Is this a humiliation for Glasgow? ?

Sorry, should have read that through after I altered it!!

TillyTrotter

BTW I live in one of the English cities and they each have some or all of the problems OP mentions regarding Glasgow.
Binmen went on strike in Birmingham for months a while ago, the rubbish piled in the streets and there were complaints of vermin etc.

But did you have a UNClimate Change Conference there at the time with delegates flying in from all over the world telling the rest of us we can't fly to see our families because in order to save the planet?

Alegrias1, I’d guess that a computer would be a lot cheaper than the travel and accommodation costs for the vast majority of attendees. And could be used for years to come too.

It's all a bit risky nexus63. Good luck with it all.

i have nurses coming in every day and they are worried about how they will get to work as we are in the west end of glasgow, they have not only closed visitor sites but also some schools and nurseries. i stay just off a very long road that will be packed with traffic (anybody in the west end will know the rd) emergency services will be affected because of all the closed roads and the express way coming off the m8, they have not thought this through very well and as for the strikes, they probably think they will get what they want because of cop26.....just as an afterthought, someone told me the people coming in do not need a vaccine passport, is not a bit risky?

BTW I live in one of the English cities and they each have some or all of the problems OP mentions regarding Glasgow.
Binmen went on strike in Birmingham for months a while ago, the rubbish piled in the streets and there were complaints of vermin etc.

Why they all have to come:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58925049?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

All delegates have computers I assume. That might not actually be the case.

It seems archaic if not silly during a world pandemic particularly for so many people to travel to a Conference anywhere.
With the technology we have today it can be undertaken by screen. All delegates have computers I assume.

Phew!

Yes, it has, I believe. There were pictures in the Herald a while ago of the rubbish being removed.

Glasgow grans

It doesn't seem a brilliant idea for 30,000 people to descend on any city by any means of transport during the Covid epidemic in the first place not to mention the rise in greenhouse gases caused by it all.
Another query for Glasgow grand : has all the fly tipped rubbish been moved from under that flyover?

Seabreeze

And how will all the attendees be getting there -flying I’ve no doubt.
As Alegrias1 said you couldn’t make it up!

what do you expect them to do? Walk there?

Seabreeze

And how will all the attendees be getting there -flying I’ve no doubt.
As Alegrias1 said you couldn’t make it up!

But I can understand why they're flying there.

The existence of the summit and the need for it is not what I was calling into question.

And how will all the attendees be getting there -flying I’ve no doubt.
As Alegrias1 said you couldn’t make it up!

Indeed they don't, nipsmum (I was a resident myself for many years, so know that that is true ) .

I find myself wondering if some of the posters, including the OP, would not be entirely displeased if it were to be a "humiliation for Glasgow"... Otherwise, what is the point of starting the thread at all?

They managed to do an extremely good organised Commonwealth games. They will manage the Climate conference. As for accomodation Edinburgh is only 50 miles away with direct Motorway links if accomodation is required. Glasgow is not a problem because it's not in England. The residents don't have straw between the ears.

It seems that several of the participants are lobbying the un to tone down reduction in fossil fuel so the whole thing is doomed from the start. Saw that UK is sending chalf a billion to Columbia / Brazil to protect the rain forest which is still being illegally logged and burnt despite the money, yet here at home the subsidy for heat pumps will only be enough for 90,000

Buttercup1954

From The National. Say no more. Wouldn't believe a word they said.

The Open University then?

Leftie independence supporting communists, the whole lot of 'em.

I'm also going to assume that the chips are the ones that go with cod and mushy peas, rather than the more Celtic haddock supper with sauce...

From The National. Say no more. Wouldn't believe a word they said.

Seem to be massive chips on shoulders in this thread. Replies to a post written in good humour are hilarious!

Well, seeing as I started it...

Do we trust the OU?

www.open.ac.uk/scotland/news/blogs/why-glasgow%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98bolshevist-uprising%E2%80%99-1919-wasn%E2%80%99t-quite-red-threat-uk-many-believed

Quite right, it wasn't tanks in George Square to quell the demonstration, it was machine gun emplacements. The tanks didn't arrive until the following Monday.

And any mention of Winston Churchill, brought up by a mischievous old spectre, is deflection from the actual truth.

Now, can we move on?

Blossoming

Oh look - some facts.

www.thenational.scot/news/15907896.photo-didnt-fit---uk-send-tanks-glasgow/

That's a bit of 'spinning' by a Scot Nat newspaper columnist, worthy of Alastair Campbell at his best/worst. I don't have the time right now to refute much of the content, but I'll try to get back to it in due course.

Oh Sherlock, good sleuthing!

Oh look - some facts.

www.thenational.scot/news/15907896.photo-didnt-fit---uk-send-tanks-glasgow/