The following is my response to a letter published in the Eastern Daily Press on 18 April 2026 by Gil Murray, a Green Party executive member in Broadland, who raised concerns about food imports but also highlights a contradiction voters are increasingly noticing in Green Party policy.
Sir,
Mr Gil Murray’s letter of 18 April 2026 highlights a recurring problem in Green Party thinking: a clear contradiction between stated principles and practical decisions.
He claims that we are dangerously reliant on food imports and must protect domestic resilience. Yet in Broadland, Green Party district councillor Eleanor Laming recently supported a 100-acre solar farm on productive land, despite objections from 33 local residents.
This is not theoretical, it is a real decision with consequences for local food production. You cannot warn about food insecurity whilst supporting the removal of agricultural land at scale. Nor can you champion local voices whilst disregarding them when it matters.
This is the kind of contradiction voters are noticing.
The climate debate is increasingly framed in apocalyptic, moralistic terms, less about practical policy and more about projecting existential anxiety into politics.
If that is the case, there are far better places to resolve it.
Perhaps Mr Murray should simply go to church.
Yours faithfully,
Justine Thomas
