Ibrox’s Racist Singing Section Has Again Disgraced A Country That Refuses To Take Them On.

The sight of the Ibrox “singing section” marching through Glasgow belting out a racist song whilst Police Scotland officers bounced along beside them has brought home again how much this, at times, wretched little country tolerates which it shouldn’t.

Civic Scotland has been largely silent save for a handful of people on Twitter, but the clip of hundreds of bigoted scumbags belting out The Famine Song will appal those who want to see this stuff driven from our streets and our land.

There is no doubt who was responsible for this; their club took action when Kyogo was racially abused by a bus full of these goons.

What will it do in response to this?

I suspect not a lot because there is, and has always been, one type of racism which some in Scotland find acceptable; that which is directed at Irish Catholics and that video is a virulent example of it.

Honestly, the cowardice and hypocrisy of so many people in this country continues to disgust me.

I praised the Ibrox club for dealing swiftly with the Kyogo incident, but I said in the article it was most probably because they had no other choice.

I believe Scotland, if it cared enough, as a country, could push Ibrox to deal with this just as aggressively.

But Scotland doesn’t seem to want to.

Is it because too many here harbour the same hatreds?

Perhaps not with the intensity to walk down public streets belting it out, no, but you have to wonder if it’s there just the same.

How else do you explain the complete failure to take this matter on and deal with it before now?

How else do you explain a media letting it continue instead of pounding on this every single day until it’s finally faced up to and this scab ripped off once and for all?

Patrick Harvie, whose party has just taken seats in the Scottish Government, was scathing, but his is one of the few mainstream voices willing to be heard.

“The images of a mob singing anti-Irish racist songs, as they marched through Glasgow escorted by police, ought to be shocking but are shamefully all too familiar. At the very least, we need an assurance that every identifiable person in that crowd will face charges.”

Their club should be asked to guarantee that they will be treated the same way as those on the bus were earlier in the week.

Nobody seems to want to say that though.

Nil By Mouth, who said nothing in the aftermath of the Kyogo incident did finally scurry out from under the bed to put their own condemnation on the record.

“There is no celebration of football or identity here just ugly, bigoted hatred. This sort of garbage should be no more welcome in the 21st century as another prayer racially abusing Glen Kamara or morons on a supporter’s bus doing the same to Kyogo Furuhashi. It’s the language of the sewer.”

But unfortunately for him, this actually is a celebration of both football and identity for these Peepul and too few are willing to say that out loud.

That was abhorrent today.

That was Klansmen, singing The Cross In The Wildwood, as they marched.

You’d think the whole of our country would find that utterly intolerable.

You’d think people in power would be raining condemnation on it in the strongest language.

Yet aside from a handful of voices is the same old stony silence … and Police Scotland’s role in facilitating it has been ignored completely.

They did nothing today to dispel the impression that enforcing the law is something they do only when it suits them, and when the overtime cheques are good.

That, alone, should be the subject of some serious questions from Harvie and his party.