Glasgow Pensioners’ Demo

Last week Greater Glasgow Pensioners for Indy staged a demonstration in Atlantic Square outside the UKGov Glasgow Hub. This is a substantial office building housing several thousand employees and known – in Indy circles – as Governor General Alister Jack’s Glasgow HQ. He has another one over in Edinburgh.

People came up from Dumfries & Galloway, over from Edinburgh, Fife and Hamilton. Mary McCabe and the Glasgow P4Indy Stall Team, who organised the demo, were pleased with the turnout. We got toots from passing traffic. The Polis even showed up and chatted to us!

Fiona and I went to represent Scottish Independence Podcasts and we took some photos.

Last month I recorded a chat with Mary McCabe about how the demo came about and why they were doing it. We were amused to discover that the video was banned by TikTok. The only reason we can think of was that TikTok considered we were encouraging a pensioners’ insurrection 🤣. YouTube must be used to insurrections as they were happy to host us. Here it is:

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