A fantastic day for Glasgow and Scotland, as the Commonwealth Games Federation voted to give the Dear Green Place the right to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games (hopefully in an Independent Scotland and SNP Controlled Glasgow City Council but that's a debate for another time).
The atmosphere around the city was electric after the decision was announced, and it was particularly funny to see my own boss on television jumping up and down on National Television, who was there as part of the Bid team contingent.
We were supposed to all have access to our PC's at work, only for most of us this didn't happen, except for the very lucky modern apprentice who was quickly surrounded by the rest of us watching the announcement, Only for the BBC to completely muck this up - had a chuckle at a very smug looking John MacKay on Scotland Today tonight saying that STV were the only channel showing the event live. Anyways, once we heard the news....cue pandemonium across Glasgow....
Special praise for everyone involved, and i know many of my fellow Glasgow City employees who worked extremely hard to bring this about, and priase too for all the politicians who worked together.
Maybe this will stop Transport Scotland from ripping apart proposals to split the NADICS/CITRAC functions into 4 separate entities, given that Managers within this service helped put together the Traffic Management arrangements for the Sydney Olympics a few years ago, but common sense never really stops quango's from making idiotic decisions. More of this later.
A tremendous day, perhaps even a tremendous month.
We all now wait for next Saturday to see if another special occasion can give Scotland a victorious result.......
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