ON the call by Caroline Stephens for the Green Party and UKIP to ‘temporarily set aside their differences’ to show Stroud voters that there are alternatives to Labour and the Tories.

Posted by VoteUKIPGetUKIP: It is a shame that the Greens have clearly knee jerked and not taken this observation in the spirit in which it was intended, and that they have reverted to the outrageous and unfounded anti-UKIP slurs in which they engaged during the Valley by-election.

Stroud Labour on the other hand, who unlike the Green Party behaved entirely professionally and respectfully during the Valley by-election, have observed on their website that there was a large backlog of constituency casework unmet in Valley due to Molly’s lack of attention to the ward during her tenure as an SDC councillor there.

Posted by JulianCBrown: How on earth can the UKIP candidate for Stroud realistically expect the Green Party to align itself to a racist party which wants to privatise the NHS, bring back hunting with hounds, relax the smoking ban, introduce a standard rate of income tax for all whether rich or poor etc. etc.

Posted by Donuts r Ace: You say you’re against privatisation of the NHS , so what do you think Labours PFI initiative was all about? Apart from keeping spending off the books and most projects costing three to four times original cost of course.

Posted by Cuthbert Thickett: I may be mistaken but didn’t UKIP tell its supporters to vote for David Drew last time and the time before that?

An alliance between Caroline Stephens and the Greens? Given what she said recently about global warming etc, I think that its a bit rich taking a stand on principles if you don’t have any.

Posted by Rhyfelwyr: ‘Unlike the Greens, UKIP are a national party’. This is the Green Party which has representation in the Scottish Government, Westminster, Europe and the London Assembly?