Golf Tango Foxtrot

Scotland sometimes congratulates itself on being free from conventional far-right extremists like the National Front and the British National Party.   One of the reasons this is so is because this ground is already occupied by the Orange Order and their hangers-on. A collection of (very few) religious zealots, the wannabe (and actual) Loyalist paramilitaries down to the assorted mob of lumpen wine swillers who follow the Order's walks and who even the Lodge disdain. As a corollary the only places where the BNP and NF have managed to historically have a presence in Scotland is in places where t he Order was kicked out long ago. These are the forces who can always be relied on to provide the bully-boys to intimidate and divide the working class (and Indy) movements. The classic function of Fascism.  The Order says that at least six of its members "and many more friends of the Order" have been elected as councillors in the May 2015 Scottish Council elections.   An...