Cllr Dr. John M Howell OBE, Cabinet Member of Oxfordshire County Council, warns that the Greens are more of a threat than is realised - to Conservatives and to scientific progress.
Here’s a question for you.What do Berinsfield Ward in Oxfordshire and Forest Row Ward in the depths of Sussex have in common?
First, they are both in Districts with overwhelming Conservative majorities – the sort of District where you weigh the Conservative votes rather than count them. Second, they are also in areas where the Green Party has made surprising advances which should send a shiver through the Conservative Party.
Now, of course, we need to retain some perspective on this. In Berinsfield Ward in the 2007 district elections the Green candidate came a very distant third after two Conservative candidates won by a landslide. But he did beat Labour and the Liberal-Democrats. In Forest Row, the District Council now has two Green councillors.
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