Did not read the fine print

Lord Toby's site has a writer reporting on a Telegraph report.

The Telegraph has the story.

The Green Party may be jubilant about its triumph in Gorton and Denton, but some voters are already expressing buyers’ remorse. Waqas Khan, 40, owns Al-Mecca Butchers on Stockport Road, where a “Vote Green” poster hangs in the shop window. He has lived in the constituency for almost 20 years. He and his family had previously been lifelong Labour voters, but all switched to the Greens on Thursday.

Until informed by the Telegraph, however, Khan was unaware of the Greens’ plans to legalise drugs and prostitution and to remove restrictions on pornography. “I checked the manifesto before, but I didn’t see that. It seems they hid those policies,” he says.

That's an interesting sidelight, except The Telegraph is behind a paywall, as are many articles at TDS itself.

Moving on, my dad was a builder and painter, fought in the war, North African shore, my mother was a nurse and eventually housekeeper but every spare penny was spent on a son who'd go on to throw around rugby balls on playing fields, study Latin and be in debating societies, for a bit of fun building in timber ... dwellings, fences, boats etc.

Which class was I?

There was also the little matter of constant travel over the decades, to the point I'm weary wi'it now.  Developed a taste for all-weather sailing and cricket.  Point is, whichever demographic I was with at the time, comfortably, I was never fully accepted by any demographic at all. Iffy accent which was sort of RP with southern hemisphere undertones ... my lineage goes back to either the Danes (Deira), Ethelred or Irish worker ... that side of t'family were southern but apparently went Ulster later and changed the surname to a more anglicised spelling.

So I'm bemused by those claiming to be "English" or "British" but there's no heritage in'em from these isles whatever.  I suspect that that's what did for Advance's "local man" in G&D (Little Pakistan so it now seems).

Also amusing (to me) is a lady from Suffolk and I, friends, mutual followers on X, who agree on maybe 80% of policies ... except she's comfortable, "herbaceous borders" loving, I'm north-eastern, displaced to the north-west for now, she's exactly the dyed-in-the-wool Reform advocate, blissfully unaware of its politburo, whilst as of last evening, I'm dyed-in-the-wool Restore (or johnnycomelately, whatever) ... what confirmed my shift further towards them being that the Electoral Commission, according to Mrs. Suffolk, has supposedly refused Rupert's application to become an official party, nasty "racist" man.

Civil war on the horizon? Devoutly hoped for by globopsychopaedo and they may get their wish, if the issue is not swamped by the one about to kick off in Persia ... I've just quoted our Steve over at UHC on that question.

Whither Britain and Ireland, stalwarts of these sceptr'd aisles (sic)?