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Trade union leader says 'filthy' Glasgow not fit to host COP26 and backs strike action during climate summit

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Glasgow to stage the event when the city is “crumbling” and streets are “filthy”. In a hard-hitting interview with the Daily Record, Smith said: “The hypocrisy around this event coming to Glasgow is staggering.

Glasgow has suffered huge cuts to public spending, the streets are filthy, the infrastructure is crumbling, the public realm is in a terrible state of decay. “Working class communities around Glasgow have been absolutely abandoned by the [ SNP -run] council.” He said: “We’ve got filthy streets and kids going to school hungry, and here we are welcoming the world to talk about this big new future.

I am deeply uncomfortable with that. We don’t even have a publicly-owned, clean public transport system in Glasgow.”He said strike action.

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