There are lots of entertaining things about the Greens winning the Gordon and Denton by-election, but perhaps the funniest is the disastrous performance of the vocally transphobic Conservative candidate. Cadden, a trustee of the anti-trans lobbyist/lawfare group Sex Matters who co-founded and chaired the anti-trans police group Police SEEN UK, got just 1.9% of the vote and lost her deposit. It’s the worst Conservative by-election result in history.

The bigots may seem popular because they have hundreds of obsessively posting Twitter accounts, god knows how many bots and the entire media amplifying them. But despite all that noise, Cadden got just 706 votes. The proudly trans-supportive Hannah Spencer got 14,980.

Twitter bots and sock accounts don’t vote.