{"id":3830,"date":"2026-02-27T18:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:41:37","slug":"matt-badloss-starts-trending-after-reforms-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Matt Badloss\u2019 starts trending after Reform\u2019s defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\u2018Matt Badloss\u2019 starts trending after Reform\u2019s defeat\" width=\"620\" height=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full object-cover rounded-md\" style=\"color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 620 500'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAQAAACEN3D\/AAAAL0lEQVR42mP4z8DAwMiAARgZGJhY+P\/\/PwMDAwPDfwYGBgaGhgYGhgYGAAD9Hwlr5xRngAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.joe.co.uk\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-27-at-10.49.46.webp?height=1024&amp;width=1024\"\/><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Internet, take a bow.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Every now and again, social media shows it\u2019s good side and today, in the wake of the Green Party\u2019s stunning by-election win, is certainly one of those days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Reform\u2019s Matt Goodwin finishing in second whilst Labour \u2013 who had previously held the seat with a 13,000 vote majority \u2013 finished a disappointing third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Goodwin had high hopes for the seat, but in the end he finished some 4,000 votes behind Spencer in a humiliating night for the GB News host and hard-right academic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was no sense of grace or humility in defeat from Goodwin, who quickly released a statement\u00a0blaming \u201cMuslim sectarianism\u201d\u00a0for his defeat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>In the wake of Goodwin\u2019s sour grapes and the surprisingly large margin of defeat for Reform, it wasn\u2019t long before \u2018Matt Badloss\u2019 was trending on X, much to the amusement of many online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Matt #Badloss #starts #trending #Reforms #defeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet, take a bow. Every now and again, social media shows it\u2019s good side and today, in the wake of the Green Party\u2019s stunning by-election win, is certainly one of those days. Reform\u2019s Matt Goodwin finishing in second whilst Labour \u2013 who had previously held the seat with a 13,000 vote majority \u2013 finished a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3753,3748,1387,2655,1148,930],"class_list":{"0":"post-3830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-badloss","9":"tag-defeat","10":"tag-matt","11":"tag-reforms","12":"tag-starts","13":"tag-trending"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}