Glasgow South West MP Dr Zubir Ahmed writes that last week's disorder did not come from nowhere and that condemnations, however swift, are no substitute for the community infrastructure Scotland quietly dismantled.

My neighbour found herself caught in the middle of Saturday's disorder in the city centre. A group of men had broken out of Glasgow Green and come up through the town. She saw them running and police chasing them with batons out.

She says she just stood there till it went by. She rang me that evening, and she didn't ask me to tell her it was disgraceful.

She wanted to know whether it would happen again, and I didn't have much for her.

Any politician can have a condemnation out within the hour and most of us did. But she was asking what had been built to stop it, and the answer is not a great deal.

The men she watched run past her were racists. They chanted about sending people home, and they meant anyone who didn't look like them.

There are photographs of Nazi salutes from the Unite the Clans rally they'd come out of. Fifteen arrests so far, and the police say there are hundreds more to find.

I've no interest in indulging the analysis of this that says it is merely a forgotten working class making itself heard.

I've spent a career treating the ordinary working-class people of Glasgow as a doctor and a lifetime living among them, and it's an insult to dress this up as their voice.

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