There’s an election coming: vote for Ian Sollom

We’ve had over four years of a Tory government which started badly and has got steadily worse. And now the current Prime Minister, he’s the third of this parliament and the fifth since the Tories came to power, has called a general election with just 6 weeks notice and several months before he needed to. There’s much talk about bad news coming so he wants to get the election out of the way before that happens.

He’s got a difficult job with the Tories 20% plus down on Labour in the opinion polls and having recently done really badly in the recent local elections. Fingers crossed his fortunes don’t improve so that we can be done with the Tories and the disastrous affect they have on our country.

Where I live we’ve got a new constituency: St Neots and Mid Cambs (SN&MC). It’s a very mixed, rather silly constituency which looks like it comprises all the bits that don’t fit anywhere else. But rather surprisingly it’s rather winnable from a Lib Dem point of view check out Electoral Calculus.

The Lib Dem candidate is Ian Sollom who came within a whisker of winning South Cambs at the last election. He lives in St Neots, he’s a product of a rural comprehensive school topped up by an Oxford degree and a PhD in astrophysics, which means he’s pretty smart, and he’s served as a local councillor so he understands how government works. I think he’d be an excellent MP so I’m going to vote for him. I’m sure he’ll get in but it won’t be an easy contest.

Ian is up against the Tory Anthony Browne who was the sitting MP in South Cambs but for some reason decided to move to SN&MC. There’s also Marianna Masters for Labour and Kathryn Fisher for the Green Party. And to add to the unpredictability of the contest there’s St Neots based Independent, Stephen Ferguson. Sadly there’s no Reform candidate to weaken the Tory vote.

There’s still a little under five weeks to go so lots can happen nationally and that will impact chances locally. But the seat is for the Lib Dems to win if they work hard and get the ‘Ian will be a very good MP’ story out.