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Professor John Robertson OBA
The Herald today has the above and:
Sir Keir Starmer has refused to intervene in Glasgow’s escalating refugee homelessness crisis, despite warnings the city faces a £109 million bill. The Prime Minister’s unwillingness to get involved comes ahead of a planned cut in the move-on period for refugees, from 56 days to 28 — a change officials believe could be “disastrous” for Scotland’s largest city.
This is a crisis made in London and dumped on Glasgow.
With it’s SNP council, Labour’s leadership is not motivated to help it and its local MSP, Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, himself of immigrant ancestry, shows no sign of standing up for his home city.
A year ago and this crisis was clearly coming:
There were 33,619 households assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness. An increase of 1,088 (3%) compared to 2022-23, and the highest since 2011-12.
I’ll come back to the BBC claim that the data are the highest since 2002 and not 2012 as the Scottish Government suggest but, first, is that more than a thousand ‘Scots?’
See this:
An overall increase of 1 088 in a year when the Home Office allowed more than 1 300 immigrants entry, so homelessness fell among all but very recent arrivals?
There’s no mention of this key factor in the media reporting.
The trend:
There were 29,652 open homelessness cases in March 2024, which was a 15% rise on last year. There were around 58 000 cases in 2006, the last year of the Labour Government in Scotland.
The comparison:
Record homeless figures in England prompt calls to tackle ‘national scandal’. Latest housing data show 151,630 children in temporary accommodation – the most since records began. Shelter, the housing charity, said the government must “tackle the housing emergency head-on”.
From Shelter Scotland in a submission to the Scottish Parliament, January 2024:
We are in a housing emergency, and that requires an emergency response from government. A record 9,595 children trapped in temporary accommodation – up 130% since 2014.
All things being equal, England with 10 times the population might have been expected to have 10 times as many children in temporary accommodation or 95 950 but had 151 630. That’s 55 680 more than if they had an SNP Government, or 58% more.
Sources:
Click to access shelter-scotland-written-submission–homelessness-and-temporary-accommodation.pdf
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In answer to your headline, patently not, as quoted from this “Read my lips” initiated or promoted article https://archive.ph/d5sn5 ” Earlier this week, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar hit out at the council, blaming the SNP administration for the crisis. He told the Scottish Sun: “There is a legitimate concern that people have about housing supply and pressure on our public services”
And what pray did Labour do about provision of public or affordable housing or even public services when they were the Scottish Government, effectively feck all… ‘What have the SNP ever done for us ? Eh ?” – ” ‘Well Anas’ (substituting for Reg), what about………………………………………………………………………………………….”
Beyond the pontifications of “Read my lips” as it’s “just politics” from his perspective, it does add a completely different context to the BBC’s ill fated TOWIE promotion ” The Only Way Is Essex “, does it not – Glasgow et al has to deal with it because successive WM Governments including the latest ‘Labour’ version, refused to cancel Council house sales in England as SNP had done almost a decade before – Were TOWIE to be ‘launched’ today, they would have to rename the programme ” Anywhere BUT Essex, Glasgow ?? “….
I hope to survive long enough to see a street named in Sarwar’s honour in Scotland, ‘Anas wi teeth Teeth Terrace’ would finally make him vaguely relevant…
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will Sarwar back his home city? Of course not, he’d rather devote more time licking Starmer’s boots than waste his energy doing something worthwhile for Scotland.
He’s a traitor to his country and only plays politics for self benefit and ego building. John Lawson
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