Green candidate refuses to shake hands with Reform by-election winner

Media target green candidate for ‘refusing to shake fascist’s hand’

The rattled media’s campaign of attacks on Green party candidates has continued this week with a smear against a Cornwall council candidate who refused to shake hands with a far-right opponent. Abigail Hubbucks lost the local election by just over a hundred votes to Reform UK’s Lyndon Harrison. After the results were announced, she told Harrison she wouldn’t be shaking hands with him. This was immediately spun up by the press and the far right a…

Green candidate refuses to shake hands with Reform by-election winner

The Green Party councillor candidate then walked off, leaving the Reform winner with the other candidates.