We managed to get ourselves onto the electoral register for the Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross constituency in time to vote today, but it offered us a limited chance to vote tactically to influence the election outcome. The SNP won it in 2015 by some 4,000 votes from the Lib Dems, but the latter regained it in 2017 with a narrower majority of around 2,000. The Conservatives did far better in 2017 than in 2015, with a 16% swing which placed them only 2,000 behind the SNP, but it would take quite a significant further swing for them to win this time around.
So the choice for us, as confirmed remainers and with no Green candidate, lay between the Lib Dems, who want Scotland to stay in the UK and to retain the nuclear deterrent, and the SNP who don't. For the first time I found myself seriously considering the SNP.
None of which was of the slightest interest to one of the robins which come in to our back yard. His worry, like ours as we slithered our way to the Community Centre to vote, was the state of the weather.
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