Is SNP Waking Up to Glasgow's Refugee Crisis? Ep 135. 9 April 2025

Alistair McConnachie of pro-UK unionist campaign group and think tank, A Force For Good (AFFG), and viewers discuss:
- Welcome.
- Lion Rampant; remembers death of Prince Philip, and Funeral of Queen Mother.
- Pics from our weekend Street Stall.
- Our fantastic video views hit over 2 million last week!
- What are the purpose of tariffs?
- Economics is a science which is not set in stone.
- China is buying up the West using the money we've paid to it.
- Will tariffs make goods more expensive?
- Some tariff cartoons from history.
- Herbert Asquith, PM who took Britain into WWI, was MP for East Fife from 1886-1918.
- Difference between "Asylum Seekers" and "Refugees", and their funding.
- Refugees in Glasgow are putting strain on the housing stock.
- They're putting "utterly untenable" pressures on city's administration.
- Is this "Interactive Map of Asylum Seekers" accurate?
- Glasgow City Council will usually clear up litter if they're made aware!
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REFERENCES
Libby Brooks, "Asylum system risks 'damaging social cohesion', Glasgow city council warns", Guardian, online 1-4-25: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/01/asylum-system-risks-damaging-social-cohesion-glasgow-city-council-warns

Cameron Roy, "Britain's asylum seeker hotspots: Interactive map reveals how many YOUR council has taken in", Daily Mail, 15-3-25: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14491479/asylum-seeker-hotspots-Interactive-map.html

FURTHER READING
"To Stop the Boats, Criminalise the Channel Crossers"
https://www.aforceforgood.uk/single-post/criminalise-the-crossers

"Return to Sender: How to Do it"
https://www.aforceforgood.uk/single-post/deportation1

"End our Out-Dated, Massively Expensive, Refugee Benefit System"
https://www.aforceforgood.uk/single-post/end-refugee-benefit-system

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This is the 135th episode of "Good Evening Britain" broadcast on Wednesday 9th April 2025.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome to Good Evening Britain, a Force for
Goods weekly show coming to you live from our studios
here in the heart of the great British city of Glasgow,
with me your host, Alistair mcconachie. We are broadcasting on
all our digital platforms throughout the United Kingdom and across

(00:23):
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(00:44):
evening to you all. Thank you for tuning in. Please
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(01:06):
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(01:30):
hit the share button. We've got a packed show for
you this evening. We're going to be talking about Trump's
tariffs what they mean for the United Kingdom, good or bad.
If you have got an opinion on that, please do
send it in. We're also going to be asking whether

(01:53):
the SNP led Council in Glasgow is finally waking up
slowly to the refugee crisis which it has brought upon
its own head through its own virtue signaling. Is it

(02:14):
waking up? Will it ever really wake up? Or will
it go down with the ship shouting that it was
always correct and there was no iceberg in the first place.
That's the question. I'm sure you've got your own thoughts
on that as well. Where shall we indeed begin, Well,

(02:37):
let's begin with the flag behind me, which is the
Scotland's Lion Rampant. It's one of Scotland's royal flags. Thought
we'd fly that today because this was the day back
in twenty twenty one when the Duke of Edinburgh passed
away at the grand old age of ninety nine years

(03:00):
and ten months. He famously never wanted to reach one
hundred years old, and he never did reach one hundred
years old, falling short by just a few weeks. It's
also the same day ninth of April in two thousand
and two when the Queen Mother had her funeral and

(03:24):
she lived to the grand old age of one hundred
and one, so quite a bit going on in Royal
Britain on this day, ninth of April. So we thought
we'd fly the Royal flag in commemoration of those things
which we we like to do. We were also flying

(03:45):
a commemorative flag at the weekend because the weekend was
one of our street stalls, and let's put up a
pic there from us out at our street stall. There
you go with a banner We love the great British

(04:09):
city of Glasgow is what it says, with our website
a Force for Good dot UK below it. And you
won't see this on TikTok, folks. This is on our
YouTube dot com forward Slash UK a Force for Good
channel and that flag there is the Union jack with
a V for Victory design on it. It says eightieth

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Anniversary V Day nineteen forty five to twenty twenty five.
That's eighty years and v Eday Victory in Europe Day
is going to be on the eighth of March. There's

