Plague of Rats

Walking along the North bank of the Clyde, I saw a big rat. He was as bold as brass & sat upon his haunches looking at me out of his ruby coloured eyes. He was scoffing some tit-bit held in his fore paws which he had scavanged from an open bin. You see workers come out of the Daily Record office on good days & eat their lunch by the riverside. When they're finished, they dump their left overs in an open bin. I've even seen some waste food dropped on the ground by the seats. Rats flourish on this left-over food & it represents a danger to the folk in the flats in the converted former dock shed. You see all these flats have sliding doors on their wee verandas. In the arm weather folk leave these doors open & rats could go into the flats.

Could you imagine a big dock rat with its nest in your home, perhaps in the couch or the bed mattress? This is Labour's Glasgow & your actual Labour lefties all chant the litany of "we care for the workers". The fact that rats are swarming in our working-class areas says somthing else. I saw a rat catcher putting down poison opposite Wyndford housing estate in Maryhill rd. at the old Maryhill barracks site. He spread a creamy blue paste round drainage pipes. The rats wriggle through them on their way to feed on human left-overs from junk food shops. The poison goes on to the rats fur & they lick it off or it enters their blood via their skin & they die.

Walking through a lane by Hope street opposite the Savoy Cntr I saw a notice up on a rone pipe. This said poisoned bait had been put down to kill vermin & warned the public to watch their pets. The same notice was put up on Balmore Rd. & rats were seen in the back courts up Saracen street. You see folk cast their rubbish out in plastic shopping bags. Dogs come into the back courts & haul the bags out of the open middens & strew their contents over the back courts on the search for tit bits.

Rats come out at night & feast on this garbage & they flourish: Clydeside, Cowcaddens, Maryhill & Possilpark. One man walking through the back court at night up off Saracen street. He saw the ground swarming with rats & hastily departed. He said with a wry laugh "I did'nt want them running up my trouser legs". He told the binmen about it but the rats still seem to be there.

Is'nt it time the sleek fat cats down in George Square got off their fat behinds and did somthing about these verminious creatures? After all they're getting fat saleries for acting as our govenors.

Rats carry 26 diseases and are deadly to the health of mankind. Among them are the awfull plague. The plague broke out last century in the Gorbals. It was caused by swarming rats who fed on the open middens. The fleas on the rats carry the plague germs & people in Glasgow died from coming into contact with the rats. Plague holds no class barriers.

The warm weather is ideal for rats breeding. This is the perfect condition for the outbreak of plague. It has been said that once the plague has been in place it is always there just waiting to break out again given the right conditions.

It was once said that a young mother in Glasgow put her baby out in the back court. She wanted to clean her home & left the window open. She would check to see her baby was safe. What she saw sent her running down the stairs screaming with horror, a rat was climbing into the pram in Labour's Glasgow.

I'll bet there are no rats where Tony lives, or Gordon or Robin in EH2 unless you count the two legged variety!