In the Herald, a Scottish newspaper
RIOTS could break out across the UK this summer as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic take hold, a scientific adviser to the UK Government has warned. Professor Clifford Stott, a behavioural expert, said there was a risk of disorder on a scale last seen during the London riots in August 2011 – sparked by the police shooting of Mark Duggan – if urgent efforts were not made by police forces to quell any potential unrest in the neighbourhoods they served.
Stott is based at Keele University (Midlands) and is a member of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
His comments do not mention any Scottish location but are based on events in English cities from 2011 until the recent riots, triggered by events in the USA. The authors only use the term ‘UK’ but we are surely used to that being just a PC version of ‘England’.
There have been no equivalent riots in Scotland. The worst we see here are the small-scale confrontations when less than 100 supporters and opponents of Irish political movements shout and throw things at each other over a cordon of unmoved police officers.
As for the effects of the pandemic on protest. The authors and the Herald appear to take for granted that those will be the same in Scotland as they are in England. This is remarkable if typical. Already we see marked divergence and signs that the UK Government has not entirely forgotten the herd immunity strategy it really wants.
In sharp contrast, Scotland is coping far better that Rumpuk. See this for the evidence:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
That’ll be in the same vein as ‘British’ football hooligans?
http://archive.is/eiDS6
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How very dare Scotland be different from our glorious bull-dogged Eng… er, united kingdom!
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Covid19 has brought about a major change of opinion in Scotland about how the union is viewed.
People now realise that when the UK establishment and it’s press pack make pronouncements about the UK,they really mean England and that what may be good enough for England isn’t here in Scotland.
That and the idea that HM government can seriously damage your health is now deeply embedded in the Scottish psyche.
No going back.
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It will certainly suit some if England erupts into disorganised chaos! There’s £’s to made somewhere there, and the icing on the cake for the Brexit EngGov would be to introduce Martial law…they don’t have anywhere near enough cops in England to quell any revolters.
Scotland is on a different, peaceful, 21st century, civilised, socially responsible, life affirming path, by and large. This can only mean one thing,
manage your own affairs in full, no more half baked governmental levers of power, in the ‘UK’, Scotland NEEDS independence.
I hope that England does not erupt in violence, but they certainly need some changes in their political makeup, sadly, though seems to need a very strong pair of binoculars to see that anywhere on the horizon, more likely to see into outer space. A one party state is a dangerous one. England is just that, red Tory, blue Tory, yellow Tory. Slips right off the tongue doesn’t it.
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