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Don't send these men to prison, make them plant trees instead
The Observer
|May 11, 2025
If anyone wondered why Reform are doing well, they need look no further than the sentimental hype and faux outrage gushing from every media and social outlet about the felled Sycamore Gap tree.
Here, in a sad little tale, is the perfect microcosm of today's politics, where one half of the country despises the other half for their attitudes. All we liberals, perhaps even up to and including the movement they call Blue Labour, seem blind to the realities of life for the poor, uneducated and disenfranchised.
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