I’m all for a hard-border with England in the event of independence.
It’s highly likely the Home Office specifically chose today while MSPs were being sworn in to the Scottish Parliament so they couldn’t divert their attention to it.
Sign above immigration ban that reads:
“If this is Team UK, we reject it”
Protestor in front of police holding up a sign that reads:
“Migrants and refugees welcome here”
A police push against protestors has failed.
If Police Scotland really wanted to disperse the crowd, they’d let the two detained men in the van out and go home.
The fact that the UK Home Office chose to do this on 1) Eid, and 2) while MSPs were being sworn in across the country in Holyrood shows the level of calculated cruelty that they are capable of. Police Scotland are being used as apparatus of the state, but they can be and should be told to stand down, release the people from the van, and get away from the area.
However, the heartening thing is that people of Glasgow are coming together to defend their friends, their neighbours, their community… or people they don’t even know… because they know what is going on is immoral and not the values that they hold.
