Nooooooo we wanna LEAVE next week! :-( >>5853007
Nowhere near 1 million on the march today, prob less than a quarter of that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/23/peoples-vote-campaigners-march-london-demanding-public-given/
The People's Vote campaign has been accused of "overestimating" by Brexiteers after claiming one million people took part in a march through London in support of a second referendum.
Thousands of demonstrators walked from Park Lane to Parliament Square on the 'Put It To The People March' holding placards which read 'Brexit is Rubbish', 'Revoke Article 50' and 'We Love EU'.
People's Vote, the campaign group which organised the rally, said more than one million people took part and it was one of the biggest protests in British history.
The group has previously been accused of trying to mislead politicians and voters about its level of support.
A debriefing document prepared by the Greater London Authority put the number of attendees at October's People’s Vote rally at 250,000 - significantly below the campaign group's claim that they were joined by more than 700,000 people.
MPs have now criticised the group's latest turnout claims and suggested the group are spreading "dubious" figures.
Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough and part of the Brexit select committee, told The Telegraph: "I'm not really sure it can be called a People's March - it's hardly a march and more of a social gathering.
"I very much doubt the turnout figure is correct given they got their numbers wrong before.
"There were 17.4 million people who voted to leave the EU, so the protesters don't represent the country as a whole."
Marcus Fysh, Conservative MP for Yeovil, told The Telegraph: "They've obviously developed this march as a propaganda exercise so I wouldn't be surprised if they had overestimated their turnout figure.
"Let's be honest - they are marching against democracy and the implementation of a democratic referendum result.
"They are trying to set up a second vote where Remain is on the ballot. A 'final say' is not what they want - they want to reverse the result.
"This is a putsch that is going on this week."
An effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May is wheeled through Trafalgar Square
An effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May is wheeled through Trafalgar Square Credit: AP
The protest comes after the European Union agreed to delay the UK's departure. Meanwhile more than four million people have signed a petition calling on the Government to cancel Brexit.
People's Vote claimed there were so many people at the march that some protesters were at a standstill for 'at least an hour'.
A spokesperson said: "Our estimate is based on professional expert advice and whatever the exact number, there can be no doubt that this ranks as one of the greatest protests - possibly the biggest ever – that this country has ever seen.
"We have no doubt that this march is bigger than the last with our early estimate putting the size of the crowd at around 1 million."
The day's activities were kicked off by the unfurling of a large banner on Westminster Bridge that read "Love socialism, hate Brexit".
Operation yellowhammer (officials mistakenly let slip the name) has been set up in an underground bunker (under MOD whitehall) to bring together 30 govt departments, 5000 staff to prepare for no deal scenario. The govt is denying it is to plan how to stop civil unrest or 'yellow' vest protests in the event of a failure to leave on 29th March. It's not known how many military are involved. Operation redfold is the military arm of yellowhammer.
https://theday.co.uk/stories/operation-yellowhammer-primed-and-ready
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6138679/Operation-Yellowhammer-Official-lets-slip-codename-governments-no-deal-plan.html
Notable >>5886177
Strange story about needing special plans for Theresa May possibly collapsing while in the Commons. Really wonder if she is our whitehat after all. Why would there not be plans already in place for anyone collapsing in the Commons?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6844531/Officials-draw-plan-deal-collapse-Commons-amid-health-fears.html
'Commons officials concerned about Theresa May’s health have reportedly drawn up contingency plans to whisk her out of the Commons if she collapses.
The Prime Minister has faced a punishing routine of meetings and travel both here and to Europe as she battled to get a Brexit deal across the line.
She has also put in a large number of hours in the Commons trying to win MPs over to backing her deal.
Concerns about the health of the 62-year-old Prime Minister, who has type 1 diabetes, have led officials to develop a ‘protocol’ in case she becomes ill at the Dispatch Box, the Sunday Times reported.
The signs of the toll that Brexit has been taking showed on March 12 as she lost her voice and struggled to speak as she put her deal to the Commons and lost by 149 votes.
The Prime Minister brought back memories of her 2017 Conservative Party Conference speech as she was reduced to a croak as she addressed MPs in the Commons.
After a red-eye trip to Strasbourg to meet Jean-Claude Juncker the previous night she was noticeably hoarse as she introduced the motion for her doomed second meaningful vote.'