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Comment	I’m saying this as someone who has voted for the SNP in local/national elections and a soft leaning yes supporter of independence. I think we were starting to see the warning signs of this with the worsening litter problem- watching folks self flagellating mental gymnastics around our crumbling infrastructure and well intentioned community cleanups was interesting. The reality is- our council was broke before COVID and now has been pushed to the point where they can’t afford to provide basic sanitation services. But people seem to steer blame away from the government and attack each other for the state of things. If the city was well managed, bins were collected regularly and waste management was funded appropriately the city wouldn’t be in the state it is even if everyone fucked their McDonald’s into George square 3 times a day. How will people mentally jump around this? The civic cultural heart of Glasgow is most likely being sold off for expensive housing developments. No amount of community action can make up the shortfall required to maintain these spaces. What makes Glasgow great and separates it from a lot of places down south is the fact that places like this exist and the state is willing to support them. But again, the SNP are on the verge of a super majority and the useless opposition are too focused on talking points and their careers to hold them to account for it. The tories are a shambles, labour a non entity, the greens sit about on the hopes of people who promise them their vote post Indy and Alba clearly isn’t an option. If we had a tory majority run devolved government/council people would be up in arms about this, but instead people will shuffle their feet and watch Glasgow collapse around them. They’ll blame fellow Glaswegians, they’ll blame Boris, but any remote criticism of the local government gets you labelled as a paid up orange order flutist who would hand Nicola’s head to Westminster on a platter. I understand that this is a nuanced issue, and a lack of support from the government down south has definitely contributed to this, but other cities are not having to close up institutions on such a large scale.
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Created	Thu 22nd Apr 2021 9:12am
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I’m saying this as someone who has voted for the SNP in local/national elections and a soft leaning yes supporter of independence.

I think we were starting to see the warning signs of this with the worsening litter problem- watching folks self flagellating mental gymnastics around our crumbling infrastructure and well intentioned community cleanups was interesting.

The reality is- our council was broke before COVID and now has been pushed to the point where they can’t afford to provide basic sanitation services. But people seem to steer blame away from the government and attack each other for the state of things. If the city was well managed, bins were collected regularly and waste management was funded appropriately the city wouldn’t be in the state it is even if everyone fucked their McDonald’s into George square 3 times a day.

How will people mentally jump around this? The civic cultural heart of Glasgow is most likely being sold off for expensive housing developments. No amount of community action can make up the shortfall required to maintain these spaces. What makes Glasgow great and separates it from a lot of places down south is the fact that places like this exist and the state is willing to support them.

But again, the SNP are on the verge of a super majority and the useless opposition are too focused on talking points and their careers to hold them to account for it. The tories are a shambles, labour a non entity, the greens sit about on the hopes of people who promise them their vote post Indy and Alba clearly isn’t an option.

If we had a tory majority run devolved government/council people would be up in arms about this, but instead people will shuffle their feet and watch Glasgow collapse around them. They’ll blame fellow Glaswegians, they’ll blame Boris, but any remote criticism of the local government gets you labelled as a paid up orange order flutist who would hand Nicola’s head to Westminster on a platter.

I understand that this is a nuanced issue, and a lack of support from the government down south has definitely contributed to this, but other cities are not having to close up institutions on such a large scale.