Operation 'Clean Up Glasgow'
I've been banging on about the filthy state of Glasgow for a long time, but there seems to be little interest in tackling the problem from the SNP led council and local MSPs.
If you ask me, what Glasgow needs is an imaginative campaign like this 'Don't be a tosser' initiative from York City Council.
Glasgow City Council ought to be leading a cross-party, multi-agency campaign which gets the public on side by encouraging everyone to take pride in the city, tackling hotspots and by dealing effectively with casual and persistent offenders.
Painting over some of the worst graffiti in time for COP26 coming to town was literally just papering over the cracks and it's high time the council and the city's politicians got their finger out.
Sprucing Up Glasgow vs SNP Priorities (December 08, 2021)
Anne makes a fair point that other parts of Glasgow are also in great need of being cleaned up, but what we need is a council focused on local priorities - not Indyref2!
We need leadership from and imagination from the City Council which involves a smart mixture of engagement (with local communities), education and enforcement so that people don't - 'shit in their own nest'.
Same with Glasgow's ugly graffiti problem.
Glasgow's Ugly Graffiti Problem (September 28, 2021)
I see that the ugly spray painted graffiti on the old BHS building on Sauchiehall Street still hasn't been removed - even though it's been there for many months, years possibly.
Now it's the owner's responsibility to remove this graffiti, but if the owner fails to act - surely the City Council should have the power to step in, take action and bill the owner for the work involved?
And if the Council lacks the ability to act in this pro-active way, why haven't they been demanding more powers from the Scottish Government - or are Council leaders scared of rocking the boat with the SNP?
Come to think of it this is exactly the kind of issue you'd expect local Glasgow MSPs to be jumping up and down about, but they're probably all too busy campaigning for IndyRef2!
Glasgow's Getting Worse - Not Miles Better! (August 13, 2021)
Glasgow’s problems with waste management, fly-tipping, litter and graffiti have all got much worse under the SNP - parts of the city resemble a midden these days!
And it's local people who are highlighting the council's failings rather than visiting politicians.
Glasgow's Getting Worse - Not Miles Better! (August 08, 2021)
I haven't read the Sunday Herald's full interview with Susan Aitken yet, but the point is that while people have dropped litter, fly-tipped and spray-painted graffiti on buildings for years - these problems have all become far worse under the SNP.
Glasgow's Getting Worse - Not Miles Better! (August 02, 2021)
More evidence from Glaswegians highlighting just what a 'midden' parts of the city have become - despite the claims from Glasgow Council that everything is just tickety boo!
I wonder if Glasgow's MSPs and MPs are all on holiday or something because to a woman and a man they're all as quiet as wee church mice?
Or maybe they've been ordered to 'wheesht for indy' by SNP HQ?
Operation Clean Up Glasgow! (Not Just For COP26!) July 28, 2021
Glaswegians are using social media to highlight just what a 'midden' parts of the city have become - despite the claims from Glasgow Council that everything is just tickety boo!
Anyone heard Glasgow's MSPs and MPs speaking out on this subject, by the way, or are they all still being as quiet as wee church mice?
Glasgow's Getting Worse - Not Miles Better (July 26, 2021)
Parts of Glasgow do look nice, but that's hardly the point when other areas of the city are filthy, unkempt and covered in ugly graffiti.
What's needed is a joined-up strategy led by the City Council and which is not just for the benefit of COP26.
Glasgow - Can't Catch the Vandals? (June 13, 2021)
More mindless graffiti spray painted on this building in Glasgow's west end.
Someone must know who this moron 'Jono' is and if the campaign to clean up Glasgow is to be taken seriously, there has to be a strategy for dealing with such deliberate anti-social behaviour.
Cleaning Up Glasgow (June 05, 2021)
Glasgow City Council said it was launching a new initiative aimed at cleaning up this 'dear green place' in the run-up to the CPO26 climate change conference in November.
I haven't heard much since, but they could make a start by dealing with old BHS building on Sauchiehall Street which has been allowed to become and ugly, terrible eyesore.
If so, I hope the city authorities don't just clean the place up for a few weeks while the visiting dignitaries are in town - then things slide back into a vandalised state of disrepair.
Because that would be treating the people of Glasgow as idiots and the last time I looked, my head doesn't button up the back.
Glasgow - 'Can't Catch The Vandals' (May 12, 2021)
I think I deserve a prize for this photo of the Police driving past ugly graffiti down on Clyde Street which boasts 'Can't Catch The Vandals'.
Now there's an obvious truth in this statement but in my view, Glasgow City Council doesn't have a credible strategy in place for tackling the problem.
Asking local citizens to play a part in cleaning up Glasgow is a good thing in principle.
The problem is that this should be an ongoing priority for the Council - not just a gimmick from the city's politicians in the run-up to the COP26 conference in November 2021.
Glasgow's Street Graffiti (May 10, 2021)
Council leaders are asking Glasgow citizens to play their part in cleaning up the city ahead of the international COP26 climate change conference in November.
So here's my tuppence worth - write to all the estate agents and tell them to stop polluting the city with their For Sale and For Rent signs.
If they don't listen, the Council should pass a local by-law allowing them to fine the culprits.
As far as I can see this street graffiti problem is entirely home grown and not the result of some Westminster plot, so the City Council must be able to tackle the issue.
And while I'm at it I must add that it's crazy that it takes an international conference for the SNP council to take graffiti and street cleanliness in Glasgow much more seriously.