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another close up pick of that cracking flag which we
will be flying for the next few weeks in our
studio and also on the street. Okay. And that's a
stunning flag again from our street stall. That's a Force

(05:15):
for Goods flag. Great design, a fantastic design, and a
fantastic flag that really is something else. Catches the eye
like no other with that brilliant red design. Good good Okay,
So folks, thanks for everybody joining on TikTok. Please keep

(05:38):
watching if you want to hear the best pro UK
pro British commentary on the internet. As of twenty twenty five,
a Force for Goods TikTok channel, which has been knocking
things out the park. This week, we put up a
video on TikTok. Wait for this, folks. We put up

(06:00):
a video on TikTok and it today has got five
hundred and forty five thousand views. Wow. That drove our
our followership through the twenty thousand mark on TikTok. That's

(06:22):
not all though, because that same video, one of our
colleagues put it out on Facebook reels and as of
today it has one point three million views. Okay, one
point three million views on Facebook reels and on our

(06:45):
Instagram reels. It's got over ninety five thousand views. And
what was that video? It was a short video that
we played that we played last week of John mappin
the Heroick hotelier who refused to take the government's money

(07:07):
in order to defend his local village, to defend the
jobs in his local village as well as for safety reasons. Also,
he refused to take the government's shilling as they were
wanting him to put up the masses of asylum seekers

(07:28):
in his fancy hotel. He turned them down. Good man. Well,
the world congratulates him and the world loved his video absolutely,
over two million views on UK Force for Goods platforms itself.
Great stuff, great stuff, and well done to the team
for pulling that one off as well. So let's let's

(07:52):
talk about the tariffs that Trump is is imposing, you
could say upon the old And as I do this,
I'm going to bring up a BBC article on the
question what are tariffs? Just be with me as I

(08:17):
bring this one up, there we go, what are tariffs
and why is Trump using them? Okay, well it says
here basically tariffs are a form of taxes charged on
goods brought from other countries. Now, the point here is

(08:39):
that China, for example, everybody uses the example of China.
China can produce goods at a very low cost because
it has low overhead costs, so it can produce widgets
a lot cheaper than Britain can produce widgets, or that
America can produce widgets, and it then goes and sells

(09:00):
those widgets in the British market or in the American market,
and thereby undercuts British widget producers. The idea of a
tariff is to make it a level playing field. So
instead say, for example, China creates widgets one pound ahead

(09:26):
and Britain creates them at two pounds ahead. Then what
we do is we put on a one pound tariff
for every widget, so that when China brings that widget
to market in the UK, it's going to be at
two pounds the same cost that it costs a British
producer to produce the same thing. So it's about leveling

(09:49):
up at least leveling the market place and charging for
others products. So I've actually explained that better than the
BBC does here, and so it's why is Trump using tariffs?
For decades, Trump has argued that the US should use

(10:10):
tariffs to boost its economy. He says they will encourage
US consumers to buy more American made goods, increase the
amount of tax raised, and lead to huge levels of
investment in the country. And that's largely correct. Now some
people will say, well, that's still to be proven. The
thing about Trump, though, the good thing about Trump. The

(10:32):
good thing about Trump is he said, well, let's take
a chance on that. And there's not many politicians in
this day and age who will have the nerve to
actually go there, to actually say, well, this is how
it could work. So we're going to try. Now, it
might be a little tough in the interim, but I
believe he says in the long term it's going to

(10:53):
be better for the country. And so that's really shaken
up the whole world because hitherto largely post war, the
idea has been let's just have free trade completely. Let's
have minimum tariff barriers. There's always been some degree of tariffs,

(11:13):
but let's have minimum tariff barriers barriers, and let's just
see where the cards fall. And the cards usually fall
outside of the United Kingdom, that is, it's cheaper for
all these other countries to produce almost everything than it
has been in the UK, and so therefore UK business
has gone out of business. And I, as a pro

(11:39):
britain person, have always believed that tariffs definitely have a
price a part to play in running a national economy.
They always have a price a place in the national economy,
and they should be used carefully in order to protect

(11:59):
certain vital elements of a nation's industry. For example, our energy,
our steel production, much of our industry. Things which enable
us to create serious products will enable us to remain

(12:19):
a serious country. If we can't anymore produce steel, we
can't produce ships, We can't produce anything for our military,
for example, without importing it. If we can't produce our
own oil and gas, then we are utterly dependent upon
the rest of the world simply for our energy supplies.

