This is more complicated than you might think, but the simple explanation is that Scottish Police view it as more important to avoid “offence” to Royalists, right now, than to piss off the English establishment…
However, this is a mighty complicated question to answer, actually, so let’s just say… Scotland isn’t independent, the Queen was their mostly-beloved head of state, and this kind of thing (arresting someone for heckling a Royal) is… Very much in the zeitgeist, in places like Scotland, right now (would likely happen in Aus, too)…
Hell, just look at the comments, even here, defending the arrest. You’d be surprised by how many Americans, even, support this sort of police response, IMHO rather sadly…
In the US, the general perception has always been that leftists hate the monarchy just because they claim to hate any sort of white exercise of power, and conservatives dig the tradition and the illusion of historical continuity the monarchy provides.
This is more complicated than you might think, but the simple explanation is that Scottish Police view it as more important to avoid “offence” to Royalists, right now, than to piss off the English establishment…
However, this is a mighty complicated question to answer, actually, so let’s just say… Scotland isn’t independent, the Queen was their mostly-beloved head of state, and this kind of thing (arresting someone for heckling a Royal) is… Very much in the zeitgeist, in places like Scotland, right now (would likely happen in Aus, too)…
Hell, just look at the comments, even here, defending the arrest. You’d be surprised by how many Americans, even, support this sort of police response, IMHO rather sadly…
In the US, the general perception has always been that leftists hate the monarchy just because they claim to hate any sort of white exercise of power, and conservatives dig the tradition and the illusion of historical continuity the monarchy provides.