Green Party candidate switches to Liberal Democrats

News in from Rugby courtesy of Jerry Roodhouse’s blog:

Former Rugby Green Party general election candidate Terry White, 22, has defected to the Liberal Democrats following differences with himself and the national Green Party. He has rejoined a party he left at the start of the previous government as a result of the direction he felt the party was heading in but said he is “confident in the fight back of the party following the election of Tim Farron as party leader and the spirit of the modern party”.

Terry has stepped down in his role as co-ordinator of the local party and chair of the midlands regional co-ordinator of the under 30 branch of the Green Party also following disputes in the practices of the national party. “There is ambition in the Green Party definitely. But that is all there is. Ambition,” says Mr White. “I believe in democracy and the fact that the Green Party protested about the fact the Conservatives won a mandate to govern the country is simply sickening. I don’t like the Conservatives as much as the next Green Party member but I also respect the process of an election.”