Anti-immigration protesters and counter-protesters clash in Glasgow | Scotland

Anti-immigration protesters clashed with anti-tense opposite protesters in Glasgow a week after the largest right event organized by the activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson.

The Scottish statesman Donald Dewar, the father of the Holyrood Parliament, was surrounded by union flags bearing the words ‘Stop boats’ and ‘unite the kingdom’.

Buchanan Street, one of the main shopping streets of the city, Buchanan Street, as well as representatives of trade unions, anti -racist and Palestinian solidarity groups, ‘Bigots’ Bairns ‘,’ Yes, welcome refugees ‘and’ God hate fascists.

Until 13:00, hundreds of people shaking banars while reading ‘people won’t silence’ and ‘just an worried mother’ were first gathered in steps to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for ‘Unity Rally’, which was first announced by a podcaster named John Watt.

Futures coordinated protests against a shelter in Falkirk, and a series of other groups, including the future of our children, encouraged his supporters to participate after the Watt announced on social media ‘due to unpredictable conditions’. Last week, Daily registration Watt announced in 2018 that he was sentenced to abuse two former girlfriends.

On the top of Buchanan Street, there was an important police presence and a fiery atmosphere with the ‘Union’ protesters, and the greater counter protesters gathered the pedestrian street further. Those who made speeches for anti -immigration protests tried to hear themselves from the superior sound system of the racists who exploded a long song strokes by Abba and Chappell Roan.

The three women standing next to the steps to the concert hall held a poster with a colorful portrait of Christian activist Charlie Kirk on the right -right assassinated in Utah two weeks ago. They praised Kirk, “he was not afraid to say what other people were afraid to say” and “too much religion is brought” in modern Scottish schools.

Laura Dunsmore, one of the women with a nurse, said that it is important to emphasize that the protest is not only about illegal migration. “The situation of the country, about the situation of the world. You cannot access health services, our streets are collapsing. We cannot vote on our way out. We need a higher level of change.”

Cat, a software technician from Glasgow’s Southside, was exploding Hitler with his wife and baby beyond a handmade poster that says “This mother meets refugees”. “I felt that I had to lean on the ‘mother’ bit because they said they wanted to protect women and children, and as a woman and a mother, I don’t worry about asylum seekers. I am much more concerned about the men there”.

He said it was important to come to the protest against solidarity after the scenes in London last weekend.

When the groups on the edge of the protest began to push and push, the police moved quickly to separate the two groups and closed the ways of access to Saturday shoppers and tourists who expressed alarm or irritation in the deterioration.

After concluding his speeches, the ‘Union’ rally began to disintegrate until 15:00, while he declared the incident successful, he continued to dance against the opposite protesters’ disk hit in the carnival atmosphere.

Glasgow regions have been poured into Saltiers in recent weeks, in parallel with the operation, the St George’s Cross has become a new cultural and political battlefield in Scotland, the ownership of the Blue and White Cross of St Andrew.

Last summer, Scotland escaped racist violence that spread to England and Northern Ireland after the terrible Southport murders last July. However, a year later, the landscape is very different, more survey recently suggests that the reform is intention to vote for the selection of the Scottish Parliament in May and the neck and neck. For the first time, immigration seems to be the biggest concern for Scottish voters, and the Scottish government is faced with a refugee housing crisis in Glasgow, the largest city of Scotland.