British politics today involve turbulence and change

In Britain, the small Green Party has won its first by-election. A by-election is held between general elections when a seat becomes available among the 650 in the House of Commons, the lower house of Parliament. The upper house is the House of Lords. At the end of February, Green candidate Hannah Spencer, a plumber and member of the local government council, won a major upset victory in the by-election for the constituency of Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester. Manchester was once a major manufacturing center in the heart of England. This constituency was created in 2024 following a comprehensive review and redrawing of boundaries for House of Commons seats. Manchester, economically challenged and facing industrial decline, used to be a Labour Party stronghold. Times have changed, dramatically. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the great Victorian British musical impresarios, declared admiringly in their 1882 light opera “Iolanthe” that Great Britain was a two-party nation: “… every boy and every gal that’s born into the world alive is either a little Liberal or else a lit

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