Matt Hodgkinson

The defeated Tory candidate* in Waveney Valley writes on the Greens: "the air was thick with natural deodorant when such types poured out of Diss railway station each Saturday"

A step up from "unwashed"! Well done, everyone. We're moving the needle.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-the-greens-conquered-the-countryside/

*Richard Rout. Rout by name, routed by nature.

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How the Greens conquered the countryside

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the rise of the Greens in rural constituencies. Now, after standing as the Conservative candidate in Waveney Valley and losing to the Green party’s co-leader – while being savaged by the rural Greens – it is time to revisit the subject. I did not expect to come across

The Spectator
Jul 15, 2024 at 12:25pmWeb
Show threadMark BurtonJul 15, 2024
@mattjhodgkinson
It's worth a read as beneath the rhetoric, sour grapes and bonkers "common sense", he identifies some challenges for the #GreenParty.
"Reading Capital by candlelight" sounds like a likely future as we survivors make sense of the recent collapse.
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Jul 15, 2024
@mattjhodgkinson Here's a thought for displaced former Tory MPs. Maybe if your party had adopted some of the wildly popular Green policies, your party woudn't have been so comprehensively annihilated at the polls?