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Great turn out, more of a shuffle than a march.
It looked spectacular from the air.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47678763
Glad we went, maybe it'll make a difference
Great to see the bbc giving balance, by giving more words to the gammonball run than it has people participating, FFS...
Yeah, great to see the BBC’s famous ‘balance’ giving the same airtime to the nicotine-stained man-frog addressing 200 gammons as to the protest involving over a million people
Seems to me it has been balanced out by images of Anna Soubry getting enthused about her own presence and support for the 'people' despite signing every benefit cutting vote going.
Waitrose was much less busy yesterday.
and I thought all the Corbynista's shopped at Waitrose... My mistake.
I shop in Aldi and I went. Was I not meant to be allowed?
The scale of it was incredible, we got to Park Lane about 12.30 and were about 1/2 to 2/3 of the way back along Park Lane from the ‘start’ at Hyde Park Corner and there were so many people it 2hrs to get to the official start point and it was full right along Park Lane, from pavement to pavement. In all it took over 4hrs to get to Parliament.
I went to the Stop the War March in 2003 and this felt similar in numbers.
There are some fantastic pithy responses here and on twitter trying to belittle the fact that the biggest single gathering of people from various different groups and sides of politics all united to deliver a single message, it's almost as if people are threatened by that.
That aerial footage is great… shows the scale of the event in a way photos do not.
Thanks need to go to anyone who went out of their way to attend.
Oh, and of course there were people from very different political backgrounds there, from Green to Tory… at no point has the debate over our relationship with Europe been a purely Tory v Labour thing… never has been, never will be. It would be so much easier for voters if it was. Still, individual MPs, from Leaders to back benchers, need to get to work on this, time is running out… neither "my way or no way" or "all options are still on the table" will do, will it. MPs allowed a referendum to push them towards "a" Brexit, and I expect they will have to put "the" Brexit they come up with to the people in another referendum… whether you like referendums or not.