“Last week brought a 'shooters' charter' for the green welly brigade, promising to protect the country sport some feared was under threat.”

“As in 2005, we must consider voters actively put off voting Tory by a knock on the door from the green welly brigade.”

“The Guardian sent out a reporter to ask the green welly brigade where they were when the miners needed them.”

“By the time I had donned my wellies a large proportion of the big tree trunk had already succumbed to his chainsaw.”

“When I go home to my parents in Pennsylvania, people are amazed to see me in the barn, all filthy, mucking stalls out in wellies.”

“Driveways, gardens and entrances were under water and many villagers could not leave their properties without wellies or waders.”