oldbloke – Member
There’s really not 800 though, are there, really.
Maybe it is a Glasgow thing – the Orange Order organised No march in Edinburgh during the Indyref wasn’t really any problem.
Generally there aren’t a great deal of problem, as most people avoid them. Issues will tend to come from the crowds that follow them infighting, policing costs, and the amount of disruption they actually cause. But that’s the point, why should i have to avoid them or get stuck behind them in traffic, Because a bunch of neaderthals think that they have a right to march on the queens highway and jam it up the catholics?
It’s difficult to find uptodate stats but here’s 2003, the amount of them isn’t going down imo.
http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2005/01/20583/50704
A snapshot of the number of marches in the strathclyde area 2003
orange – 713
catholic – 16
other – 250
total – 979
in scotland
orange – 853
catholic – 20
other – 839
total – 1,712