When I lived there it was about 35,000 plus the 30,000 students, of whom I was one.

As for your link, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. But yeah, I'm more inclined to think a government-based solution might work better in the long run than a corporate-based one, just because maybe then profit won't be the only concern.

But I've never claimed to be anything but a liberal economically.