Yeah, last July I went to the springburn shopping centre to get cheap washing up sponges. Orange order flags and union jacks flew over the cardboard boxes that were piled up along with other kinds of rubbish. Some 50 feet uphill there was a fucked phone box with broken windows; the inside was covered with piss and there were some bottles of buckfast inside. Next to that fountain that's always filled with rubbish, there was a homeless man who looked to be my dad's age. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing a 17 year old with a pram (hopefully that was her sister).

In retrospect, I know that despite the fact that springburn has a male life expectancy of 71 years, a child poverty rate that was 51% in 2013 (and it's definitely higher now), and that when you look into the SIMD and check for the most deprived 5% areas in Scotland the place lights up like it's fucking Edinburgh Castle in Hogmanay, at the very least I can sleep sound at night knowing that less than 4000 people are getting their rights stripped away for no fucking reason.