Glasgow’s Orange Order marches are politically charged, but they leave many people bemused
emblazoned with a Union Jack hangs around the neck of a young boy, who taps it excitedly while he waits. Pounding down the street, in a din of flutes and booming drums, are hundreds of marchers: some dressed in quasi-military uniforms, others in orange sashes, bowler hats and white gloves. Fluttering banners glorify the queen. Shopkeepers stand outside their premises to watch; there is no use working, though the more opportunistic sell union flags to spectators.
In the past year these processions have become more politically charged. Four Orange marches in Glasgow were rerouted this summer after the police raised “significant concerns”. Ten times as many officers have been dispatched to police some parades as were sent last year. The police warned a council committee in June that “positions are becoming more polarised”. In the East End, “anxiety, anger, fear and a sense of injustice is high,” says Michael Rosie of the University of Edinburgh.
The attack led to the founding of Call it Out, a group that has since then protested against Orange marches. Jeanette Findlay, one of its founders, accuses the Orange Order of anti-Catholic “racism” and argues that the authorities should stop its parades going past Catholic churches. Jim McHarg, Grand Master of Scotland’s Grand Orange Lodge, counters that the recent volatility has been caused by Call it Out travelling to Orange processions “to be offended”.
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