The counting of numbers in the streets of London is a pretty arbotrary procedure. Anything to do with royalty or sport and the figures tend to be inflated, anything from the left figures tend to be reduced. "Countryside marches" pro-blood sports events tend to be treated like royalty in the papers that like that sort of thing.

The truth is, London's pretty well a country, and that's where the real patriotism of most Londoners is directed. As is only right and proper.

My feeling is that healthy patriotism is primarily a local thing, and only secondarily directed towards the country within which that locality is situated, and that's where it differs from nationalism.