The British Unionist parties heading the “Better Together” or No (surrender?) campaign in Scotland’s upcoming referendum on independence seem to have all but abandoned their scruples when it comes to defeating the SNP-led Yes side. Their language and rhetoric has become increasingly vitriolic with oblique references to verbal and physical violence littering their speeches as they attempt to instil an atmosphere of fear into the debate. While the London-based parties like Labour and the Conservatives have long given the green light to ultra-nationalist organisations, such as the Orange Order and BNP, to support the Unionist cause they have mainly done so at one-remove (deniability at the ready). However even that underhand approach has been cast aside as racist and sectarian bigots are now pushed to the fore of the No campaign under the guise of being “ordinary” Scottish voters. One such individual is “single mum” Yvonne Hama who turns out to be more representative of the Unionist cause than the Unionist parties might have suspected.
Among her recent online activities, uncovered by Wings over Scotland, has been the sharing of tweets by Nick Griffin, the Holocaust-denying former leader of the Far Right and xenophobic BNP, and this retweet on “Tims” or Roman Catholics in Scotland with Irish ancestry (misspellings in original tweet included below):
“Just got the Christmas lights & there so like Tims [Irish Roman Catholics], there all twisted, half the fuckers don’t work & they look better hanging from a tree”
Racism and sectarianism or better together?
AN SIONNACH FIONN 
As drastic as the thread may seem, most Scots would have nothing to do with such nonsense.
Even in the No camp.
LikeLike
Agreed, though the flirting with the Orange Order since the SNP victory in the Scottish parliamentary elections has hardly filled one with confidence. Seeing the local Labour Party in Glasgow making eyes at the OO after years of playing the “Green” card in the city and the Borders’ Tories permitting OO links kind of shows their true political colours. The No side seems to be pushing the referendum campaign towards the extremes as a deliberate strategy, ratcheting up tensions that didn’t really exist. It is a sort of Putin strategy viz. Ukraine. Create a sense of crisis where none existed for political gain.
LikeLike