IN RESPONSE to the letter ‘Why did people vote Tory?’ (May 28), some thoughts.

I fear that misguided loyalty to the countryside and also habit may have played big parts. 'Misguided' as people presume the Tories are the most countryside friendly party because of historical associations with landowners and farmers.

Whereas the Green Party are clearly the most soil, earth and wildlife friendly and so crop, countryside and Cotswold friendly party.

The Tories approve of fracking and HS2, the Greens don’t think either is good for the Cotswolds or anywhere.

Habit, as not many of us take enough time to explore alternatives to things we may have done year on year.

So many votes for the Tories may have been not to their credit so much as showing a need for the other parties to do more to show up the ill effects of Tory national policy on the vast majority of people who live in the Cotswolds and the UK.

Why else would we have a part-time MP again when we could have had a very good full-time Green or Liberal Democrat MP?’

ROB ELLIOTT

Chesterton Farm Cottages

Cirencester