Nearly four months ago Conservative councillors were routed by Green Party candidates across much of the county.

We now have three districts in Suffolk where the Greens are the largest party - they're actually in political control of Mid Suffolk.

But until now until now the Tories have mainly been licking their wounds, trying to adjust to the new reality of life.

Meanwhile some of the Greens that are sitting around the Cabinet or Executive tables of their authorities are discovering some uncomfortable truths - that you can't just tear up everything your predecessors did.

Greens in East Suffolk found they had no choice but to approve a housing development in Framlingham. 

And now the issue of Howlett Way in Trimley has reared its head again with local residents saying the new council should change its zoning from residential to creating a green space.

The thing is its owner Trinity College Cambridge has already put in an application for homes there and has presumably spent considerable time, effort, and money drawing up those plans.

Now Trinity College is famously one of the wealthiest landowners in the country so I don't have too many concerns about its solvency - but it goes against all the rules of natural justice to shift the goalposts once a process like this has started.

That's something incoming councillors rapidly have to learn - and in fairness that does appear to be happening.

But as I said the Tories are still coming to terms with what happened in May - and this week deputy county council leader and wannabe Tory MP Richard Rout wrote an interesting piece in the right-wing political website The Spectator about the march of the Greens.

It's long - but what he basically said was that the Greens had come to power across Suffolk by being reasonable and expressing concerns felt by many residents.

If they ever got into real power, he suggested, their extreme policies would force people out of cars and make life more difficult.

It's an agrument I've heard before - but I was a bit surprised to see it expressed at such length now. The local elections have been and gone and the Green Party will be running Suffolk councils for the next three years and eight months!

Of course a year from now we will be on the cusp of a general election campaign. 

While the vast majority of politically-savvy people expect the Tories to lose this, the danger is not coming from the Green Party - and it's not coming in places like rural Suffolk. 

Where there are real contests in Suffolk - in Ipswich and the new Lowestoft seat - it will be straight Conservative/Labour tussles.

Which made me wonder, with this broadside against the Green Party was Mr Rout really looking ahead to the next county council election in 2025? 

That will be after the next General Election, but only six months after it when the incoming government might well be expecting a political honeymoon.

Even in those circumstances I can't really see Labour doing well in county divisions like Woodbridge, Framlingham and Needham Market.

But it could be that voters see the Greens as their allies in the struggle against the Conservatives who will still be running things at Endeavour House until that election.

I suspect Mr Rout's main concern may be that the Conservatives' troubles will continue long after the general election.

Although most pundits accept that their troubles are unlikely to have a direct impact on the management of the government because they will most likely be in opposition anyway.

But in the often Machiavellian world of internal Tory Party politics there is likely to be mighty contest going on - and while having a go at the opposition is always likely to make you popular with your colleagues, most of them are more likely to be having a go at each other in order to promote their own brand of "Conservatism!"