has dropped by a million since the fire near Central Station in March.
Notably missing are the figures we need to see how big a percentage that 1million is and neither Glasgow Chamber of Commerce nor BBC Scotland have posted these.
That’s very interesting because on 7th April the same BBC Scotland reporter, Jamie McIvor, told us this:
Glasgow city centre is proving “remarkably resilient” after the recent fire in Union Street, according to new statistics.
Glasgow Chamber of Commerce said the number of people in the city centre every day – including workers and shoppers – was back at normal levels and slightly up on last year.
This is another of those reports often see only on Reporting Scotland TV broadcasts and perhaps hear in Good Morning Scotland radio reports but which are not fully explained on the website where, in examples, like this, we’d be able to see just how big a percentage that million is and if that fall is in part due to a city-wide trend in recent years.
First, that 1 million, over three months (?) has to be set in the context of a yearly footfall typically around 120 million – 3%?
https://x.com/i/grok?conversation=2074027262089843003
Second, footfall in the 2015/2019 period was over 50 million but by 2022/2024 was around 20% down on that due the increase in online shopping.
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For a couple of years now, we have been experiencing a ramped revival of ‘Project Fear’. If you look at the ‘Scottish’ media each day – as you do!! – it is a torrent of anti SG, anti SNP, anti Green bile.
if you look at the BBC ‘Scotland’ page on the BBC website and compare it with the Irish and Welsh pages and with those of the English regions, the tone is noticeably different. There are more routine news stories of the ‘cat stuck up a tree’ type.
On the ‘Scotland’ page the ‘cat up a tree’ would be given an anti SG, anti SNP, anti SNP council slant.
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