Before the Iraq war there was a “Stop the War March” in London. There was supposed to be more than a million people, who were marching to stop a war with Iraq. After the war had officially ended there was another “Stop the War March”. I am not sure what this was for, as the war had already stopped.Let’s put marches and demonstrations into context. The objective of a demonstration is a minority trying to force thier views on the majority. The “More than a million” at the original “Stop the War March” were not there to stop a war against Iraq, This march took place on a Saturday, which means around a third would have been children, dragged along by their parents.A TV reporter stopped a young lad, and asked him what he thought about a war with Iraq, and he replied “I don’t know…I’m only here because my mates here”. Add to this a large amount of leftist anti-government protesters, who would have been there, what ever the cause was, (as long as it involved the government). And the professional demonstrators, the people usually on benefits, who tend to live rough and go “wherever the action is”,plus some celebrities who like to jump on the bandwagon. Which means there wasn’t anywhere near a million trying to stop a war with Iraq?In this country, as in most countries, we have a noisy minority. This isn’t any set group of people; this is something people opt in and out of. If the government doubled the TV licence fee, I would be one of the noisy minority.
There are different groups of people who would demonstrate against every decision the government makes. Although there is a set core for this, most of them are found on the “opposition benches”.Whenever there is a strike anywhere, the pickets become the noisy minority. We have, at this time, a group called “Fathers for Justice” they are (unfortunately) a noisy minority.What really cracks me up, particularly at the Stop the war Marches is there is always someone, who looks around and thinks the whole world there and comes out with “We represent the views of most of the British public”.No you don’t, you are a minority. There are about eighty million people in Britain, even if there was more than a million on the first“Stop the War March” and if all of them where marching to try and stop a war with Iraq, they would have still been a minority.I would like to see a demonstation for something with a majority, I doubt I ever will though.

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