{"id":127790,"date":"2021-05-14T15:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/?p=127790"},"modified":"2021-05-14T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T13:53:14","slug":"turning-point-par-duncan-sutherland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/14\/turning-point-par-duncan-sutherland\/","title":{"rendered":"A Symbolic Standoff<\/b>, par Duncan Sutherland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Une traduction DeepL suit le texte en anglais, affich\u00e9 en premier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Early yesterday morning, during the Muslim festival of Eid Mubarak, which is officially recognized and respected in Scotland, the UK Home Office, which has responsibility for immigration control throughout the United Kingdom, staged a brutal dawn raid on the home of an Indian family in Kenmure Street in the ethnically and culturally diverse southside district of Pollokshields in the city of Glasgow, an area which is within the Scottish Parliament constituency represented by the First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, whose pro-independence administration is vehemently opposed to the UK Government’s post-Brexit \u00ab\u00a0hostile environment\u00a0\u00bb immigration policy, of which you may have heard.<\/p>\n

Home Office immigration enforcement officers had arrived without warning in a marked van, into which they dragged two men with a view to transporting them to a Home Office detention centre for the purpose of deporting them. However, a neighbour who saw what was happening immediately crawled under the vehicle to prevent its departure and raise the alarm. The van was very soon surrounded by a group of residents, which rapidly grew in size until the street was filled with hundreds of people chanting spontaneously in unison \u00ab\u00a0Leave our neighbours alone! Let them go! Let them go!\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Home Office agents, finding that they were trapped, summoned the police, who duly arrived in force and surrounded the van so that no attempt could be made by the crowd to force it open. The crowd, however, which continued to grow in size throughout its 8-hour vigil, remained entirely peaceful but completely insistent that they would not disperse until the Home Office detainees were released.<\/p>\n

As soon as the First Minister and her Justice Secretary were informed of this state of affairs they made representations to the UK Government, which initially fobbed them off, as is its wont, and then became unhelpfully belligerent. Consequently, the Scottish Government, which has overall authority over the Scottish national police service, arranged for the distinguished human-rights lawyer Aamer Anwar, who is a member of the Scottish National Party, to negotiate with the police, who finally instructed the Home Office agents to release the detainees into the care of Mr Anwar, who will no doubt be looking after their interests from now on.<\/p>\n

Thus was the authority of the UK Government successfully challenged and defied by the people of Glasgow yesterday so that the authority of the Scottish Government prevailed. The gulf between Scotland and England grows wider and deeper by the day. The people have thrown their weight behind the pro-independence Scottish Government in election after election and now on the streets. The authority of the UK Government in Scotland is ebbing away. When the people cease to recognize your authority, you have lost it.<\/p>\n

========<\/p>\n

Un face-\u00e0-face symbolique<\/strong><\/p>\n

T\u00f4t hier matin, \u00e0 l’occasion de la f\u00eate musulmane de l’A\u00efd Mubarak, qui est officiellement reconnue et respect\u00e9e en \u00c9cosse, le minist\u00e8re britannique de l’Int\u00e9rieur, qui est responsable du contr\u00f4le de l’immigration dans l’ensemble du Royaume-Uni, a effectu\u00e9 un raid brutal \u00e0 l’aube sur la demeure d’une famille indienne de Kenmure Street, dans le quartier de Pollokshields, situ\u00e9 dans le sud de la ville de Glasgow et caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par la diversit\u00e9 ethnique et culturelle, une zone qui se trouve dans la circonscription du Parlement \u00e9cossais repr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par le Premier ministre \u00e9cossais, Nicola Sturgeon, dont l’administration ind\u00e9pendantiste est farouchement oppos\u00e9e \u00e0 la politique d’immigration \u00ab\u00a0d’environnement hostile\u00a0\u00bb post-Brexit du gouvernement britannique, dont vous avez peut-\u00eatre entendu parler.<\/p>\n

