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Oliver Schick
Politics is all about making these coalitions, though.
The Greens managed to pull that off last time, winning in both urban, previously Labour constituencies and rural Tory ones.
Johnson's great achievement was to build a coalition that spanned the elite and enough working class voters in Labour red wall seats to give him a majority.
Next time it will be harder for the Greens in the Tory areas, though. Virtually all of their second places, from which they will select their targets, are in Labour seats - so I'd expect them to double down on a positioning to the left of Labour. And Labour has left an awful lot of space there.
If Tories lurch further to the right under their new leader the best outcome for them is if the centerists they lose are split between Labour and LD. The nightmare is if one gets them all as more electorally efficient.