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Brexit march: Hundreds of thousands join referendum protest

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The Brits are coming to their senses, especially when shelves at supermarkets, grocery stores etc. are running dry. Unprecedented, as the disastrous and incompetent Conservative Governments have managed to once again screw up their citizens. Theresa May is incapable of getting the UK a deal. She and the rest of her Government should have resigned and called an election, otherwise not long to go when we see them going into a deep recession, with one or two banks filing for bankruptcy by the middle of this year. Good to see the following protests taking place!!

Hundreds of thousands are marching through central London calling for another EU referendum, as MPs search for a way out of the Brexit impasse.
Organisers of the "Put It To The People" campaign say more than a million people have joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament.
It comes after the EU agreed to delay the UK's departure from the EU.
PM Theresa May is coming under pressure to quit after saying she might not put her Brexit deal to a third vote by MPs.
She wrote to all MPs on Friday saying she will ditch plans to put the deal to another so-called meaningful vote if not enough MPs support it.
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Downing Street sources have denied reports in the Times newspaper that discussions are under way about a timetable for the prime minister to step down.

Unless her deal is passed by MPs, the UK will have to come up with an alternative plan or else face leaving without a deal on 12 April.
Crowds were told the initial count showed more than a million people had turned up - putting it on a par with the biggest march of the century, the Stop the War march in 2003.
BBC correspondent Richard Lister, who was at the scene when the march began in Park Lane, said: "The march set off about 20 minutes ago but the movement up the march has yet to reach this point - and we are relatively close to the front - people here are still waiting to march."
He said the organisers of the march "believe it's the biggest mass movement in the UK".
London Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted a video of himself joining demonstrators holding up a 'Put it to the People' banner at the front of the march as it began.
He was flanked at the front of the march by Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, who tweeted that there was a "huge turnout of people here from all walks of life".

Meanwhile, a record-breaking online petition on Parliament's website calling for Brexit to be cancelled by revoking Article 50 has attracted more than 4.3 million signatures.
As the number of signatures on the petition continued to climb, its creator Margaret Georgiadou said she had "received three death threats over the phone", and a "torrent of abuse" via her Facebook account.
Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran said the petition could "give oxygen" to the campaign for another Brexit referendum.
But veteran Conservative MP John Redwood told the BBC: "We know that 16 million people wanted to stay in the EU, and some of those would still like to stay in the EU, and within that quite a few would like to have another go and have another referendum - but it was always a minority."

Speakers at the rally have included Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, former Tory turned independent MP Anna Soubry and former attorney general Dominic Grieve.
Ms Sturgeon said now was "the moment of maximum opportunity" to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
Twitter post by @brighteconomist: I stood in this #PeoplesVoteMarch at Hyde Park corner for over an hour from12 30 and moved maybe 50 metres. So many people, the march was not moving. Left for home around 2 00pm. The point had been made.
"I think a second vote might not be an entirely democratic solution because it would put into question every referendum we ever did. But I wanted to show my anger - that I'm against xenophobic, racist and nationalistic rhetoric that is being spewed everywhere in the news to justify Brexit." Law graduate Sophie Latham, 22, from London
"We've had so many opportunities growing up in the EU - freedom of travel, equal pay, sexual equality and so on. Will our kids get the same?" Lin Worthy, self-employed, from Oxford
"This is the first time in my life at the age of 62 that I've come to something to make a statement because I see no future for this country, for my kids or my grandkids. It's just a total mess so I thought I've got to make a stand." Rob Worthy, 62, from Oxford
"My partner is French, my two children are British-French, it has already caused lots of problems, having to apply for different passports has cost us lots of money. We've seen European friends leave Bristol - German and Spanish friends." Simon Mead, from Bristol
"I was too young to vote in the last referendum. It's going to affect my career with research grants so I definitely wanted to come and protest." Science student Calypso Latham, 19, from London
'Clear choices'
If Mrs May's deal is approved by MPs next week, the EU has agreed to extend the Brexit deadline until 22 May. If it is not - and no alternative plan is put forward - the UK is set to leave the EU on 12 April.
In a letter to all MPs on Friday evening, Mrs May offered to talk to them over the coming days "as Parliament prepares to take momentous decisions".
She said there were now four "clear choices". These were:
Approving her deal next week - which relies on Commons Speaker John Bercow allowing her to put it to MPs to vote on again, which he has ruled will not be allowed unless "substantial" changes are made to it
Asking for another extension before 12 April - which would mean the UK would have to take part in elections for the European Parliament
Revoking Article 50 - cancelling Brexit - which Mrs May said would "betray the result of the referendum"

Nigel Farage said the People's Vote march in London were not the majority
The march comes as the pro-Brexit March to Leave, which started in Sunderland a week ago, continues towards London.
Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage re-joined the March to Leave in Linby, near Nottingham, on Saturday morning telling around 200 Brexit supporters that Mrs May had reduced the nation "to a state of humiliation".
Speaking from the top of an open-top bus, Mr Farage said those gathering for the People's Vote march in London were not the majority, before leading the marchers through the village.

