My Dad's actually an only child! My brother-in-law, also Catholic, is one of four, though, so that redresses it slightly. The number of practicing Catholics isn't far off the number of practicing Anglicans these days (with Poles and other eastern Europeans coming in it may well be higher now...).
That 3% is those defined as Irish citizens who were denied their right to vote in 2005 due to a Hounslow bureaucratic cockup. There'll be more (like me) who are Irish citizens (which is 'having a parent or grandparent born there') who aren't counted because we're, er, integrated.
Light relief time - those of a strong stomach can look through the postings made by contributors to the Express forum. There's one (
http://www.express.co.uk/users/profile/spaniel_lover) who thinks that immigrant women should be sterilised after their second child, and then there's this character:
http://www.express.co.uk/myexpress/profile/Robertz
His profile sets out his views fairly clearly:
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My life ambition is to live long enough to see the politically correct brigade melted down for glue.
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Perhaps we can point Locky in their direction? On a serious note, it's more evidence for the suggestion that people who hold 'liberal-do-gooder-politically-correct-brigade' views are also likely to possess violently anti-individual quasi-fascist (and quite possibly misogynistic) opinions that have no place in a civilised society. Which is presumably why they read the Daily Getsworse in the first place.
I wish I knew what he had a comment removed for, if they allowed the one about forcibly sterilising women.
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Bloody PC liberal do-gooder Daily Express, eh?!