PM slammed for his asylum plan & Farage blasted for spreading lies

Scottish Refugee Council, where his lived experience makes him well placed to understand the reality of beng a refugee or asylum seeker in Scotland.

- BY MARK MCGIVERN

He also holds a university doctorate and an OBE and lives with his three Glaswegian kids.Sabir is also a living testament to how those fleeing oppression don't head to Scotland just to claim benefits and secure cushy homes, as Nigel Farage and his right-wing cronies tell the world. He was enraged by the recent rantings of Reform UK leader Farage, who claims schoolkids having English as a second language was a ‘cultural smashing of Glasgow’.

Sabir, 51, slammed Farage for his claims, based on a finding that 30 per cent of schoolkids in the city do not speak English as a first language.

Farage’s rant came ahead of a visit to Falkirk, where Reform UK are openly targeting Scottish voters by provoking the unrest that has inflamed the town over the use of a hotel to host refugees. He said: “When I read his words I felt for my children because they speak three languages - is that to be used against them? They speak to me in English, in a Glaswegian accent, and they also speak in Pashto, usually when they want something. But they read, write and speak English.”