Is this a humiliation for Glasgow? ?

I know they are striking, I live here, but I repeat, they are NOT presently on strike.

Well good luck with their eventual strike. They certainly deserve more money.

Callistemon

Granniesunite

I don’t post a lot Callistmon so I suppose you could say I’m a newcomer but yes I thought it was an unfair comment to make to Lucca. She was right to expressing her opinion and she was polite.

She is and so am I. It was not unfair.

I was perfectly polite

You were and are. And at least you weren’t condescending like some…… But thank you Granniesunite !

There has been a problem with staffing levels, due to the pandemic, but these employees are working really hard in difficult circumstances. They deserve a rise, but finding the cash to fund it is yet another problem.

Alegrias1

Who mentioned Winston Churchill?

Is that you Boris?

Come off it, Alegrias1.
You know very well that "Churchill ordering English troops in to massacre the Scottish proletariat" forms an integral part of the whole "tanks in George Square" myth that gets trotted out whenever a Scot Nat/Red Clydesider wants to drop a cheap anti-English/Tory/Westminster Rule innuendo into any debate. You appear to be an intelligent, well-read individual, so I'm surprised to see you spouting this pernicious fiction.

And the name's Bodach. Seumas Bodach. Licensed to potter about in search of my spectacles and factual inaccuracies perpetuated online.
(OK: In the interests of truth and transparency, it's not really "Seumas")

Bodach ?

Are you really a bodach? That would explain the mansplaining.

Lucca

Callistemon

Granniesunite

I don’t post a lot Callistmon so I suppose you could say I’m a newcomer but yes I thought it was an unfair comment to make to Lucca. She was right to expressing her opinion and she was polite.

She is and so am I. It was not unfair.

I was perfectly polite

You were and are. And at least you weren’t condescending like some…… But thank you Granniesunite !

Thank you Lucca
I have been known to get tetchy but I wasn't on that occasion (or didn't meant to be)

Oh look - some facts.

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

Oh Sherlock, good sleuthing!

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.

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?

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

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

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...

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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?

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?

Glasgow grans

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

Phew!