Leader: Serenade them into seeing sense
It is not, we are pleased to point out, the fault of the hosts and now one of the country’s Labour MPs, Iain Lees-Galloway, has echoed the point we made yesterday that if New Zealand can have the haka then, as he put it, “surely the Scots should be allowed a bit of skirt and skirl?” So what can be done to overcome the authorities’ intransigence?
There is only one solution: piping direct action. So we urge anyone in the Wellington area on Sunday who can get a tune out of a set of bagpipes – Scots, New Zealanders, Bretons, whoever – to pick them up and play their way to the stadium. This massed pipe band should demand their New Zealand cousins on the gates show solidarity by letting them in – if they have a ticket, of course – to pipe the Scots to victory over Argentina.