Des agents du Home Office charg\u00e9s de l’application des lois sur l’immigration sont arriv\u00e9s sans pr\u00e9venir dans une camionnette marqu\u00e9e, dans laquelle ils ont tra\u00een\u00e9 deux hommes en vue de les transporter dans un centre de d\u00e9tention du Home Office pour les expulser. Cependant, un voisin qui a vu ce qui se passait s’est imm\u00e9diatement gliss\u00e9 sous le v\u00e9hicule pour emp\u00eacher son d\u00e9part et donner l’alerte. La camionnette a tr\u00e8s vite \u00e9t\u00e9 entour\u00e9e par un groupe de r\u00e9sidents, qui a rapidement pris de l’ampleur jusqu’\u00e0 ce que la rue soit remplie de centaines de personnes scandant spontan\u00e9ment \u00e0 l’unisson \u00ab\u00a0Laissez nos voisins tranquilles ! Laissez-les aller ! Laissez-les aller !\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n

Les agents du minist\u00e8re de l’Int\u00e9rieur, constatant qu’ils \u00e9taient pris au pi\u00e8ge, ont convoqu\u00e9 la police, qui est d\u00fbment arriv\u00e9e en force et a encercl\u00e9 le fourgon, de sorte que la foule ne pouvait pas tenter d’en forcer les porti\u00e8res. La foule, qui n’a cess\u00e9 de cro\u00eetre tout au long de ses huit heures de veille, est rest\u00e9e totalement pacifique mais a insist\u00e9 sur le fait qu’elle ne se disperserait pas tant que les d\u00e9tenus du minist\u00e8re de l’Int\u00e9rieur ne seraient pas lib\u00e9r\u00e9s.<\/p>\n

D\u00e8s que la Premi\u00e8re ministre et son ministre de la Justice ont \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9s de cet \u00e9tat de fait, ils ont entrepris des d\u00e9marches aupr\u00e8s du gouvernement britannique, qui les a d’abord rejet\u00e9es, comme \u00e0 son habitude, avant de devenir inutilement belliqueux. En cons\u00e9quence, le gouvernement \u00e9cossais, qui a l’autorit\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale sur le service de police national \u00e9cossais, a fait en sorte que l’\u00e9minent avocat des droits de l’homme Aamer Anwar, qui est membre du Scottish National Party, n\u00e9gocie avec la police, qui a finalement demand\u00e9 aux agents du minist\u00e8re de l’int\u00e9rieur de remettre les d\u00e9tenus aux soins de M. Anwar, qui veillera sans aucun doute \u00e0 leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats \u00e0 partir de maintenant.<\/p>\n

Ainsi, l’autorit\u00e9 du gouvernement britannique a \u00e9t\u00e9 contest\u00e9e et d\u00e9fi\u00e9e avec succ\u00e8s par les habitants de Glasgow hier, de sorte que l’autorit\u00e9 du gouvernement \u00e9cossais a pr\u00e9valu. Le foss\u00e9 entre l’\u00c9cosse et l’Angleterre se creuse de plus en plus chaque jour. Le peuple a soutenu de tout son poids le gouvernement \u00e9cossais pro-ind\u00e9pendance, \u00e9lection apr\u00e8s \u00e9lection et maintenant dans la rue. L’autorit\u00e9 du gouvernement britannique en \u00c9cosse s’effrite. Lorsque le peuple cesse de reconna\u00eetre votre autorit\u00e9, vous l’avez perdue.<\/p>\n

(Traduction DeepL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n

\"\"<\/a>Une traduction DeepL suit le texte en anglais, affich\u00e9 en premier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Early yesterday morning, during the Muslim festival of Eid Mubarak, which is officially recognized and respected in Scotland, the UK Home Office, which has responsibility for immigration control throughout the United Kingdom, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6657,4932],"tags":[3816,2089,158],"class_list":["post-127790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecosse","category-royaume-uni","tag-ecosse","tag-immigration","tag-royaume-uni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127797,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127790\/revisions\/127797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pauljorion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}