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Worth remembering, during the period the @theSNP 's OBFA was in force, glesga polis operational policy was to film Celtic fans and arrest at their own discretion when they though the act was being breached 1/2
For rangers fans, at Ibrox, polis were instructed only to act in the event a steward or member of the public complained about something offensive taking place (haha). This wasn't a direct result of the act but crucially it is how it was enforced by polis on the ground. 2/2
And it was never addressed by the @theSNP . I'm not certain but it may still be operational policy in the application of the catch-all beach of the peace charge used so extensively when a polis doesn't like your face. 3/3
Policing like this is significant in confirming the attitude of superiority held by the loyalist far right. You can see it in pictures of police at sectarian parades and at rangers fan group marches. Smiles and banter. A sense of comfort and belonging. Deserves more than 3 posts
And you see the result tonight. For the second time in a week glesga polis missing until other citizens are in danger of violence. Photographers threatened. People from ethnic minorities threatened and attacked. The 'light touch for loyalists' the stick for the left.
Anyone who was at Timex or the G8 will struggle to reconcile the leeway given to loyalist racist thugs in George sq today or in Govan last year or and any one of 1000s of sectarian demonstrations every year. But still, Scottish liberal middle class want to ignore it.
Oh no they say, the other side are just as bad. This is telling because it demonstrates that their antipathy toward outsiders, Irish immigrants still exists no matter how genteel they are in expressing it. For challenging bigotry we're put in the same bracket as the racists.
It's classic stuff like the liberals complaining that protests against police murder have been disorderly. Implying that there is some equivalence between blm and racist state murder. Fuck them. That's all.
