#617

I may be wrong but the events in Glasgow today seem to have been started by this tweet

Just crazy that such a chain of events can come from one tweet

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#618

Humza’s
This is better than I could put it

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#619
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#620

FY everyone’s I

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#621

Think youre right sorry, cant remember where i saw it.

#622

Mob

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Rolling Descent into Fascism Thread [chat away]
#623

Anum Qaisar-Javid (SNP): 10,129 votes (46.4%, +1.4)
Kenneth Stevenson (Lab): 8,372 votes (38.4%, +6.5)
Ben Ron Callaghan (Con): 2,812 votes (12.9%, -4.7)
Stephen Philip Arrundale (Lib Dem): 220 votes (1.0%, -2.6)
Neil Peter Manson (SDP): 151 votes (0.7%, +0.7)
Jonathan Marc Stanley (Scottish Unionist Party): 59 votes (0.3%, +0.3)
Martyn William Greene (Reform UK): 45 votes (0.2%, +0.2)
Donald Murdo MacKay (UKIP): 39 votes (0.2%, +0.2)

Turnout was 34.3%.

The first SNP Westminster seat fought at a by-election and retained, apparently.

Lib-Dems nearly getting overtaken by the SDP.

The byelection was held after the sitting MP, Neil Gray, resigned in order to stand in last week’s Scottish parliamentary election in the overlapping Holyrood constituency

I think that’s an SNP party rule, now: that it won’t allow candidates to stand if it’d create a dual mandate. Caused a bit of a rumpus because it was claimed by some that the policy was designed to block Joanna Cherry, who would have had to resign as an MP in advance of standing as an MSP candidate in the Edinburgh constituency that Angus Robertson contested at the election just gone.

#624

Police community liaison officers (aka counter-Insurgent intelligence gathering agents) out in Pollokshields going round streets and door to door asking people how they heard about the action

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#625

Ah, this photo appears to be in London and presumably some time ago, but still

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#626

Heh. Did wonder. Presumed you were just issuing advice. And just using the photo for emphasis rather than reportage.

#627

Just copied from Facebook without checking, presume the poster was doing the former

#628

I believe it’s the artist ‘Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives’ who made those posters. He’s very good

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#629

this interview, and the tweets earlier from Nicola Sturgeon, are interesting as it’s the first time I can ever remember a Scottish politician directly addressing the anti-catholic/anti-Irish bigotry that goes on almost constantly and implying they have an intention to try and address it

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#630

Got myself deleted by an old acquitance of mine on Facebook for saying yesterday’s events made me ashamed to be a Rangers fan after he made some post which was ‘woe is me everyone is calling me and all my fellow fans fascists’ basically #notallrangersfans

All I said was that we need to call out idiots and the club needs to avoid acting the victim in statements. Plus we need to look at why the nasty elements of English teams like to attach themselves to us.

He couldn’t handle the truth.

#631

I think this would be a good starting point. The entire “no one likes us, we don’t care” mentality has been perpetuated by the club for years, as has the pandering to their links/association with loyalism and the orange order. I’m talking about stuff like this

You have my sympathies though, I’ve got a few pals who follow Rangers and they’ve been banging their heads against the wall with other fans on it for years.

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#632

This is on a tee shirt on sale in the rangers wee stall thing in the St Enoch centre.

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#633

yeah we should have sacked all this pish years ago, it’s a fucking disgrace and embarrassment.
i knew this element of the fans would behave like this on saturday, everyone did.
get the orange order stuff to absolute fuck, those fucking marches should be banned, they’re a fucking disgrace.

#634

yip, all this.

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#635

There has to be serious questions asked of Police Scotland who again failed to anticipate and properly deal with the level of disorder.

I think banning them will be difficult and most likely illegal as it stands. Whilst I fucking hate them and would love them to get to fuck, it’s a slippery slope to go down given they’re allegedly a religious organisation.

#636

This reply to the Rangers statement is perfect

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