(12:42):
So there has to be a degree of tariffs, and
Trump is bringing back that idea, an idea that has
been has been rejected by mainstream, by mainstream doctrine for
many years. And as an aside about mainstream doctrine, okay,

(13:07):
we sometimes think that because we're always reading a certain
point of view in the newspaper, or because all of
academia has accepted something that, oh, this must be the
correct way that things must always be, when in fact,
what we're actually looking at is people who are doing

(13:28):
very well out of the system at the moment making
sure that their particular lifestyle continues by making sure that
the people who write on the economy, the people who
publish books on the economy, the people who talk about
the economy are all parroting the same thing which is
making me lots of money at this particular time, thank

(13:51):
you very much. So sometimes what we think is actually
absolute reality is really nothing more than a system which
is serving some people at this time, and they're keen
for that system to keep going on. It's not as
if and this is definitely the thing with economics. There
is no absolute economic perfection. Okay, there's always people doing

(14:15):
very well for themselves wanting that particular system to continue.
And so when a disruptor like Trump comes in and goes, well,
you know what, America is actually now going to start
looking out for America. After we've had generations of politicians
in the pay of the markets, in the pay of

(14:36):
the financial corporations, now we've got a man who's going
to turn things over and all you financial corporations and
all you markets are just going to have to suck
it up and find a way of making money out
of the new system now. So it's very very exciting
times that we're looking at, and what the way America goes,

(14:57):
the rest of the world will start to follow as well.
There's no doubt about that. So very exciting, very exciting times,
and it's so important. Another reason why tariffs are important
is I was thinking about this the other day. Imagine
you're a country alistair goes to the supermarket every day

(15:22):
and the supermarket provides him with everything that he needs virtually.
Imagine I'm also the country going to China. So I
go to the supermarket and I buy all the cheap
goods and services, and I give the supermarket all my money.

(15:43):
That's like Britain going to China and buying everything from
China and giving China all its money. China's now got
all of this money, my money. The supermarket's now got
all of my money. What does it do with that
money that I've given it? It comes into my house,
or it comes into my country, and it buys up

(16:03):
my house, it buys up my country. And you're seeing
this in Britain and also in America. China, which has
been living high and all this money that it's been
getting from the West, is now using that Western money
coming into the West and purchasing the West lock stock
and barrel farms, businesses, real estate. It's all going into

(16:27):
China's hands, which they're purchasing with the money that they've
earned from selling cheap goods to us. So that has
to stop. And Britain has got sold off to the
rest of the world as a consequence of this free
trade system. It's not just workers getting put out of jobs.

(16:50):
It's literally given other countries the wherewithal to purchase our country.
So if you are a patriot, then you have to
you have to accept that tariffs definitely have a role,
and like all of these things, it's it can be

(17:11):
in moderation, but it definitely has a role. So but
people who are totally against tariffs, you have to say, well,
what's up with you, mate? What's what's behind your reasoning?
There is it self interest because you're you're enjoying the
presence system as it exists at the moment. So we
definitely don't want to sell off our country. And a

(17:36):
couple of commentators here, Prump's new tariff war is radically rational,
says Tim Stanley, who's always a sensible fellow. He's talking
about a fellow here at the Treasury Secretary urged a
detox period to kick these nasty habits of of absolute,

(17:59):
absolutely free trade. He said, access to cheap goods is
not the essence of the American dream. The Trump tariffs
are designed to be a foreign policy tool to bully Mexico.
This is Tim Stanley speaking to bully Mexico into policing
its border, but also to generate revenue to shift from

(18:22):
buying things from abroad to making them at home, as
well as to punish bad behavior by friends who dump
their goods in the US market while penalizing imports from America.
And some people will say, well, okay, isn't this going
to make goods more expensive? If we can't get our

(18:44):
cheap Chinese stuff, we're going to be paying more, are
we not? And that's certainly rational. That might be a consequence.
But what the tariff promoters will say, and what remains
to be seen but is entirely possible, is that America

