Posting this for the 100th time because people still don’t get it.
Glasgow is not being forced to house thousands of asylum seekers because London says so, Cities and towns can limit numbers or opt out entirely and many do. Glasgow chooses not to.
Immigration policy is reserved to Westminster, that’s true. But the decision to take huge numbers of asylum seekers is local, and Glasgow has volunteered for it.
Fifteen years ago it worked. The last ten? Not so much. Numbers have exploded. The council is now running out of accommodation, services are buckling, and the cost to Glasgow taxpayers is running into millions.
Glasgow hosts the largest number of Home Office-supported asylum seekers of any UK local authority around 3,600 3,800 people. That’s roughly 6% of the entire UK supported asylum population, while Glasgow has just 1% of the UK’s population.
Why so many? Because in 1999 Glasgow voluntarily joined the dispersal scheme (when numbers were tiny) and never looked back. Under the last ten years of SNP leadership, it proudly branded itself a “sanctuary city,” actively signing up for more placements than almost anywhere else.
This isn’t Holyrood or Westminster forcing Glasgow’s hand. Other councils limit or refuse. Glasgow keeps saying yes and keeps taking the largest share.
The result? Overstretched hotels, worsening housing shortages, strained services, and growing protests over safety and integration.
Glasgow doesn’t have to do this. It chooses to. And the people of Glasgow are now paying the price.
These Glasgow protests aren’t racism, they’re about SNP policy flooding our city with migrants whose values clash with Scottish and Western norms, driving up crime and fracturing communities.
Glasgow City Council policies accepted large numbers without proper vetting for skills, integration, or compatibility with rule of law, women’s safety.
It’s not xenophobia to demand borders that prioritise assimilation and public safety over volume. Glaswegians have every right to protest twisted logic that puts ideology above their streets, kids, and cohesion.
“Being on the right side of it”
I know we laugh as it’s hearts. But why do players have to be so disrespectful to their previous club when they sign for Rangers or Celtic. See it all the time that they play up to the fans.
@AnthonyRJoseph Rangers using a friendly journalist to boost his value, some rangers fans will be daft enough to think those clubs are interested, then he eventually goes to Barnsley for 700k
Please remember that the same folk criticising the protests in Glasgow would spend months objecting to someone in their vicinity applying to remove a tree.
Some kids are at their 3rd primary school and had more grassroots clubs than the FA portal and mums still believe teachers and coaches are the problem 🤔