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saxon

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They had their referendum and the majority voted to leave the EU. Another case of the minority crying because they aren’t getting their way.
 

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They had their referendum and the majority voted to leave the EU. Another case of the minority crying because they aren’t getting their way.
Sorry but the margin of what you call a majority was small enough to be a rounding error. The only true result of the first referendum was to prove by actual counting that Britain was so evenly split on the matter that there was no decisive majority either way. It certainly proved there was no significant preponderance of will to leave, and subsequent votes in the Commons have proven that again and again.

Which is why the poor woman who's stuck with the job her predecessor bungled and fled from is now asking the EU for what is, in effect, a time out while Britain tries to make up its bipolar mind.
 

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It's unprecedented because it's bogus. I signed just to see if I could and yes I'm in there now to.

Everyone from all over the world can sign and have been. I wouldn't carry to much weight in online petitions



 

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Democracy's business is done at the ballot box, not on the street. Next.
 

Insidious Von

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JC a referendum isn't as binding as an election. The English specifically don't want to look like nimrods on the world stage. Especially since ex-derivative dealer Nigel Farage made a killing on Brexit.

Several major companies have already moved out, like Llyod's of Paris.
 

jcpro

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JC a referendum isn't as binding as an election. The English specifically don't want to look like nimrods on the world stage. Especially since ex-derivative dealer Nigel Farage made a killing on Brexit.

Several major companies have already moved out, like Llyod's of Paris.
Nevertheless, the Brits decided to hold one and the winning side directed the Parliament to go ahead.
 

bver_hunter

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It's unprecedented because it's bogus. I signed just to see if I could and yes I'm in there now to.

Everyone from all over the world can sign and have been. I wouldn't carry to much weight in online petitions
The hundreds of thousands protesting for a referendum says it all vs the few hundred Brexshit supporters on the streets.

They need to have another referendum for the sake of the people who are feeling hurt with this rash Conservative decision. As usual they screw up the economy thanks to their gut decisions to hold a referendum, that made no sense at all!!
 

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The tens of thousands protesting for a referendum says it all vs the few hundred Brexshit supporters on the streets.

They need to have another referendum for the sake of the people who are feeling hurt with this rash Conservative decision. As usual they screw up the economy thanks to their gut decisions to hold a referendum, that made no sense at all!!
CBC said there were a million people there.
They should hold a referendum and end this brexit farce finally.
 

bver_hunter

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CBC said there were a million people there.
They should hold a referendum and end this brexit farce finally.
Yes, it was my typo that I corrected. Million is probably more accurate as the BBC posted hundreds of thousands. Very impressive numbers and no way that any right wing marches will match that number!!
 

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I believe the people have already spoke. You can't have a re-do when it doesn't go your way.

That's just my opinion
 

Frankfooter

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I believe the people have already spoke. You can't have a re-do when it doesn't go your way.

That's just my opinion
What, the people don't have the right to change their mind once they realize what a total fuckup the whole thing is?
Once they realize that they were lied to by populists?
 

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It was in London the heart of remain sentiment, if they couldn't get a crowd like this in London, where would they get it.
 

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What, the people don't have the right to change their mind once they realize what a total fuckup the whole thing is?
Once they realize that they were lied to by populists?
The majority of the votes were for Britain to leave.

The problem that has been stalling the break up is Elizabeth May flip flopped on her terms. She has changed the terms to hurt Britain to the point were Britain should just stay because not much was changing. Thats what the delay is and that is why the people are making her step down so the terms can be what they were in the first place under a STRONGER leader.
 

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I was largely neutral, partly because I'm not British, partly because I wasn't happy with how Greece has been treated by the EU, it's barbaric, so I didn't take sides like I did in not supporting Scottish Seperatists. Although I never supported Britexit either. I regret that now. Thunderfoot was right, this is a three alarm clusterfuck, the referundum wasn't clear enough on hard britexit or soft britexit, the leavers had no plan, and have been reduced to calling the EU the enemy, and anyone who doesn't agree with them a traitor.

What has this achieved except make everything worse for everyone, Britian is more divided and in chaos then Trump's America or Doug Ford's Ontario. I haven't seen an Anglo nation in this bad of shape in my lifetime, and I live in one that almost was ripped in two by the Quebec referundum.

The silver lining to this is that seperatism in Quebec is likely even deader then it was, watching this nightmare unfold in Britian. Still as a Canadian with ancestors from there this gives me no pleasure, only sorrow.
 

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The majority of the votes were for Britain to leave.

The problem that has been stalling the break up is Elizabeth May flip flopped on her terms. She has changed the terms to hurt Britain to the point were Britain should just stay because not much was changing. Thats what the delay is and that is why the people are making her step down so the terms can be what they were in the first place under a STRONGER leader.
She tried hard Britexit, that got voted down too. It's time to call an election, the Tories are in denial, they do NOT have the confediance of the house.
 

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The majority of the votes were for Britain to leave.
Yes, but that was because populists lied their faces off about how easy it would be and how good it would be for England.
Now that they've had a few years voters are well within their rights to change their minds.
In a democracy, the will of the people needs to be obeyed.
 
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