Kieran Logan, 27, co-runs the Tartan Team campaign which has seen hundreds of Scotland flags raised on lamp posts across the city.
Kieran Logan of the Tartan Team said asylum seekers should be ‘gassed’
A man behind an anti-immigrant Saltire campaign is a Nazi sympathising racist who called for refugees to be “gassed”, we can reveal.
Kieran Logan, 27, co-runs the Tartan Team campaign which has seen hundreds of Scotland flags raised on lamp posts across Glasgow. It is part of the UK-wide Raise the Colours phenomenon.
The group claims to represent “young dads” with genuine fears over illegal immigration.
But we can reveal Logan, who has an online crowdfunder, mocked the deaths of migrants on a capsized boat as “f****n amazing” and branded Muslim men “perverts” on social media earlier this month.
Maryhill Road in Glasgow where Scotland Flags have been tied to lamp posts.(Image: DAILY RECORD)
On his now deleted X account, Logan wrote “gas them all”, referring to asylum seekers, and shared a video of a podcast praising Hitler. He also hailed a post by far-right activist Tommy Robinson praising the “beautiful scenes” of Saltires being raised.
Roz Foyer, of the STUC, said: “It’s risible those raising Saltires still cling to the false narrative they’re doing it for civic pride and community protection.
“This is utterly false. In addition to despicably attacking local government workers tasked with removing these items, graffiti calling for the death of migrants must seriously call into question the true intent of those cosplaying as community activists.
“People are legitimately aggrieved our communities are underinvested. That’s not the fault of migrants, it’s the fault of ministers. We would appeal to them to direct their ire towards politicians, not those who have fled famine, war and torture.”
Kieran Logan of the Tartan Team said asylum seekers should be ‘gassed’
Father Jim Lawlor, of the Immaculate Conception parish on Maryhill Road, has hit out at anti-migrant political rhetoric inflaming divisions. He said the flag’s movement was “masquerading as patriotism, but it’s on the back of something far more sinister”.
In a Facebook video he added: “The people of Maryhill are welcoming folk on behalf of the people I serve and I love, we’ll have none of this.”
Raising Saltires in the north of the city coincided with hateful graffiti. At a play park in Summerston, “Sink the boats” was sprayed on a wall next to a flag. The Tartan Team denies involvement with the graffiti.
Council workers taking down flags have faced a aggressive abuse. When the public tried to remove flags in Maryhill, the Tartan Team Facebook account posted pictures with a message: “Can anyone name these scum”.
Tommy Robinson at Unite The Kingdom rally in London on Saturday, key backer of Raise the Colours campaign(Image: Getty Images)
Saltires have appeared across Scotland. Aberdeenshire Council was forced to halt removal due to threats. Raise the Colours began in England with raising Union Jacks and St George’s flags in what activists said is a show of community pride and patriotism.
But anti-racism campaigners say the movement is clearly being whipped up by far-right agitators.
In X posts first reported by the Glasgow Bell, Logan responded to a video allegedly showing asylum seekers fighting in Spain by writing: “Gas them all.” He used this phrase multiple times. He also reposted a video claiming to expose the location of a purported asylum hotel in Glasgow.
Logan said of asylum seekers: ‘Gas them all'(Image: Handout)
On Instagram, he commented on a story about 26 migrants dying off Italy: “Amazing that – stay in your own country” with a series of laughing emojis. He also posted an AI image of a white girl surrounded by men depicted as Muslims saying: “Perverts need to go, everyone a them.”
Last month, he shared a video on X of a podcast with US antisemitic conspiracy theorist Ken O’Keefe.
In the clip, O’Keefe says “Nazi” was a “derogatory term created by the Jews”. He added: “The answer for America today lies in the one place everybody mind-controlled will never look – Germany and a man named Adolf.”
Logan’s posts come despite Tartan Team claims campaign is about community pride and not race or religion.(Image: Handout)
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Our revelations come despite Tartan team claims their campaign is not anti-immigration.
Raise the Colours was linked to protests at asylum hotels in England. The Tartan Team have said they don’t support the demos.
SNP MSP for Maryhill and Springburn Bob Doris, who recently raised the issue of Saltires and anti-migrant graffiti at FMQs with John Swinney, told the Sunday Mail: “There is nothing racist in flying the Saltire. The important thing is that we show kindness, dignity and respect. These posts fall far short of that ambition.”
Glasgow MSP Patrick Harvie of the Greens said: “These views are grotesque and have no place in our politics or our city. These extremists are hijacking flags in a bid to spread division and hatred.
“We face a very dangerous moment, and the work the Sunday Mail is doing exposing the prejudice and bigotry that threatens our society is really important.”
We approached the Tartan Team online for comment and visited a family address for Logan but received no response.
Glasgow City Council warned it is struggling to afford rising costs of providing emergency homeless accommodation – partly down to the city accepting more refugees than any other Scottish local authority.