By Liz S

So I see Chris Mitchell, the fly tipping Rep from GMB, is aiding Labour again in preparation for the Scottish local elections next year.

Labour really wants to win back Glasgow council.

Apparently Chris went with Paul Sweeney and Monica Lennon on a walkabout to areas in Glasgow that had a fly tipping problem.

Paul Sweeney , Labour MSP and expert political opportunist , posted this yesterday:

“I recently joined @GMBScotOrg on a walkabout to see first-hand the scale of Glasgow’s fly-tipping and street cleansing crisis. These problems are not happening in isolation. They are the result of years of underfunding and a failure to give the city’s cleansing services the resources they need. This cannot be allowed to continue. The people of Glasgow deserve better”.

Well Mr Sweeney , Glasgow deserved better than the Labour party hence why Labour lost overall control of Glasgow in 2017 , just ask the women workers who had to fight the Labour council in Glasgow to try to get equal pay.

Paul also included a video of Chris Mitchell who said that they were “looking for a strategy for the waste crisis” and that he hoped that they, Sweeney & Lennon, “take that back to parliament” (aka make it political and blame the SNP).

Chris Mitchell , big Labour supporter, was not trying to be political of course.

Indeed the fact that , Chris Mitchell GMB Rep, is doing this yet again with other Labour politicians is just a coincidence, but he is using different Labour politicians now that he has lost Anas Sarwar his usual partner (in slime).

Chris then states in his video that “Glasgow has been totally underfunded for years”.

Would that be pre or post 2017 Chris ?

Then Paul Sweeney appears in the video standing in front of a pile of rubbish that has been fly tipped , and he states:

“The key thing today is working with the Trade unions and the workers and the cleansing department of Glasgow . We can get together and find a strategy to solve this problem in the city. It’s by working together that we’ll get that problem solved. Here in the city (and he then indicates towards the rubbish behind him) we do have a massive cleansing crisis , fly tipping and general waste disposal not being addressed. It’s a common complaint among constituents (Sweeney did not win constituency vote in 2026 as he came second) but we know other cities do it well . Let’s learn from them . Let’s understand what we can di better in Glasgow. And that’s why the strategy at the GMB are going for is so useful, because it’s by getting workers , politicians and decision makers and the wider community together we can finally fix this problem and solve Glasgow’s waste crisis. We know we’ve been underfunded , but we can get the strategy and the process better as well”.

Then Monica Lennon pops up in the video and she says “This is a consequence of years of underfunding for Glasgow. Under the SNP we’ve got lots of policies , lots of strategies but not enough funding to make sure that emergencies like fly tipping are dealt with properly. The people of Glasgow deserve better so pleased to be out with GMB Scotland to see what needs to be done and I’ll be taking this back to parliament with my Scottish Labour colleagues”

So basically this was a party political broadcast on behalf of the Labour party (trying to win Glasgow back next year).

Firstly let’s remember here that Fly tipping is done by people and that is where the problem actually lies.

Secondly Labour left Glasgow in a financial mess with the huge debt that was incurred via legacy PFI deals ( Glasgow faces the highest annual legacy Private Finance Initiative (PFI) repayments of any local authority in Scotland, with Glasgow City Council estimated to pay £73.41 million in the 2026–27 financial year) and they , Labour, also left the SNP , as the new Glasgow council, the job of clearing up the mess that they , Labour , left in the equal pay dispute (the SNP council agreed to pay out over £770 million in settlements to thousands of current and former claimants).

Thirdly The minority Labour run Edinburgh council was reported as having faced “extensive illegal dumping and waste issues. Recent committee reports revealed that the council spent over £650,000 of housing funds on private contractors to remove fly-tipping from housing association/HRA land over a five-year period, with ongoing localized hotspots in areas like Craigmillar and Marchmont”. Then also reported in connection to the Labour minority North Lanarkshire council “Local representatives have repeatedly criticized the administration over persistent illegal dumping (such as around Cumbernauld Road) and raised concerns that council policies, like bulky-item uplift charges, contribute to ongoing fly-tipping” . Also other Labour run councils have also had reported concerns on this problem of fly tipping.

Also in England – Labour run Leeds City Council: “Frequently cited in regional and national council data as having some of the highest recorded numbers of illegal rubbish dumping incidents in England” (Labour have been running Leeds as both a majority and minority for years and currently run it as a minority administration).

Also Labour run Nottingham City Council as a majority administration: “They recorded over 30,511 incidents, marking one of the highest totals for an urban area outside of London”.

Fourthly Labour ran Birmingham from 2012 to 2026 (then from May 2026 no party has overall control) and Labour were in charge of Birmingham during most of the very very long bin strike that has now been unresolved for 1 year, 8 months, and 3 days (since March 2025 following initial intermittent action that began in January 2025 ).

I think we all know what Chris, Paul and Monica were all really doing in their vide and posts , and that is they are all canvassing for votes for Labour in next year’s council elections .

Labour will not solve the problem that is fly tipping , indeed it was reported that “Fly-tipping in England is a widespread and escalating issue, costing hundreds of millions of pounds and affecting communities, rural areas, and local authorities”.

So then is that also down to current Labour UK government “underfunding” in these various English cities, towns and rural areas ?

Or will the people who fly tip in various places within England be those who mainly (only) get all of the flak aka blame (by all of the Labour politicians, GMB Reps and the UK media within England ) ?

The answer to that is probably yes , as those who cause this problem , fly tipping, will be those identified as those solely to blame – while in Scotland we have Labour and GMB Reps and also UK media who , for political reasons, need to keep feeding their eternal grievance that is #SNPBAD.

Hopefully Glaswegians will see the fault lies totally with the idiots and selfish pigs who fly tip in their city, and so they as Glaswegians , will hopefully not take kindly to this being yet another thing that is being politicised by Labour and their friends in the GMB , who as politicians and Union Reps actually care more about winning votes for Labour by playing politics than solving the actual issues that they choose to politicise .

Liz S