Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
The independent observers did not identify any section of the electorate or ethnicity of voters adopting this coercive behaviour. Nor any party what might have benefitted.

Yet you assume the coercive practice was carried on by voters in the Muslim community. I had not expected such inherent racism from you.

The rest of your post is simple deflection and assigning characteristics to non voters in just the same way as you did with the Brexit poll. The votes of those who bothered to vote are what matters - and note the turnout was almost the same at both by election and general election.

Labour got less than half of the votes of the full electorate at the last election - does that mean they have no mandate to govern?

If you take comfort from abusing statistics to dismiss the threat of the far right, that's up to you, I hope you sleep well at night.
Except, RA didn't assume anything about coercive practice with Muslims, that was Farage, the Reform candidate Goodwin and to an extent Badenoch which he commented.

Nor did he any assign charcteristics to non voters, he merely pointed out that under 50% of the electorate turned out to vote.

What RA did point out, was that of the circa 77,000 who voted, the majority voted for left leaning parties and not Reform. Which whilst one needs to be wary of taking too much evidence from a byelection, does indicate that this theme that the "silent" majority are in favour of Reform's rhetoric and BS is perhaps not true.

So how you came to the conclusion that RA was abusing statistics is odd, perhaps you didn't read his post proeprly before responding?