How I voted

Just a quick follow-up to my epic post about the election.

In the event, I voted Lib-Dem for the main poll, because they were the party for whom I had the least compelling reason not to vote. I did, however, find it rather galling that they were also the only major party to completely fail to campaign in this seat; I imagine they have determined they have no actual chance of winning. (On the other hand, of the parties who did campaign, only the Tories managed to send me something that didn't offend me. Labour and the SNP spent much of the campaign insulting one another, rather than talking about issues, and the 'Christians'... well, I'll cover that in another post.)

In the secondary vote, I also voted Lib-Dem, although here I was tempted by the Greens, the SNP (briefly),and also for one of the 'Christians'... but only because I had learned that that party had actually withdrawn!

For the council election, I voted SNP, both because I'm actually reasonably happy with their running of the council here, and also because the sticking point for me, independence, is a non-issue at that level. Plus, a socialist agenda at council level is actually quite a good thing, since they don't have too much power to absurdly inflate taxes to little real benefit.

So, that's that.