POLITICAL banners have been ripped out and an anonymous letter posted through a candidate's door, according to the leader of the Isle of Wight Green Party. Vix Lowthion, IW Green Party chair, said the incidents, in different wards, had been reported to police and statements had been taken. She vowed the intimidation would not stop Greens campaigning. One 'Vote Green' sign, on Hyde Road in Shanklin, was snapped last week and put in a wheelie bin. One of the Green Party signs after being snapped. A taller replacement sign was put up on Saturday and within a couple of hours had suffered the same fate, with eyewitnesses reporting a person ‘limping away’ from the scene.