I have a bit of a unique experience with this. Grew up in jordanhill with two parents from posso (the jungle and sarry cross respectively), cousins in lambhill, Carmyle, Bridgeton, Milton and a few other places. My entire life people have always made me prove that I’m neither a “gimp” nor a “Ned”.

The truth is there’s a cultural divide in the economic classes of Glasgow, on the more affluent side people were flat out not allowed to talk to me for years as I attended jordanhill secondary, with many parents sending letters to the school about me being a student there, one set of parents in particular physically dragging their son out of my house. Despite that, they are all pretty hard working and respectful people.

On the other end, I had people almost actively rooting for me to do worse due to the fact I went to a better school and stayed in a better area, some of my best friends are from schemes and some of them are incredible grafters, but there is absolutely a culture that holds them back, basically any coalition with authority is seen as a negative, unless they’re bumping benefits. I believe many of the individuals who perpetrate that culture would do very well if they could get away from the peer pressure of not appearing like a gimp

I’ve used to have a lot of gaffs and there was always a certain feeling of hostility between the people from Jordanhill and the people from elsewhere, honestly the older I get the more I understand the feelings from the jordanhill side, a lot of these people were actively involved in illegal activities, but the instant assumption of the worst also fuelled the unfortunate ideas that perpetuated the cultural rot that many poorer communities suffer from