By-election

I only occasionally touch on politics in my blog, however this week we have had a by-election in our own constituency. This happened because way back in 2020 our MP, Margaret Ferrier, was found out to have travelled by train from London to Glasgow in the almost certain knowledge that she was suffering from Covid. She was chucked out of the SNP for this, but rather brazenly refused to resign as an MP, which meant that she kept on being paid for the next two years. Eventually there was a vote by the constituents to oust her, which duly happened, resulting in this by-election. Many people, so I have heard, employed tactical voting to ensure that a Scottish National replacement candidate would not be elected. The Tories had no chance, so that meant voting for the Labour candidate, Michael Shanks* He and his team did not take this for granted and campaigned tirelessly for months. And so it came to pass that Shanks won the by-election for Labour by a landslide. We sat up late to watch the results, in the early hours of this morning. I could not possibly comment on whether I took part in this tactical voting.
*Michael Shanks knows Ally well, because Ally used to volunteer for the disabled Scouts troop that he runs. Ally says that he is a good guy.