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I survived Monday. 

It had a few potential crisis points, but all were averted. 

The Manager is on holiday following her wedding on Saturday and she usually keeps the Monday things under control. 

Some of us were a bit tired after staying up late to see the election results come in. It happens on a region by region basis in Scotland, and Fife seemed to be a bit slow for no obvious reason. A Scotland wide trend was obvious well before the Fife result arrived, which made things worse - the worry that our result would be the first to go the other way.

Anyway, it turned out to be an excellent result. A comfortable win in Fife - 37.5% of the vote, up 9.5%! 

Liberal Democrats were a distant second on 16.4%. In Scotland we won every region except Orkney and Shetland, which went to the Liberal Democrats. They claim to be a Remain party, but my hunch is their commitment is not very strong. 

Election trivia...

On Brexit (the party, not the concept) here’s what Alyn Smith MEP said on Sky News:-  

"Well, I've been doing this 15 years now, and I'm about to enter my 4th term, and I've seen these shysters come and go. The only question about the Brexit Party now is which laws they have broken and where their campaign finances have come from, and we'll find that out after the campaign. 

But they're a shell company that's a money laundering front and I have absolutely no doubt they'll be shown to be every bit as feckless as their predecessors in UKIP were.”

On a lighter note, a voter in Scotland wrote “wank” beside every party on the ballot paper, other than the Scottish Greens, beside which was written “not wank”.

According to Scottish law that indicates a clear preference and the vote counted.

Ah, but Blips… Just the view from the office front door. One of our regulars came in this afternoon. Personal hygiene is one of his weaknesses (to be fair, often folk in his situation have had their power cut off or have no money to use it). Anyway, opening the door and stepping out into fresh air was the first thing I did after he left. 

The Xtra is the electoral map of Britain this afternoon. Quite compelling. Northern Ireland’s count had not yet completed at that time, but Sinn Féin seems to have come out on top.