Record White Working-Class Turnout. Labour Destroyed From Within.
Shah Wept. McMahon Fled. The Night Labour Lost Oldham.
The results came in across the night. By the time it was over, Labour held 18 seats. Reform 16. The Oldham Group 11, with the Coldhurst Independent folding in to add their number by a further 1. Lib Dems 6. Conservatives 4. Two Royton Independents, two Shaw Independents, one Failsworth Independent.
Arooj Shah sat alone and wept. She was not the only Labour politician in tears. Jim McMahon had fled.
What collapsed in Oldham last night was not just a vote share. The Muslim bloc vote, the machine Labour has run on for three decades, fractured from the inside. The sectarians pulled one way. The Greens pulled another. And while that was happening, White working-class turnout hit record numbers. Those voters did not just come out for one party. They came out to also bury another.
Shah has already reached for her usual line. Reform are the divisive ones, the dangerous ones, the bad guys. That argument is dead. It will not survive the arithmetic on that results board, and I doubt it survives even amongst her remaining councillors.
McMahon's days are also numbered. The national rape gang inquiry is coming to Oldham. When it arrives, there will be nowhere left to hide behind. Even with a knighthood, Jim can't fix this.
Full analysis of what next for Oldham will follow. There will also be a live Sunday night broadcast over on YouTube.
I’m Raja Miah MBE. For seven years, I led a campaign that exposed how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry.
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