The 'battle', also known as "Bloody Friday" or "Black Friday", took place on Friday 31 January 1919, 82 days after the end of the First World War. In its aftermath the leaders of the strike were arrested and British troops, supported by six tanks, were moved to key points in Glasgow and its surrounding areas. Battle of George Square - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square
I thought Black Friday was an American thing, so the sales got violent and they banned them all them years ago
Why we should know it? It was a battle between Scottish workers and the Scottish police. The assistance of the army, all be it a small token group, was at the request of the sheriff of Lanarkshire. From your own wiki link It is sometimes suggested that the War Cabinet ordered this deployment, but this is incorrect: the government lacked the authority to deploy troops against British civilians without declaring martial law, which was not declared. The War Cabinet discussed the issue but the military deployment was in response to the request from the Sheriff of Lanarkshire. The military arrived after the rioting was over and they played no active role in dispersing the protesters. The troops guarded locations of import to the civil authorities throughout the period of the strike, which lasted until 12 February. The troops and tanks then remained in Glasgow, and its surrounding areas, until 18 February Now from what you put forward fin, the Scots wanted to fight some other Scots and the English were brought in to calm them down, not the first time in history this mediation has been required. Ya an unruly bunch
enough of the DR, now, which bike to swap over with? hmm. interwb is great init? it wasnt marshal law, it was the "riot act" troops from the areas surrounding glasgow where locked in the barraks, and other scottish and english troops sent in. one hundred years ago, on 31 January, 1919, Glasgow’s George Square witnessed one of the most astonishing outbreaks of civic violence in modern history. Tens of thousands of striking workers, many accompanied by their families, were baton-charged by police. A battle erupted, heads were broken and for one of the last times, civic officials read the Riot Act. A panic-stricken cabinet in London sent in troops and tanks, and for a moment revolution looked set to sweep western Scotland. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...-on-the-day-they-read-the-riot-act-in-glasgow
Because the Commons and Mainstream Media are ignoring it until it until people forget and it goes away?
I see the sturgeonator has dropped to a new low (as if that was possible) and joins Corbyn in trying to gain the youth eco-terriorist vote.... Please stop the world..... I want to get off....
Virtually a nationalised industry then: should be no trouble at all getting security clearances at the highest level?
The EU will make sure eurosceptic candidates are blocked from top jobs in Brussels regardless of the results of May’s election, Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has bragged. In an interview with Polish media at the weekend, Jean-Claude Juncker rejected the idea that the surge at the ballot box for national populist parties predicted next month would slow the progress of the globalist EU integration process. “In these elections, those who promote foolish nationalism will pay the price for it,” the European Commission president threatened, crowing: “Nobody knows this, but last time I rejected the candidacies of six of the Commissioners presented to me by national governments”. “Do remember that governments merely propose commissioners. It is the president of the Commission who accepts them and allocates their responsibilities,” the unelected bureaucrat boasted. Speaking with Rzeczpospolita, Juncker sneered that, whether the nation’s patriotic ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party wins national parliamentary elections in November or whether it is defeated by a coalition of opposition activists backed by most of the Brussels establishment, Poland would not be leaving the EU due to the financial benefits it provides. “Poles do not want to be cut off from all this,” the Luxembourgian politician confidently declared, before adding contradictorily that people in Western Europe “should not think Poland is only in the bloc for money”. He claimed Poland’s EU membership is as a result of the Slavic nation-state sharing “common values” with other EU countries, and said that funding from Brussels “is not a gift, but a recognition of the magnitude of the reforms carried out” since it joined the EU.
Wrong as usual The troops in the Maryhill barracks only 4 miles away, stayed in the Maryhill barracks. The troops that were used were brought in from England as the army didn’t trust the Scots soldiers
What percentage of electricity is generated from renewables in Scotland? What is the increase in this percentage since the SNP came to power? Is the Scottish Government on track to meet its target for electricity generated by renewables? Or is it ahead or behind? Which party effectively banned fracking in Scotland?
i think yer man was just being a t.pot btw. he cant be that misinformed. saying that, you may of seen the latest OFCOM rulling on the BBC and Andrew Niel. so who knows.
