Tactical voting

My constituency is Edinburgh South and in 2015, like many of my Conservative friends, I voted tactically for Ian Murray to ‘keep the SNP out’.

At present the bookies’ odds favour him over the Conservative candidate whose name I do not know as there has been no leaflet from her at this very late stage of the campaign.

This time I have not yet made up my mind, but the lack of communication from the Conservatives pushes me to vote tactically. However, a very strong reason not to do so is Kezia Dugdale’s blanket ban on any Labour/conservative coalitions in local government.

How can she expect tactical voting for Ian Murray with that policy in local government, which probably allows the SNP to take charge?

There is also the fact that after winning in 2015, Ian Murray made no effort to acknowledge those of us who lent him our votes and possibly helped him win.

I shall make up my mind much nearer 8 June.

RAYMOND PAUL Braid Farm Road, Edinburgh were selected for any of the three test matches.

It was difficult not to experience a degree of schadenfreude at the whitewash inflicted on the ‘British’ Lions then.

More recently, with a sense of deja vu, we received the announcement that Warren Gatland had included a derisory number of two Scots in a 41-strong squad to tour New Zealand this summer, despite our decisive victories over Wales and Ireland.

Now we hear that plans are afoot to merge the Scottish Rugby Sevens team into a GB squad.

Scotland has just won the London Sevens Tournament for the second year in a row, beating NZ and England.

It is inevitable that the new scheme will see Scotland’s players sidelined yet again. I suppose we should be getting used to it by now.

JAMES STEVENSON Drummond Avenue, Auchterarder