Glasgow is the best large city in the UK regardless of the sneering from Kev McKenna ’boutique conservative’ and friend of the far right

Kev with Reform UK in the streets of the far-right of Lanarkshire (well, East)

What on earth is he on about? Isn’t that just work going on to improve Sauchiehall Street? It won’t be forever Kev.

And what’s that about the ‘far right?’ Is the contractor on the ‘far right?’ And those ‘artisan radicals?’ Kevin McKenna is such an intellectual, eh?

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I thought the Red Clydesiders and the Calton Weavers were artisan radicals of the kind Kev admired. Is he sneering about modern-day folk again? He’s so cool.

Back to the main point, Glasgow. Does Glasgow look like a war-zone? Even that photo above is no Gaza even by the stretch of the most disturbed imagination.

So, repeating ourselves, here are TWELVE reasons why Glasgow is no war zone, is really getting better and is already better than most English cities but it’s being hidden from you by Labour-supporting media

Edinburgh and Glasgow rated as best small cities in UK
SNP-run Glasgow City builds more than SIX times as many affordable homes as Labour-run Birmingham City thanks to £94 million from SNP Government
Glasgow’s growing productivity to leave all but one major English city behind
Glasgow’s SNP council to increase council tax by far less than Birmingham Labour council AND increase staff and free school meals while they impose ‘devastating cuts’
Families in Labour-run Bath and North-East Somerset wait 40 to 200 times as long for social housing as those in SNP-run Glasgow or across Scotland
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has one of the lowest operation cancellation rates in Scotland with nearly 99% completion rates
SNP-run Glasgow City built 110 times more social rent homes than Labour-run Liverpool last year
Crime rate in Central London is more than 5 times higher than in Glasgow after 18 years free of ConLab rule
As Audit Scotland and BBC Scotland find bad news on Glasgow have they ever told you how crime in Glasgow fell far below level in English cities?
Anas won’t say – There is a higher percentage of the people, in my home city of Glasgow alone, being treated for life-threatening conditions such as heart disease and cancer within 18 weeks than in any part of England
Manchester to Leeds more than TWICE Glasgow to Edinburgh at any time and overall cheapest rail fares in UK but BBC Scotland headline an advertising error
Will Anas Sarwar back his home city Glasgow against Sir Keir Starmer and the Home Office as their failures force a refugee homelessness crisis onto it a whole year after they were warned by the SNP Council?

Kevin McKenna, a friend of the far-right?

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3 thoughts on “Glasgow is the best large city in the UK regardless of the sneering from Kev McKenna ’boutique conservative’ and friend of the far right”

  1. If you ever wondered what the Reform UK squillions of recent donations was intended for – just read ”artisan radical ” journos like Kevin Mckenna and wonder no more !I mean , would any serious publication actually pay money for the ordure that he has been excreting in recent times ?

    This is what you get when the media , especially the print media , are simply loudhailers for the unionist propaganda of ever more extreme Westminster parties . Don’t kid yourself that had Labour of the Tories received these obscene donations that they would have been any different from Farage’s fascists . Remember , these were the very people who gave us Better Together – and lied and lied and lied , and continue to lie to the people of Scotland .

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  2. It’s almost incessant now, “state ae they roads, man” essempee waant tae get a grip. Roads getting fixed? “ye cannae drive anywhere these days fuhrr roadwurx essempee waant tae get a grip.”

    Damned if ye do, Damned if ye don’t.

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  3. I think McKenna’s real gripe is simply that he absolutely hates the SNP and so he is determined to convince others to also hate them as well.

    However he is choosing to express that hate by stooping very low.

    Remember when McKenna spent time with the then Tory Councillor Thomas Kerr (who has now defected to Reform UK).

    He was also “walking the streets” back then too.

    He called Kerr “the most impressive Conservative I’ve ever encountered”.

    Honestly if the people who live in Glasgow cannot see what the likes of McKenna and others , who also represent British Nationalist media, are all blatantly trying to do, then there really would be no hope for Glaswegians nor indeed for others who live within Scotland either.

    McKenna ignores all of the S*** connected to the Tories, Labour and Reform UK just to falsely accuse the SNP as being those who have destroyed Glasgow (and Scotland).

    McKenna is the kind of churnalist who would blame the SNP for not paying out , on what was a Labour scandal, in the fight for equal pay for women in Glasgow.

    However we all know (as does McKenna) that the SNP inherited the historical pay inequalities from Labour when Labour were formerly in power in Glasgow council.

    Then of course there is the biggest scandal and that scandal is the PFI scandal .

    Not down to the SNP in any way but very very much down to Labour and the Tories as those to blame for that most shambolic and most expensive mess. (Started by the Tories but greatly expanded by Labour)

    So yet again another thing left behind by British Nationalist parties for the SNP to yet again have to deal with and so try to sort out.

    An expense that has caused millions of pounds of outstanding debt for Glasgow or is it more ?

    As of 2026 – “recent reports state Glasgow City Council is millions of pounds in outstanding PFI debt“.

    Actually incredibly The Herald ran a story on “Glasgow City Council faces tens of millions of pounds in annual PFI (Private Finance Initiative) payments and hundreds of millions in total remaining long-term liabilities from historical building projects”.

    Does Kevin McKenna ever read The Herald ?

    PFI and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) debt in Scotland is projected at being in the billions.

    So really who is it to blame for “Reform UK being supposedly on the rise” ?

    Well I would blame churnalists like Kevin , as well as most of the UK media but also very much those traditional parties like the Tory party and the Labour party who have both been UK governments.

    As UK governments both Labour and the Tories are those who have been responsible for much of the decline and the complete mess that has happened within their UK State (and more so within Scotland).

    Plus of course we have the big mess that is Brexit, that no one within the media wants to expose as a big mess. (mainly because that would then damage the political party that they support as a media).

    The UK State is corrupt and unfit , as a State , for Scotland to still be a part of.

    Simples.

    Liz S

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