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Last updated: 27 June 2022.

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Indy Demo 2013 - 30, 000 attend

MASSIVE INDEPENDENCE DEMO ON CALTON HILL, EDINBURGH

Forget police or media 'estimates'.

 Or,  as we might more truthfully call them, lies.

As no' very easily bull-shitted veterans of many demos in Scotland , Editorial board members of The Point were there.  Some of us bothered to count the demo from start to finish.

Last year there were over 10, 000 in attendance – a decent sized demo. This year there were over 30, 000.

That’s to say that this year’s turnout was three times the size of the previous year.  Those numbers are comparable with the huge anti-poll tax demo of 1990, and only bettered in our life times  (in terms of turnout for a Scottish Rally) by the amazing mass anti-war demo of 2003 in Glasgow.

 Polis estimates are a joke - end of.

Check out these pics.

Forward to a YES vote in 2014.

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