• I HAVE to make one of the most important political decisions of my life: who to vote for. I have been an active member of my local Labour Party for just over 42 years when I arrived in London from “foreign parts”.

I know the election is about the EU, of which I am an ardent supporter, having been born in the war where we saw the frightening consequences of warring nation states. But I find myself totally disillusioned by the EU stance (whatever that is) of Jeremy Corbyn.

In Camden I see a slowly disintegrating local government with increasing youth violence, a fractured “housing policy” and abandonment of the most vulnerable in our society.

We are increasingly ruled in Camden by an arrogant officer class who appear to be beyond the control of our elected Labour councillors who in turn seem more concerned about political infighting than “making a difference” to the lives of ordinary people.

Yet what is my alternative? The Tory local councillors are a joke (not so much, perhaps, as the imploding national Tory government) and, as for the Lib Dems, an endangered species in my area.

I could, I suppose, not vote or spoil my ballot paper; but then I recall the women of my mother’s generation who fought and in some cases died for the right to vote. Perhaps the Labour Party are the least worst choice after all. And it is about Europe.

MICK FARRANT
Gospel Oak