British unionists took to the streets of Glasgow where the mood was dark after the defeat of the nationalists, to “celebrate” Scotland\u2019s decision to stay in the UK. But the “celebration” predictably descended into violent clashes with at least 11 people arrested.<\/p>\n
Glascow voted to leave the UK in the referendum held on Thursday. Scotland’s biggest city supported independence with 194,779 votes for and 169,347 against.<\/p>\n
Chief Superintendent Andy Bates, local policing commander for Greater Glasgow, told The Scotsman: \u201cMore than 700 people gathered in George Square last night and there have been 11 arrests for various offenses including disorder, breach of the peace and vandalism.”<\/p>\n
\u201cAn investigation into Friday night\u2019s disorder has begun and an incident room has been set up at Glasgow city center police office, staffed by officers dedicated to identifying and arresting anyone involved in the ugly scenes witnessed across the world on television and social media,” he said.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson from Police Scotland told local media that there were about 100 people in each group. But then ‘Yes’ supporters started leaving the square, which became dominated by unionists. This emboldened the unionists to go on the attack.<\/p>\n
The supporters of the \u2018No\u2019 campaign then set off red-colored fire crackers and waved Union Jack flags, singing ‘Rule Britannia\u2019, \u2018You Let Your Country Down\u2019 and \u2018Can You Hear the Yes Campaign?\u2019 they carried banners associated with the pro-Union Orange Order. They reportedly let off flares in George Square.<\/p>\n
On the other side of the square there were campaigners for Scottish Independence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will never surrender,\u201d read a pro-independence sign. The pro demonstrators were reportedly singing the Scottish anthem \u201cFlower of Scotland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like hooligans, the unionists then started attacking<\/a> pro-Independence supporters. With tensions high, police tried to keep the opposing political forces apart.<\/p>\n One Vine video from George Square depicts a young blonde woman with a Scottish flag on the ground being humiliated and attacked by an angry man with a Union Jack.<\/p>\n One Twitter user posted a photo showing pro-Union activists performing Nazi salutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" British unionists took to the streets of Glasgow where the mood was dark after the defeat of the nationalists, to “celebrate” Scotland\u2019s decision to stay in the UK. But the “celebration” predictably descended into violent clashes with at least 11 people arrested. Glascow voted to leave the UK in the referendum held on Thursday. Scotland’s … Continue reading “Unionists attack nationalists in Glasgow”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[186,10034,8305,10033,1946,8844],"class_list":["post-16040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-britain","tag-glasgow","tag-referendum","tag-snp","tag-uk","tag-unionists"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16043,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16040\/revisions\/16043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}