Louts disrupt armed forces parade in Glasgow.

[Weetomuncher]

A group of thugs, who were Irish republican sympathisers caused trouble at a parade marking the contributions made by British servicemen to the UK.

Thirteen were involved in the main incident with five being still held.

When will these idiots realise that this is the UK and if they want to live in an Irish republican environment then they should go to Stranraer, get on the ferry to Ireland and not return.

This kind of behaviour wouldn't be tolerated in any other major country.

I don't get why people of Irish Catholic background have no respect for Britain despite the fact that large numbers of them live here and are not ashamed of claiming government benefits or working here. If they don't respect the fact that Britain is a monarchy and has different cultural and religious views to Ireland then they should leave.

I wouldn't go to the Republic of Ireland and try to enforce my views on the people there.

Many people who rant on about being Irish go back three or more generations of Scottish born relations so their Irish connections are rather diluted. Many 'Irish' people would not be able to play soccer for either Irish national team as their links to the country are too distant.

I don't mind people being proud of their roots as long as they remember where they live and respect the laws and culture of that nation.

[Charles RB]

I'm amazed to know thirteen people in one place knew it was Armed Forces Day.

(or Goverment "let's make a propaganda gesture instead of giving them proper equipment in war zones" Day as I call it.)

[Tobias March]

A group of thugs, who were Irish republican sympathisers caused trouble at a parade marking the contributions made by British servicemen to the UK.

Thirteen were involved in the main incident with five being still held.

When will these idiots realise that this is the UK and if they want to live in an Irish republican environment then they should go to Stranraer, get on the ferry to Ireland and not return.

This kind of behaviour wouldn't be tolerated in any other major country.

I don't get why people of Irish Catholic background have no respect for Britain despite the fact that large numbers of them live here and are not ashamed of claiming government benefits or working here. If they don't respect the fact that Britain is a monarchy and has different cultural and religious views to Ireland then they should leave.

I wouldn't go to the Republic of Ireland and try to enforce my views on the people there.

Many people who rant on about being Irish go back three or more generations of Scottish born relations so their Irish connections are rather diluted. Many 'Irish' people would not be able to play soccer for either Irish national team as their links to the country are too distant.

I don't mind people being proud of their roots as long as they remember where they live and respect the laws and culture of that nation.

Achem.....Orangemen marches.

I agree with you Weet that this loutishness is horrible and completely out of bounds. Scotland and Northern Ireland have this shared sectarian inheritance due to the Plantation. It's like a mirror image - the one North reflects the other's religious bigotry, Celtic versus Rangers, Catholics versus Protestants etc.

It's idiotic and tragic and many are losing patience with it.....but ignorance is infectious.

[king mob]

A group of thugs, who were Irish republican sympathisers caused trouble at a parade marking the contributions made by British servicemen to the UK.


I'm not at all surprised.
When will these idiots realise that this is the UK and if they want to live in an Irish republican environment then they should go to Stranraer, get on the ferry to Ireland and not return.

They don't, that's the thing.

This kind of behaviour wouldn't be tolerated in any other major country.

Yes it would. Freedom of speech.

I don't get why people of Irish Catholic background have no respect for Britain despite the fact that large numbers of them live here and are not ashamed of claiming government benefits or working here. If they don't respect the fact that Britain is a monarchy and has different cultural and religious views to Ireland then they should leave.

As Tobias says, Orangemen. If they love Northern Ireland so much why don't they take their bigotry over the water & let Glasgow & the West of Scotland get on with it.

It's a horrible fucked up situation where Scottish Protestants & Catholics indulge in this pointless bigotry, but it's been going on for decades & will continue to go on until everyone decides they've had enough.

[Charles RB]

Achem.....Orangemen marches.


If it starts pissing down during the march, do they give up and go home, or do they have to keep going and get colds?

Because I hope it's the latter.

[king mob]

I remember one Orange Walk as a kid that happened during a typically bleak Scottish summer, and laughing at all these hundreds of bigots getting soaked through as the rain fell and fell.

[Charles RB]

I remember one Orange Walk as a kid that happened during a typically bleak Scottish summer, and laughing at all these hundreds of bigots getting soaked through as the rain fell and fell.

God was sending a message!

[Weetomuncher]

I don't understand why most people who rant about religion in Scotland are football shirt wearing yobs who haven't seen the inside of a church of any kind for many years.

The people who actually go to church don't tend to rant about their background as much as the hypocrites who only use their 'faith' for tribal warfare purposes.

[Tobias March]

God was sending a message!

They've never met him.

[Cam63]

If they tried that shit on ANZAC Day, things wouldn't be pretty.

[rick]

If they tried that shit on ANZAC Day, things wouldn't be pretty.

Ditto on either Veterans Day or Memorial Day here in the US.

[Charles RB]

That's because ANZAC Day and Veterans Day are long-running, important days in their respective countries. Armed Forces Day is something that the government only started this month, and badly promoted.

Now if the yobbos had done this on Remembrance Day, they'd have been flattened.