GREEN 4 GO .......... BLUE 4 NO........... VERY VERY SAD WHEN ITS NO LONGER POLITICAL AND THE SECTARIAN DISEASE RAISES ITS ULGY HEAD........ Surprised? not really! ALTHOUGH I THOUGHT THE CAMPAIGN WAS IN THE GUTTER WITH LIES THIS ONLY TOOK IT LOWER THAN A SNAKES ASS IN A TYRE TRACK 12 September 2014, 6.28am BST Orange Order march highlights delicacy of enduring sectarian issues for Scotland AUTHOR Graham Walker Professor of Political History at Queens University Belfast DISCLOSURE STATEMENT Graham Walker does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations. Provides funding as a Founding Partner of The Conversation. qub.ac.uk/ Edinburgh to see a huge pro-union orange march on Saturday. David Farrer, CC BY-SA An Orange Order march in Edinburgh on Saturday in support of the Union has been widely viewed as likely to be counter-productive and to provide a further boost to a currently buoyant Yes campaign. Commentators have noted the apparent recent breakthrough by the pro-independence side in the ranks of Labour voters. An Irish Times report on a gathering of such voters of Catholic Irish background revealed that the vast majority declared themselves Yes supporters at the close of the event despite the best efforts of a former (Labour) Glasgow lord provost and a distinguished academic with a Donegal family history. The spectacle of an Orange parade, so close to polling day, invites the thought that more such voters from this slice of the electorate could be nudged into voting against their tribal foes and thus, conceivably, tip the balance of what is now shaping up to be a constitutional cliffhanger. And the death of unionist leader Ian Paisley on Friday will guarantee maximum coverage of the event. The 2,000 or so participants who are expected to come to Edinburgh from Northern Ireland tomorrow may want to salute his memory in some way, though he was admittedly a divisive figure even among unionists.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:16:09 +0000
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