Glasgow visit

A rare visit through to Glasgow during daylight hours today...

A work colleague and I headed through for the Unite the resistance planning meeting in George Square. The general theme is to mobilise unions charities and other organisations to make a co-ordinated and concerted plan for protesting and fighting the run of austerity cuts which seem designed to make the poorest bear the brunt and be the most austere.

It was a good meeting with an official launch event planned soon. Several in the room seemed to feel that, while the protests are primarily aimed at the Tory government in Westminster, Our councils and indeed our Scottish parliament should not be allowed to hide behind Tory lies about skivers and strivers or imaginary fraudulent disability claims which ATOS have been employed to monitor, nor should they be able to use them to make cuts to what they view as soft targets.

It was a positive experience and was very well attended for an initial planning meeting. There is a lot of will from unions and organisations like Black Triangle. Certainly lots of attendees seemed to be saying we should be pushing our unions and the TUC and STUC to be giving serious consideration to the threat of a general strike.

After that we headed down to see an exhibition by Sofie a former Telford student at A.Gallery. We also managed to fit in a quick visit to the Modern Institute and the Lighthouse and Alan bought a new jacket before heading home.

Back in Edinburgh it was the first visit to the Spa of the year where I met Roz and Vanna then we headed down to visit Dave and Sarah.

A full day, but a good one!