Labour Candidate For Nadine Dorries Seat Is Greenpeace Activist

[naomi24]

If she ever gets around to vacating it!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1799787/Labour-byelection-Greenpeace-Rishi-Sunak

What are his chances of impressing the electorate? Slim, I'd say.

[tomus42]

Slim to none. I'd say it's a ploy by Labour to encourage the libdem vote in a seat they've got no chance of winning anyway.

[DTCwordfan]

Let's put our own Member for Czech Castles up for this and see if he can actually win something...

[Geoffrey13]

Perish the thought that anyone would care about the planet's future.

[tomus42]

Few people do Geoffrey. We're all mostly concerned about what's happening in our own lifetime. That has been the problem since the start of the industrial revolution.

[fiveleaves]

Greenpeace are a well respected green campaigning group. Since when as trying to save the planet from destruction been seen as an extremist view?

[DTCwordfan]

It's not what they stand for, it's about how they go about it - just short of Just-Stop-Oil and, often, so misinformed - wit the Brent Spar.

[ichkeria]

It’s a LibDem target seat

[JimF]

The constituency has returned a Tory MP for almost 100 years, and Dorries has a massive majority.

The "by-election results are meaningless" argument notwithstanding, if another party takes this seat from the Tories, that will be very meaningful.

[Gromit]

// the group stormed Rishi Sunak’s home, causing outrage //

I detected no outrage. It was quite a boring stunt, but harmless. Not heard of any blue rinses croaking it at the news.
The fact that a Labour candidate supports Greenpeace is hardly an hanging offence. I doubt it will do him much harm in the constituency, but obviously he won’t, he never was going to.

[dave50]

Soon as I hear the word activist, that puts me off for good.

[youngmafbog]

The French know how to give Green peace a sinking feeling.

Bunch of lefty do-gooders, nothing at all to do with 'saving the planet' which is mostly garbage anyway.

[naomi24]

I think the Greens have lost Brighton & Hove council and I suspect that may indicate a trend away from support for the eco charge, not simply because people are sick to the back teeth of the warriors waging war on the unsuspecting, and self-righteous celebrities preaching between flights across continents in private planes, but because it's clear that green policies are going to hit pockets hard - even those pockets that can ill afford it. Green is fine but people still have to live. Quoting targets for years ahead doesn't help 2023.

Gromit, //I detected no outrage. // There's a varying reaction of considerable concern - as there should be. Two MPs have been murdered in recent years. The Prime Minister's home should be protected. No one should be taking that stunt lightly.