Night of counter-protests proves ‘silent majority’ actually neither

After a night in which counter-protesters vastly outnumbered those intent on causing trouble, the self-described ‘silent majority’ has been confirmed as just a few noisy gobshites.

People who are unable to find anyone to publicly agree with their opinions often loudly and repeatedly claim a ‘silent majority’ support them, but counter-protests across the country last night proved this is actually bollocks.

“As I stand here with thousands and thousands of counter-protesters, determined not to let the far right win, it’s become clear that this ‘silent majority’ is entirely composed of maybe four hundred people on the Internet with too much time on their hands, and poor punctuation and grammar skills,” explained attendee Simon Williams.

“Many of these frothing online racists claim there’s some great silent movement backing up their f**kwittery, which at any moment will sweep their minority view into power.

“Well, if last night demonstrated one thing, it’s that this view is total bullshit. The vast majority of people are reasonable, unafraid, and perfectly welcoming of people who are different to them.”

However, Internet extremists have unsurprisingly rejected the evidence of their own eyes, insisting that most people support them ‘in their hearts’.

Claiming that they detect a real change of mood in the country towards their particular line of berserk nonsense, the continually-posting whackjobs will continue to speak out for the nonexistent group they claim to represent.

Should they ever be presented with evidence their fringe opinions actually are shared by a vanishingly small minority, commenters say they plan to deal with this by claiming to be just better-informed and more intelligent than most people.