‘Matt Badloss’ starts trending after Reform’s defeat

Internet, take a bow.

In the early hours of Friday morning, it was announced that the Green’s Hannah Spencer had won the Gorton and Denton by-election in a stunning victory for the party.

Reform’s Matt Goodwin finishing in second whilst Labour – who had previously held the seat with a 13,000 vote majority – finished a disappointing third.

Goodwin had high hopes for the seat, but in the end he finished some 4,000 votes behind Spencer in a humiliating night for the GB News host and hard-right academic.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was no sense of grace or humility in defeat from Goodwin, who quickly released a statement blaming “Muslim sectarianism” for his defeat.

In the wake of Goodwin’s sour grapes and the surprisingly large margin of defeat for Reform, it wasn’t long before ‘Matt Badloss’ was trending on X, much to the amusement of many online.