Something has changed drastically in Glasgow over the past 5 years, and not for the better.
Is it, that the people have changed or have the circumstances changed?
These photos cover two very different stories. In the first one we see residents stopping the removal, by the Home Office of law-abiding people. In the second we see the police removing alleged criminals for their own protection.
The question is, is the second photo, one of many, another case of SM exacerbating the situation, or do residents have a right to know who is living in their communities?
An ‘alleged’ offender, no matter who they are, does have rights, until a court takes those rights away from them. However, if those offenders have been charged with a crime, one supposes the police have evidence. Is it not reasonable then to keep them in custody, instead of moving them from one community to another? If not, do communities have the right to be ‘judge and jury’ when it comes to what they see as protecting their children?
It’s a delicate balance and if I may say so, one that the authorities are not getting right, but neither are some communities.
Fear can turn to anger very quickly. Anger can turn to rage in an instant, which cannot be talked down easily.
It has always been the policy in Housing Departments not to divulge where ex-criminals are housed. Still, we seem to have moved to a different situation, where, once again, the authorities seem at a loss to control.
Call it fear or racism, either way, we must find an answer before it really does blow up in our faces.
I must confess, I don’t have an answer to this one. On the one hand, I would like to say that better communication and openess might help, but on the other hand, the fear of many is too overwhelming. And in some cases openess might feed into that fear depending on one’s personal circumstances.
Some say, Diversity is no longer our strength, but our nemesis.
I still believe in Diversity but acknowledge the need for balance.
For every problem, there is a solution, and those in authority must find it, with fairness to all. One thing is for sure, they can’t keep passing the buck. This problem crosses more than one government department, so a multi-agency response is required.
JOAN’S JOURNEY CONTINUES 
The racism is on us. The rapid change in demographic is ideological. Scots are being discriminated against for housing and work. Those are accurate summaries of what is going on in our country today.
Our ruling class, some of whom were born here despise us and our country. You see the same ideology all across europe. Extreme liberalism. The individual over the group. The pursuit of self interest rather than the common good. Why would someone from the elite believe in history, nation, culture society today? They want status and noney and the complete freedom fro. Its consequences. In the last 3 years the demographic change in Glashiw has been immense. Rape and sexual assault in the city centre have sky ricketed and glashow cincil officials sent a latter to all housing associations stating that 67 percent of all available social housing should go to immigrants. If our two major cities are now or soon to become scottish in nane only what are we? A beacon of hopeto the racist and mysoginitic wokists? We are brining in people who we dont need and owe nothing to and in so doing ending any chance we once had of fistering the unity required to achieve ndependence.
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Amongst many other thibgs
A self-hating and reality denying approach to immigration is but a small part of the extremism of our ruling caste btw. We need to wake up to it and stick together. I persoally think too much has been destroyed now to save our country
That said we can stick together (i.e.not tar the ordinary people for resisting elite decision making that adversely affect their lives) and slowly begin to support each other to try and ensure the kids born today in Scotland can live lives with some meaning in it beyond their basic survival. I have never witnessed this level of outright hatred for the poor and the working class in Scotland. Don’t join in with it.
So GM is not wrong when he says that these situations are the result of elites making decisions and that we the people having to live with the consequences.
Because of that, I could not help but notice, and thus feel obliged to point out that this bit:
“We are brining in people who we dont need and owe nothing to and in so doing ending any chance we once had of fistering the unity required to achieve ndependence.”
seems to be a miss-speak.
WE are not bringing in people.
I refute the notion that we should blame ourselves.
Ordinary people are reacting because they are crushed by the unnecessary poverty of neoliberalism and these decisions ARE made by a wealthy elite, not US.
Its THEM, not US !
As English elite supremacist Farage might say:
‘Let’s take our country back’
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Fair point ALurker, I was typing on the phone with the wee keys on the move though..