A Remembrance Sunday minute’s silence before Kilmarnock’s clash with Celtic was abandoned after nine seconds when fans of the Scottish Premiership champions booed and sang pro-IRA songs.
Suspected Green Brigade members in the away end also waved Irish and Palestinian flags in an act of defiance against the pre-match show of respect for Britain’s war dead.
One of those little memories of Ireland’s colonisation of Scotland perhaps. One of those little things that shows that it’s not always the English at fault for colonisation even.
Never we really understand that.
Plenty of Micks died in both Wars : despite no conscription in the first and DeValera’s treachery in both.
I confidently predict that the Scottish Football Association will do SFA about this.
If only the Scotland parliament had passed some form of draconian law which could be applied here. They could call it something like the Hate Crime and Public Order Act 2021.
Oh hang on…….
Scotland’s new hate crime law came into force on 1 April 2024.
It deals with various issues but the two main ones are stirring up hatred and offences aggravated by prejudice.
Waves of colonisation?
First one being the Scoti, which then returned to their ancestral homeland resettling in the north.
Both this, and the ostentatious Remembrance display from (the club formerly known as) Rangers are nothing to do with anything thoughtful at all. They define themselves as the opposite of the other, and try to take that to as extreme a position as possible. Ironically, to the rest of us this makes them look remarkably similar. Hence why they are often referred to as “the cheeks”.
Scotland would be a better place if those two teams moved to another country. Or ceased to exist, I don’t care.
The thing I have always thought about the Troubles was how the Republican side saw it as a war, but the British side never did. We saw it as a campaign of terror and crime, but not a war.
I think this because if we DID see it as a war then the outcome would have been very different.
Did Jock Plod make a single arrest?
As is sung, “The famine’s over, why don’t they go home.”
One banner held up in the Celtic away end at Kilmarnock also declared: “From Balfour to Starmer, The crimes of the empire live on, Britain is committing genocide in Gaza.”
Is it now?
Steve
Yes. If the British government is allowing Pallys into the UK.
Two old themes of mine.
(i) In the referendum the only bits of Scotland to vote for independence were the heavily Irish bits in the Glasgow conurbation and Dundee. Scottish Scotland voted for the union. Why have I never seen anyone else make this point?
(ii) Scotland would be dramatically better if everyone associated with Celtic and Rangers football clubs vanished in a puff of smoke. (Add the SNP people and the land would be immeasurably improved. Add the Scottish Labour Party people and it would be a demi-paradise. [Subtle joke for football fans.])
And don’t get me started on the leader of the SNP in Westminster at the Cenotaph on Sunday. He looked throughout as though he was eating a poo sandwich, the miserable fucker.
I get that he’s a republican and a “not-my-king” type so, being extremely and unnecessarily generous, I can forgive him not singing the national anthem, but he didn’t even engage with the short service: he just stood there looking sour and didn’t even mouth the words to the Lord’s Prayer.
Wanker.
“Why have I never seen anyone else make this point?”
Oh, I do, all the time. In private. I live in Glasgow. I don’t want to land in the infirmary. Or the jail.
the Flynnster should have joined in whole heartedly, and argued that when in Rome you do as the Romans do, that one day he will be the Ambassador of an independent country and its representative to England and he would do the same again as all good Ambassadors to foreign would
What did the man say? You can never mistake a Scotsman with a grievance for a ray of sunshine?
Salamander @ 9.38. I remember the MP Alan Clark declaring something along the lines of: ‘we could eliminate the IRA in one night. There would be six weeks of gnashing of teeth and outrage, then peace’.
Also, Nige being told he could not lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on Sunday due to Reform having fewer than 6 MP’s, whilst Gavin Robinson (DUP with 5) was allowed to………….
Apparently the paddies, jocks and taffs get a special invite and don’t need to meet the MP number requirements.