(19:06):
will become more prosperous as a consequence. So the people,
more of the people will be in work, the people
will be better off, the people will be able to
afford these goods. And because the nation is making a
lot of money from tariffs, they might even be able

(19:28):
to reduce other taxes such as income tax and so on,
because America may be able to fund itself in large
part from tariffs rather from taxes out of people's income.
So it could all balance out in the end, and

(19:49):
Trump is hoping that it's not just going to balance out,
it's going to balance in favor of the American citizen.
So really quite a rad eco option here, which could
work on paper, It could certainly work. And it's exciting
times economically that we're living to see. And we need

(20:12):
to encourage our own politicians to do something similar, or
at least to take much more of a nationalistic view
of the economy and not an internationalist view whereby they
just let the country be bought over by foreign capital. Essentially.

(20:36):
Alan Cochran here talking around the same thing, relating it
to North Sea oil, of course, which is another thing.
As he says here, why wouldn't we use what we
have instead of buying what the USA is selling? We
are currently importing eight point five billion worth of its

(20:56):
crude oil when survey after survey insists that developing existing
no north Sea reserves would produce enough oil and gas
to meet half of the UK's needs for years to come.
And furthermore, industry sources insist that developing new fields could
produce one hundred and fifty billion pound boost. Then there

(21:19):
are the two giant fields, Rosebank and jack Daw, whose
further development is stalled. The Labor government is officially stuckfast
on a rock which still says no to new north
Sea development. But there is widespread resistance to this policy,
remaining absolutely absolutely it needs to be. It needs to be,

(21:42):
it needs to be done. We need to have that
sort of thinking again. Tariff cartoons that we found on
the internet. The first one's really good. Let's just get
remove that banner along the bottom the top that says crushed,
support tariff reform and help the Britainish worker. And there's
a ship called the Free Trader, and there's a businessman

(22:05):
with a top hat looking on as his cargo of
boxes fall on top and crush a man that says
British workmen, and the boxes say tools from the Usa
from Italy, glass from Belgium, Swiss watches, toys from Saxony,

(22:26):
silver and cutlery from Germany, pianos from Germany, boots from America,
all of this coming in in a way that the
British workman is unable to compete with indeed gets crushed by.
And presumably here we go, look, presumably the tariff reform

(22:48):
means putting tariffs up. This one says, look at it
from both sides. By British and be self supporting. On
one hand you have your employer and wages, and on
the other you get money to spend. By British and
be self supporting. Okay. And another poster here says to

(23:11):
provide your wages, someone must buy British. That's true, isn't
it set a good example yourself, Set a good example
yourself by British. Okay, Well, I always try to buy
British when I can, especially food. I mean, that's the
main thing that you're buying, isn't it So by by

(23:33):
British food, support British farms. And when you possibly can
buy British if you can find British things in the shops,
William says, buy British or just ransack the stores seems
to be the current trend. Yes, yes, so it's very

(23:53):
sad when you look at some of the videos on
Twitter or TikTok, mainly from London of youths usually visitors
from the Empire, as I like to call them, just
ransacking stealing. It's terrible, terrible. William says, it must be

(24:14):
a comedy show. If you're saying the snp of waking
up to the probably I think they wake up and
they go back to sleep again. That's their story. Thanks
for the comment. Joseph clear Tones says, do you think
England would accept being governed from Edinburgh? I think they

(24:34):
certainly would. I discovered a very interesting point yesterday which
I couldn't believe that Herbert Asquith, who was the Prime
Minister who took Britain into World War One, I had
just presumed like it was a London MP. It was
the MP for East Fife. He was the MP for

(24:56):
East Fife when he took Britain into war in nineteen fourteen,
and he had been the MP for East Fife since
eighteen eighty six, and he remained the MP for East
Fife until the end of World War Two, and then
in nineteen twenty he became the MP for Paisley for
four years and then he died in nineteen twenty five.

