I HAD a little chuckle at Alan Johnson’s latest letter from the green party, “The Green party is the way to go” (October 10).

It is quite apparent that the misanthropic socialist ideology to repress the masses as espoused by the Green party, and of course by Labour and the “great leader” ‘Mr Ed’ Milliband, no longer strike a chord with a great many of the electorate, and is clearly now a most unattractive proposition.

Perhaps it is one of the reasons why ‘Mr Ed’s’ Labour Party performed so badly in what was a steadfast Labour stronghold, until the recent by-election.

And it is perhaps why nationwide Labour along with the Greens are now imploding upon themselves.

The thought did occur to me that Labour ditch Mr Ed and replace him by trotting out the “real Mr Ed,” the much savvier and much-loved talking horse and TV star from the 1960s to lead them.

He’d most certainly get my vote and perhaps the vote of a great many others also.

He would maybe even give Nigel Farage a good gallop for his money too at the polls.

Alan Johnson then proceeds to attack the Lib-Dems in a fruitless shot to persuade Lib-Dem voters to switch their allegiance to the Greens.

It’s a bit too late for that Mr Johnson: it would appear from the result of the Heywood and Middleton by-election, those Lib-Dem supporters (or what was left of them) have already bolted to UKIP, along with huge numbers of Labour supporters, as well as many disaffected Tories and even, dare I say it, some Greens.

Mr Johnson describes the current coalition of the Tory Lib-Dem coalition as, “evil”.

That may well be so, but whatever its flaws are, and it has many, it is a good deal less evil than what a Green Party and/or, an Ed Milliband ‘Labour’ regime would be, whose barking-mad policies would transform this country into a client state of North Korea, where everyone, that is, apart from those whom they deem to be part of their political elite, will be forced to endure, and indeed will no doubt be ordered to enjoy, the glorious transition of becoming equally poverty stricken, or else.

And all in the name of socialism and equality, of course, Stuart A Chapman.

Isle of Wight