This photo from last year's events in Barcelona elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/03/inenglish/1507033493_729669.html. This is what a crowd of 100 thousand looks like.
It's not what the crowd at the nat's "All Under One Bannner" Edinburgh rally looks like in the photos, the 2 days of photo page spreads in the National, or looked like if you were there. The figures that match what it actually looks like are 6 to 10 K.
They were clumpily and thinly spread out. They were surrounded by wide tracts of empty meadow, which they were all on one side of. It was far smaller than their last couple of years' Glasgow Green rallies. Smaller event and smaller crowd.
The 100K figure then is fake news and nonsense. Yet it is repeated in Lesley Riddoch's Scotsman column. The Disqus commenters know what to ask? Where were the coaches or cars parked, needed to bring a crowd of that size?!! Good minds to think of that. With no temporary toilets set up where were a crowd of that size peeing? Desperate to invent a momentum that's not there, while the polls remain unsafe for them to call a ref, and the infighting over it is audible between rally speakers.
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