28-11-2010, 07:45 AM
Ireland has a population of about 4.5 million - just over 6 million if you include the Northern 6 counties that remain part of the UK and the Sterling currency system.
Any way you cut it that is one hell of a big turnout. Even taking the combined north/South population, the pro-rata numbers for the UK would be over 1 million (which is about what happened for the Iraq war demo - the biggest in UK history). Taking just the south it equates to around 1.3 million on a UK demo.
Will it have the same effect - ie none whatsoever in countries claiming to operate governments of the people for the people by the people? - probably.
Any way you cut it that is one hell of a big turnout. Even taking the combined north/South population, the pro-rata numbers for the UK would be over 1 million (which is about what happened for the Iraq war demo - the biggest in UK history). Taking just the south it equates to around 1.3 million on a UK demo.
Will it have the same effect - ie none whatsoever in countries claiming to operate governments of the people for the people by the people? - probably.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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