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Not just a bunch of 'swivel-eyed' idiots: The true Tories who want a new direction
Deep in Tory heartland, Simon Usborne discovers party activists are not happy with their leader,
his friends or his policies
There are Tory heartlands and there is Shefford, a small town in the middle of Bedfordshire,
in the middle of England, at the centre of one of the safest Conservative seats on the electoral map
. "There's a saying around here," says a man outside Saint Michael and All Angels church (he did
not want to be named). "If you painted a cockroach blue it would get elected in Shefford."
The 13th-century market town, floating in a political sea of blue between Luton and Bedford, ought
, therefore, to be a stronghold for the country's newest demographic: the "swivel-eyed loon", the term
allegedly used by the Tory Party chairman, Lord Feldman, to refer to Conservative party activists
in places just like this.