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Why does the Orange Lodge have twice the SNP membership?
onecitizen
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It's curious that the Orange order a dedicated unionist group in Scotland has 50 thousand members, while the. SNP has only 25 thousand members.
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Are you sure of those figures?
Without doing Google I would doubt its anywhere near 50,000
can trace 50000 claim to a Scotsman article from 2009 which wikipedia uses as a source for orange order member numbers
Perhaps you should read up on the Orange Order ?
interesting that the orange order still have street parades. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Orange_Lodge_of_Scotland
At least its not at their members funerals now
Over 300 were murdered by the IRA during the troubles.
Because sectarianism is sadly rife in the central belt while the SNP has traditionally taken its support from the North and East of Scotland where people are generally more relaxed about life, religion and politics.
How many catholics and Irish republic citizens were murdered by groups related to the Unionists? A lot more than the IRA murdered that's how many.
So, they have them all over the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Order
Aye, very dedicated too preseving the union, at all costs by the looks of it.
http://www.mail-archive.com/kominform@lists.eunet.fi/msg08181.html
What has that got to do with anything?
And the IRA Killed the most people during the troubles
Republican paramilitary groups 2057
Loyalist paramilitary groups 1019
British security forces 363
Persons unknown 82
Irish security forces 5
The conservatives have 11 thousand members in Scotland, less than a quarter of the Oranges
I am surprised the Tories have that many members! so the orange order has a higher membership than the main political parties.
I-am surprised as to where you think you are going with this?
I struggle to believe there are so many members of the Orange Order when there are so few Tories. Any Orange people I've encountered hate Labour and the SNP. Members of the Orange Order are known for also being Tory supporters . . . shamelessly. ;-)
...and the Loyalists were the first ones to start the killings. There is so much more to the story than has ever been reported in the British Media.
Do some reading.
Loyalists tried to bomb the catholic community into accepting defacto apartheid on British soil. It was loyalist paramilitaries who shed the first blood killing an elderly woman (protestant no less) when they firebombed the mainly catholic pub she lived next door to. It was protestant leaders who refused to share power with catholic leaders in the 1970s, bringing the province to a complete standstill with a general strike, thus forcing the closure of Stormont until the Good Friday agreement.
The were also the first ones to shed blood outside NI. The bombings on civilian targets in Dublin remain the single worst atrocities of the entire period. The death toll in just one day exceeded even the Omagh bombing.
Ah! The first murder of the present Troubles.
Read up you say? I lived it.
How about the last murder, how do you feel about that?
Maybe it sits easy with you seeing it was done by the IRA