200,000 MARCH AGAINST BUSH IN LONDON

The Mirror, UK ^ | 11-20-03 | By Naveed Raja

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A massive demonstration against George Bush drew up to 200,000 marchers on the streets of London today.

Organisers of the march, ending in a rally at Trafalgar Square, said the number was a record for any weekday protest in Britain.

With a huge police presence the Met reported no incidents of violence and the march passed off peacefully.

"This phenomenal response shows the depth of feeling of the British public towards this visit," said a spokesman for the Stop The War Coalition.

The march started near Euston Station and went past the House of Commons and Whitehall before finishing at Trafalgar Square.

When the march passed Downing Street anti-war protesters booed and jeered at Bush and Blair inside number 10.

A huge papier mache statue of Bush was hauled down by protestors in Trafalgar Square in protest at the Iraq war.

Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic, on whose life the film Born on the Fourth of July was based, was the guest of honour.

Other speakers at the rally included former leader of the SNP Alex Salmon and Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Alice Mahon.

Former Labour MP George Galloway spoke to the crowd and described the march as "unbelievable".

He said: "This is the largest march on a midweek day that this country has ever seen - it is absolutely overwhelming.

"We're speaking for the majority of people in the world who want Bush out and who want Blair out."

"Tony Blair added insult to injury by bringing this ignorant, foolish and dangerous man to these shores and I think we are speaking for the majority of the country."

Caroline Lucas, of the Green Party told the crowd: "The eyes of the world are on Trafalgar Square today. We are making history."

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Vermin.

[Tijeras_Slim]

200,000? What were they doing, counting fingers and toes?

[Dialup Llama]

>Caroline Lucas, of the Green Party told the crowd: "The eyes of the world are on Trafalgar Square today. We are making history."

The eyes of the world ARE on Trafalgar Square today and we don't see 200,000 protestors.

[Snowy]

Are these numbers right?

[Davea]

Gee I wonder if any of them were mourning the loss of lives in Turkey? Vermin is right.

[CWOJackson]

They're counting using the metric system.

[ImaGraftedBranch]

The news just said it was 35,000. LOL

[VaBthang4]

LOL...FOXNEWS reports a number cloer to 35,000.

The Poor Liberal mirror....up to New York Times tricks.

[TomB]

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Eyewitness report from a London blogger

"This protest march has just gone by my office window - the length of the column was no more than 25 yrds............but it will be reported by the media as 'massive'."

[Cobra64]

"Tony Blair added insult to injury by bringing this ignorant, foolish and dangerous man to these shores and I think we are speaking for the majority of the country."

A man with an MBA from Yale is "ignorant?" A self made millionaire is "foolish?"

[over3Owithabrain]

Are these numbers right?

FoxNews says 50K. Even CNN, who would love to boast big #s, says "thousands", maybe 70k at most.
So no, this report is bullshit.

[VaBthang4]

Great user id. :o)

[Callahan]

Here comes the predictable shouting match about crowd numbers. Who cares how many terror-symps bothered to show up. They are irrelevant as far as I'm concerned. Do you count the nuts in a crappy fruitcake?

[Chummy]

According to our UK sources, the number was perhaps 70,000.

70,000 in a city of how many million?

70,000 whining know-littles with nothing more to do than spend their time in a romp that, if given heed, would lead to their destruction and that of western civilization as we know it.

[over3Owithabrain]

Do you count the nuts in a crappy fruitcake?

No, actually I pick them out like scabs and toss them is the toilet. Hey, great idea...

[Coop]

Why, there must be 50,000 in that photo alone!

[Callahan]

Extend that toilet analogy to the English Channel and we've got a workable plan here.

[TheBattman]

A massive demonstration against George Bush drew up to 200,000 marchers on the streets of London today.

I guess the same counters that counted the million moron march are counting these marchers.

[hellinahandcart]

I'm not sure I would even call it 100,000:

[DeFault User]

Former Labour MP George Galloway spoke to the crowd and described the march as "unbelievable".

I'll say this for Galloway--when Saddam buys a Brit politician, he stays bought.

BTW, why isn't he in jail?