A poll run by our favourite pseuds of South Devon hyperlocal, the Daily Mail-backed Newton Abbot People has surprisingly put Newton Abbot Green Party candidate Corinne Lindsey in the lead for the new Newton Abbot Constituency, out-doing the cash-guzzling Tory machine of Anne Marie Morris as well as the Clegg-fueled fillip to Richard Younger-Ross’s Lib Dem campaign.
Corinne told the PRSD: “The response has been phenomenal so far we have experienced nothing but real positive feedback with people saying that they are going to vote for what they believe in rather than vote to keep another party out.
“People are genuinely sick and tired of the irrelevance of politics to their needs, people really do want a change, and that change they feel is to vote for real people with real life experiences.
“There is also a huge snowball effect happening, once people know they are voting Green and tell five friends and they then tell five friends the results are plain to see, tactical voting will not achieve the change you want, you just get the least worse option, a positive vote Green means you are voting for the real change you want to see.”
Maybe that snowball effect is exactly what’s needed in the face of global warming…
The South Devon Green Party has seen a massive increase in membership since it started getting serious in July 2007, when six people set up and wrote the local constitution, for the for an area covering Teignbridge, Torbay Unitary and the South Hams.
By the end of 2007 the numbers had risen to around 30 active members. At the time of the European and County elections in June 2009, that had rise to 120, and one of them, Paula Black, was elected to serve as Devon County Councillor for Totnes/Villages.
Since then, South Devon Green Party has gained three town Ccouncil seats in Totnes and has a full slate of candidates standing for the general election, in all five constituencies that it covers wholly or partially: Torbay, Newton Abbot, Totnes, South West Devon and Central Devon.
The latest figures show there are 420 members, but apparently that’s increasing every day, and the fresh new Greens seem to be coming from people who have, in the past, supported one or other of all three of what the Greens call the ‘grey’ parties.
In percentage terms the rise from 30 to 420 is 1,300 per cent (which oddly enough similar to the rise in Newton Abbot Conservative funding, despite their drop in members).
Come and enjoy Devon – book a hotel and get away!
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