(25:18):
That amazed me that he was the Prime Minister for
East Fife, sorry, the MP for East Fife, and of
course at the same time that he was MP for
East five Winston Churchill was the MP for Dundee and
Winston Churchill remained the MP for Dundee until nineteen twenty two,
a period of fourteen years being the being the MP

(25:39):
for Dundee. So I think that it doesn't really matter
where the actual place of where the actual parliament is.
It's what matters is that we see ourselves as British
together and we see ourselves as looking at for the

(26:00):
best interests of all of the United Kingdom. And in
that regard, I think everybody in the UK can understand that,
not necessarily I agree with it, but they can understand
where we are coming from. So yes, let's look at
the situation of refugees in Glasgow. And before I speak

(26:22):
about it, let me just give you some background on
the difference between an asylum seeker and a refuge Now,
an asylum seeker fresh off the boats climbs asylum and
they will get put in a hotel while their claim
is being processed and the Home Office is responsible for them,

(26:47):
and the money to look after them comes from the
overall British taxpayer spot that the Home Office uses to
give these people a small amount of essentially pocket money,
but covers their accommodation and access to health care and

(27:08):
so on and so forth. But they have to stay
in a hotel, they're not allowed to work, and if
they get found, if their claim gets agreed upon, then
they are given what's called refuge leave to remain. Their

(27:30):
status changes from an asylum seeker to a refuge And
when you get refugee leave to remain, then the wonders
of the British welfare state open up to you on
essentially the same basis as if you were a British citizen.
That is, you will be immediately allowed to access social housing,

(27:55):
you will be allowed housing benefit, you will be allowed
Universal Credit, you will be allowed to get a job,
and so on and so forth. So you're given eight
weeks to leave hotel accommodation. In this eight weeks you
have got to find somewhere to live because you are

(28:18):
now given leave to remain in the UK, and I
can't imagine that's particularly easy for somebody to find. But nevertheless,
you are able now to claim housing, social housing and
housing benefits, so there will be organizations that help you

(28:39):
to get that. Now. A few years ago, noting that
the rest of England was suffering from this, the SNP thought,
I know what we can do. We'll say refugees welcome
here in Scotland, knowing that none of them are going
to come to Scotland, but we can virtue event we

(29:01):
can virtue signal about what wonderful guys we are because
we believe refugees are welcome. What they never really thought
would happen was that refugees would actually take them up
on the offer. And so there are now thousands of
refugees in Scotland with a legal claim to social housing

(29:23):
that the fools on the SNP led Glasgow Council have
got to find accommodation for are legally obliged to give
social housing to. Now, this whole thing is absurd and
we're writing a book at the moment on how to
change all of this. And one of the policies is

(29:47):
that if somebody that I would advocate is if somebody
gets refugee status, then they do not get full access
to the British welfare system on the same time terms
as a British citizen. They have to pay their own way,
which means they need to find somewhere to live, but

(30:09):
they can't claim benefits. They can't claim housing benefits. Yeah,
they can get a job, but they have to pay
their own way. And do you know what that would
stop a lot of people climbing asylum in the first place,
because so many of these so called refugees are just
economic migrants who are hoping to get accepted as a

(30:32):
refugee in order that they can then live largely on
the British benefits system. So that needs to stop. It
needs to be that if you're given refugee status, you
pay your own way, and if you can't pay your
own way, you have to leave. And you don't need

(30:53):
to go home, but you can't stay in this country.
You need to leave. That needs to become the new
way of dealing with refugees because it's utterly absurd that
they are given the same rights as a British citizen.
This right by the way that they have once they
get refugee status is written into the UN Refugee Convention.

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That's why we have to give them these rights. So
long as we are members of the UN Refugee Convention,
we have to treat an official refugee in the same
way as a British citizen. Essentially, that has to end,
and it's really only going to end when we leave

(31:34):
the UN Refugee Convention and we set up our own
asylum and refugee rules which will be much more prohibitive
but will make sure we get far less people trying
to game the system. So an article appeared just recently,
indeed in the in the Guardian. Let's let's do the

(32:00):
Guardians one Guardian. Whatever you may think about the Guardian,
it is it's always got very in depth articles which
are well worth well worth reading. Here we go asylum
system risks quote damaging social cohesion, Glasgow City Council warns.

