The big dilemma facing city voters

The voters of the Canterbury constituency are genuinely faced with a serious dilemma.

The three women Candidates are all excellent examples of caring, intelligent, combative people, each if whom could brilliantly represent us all and contest many of our battles against bureaucracy and injustice.

All three individually, I am convinced, would have the courage to fight for a better world for all of us in health, law, economics and even defence.

But the problem that they all have is they are stuck with the “isms” of each of their political parties. Rosie Duffield, greatly liked as a person here, has to live under the shadow of a potentially ruinous Labour Marxist takeover under Corbyn and Mcdonnell.

Anna Firth, clever and sensitive, who has done her homework about our constituency, is saddled with the disastrous Tory hallucination that we will be better after Brexit should we cast ourselves adrift from the EU.

While Claire Malcomson, a highly successful leading Lib Dem councillor from Dorking who has only recently been parachuted into our constituency, would now be pressing for a real democratic decision by means of a new referendum to take on board all we have subsequently learned about the perils of both “stay” or “go” because we have probably had a change of voting population of almost three million since the last referendum.

I would be happy with any of these splendid women as my MP, but as a Lib Dem I fear that I must admit to being biased!