Zamard Zahid backs Glasgow march as Tommy Robinson row spreads

Glasgow southside anti-racist campaigner Zamard Zahid is backing an emergency anti-Reform UK march and rally in the city after the 2026 Holyrood election results. The tommy robinson-linked row around Reform UK has pushed campaigners to call people together in Glasgow on Saturday for a march from McLennan Arch to Buchanan Street.

The march will assemble at McLennan Arch at 10.30am, move through the city centre to the top of Buchanan Street, and be followed by a rally from 12pm. Stand Up to Racism and Women Against the Far Right estimate that thousands are expected to attend, with people travelling from Inverness, Falkirk and Dumfries.

McLennan Arch to Buchanan Street

Glasgow City Council has authorised the march and rally. Campaigners say the event is a day of rage against Reform UK, and they are asking people across Scotland to join what they describe as an emergency response after the election result.

Zahid said in a promotional video for the march: “This is our chance as the people of Scotland to unite and send a strong message that we reject the hateful and divisive politics of Reform and the far right, that we choose to celebrate diversity and not fear it.”

Stand Up to Racism campaign

During the election campaign, Stand Up to Racism and Women Against the Far Right distributed around 200,000 leaflets across Scotland urging voters to reject Reform UK’s racist politics. Stand Up to Racism also coordinated eleven unity marches and rallies across the country, including events in Paisley, Dunfermline, Livingston and Kilmarnock.

The Glasgow event follows Reform UK gains across the country, with hundreds of Labour councillors voted out. Nigel Farage described the result as “a truly historic shift in British politics” and said “the best is yet to come” for his party. Reform UK posted online: “Say no to Reform UK, their Scottish Lord leader who thinks owning yachts is a 'hobby', and his master in London the supreme posh racist grifter Nigel Farage”.

Reform UK election gains

The Glasgow rally gives campaigners a public test of the anti-Reform organizing built during the campaign, and the turnout figure will show whether that network can still bring large crowds into the city centre after the vote. For people joining from outside Glasgow, the fixed assembly point and rally time leave a clear route into the event at McLennan Arch before the march reaches Buchanan Street.