(32:24):
Council says cost is running into tens of millions as
homeless refugees are granted asylum across the UK and they're
coming to Glasgow to live basically, and this is another
thing about the refugee system is when they become an
official refugee, the cost gets shifted to the council area

(32:46):
that they go to. So we in Glasgow, our council
tax payments are going towards the refugees while they're in
the hotels. The hotel and so on are paid for
just out of the largely British taxpayer pool of money.
But when they come to a council area to live,

(33:08):
specifically as an official refugee, that money comes out of
our council taxes and it's harder to keep track of
them as well. It's harder to keep track of how
that money is spent when it's just becoming part of
the wider council pool of money. So it says here

(33:30):
Glasgow City Council is the largest asylum dispersal area outside
London and has welcomed asylum seekers for decades. Yeah yeah, yeah,
but go back forty years. How many asylums seekers where
they're in Glasgow? Probably just a handful, well compared to
today anyway, But the unique circumstances of Scotland's stronger housing rights,

(33:51):
such as a statutory duty to accommodate single adult males,
means the current cost to the city is running into
the tens of millions with no end in sight. What
that means is in England there's a statutory duty to
house women with children and pregnant women and elderly and

(34:12):
vulnerable people. But the Scottish so called government, always wanting
to virtue signal, widened that into a statute reduty to
accommodate single adult males, which is absolutely blooming ridiculous because
single adult males can be shacking up with other single
adult males like many of us have had to do

(34:34):
throughout our life and just a slummet you know. But no,
apparently you get a house now as if you're as
on the same basis as if you're a pregnant woman
utterly just you know, that sort of attitude, that sort
of virtue signaling or I'm calling it virtue venting in
order to get one over on like the English just

(34:57):
irritates me no end. And that's the only they did it.
Oh what's England doing? Oh it gives a statutory duty
that you have to house single pregnant females. Okay, well
let's make it just single males as well. I can't
there we go over the past year, hundreds of people
who's hundreds. Oh yeah right, mate, hundreds more like thousands

(35:19):
who received their asylum decision elsewhere in the UK have
come to Glasgow to access homelessness services. Okay, so not
these people now are moving in on the genuinely homeless,
like the genuinely down in trouble, the genuine poor homeless
people that you see on the streets, the genuinely addicted

(35:42):
people who have got trouble. The genuinely homeless. They now
have to compete with basically the rest of the world,
who shouldn't be competing with them, just for homeless accommodation.
Here you go. More than half of those in the
city's temporarycommodation are from households that have been granted refugee

(36:03):
leave to remain. More than half of those in the
city's temporary accommodation. While the Labor government extended the notice
period for refugees to exit home office accommodation to eight weeks,
it can take months for them to receive the documentation
required to secure alternative affordable accommodation and for their Universal

(36:26):
Credit claims to be processed. Well, they should be slumming
it with their mates together rather than using up flats
and homes in Glasgow. Well, they shouldn't be getting refugee
leave to remain in the first place, right, But if
they are, they shouldn't be getting homes along with it.

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It says here more than one thousand people from elsewhere
in the UK, coming from cities such as Belfast, London,
Manchester and Birmingham, have come to Glasgow since February twenty
twenty four to access homelessness support attracted by Scotland's housing rights.
Now a thousand people. I am, to paraphrase Mark Twain,
I am personally associated with more than one thousand refugees

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in this area of Glasgow alone, so I'm presuming that's
going to be more than a thousand. But there you go.
I don't know where that figure came from. So the
council is worried about this and it's eager to meet
the Government's Asylum Minister, Angela Ego when she visits Glasgow.
I think that was actually yesterday that she came. Last week. Casey,

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who is the Alan Casey, who is the Glasgow councilman
who is responsible for the homeless situation, vote directly to
Ego asking for a face to face opportunity to discuss
what he describes as the utterly untenable pressures that the
city administration is facing as part of the ongoing changes
to asylum dispersal. Well, utterly untenable is an interesting and

(38:00):
strong phrase that he's using. And remember these people are
the most extreme virtue signalers in Scotland and even they
are saying that the asylum system is putting utterly untenable
pressures upon the city and anybody can see that, and

(38:21):
anybody's been able to see that for a while. So
it goes on here he makes one or two virtue
He continues to virtue signal, but at the same time
it's clear that he is concerned. Glasgow is the largest
dispersal area in the UK and we currently house over

