The STUC anti-racism march at the weekend was well attended.
It was good to see the first appearance of the Call It Out organisation at the event.
It has often struck me as strange that the anti-racist movement in Scotland would not have a stance on the racism aimed at one of Scotland’s largest ethnic groups-the Irish.
My attention was then brought to a dignified gathering outside the City Halls in George Square.
Apparently, the STUC rally would have passed these fine chaps by.
I had not realised that Protestants in Scotland were such a socially excluded and oppressed minority.
Perhaps I should have guessed when the established church in Fair Caledonia wasn’t…
Oh wait!
For the avoidance of doubt, the idea that people are discriminated in contemporary Scotland because of their attachment to Protestantism is utterly risible.
Moreover, it does seem rather coincidental that this…err…organisation should pop up on the day that Call It Out make their inaugural appearance at the STUC rally.
However, that is merely speculation on my part.
I am also speculating that a campaign from within the Irish community calling out anti-Irish racism is seen by some folk as an existential cultural threat.
Very sad, if that is the case…
Knew it as soon as I read the news. Ashley Cole available on a free transfer, so where will the ex England international turn up…Edmiston Drive?
With Barasic injury prone, Wallace running down his contract, must be his last year surely,
Flanagan not comfortable in the left back position and Andy Halliday currently filling the jersey, who knows.
On Wallace he seems to have been there forever but it seems he’s, presumably, been injured for a long, long time.
You would have thought he would have been part of the deal that brought Lafferty to Ibrox but no doubt Hearts would have baulked at the salary he was on at Ibrox.
I see in the leaked police report about the crowding issues they appear to have dismissed out of hand the principle factors.
There have been no crowding issues previously as the police got 7,000 Rangers fans in and out of the stadium but with 7,000 extra Celtic fans in attendance what worked before didn’t work this time.
Exactly why trying to get 800 Celtic fans safely in and out of Ibrox on the 29th Dec is a complete non starter.
All of this can be laid at the door of Kingco.
The accusations made against the Celtic players at the end of the last meeting completely ignores that the injuries to wheelchair fans were caused by their own fans.
What next? Perhaps, as widely rumoured a few years back in a Hampden cup semi, will the police commander order Celtic to score no more than two goals and any Celtic player who ignored the order will be charged with incitement to riot?
The ”protestors ” were probably on their way to worship at their religious centre – Ibrokes – by way of the Armadillo where a gathering of the faithful were mulling over the last year’s finances and achievements of their exclusive cult. Their messiah, Dave , and his apostles were telling the gathered masses that continuous losses both on the field and in the balance sheet were a sign from above that all is well .
Indeed it was also stated that a miraculous event was about to be visited on the devil incarnate , known by his cult name as Big Fkn Mike .It was only a matter of time said Dave the messiah before the wrath of the courts was visited upon him .
After a short prayer , led by their Level 5 preacher , a collection plate was circulated to help offset the messiah’s expenses in making the long trip from his holy mountain in his chosen land of exile . ( For a prophet has no honour in his own land )
Just to clarify things for those protestants “blessed” with a sense of self-entitlement… YER TEA’S OOT!!
In Imperialist Britain, it was okay to look down your noses at Pakistanis, Afro-Caribbeans, Africans, even the Irish. The worm has finally turned! Know YOUR place! We are all created equal. There are no longer some who are “more equal than others”. Britain’s empire has been on its arse for at least 50 years, when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast became Ghana, etc. You also done a excellent job of leaving India, didn’t you? When it split from the empire, we saw the formation of Pakistan and Bangladesh, and the problems that you left behind! How did that work out for Little Britain? Hong Kong?.. Chinese-controlled since 1997!! Malaysia?.. thriving economy, without the hand of Westminster upon it!! Need I go on?!! EMPIRE’S OVER!! FINITO!! KAPUT!! And guess what?.. so is your time as the “ruling” class!! And, just to set the record straight – I was born into the protestant sect!!
I think you may have left out the British contribition to the Israeli/Palestinian situation.
Oh, I certainly haven’t forgotten that one! Good old Britannia has very dirty hands that have contaminated just about every corner of the globe, but if I was to list everything, I’d probably crash every server in the entire Silicon Valley!
Call it out and Scottish Protestants against discrimination should pull their resources and form one umbrella movement with a common goal of fighting bigotry and discrimination against citizens who wish to practice differing Christian doctrines.
Makes perfect sense to me. After all, if either group refuses to meet the other, then their cause and their credibility looks rather foolish.
Yesterday morning I was having a quiet coffee in the cafeteria of the ASDA store in Hamilton. Other stores are available nearby, lest anyone think I’m promoting them. Anyway, the guy sitting at the table next to me greeted someone passing like an old friend. Within 30 seconds the conversation turned to “the rangurs”. Obviously, being essentially a nosey bastard, my ears pricked up. I found the conversation, which was not conducted in anything approaching hushed tones, very educational. I learned that every “fuckin referee in Scotland is against the rangurs.” “Every fuckin referee in Scotland is a fuckin Catholic”. “And see the SFA!!! They fuckin bastarts are the wurst!!!” I came out feeling thoroughly enlightened. Now, I may be wrong here on the numbers. My memory is not what it once was, but I think on four occasions, so far, this season opposition players have been given retrospective bans for fouls committed against Celtic players during matches. In other words fouls they should have walked for but didn’t. On three of those occasions the bans handed down meant that the offending player was suspended for a game against sevco. I can only conclude that those durty, bastart, fenian referees let that inferior player stay on the park to give Celtic a better chance than they would have had against ten good players, just so that he could be replaced against sevco by a far superior squad player!
as a protestant…..I feel oppressed as a Celtic supporter………by protestants
Looks like the ‘Union Bears’ over 45s weightwatchers group on a fundraiser!