That The Green Party might even win the Gorton and Denton by-election hardly crossed my mind. Mid term elections are not usually won by the party in government so that Labour lost even in a constituency in which that party had had an huge majority and and held for over 100 years, was not of itself so catastrophic. Rather, whereas in times past one might have expected the Lib Dem party to be the major winners of voters' discontent with the government, a party such as The Greens might have expected to lose its deposit.
Far from losing its deposit The Greens won the vote pushing Labour into third place with both Tories and Lib Dems securing under 2% of the vote and losing their deposits.
The positive points about The Green's success include the wake up calls to the other parties. A minor positive is of course the youthful nature of The Green's new member of parliament:
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