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four thousand asylum seekers here and the housing services provider,
a company called Mirrors, have capacity for over seven thousand.
This is putting unprecedented pressure on our housing system. And
then he just says stuff that's not even what saying
because it but he feels that he has to in

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order to maintain his virtue signaling credentials, but that attitude
has to go, and more of the utterly untenable attitude
has to come in. It has to come in. This
system is utterly untenable, and the problem is the government

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allowing people to claim asylum in the first place. We
need to come out of the UN Refugee Convention and
then we can start afresh with our own system, which
we'll say that you don't get rehousing if you're a refugee.
You have to find your own accommodation and you have

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to pay for it, and if you fail to pay
for it, then you have to leave the country. That's
the answer. You heard it here first, and that is
coming in because it has to come in because the
alternative is simply chaos. Absolutely, Kenny, why is it our
job to house the bloody world? Totally? Totally. It's like,

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it's not like these people don't have another country to
live in, Like this is our country, it's the only
country we have. These people have another country, they can
live there. I'm sure they can live at the other
end of their country if they don't like what's happening
at the other side of their country. Like it's not
our job to house the world. That attitude just has

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to go, has to go. William says, surely we must
be able to renege on the UN Migration Pact. Well, yes,
we can renege on any of these things if we
have parliamentarians who will do such a thing. Kim says.
During the lockdowns, our local hotels were full of illegals. Absolutely.

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Let's look at this ridiculous or well worrying, shall we say,
map of where the asylum seekers are until only what
you think of this, if it's correct or if it's
just belowne. This is a map which purports to show

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the hot spots. It's from the Daily Mail's website and
it's from their article Britain's Asylum Seeker hot Spots Interactive
map reveals how many your council has taken in published
on the fifteenth of March last month, and we can

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go here and see in the Scottish borders and see.
This is why I'm not believing this. It says the
population is one hundred and sixteen thouy total asylum seekers three.
That's like one two three in the whole of the
Scottish borders. Does that seem right to you? Dumfries and
Galloway eighty six, West Lothian eighty three, North Atlantishrare fifty

(41:57):
five Glasgow City. There you go fourth one hundred and
ninety three. As I say, I'm personally associated with foury
one hundred and ninety three asylums. Sorry, refugees or wait no,
these are asylum seekers. These are not refugees. These are
asylum seekers. This is the one I just can't believe. Sterling,
in the whole of Sterling Council area there's two asylum seekers,

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two of them. Apparently, there's none at all in the
Highland Region, in More Council area there's none at all.
In Aberdeenshire there's two hundred and seventy two, but Aberdeen City,
Aberdeen City three hundred and fifty two. Mmm. Something tells

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me these figures, well, these figures are indeed from September
twenty twenty four, so let's say six months ago, even
six months ago, these figures must have been out of date.
That must be it. They must have been like two
year old of three year old figures or something like that.
I don't know. I'm just speculating because there's no way
that in the whole of Sterling Council there are literally

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no asylums. There are two asylum seekers. We're about over
here in North Ayrshire twenty seven. Anybody get any areas Colchester?
What was Colchester? Kim? Where's Colchester? What council areas Colchester? In?
How many? Oxanna says? How many are in Belfast? Belfast

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one thy nine hundred and forty as of the statistics
they were using in September, Colchester's in Essex. Oh, Colchester,
it's got his very own right up, two hundred and
twenty eight. There you go, Kim, two hundred and twenty
eight as of September twenty twenty four sounds unlikely. I

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bet there's far more than that, especially since it's just
outside London. Kenny McDermott says, great replacement in action. Kenny
asks how many in Edinburgh? Let's go over here and
check how many are in Edinburgh? Zero in mid Lothian?
I right, Zero in East Lothian. I can't find it.

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City of ed one hundred and seventy three. I one
hundred and seventy three. My, you know what family has
been in the city of Edinburgh recently? They must You
can multiply that by a thousand, I think yeah. Kim
says there's far more than that in Colchester. Christopher says
quite rightly. If these figures are correct, I'm going to

(44:37):
be the next Pope. Kim says. In Colchester there's four
hundred and fifty families on the homeless list and it's
gone up over one hundred since last year. Yeah, well
we know where the hundred have come from. Scotland. Scorpion says,
let's all move to Moray. Well they're coming tomorrow as well.

