The organisers of a march to demand a People’s Vote on the terms for leaving the EU negotiated by the current* Prime Minister estimate over a million people attended. The center of London from Hyde Park Corner to Parliament Square was a mass of people. While the police now do not estimate numbers, this is thought to be one of the largest demonstrations in the United Kingdom ever.
There was no independent verification of the numbers but BBC correspondent Richard Lister, who was at the scene, said it was a "very densely packed" protest and people were still arriving in Parliament Square five hours after the march began.
He said: "The organisers say it was one million-strong, it's very hard to verify those kinds of claims but this was a very significant march, well into the hundreds of thousands."
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The petition to Revoke Article 50 and thereby stay in the EU has also broken all records with the current number of signatories at 4,757,99 (absolutely no apology if this has been superceeded when you look up the latest number). All petitions getting over 500,000 must be considered for debate in the Commons. Unfortunately the petition has brought into the light the ugly side of the rabid Brexiteers. The 77 year old lady who started it up on the government web site has received death threats and other abuses via social media. (Please note, I usually do not use the honorific “lady” when refering to a woman but in this case I think it is deserved.)
Mrs Georgiadou said the "horrible" phone calls left her scared and angry.The retired lecturer says she has also received abuse via her Facebook account.
She said: "I feel terrible, I feel angry with myself because I thought I was tougher than that. But I was scared."
"I haven't even told my husband because he is very old and he would become hysterical.
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*May is coming under increased attack from her own party over the handling of the negotiation omnishambles. Tony Newton Dunn, the political editor of the Sun (yes Murdoch’s redtop) tweeted this
Somebody responded rather pithily.