% ahead with likely voters, but that’s not what Labour were citing).
![Gorton and Denton Labour party leaflet versus actual byelection results [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/o8gq02ryu0mg1.png "Gorton and Denton Labour party leaflet versus actual byelection results [OC]")
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Made in Python. Election results from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Gorton_and_Denton_by-election#Result. Labour leaflet from https://www.instagram.com/p/DVJ1vxukVz8/.
*Edit*: it’s usually the Lib Dems who are mocked for their [misleading graphs](https://web.archive.org/web/20190627044313/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/decidedly-dodgy-liberal-democrat-graphs).
Politicians try not to lie and use cheap scare tactics challenge: impossible
So they need a new polling firm? Unless you’ve got the full poll and can show that it was predicting a Green romp, it’s a bit of a stretch to say the leaflet was misleading.
These bar charts are a staple of elections here in the UK. Historically the Liberal Democrats are generally associated with them.
They’re always miles off. Sometimes the data they pick is cherry picked to the extent that it’s laughable if you look at the source data.
The poll they were sourcing this from had them neck and neck with the greens (and 2% ahead with likely voters, but that’s not what Labour were citing).
[https://www.opinium.com/resource-center/gorton-and-denton-constituency-poll/](https://www.opinium.com/resource-center/gorton-and-denton-constituency-poll/)
Turnout on the day was way ahead of what anybody was expecting.
That’s still disgustingly a shit ton of reform votes
Greens hammering the “there is one breaking point but its for you” meme hard right now
I wonder how much of this is tactical voting.
That area has been a labour stronghold for as long as I know, the constituency is relatively new though.
But how much did people basically say, F… labour but no ducking way Reform.
Ironically those numbers are pretty accurate, they just missed of the Greens
We must summon Matt Parker
lib dems are normally the masters of a misleading graph