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There's literally know where we're going to be able to escape.
This is the thing, and the John Swinneys of this
world are living in the nineteen seventies basically, where there's
a small number of people coming in and they're all
in London, and it's like, how do we integrate them
into the London way of life? You know, it's not

(45:20):
like that anymore. The integration is like has been rendered redundant.
The Boris Wave has rendered integration redundant. And the reason
it's rendered integration redundant is because integration is a very
fragile concept which depends upon very few people coming from

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abroad over a very long time. What happened with the
Boris Wave, and indeed for two or three years before that,
was just a mass of huge numbers of people coming
in that can't be integrated because their numbers are so huge,
as we don't ever tire of saying. In the last

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year for which we have figures, which was to the
end of June twenty twenty three, a population larger than Paisley,
Scotland's fifth largest town, came into Scotland. In the twelve
months previous to June twenty twenty three. A couple of
years have since passed by then those numbers will have
been the same each year. These numbers are just ridiculous,

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beyond any kind of ability to quote unquote integrate even
if you could, and because many of the people are
not such that you could integrate them either. So this
is going to be the major issue. And wow, I
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Kim says, cheers dtube. Good, well, I think we've gone
around the houses with the Glasgow thing. Basically, to answer
the question, is the SNP waking up? It's slowly wondering

(47:34):
what to do as it rubs its eyes, and because
it's the SNP, it's very likely just to jump back
into bed again lest it upsets the wrong people in
its view. So I personally don't think that they are
waking up, but it's a good sign that they're at
least rubbing their eyes. Put it that way. Shall we

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put it that way talking about Glasgow's City councilor I've
got a nice little thing to report. Back in February,
I went for a wee walk down by the Clyde
just around govern and I came upon a crescent that
was utterly mankey. Look at that. This was in February,

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and that is just everything about that. It's just like
stinking up the great outdoors. And that was mud and
basically you could only walk on that little bit of
tarmac around the side of it. And I thought, how
come nobody has reported this? Because all you need to do,
guys is go onto the internet, find out who your

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local councilors are. You have four local counselors, chat one
of them up with an email saying could you clean
up this crescent please? And my experience has always been good,
they always have. So this first thing I did when
I got home was I sent them that picture and
I said, can you do anything about this? Please? Ask nicely.
And I was down there on Monday and look at it.

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Now there you go, look at that. Put the other
picture back and now what it looks like? There you go?
There you go. Okay, activism because folks, remember ninety nine
point nine percent of people are passive. They don't do anything.
They always think somebody else will do it, even when

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it's something like just reporting something to your local counselor.
And it's never been easier just to find out who
your local counselor is off the internet and send them
an email and they will get back to you. They
always will get back to you. And my experience of
Glasgow City Council has been that they're actually very good
at that and they rely upon people pointing these things out.

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I mean, that is literally what we pay our council
taxes for to keep the place clean. We don't pay
our council taxes so that it can house people who
shouldn't even be in this country. In my view, we
pay it in order to keep our streets clean, and
they will keep our streets clean, but they need to
be told where the areas are that are are filthy

(50:06):
because they don't. They're cutting back unfortunately on the street
cleaning things when they should actually be be investing in it.
So yes, yes, that is my thoughts for today. Alan

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says that he'd rather the SNP didn't wake up and
they just wither and die off. Well, all will be
revealed next year on the seventh of May twenty twenty six,
which is the next Scottish election. Kim says that she
watched a Conservative MP called Katie Lamb give a great
speech yesterday versus Jess Phillips on the rape gang inquiries

(50:56):
and how Labor have canceled them scott Scotland Scorpion agrees
with contacting your counselor and they did. What a difference,
Alan says, great, you make a good point. We should
ask them to sort out these messes more. We pay
our council tax after all. Yeah, yeah, especially another thing

(51:17):
as well is blocked drains The councilor doesn't know where
the block trains are they require, they don't have, they
should have, but they don't have a man walking about going, oh,
there's a block drain. We must get that sorted. They
depend upon us telling them, and in my experience it's
always been cleaned within forty eight hours if you report
a block drain. You know, we criticize the Council and

(51:38):
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