please empty your brain below
Having seen two years of vindictive nastiness from the EU, I am convinced more than ever that leaving is necessary. Yes the current situation is a shambles, but there are too many people confusing the incompetence of the doctors with the necessity of treatment. The leavers thought they had bought the election the last time round, and they were wrong, a second referendum could well bite them in he backside, hard.

Max Roberts | 24.03.19 - 9:32 a.m. | #

Didn't go - I think Brexit is bad but having campaigned in the 2016 referedum, I really don't think having another one is a good idea. Not sure what the least worst option is now though.

James Richards | 24.03.19 - 9:47 a.m. | #

About 16.4 million short on the losers march by the sound of it.
Breaking W. Germany want to re run the 1966 World Cup.

Colininthailand | 24.03.19 - 9:58 a.m. | #

Maybe that's it in a nutshell Alex. Remainers are nice, sensible, and yes, largely middle-class. And nice guys don't win because the other side plays dirty.

Sarah | Homepage | 24.03.19 - 10:22 a.m. | #

I was otherwise occupied in receiving and training new volunteers on a local community project - a fair alternative in my mind - but my summing up of the week is having the distinct impression that the EU negotiators had a well considered chess game-like strategy which includes trying to save Brexit Britain from itsself, while the UK side continued with "Carry On Clueless" as usual.

I was at the October rally, and am glad to see this was bigger still despite my absence.

NickW | 24.03.19 - 10:57 a.m. | #

In the early noughties we had the anti foxhunting and anti Iraq War marches - both achieving nothing.

Whatever happens they'll be a large group of disillusioned angry people on the other side, and they'll be ongoing repercussions.

The people who experienced the three overlapping eras of WW1, WW2 and Communism are now almost gone, Angela Merkel (64) being the last of the line, the mindset is different now - anyone under around 45 (15 when the wall came down) has no memory of 'before'.

Still Anon | 24.03.19 - 11:02 a.m. | #

I bet there were no queues in Waitrose

Kim | 24.03.19 - 11:24 a.m. | #

I wonder how many people who attended voted for leave or didn't vote at all. What's the point in protesting over and over again? A (slight) majority wants/wanted to leave so it's cling together, swing together.

And a protest in London isn't that impressive where the majority of people voted for stay. Might be impressive in Clacton or King's Lynn though ;-).

Person Who Wasn't There | 24.03.19 - 12:38 p.m. | #

No leaver comments. Too frightened in case they get bullied. There must be one out of 17.4 million

Boxer | 24.03.19 - 1:05 p.m. | #

I didn't go but overheard a lady in my local (50m from London) Waitrose an hour ago saying she did. I am 100% with Steve @09.21 but from a different starting point. I voted Leave but not in this chaotic way. Although I would still prefer to Leave, in a second referendum I would vote Remain. What I find hard to stomach is that MPs can have multiple MVs on the proposed deal over a short period of time when very little has changed in what is being voted about whereas the populace cannot be allowed a second vote after 3 years when a lot has changed. What is a vote in Parliament other than a referendum of MPs? To me May is just a hypocrite, amongst other things! If a second vote said Leave I would be happy, original vote endorsed, but prepare properly this time. If a second vote said Remain I would be even happier, not what I really wanted but saved from the crass behaviour of the current (but not for long) PM and all the Conservatives frightened of the right wing headbangers in their local constituency associations.

J. | 24.03.19 - 1:14 p.m. | #

Boxer...read the 3 rd comment...I think that’s a leavers comment.

Colininthailand | 24.03.19 - 1:50 p.m. | #

My post was moved from the main comments.
Was this march about getting a decent deal that people can vote for, OR was it really just to stop Brexit altogether. Be interesting to know the split of the 1 million on those 2 very different outcomes.

Boxer | 24.03.19 - 2:53 p.m. | #

I am definitely not qualified to say this as I am a foreigner living in another country but I just can't understand why the UK is in the self-harming mood. I know how some of you feel about a supranational structure like EU and you may have some reason for that. Yet, we live in a globalised age where we cannot hate at will - we just can't afford it as a nation. I hope your politicians realize that in time.
I will keep praying for the country I once lived and studied in.

Thida Aung | 24.03.19 - 4:12 p.m. | #

I voted Leave and I'm very happy with that decision, not in the least bothered by the unoriginal bleating of the hysterical Remainers. I find it hilarious that you don't think 17.4 million votes matter but 1 million bitter marchers do. Besides, numbers aren't important now, what you needed were numbers on the day of the vote and that just didn't happen...

Darren | 24.03.19 - 9:15 p.m. | #

I didn't go, being 12,000 miles away and focusing on other issues by being part of a large human chain of protection round a mosque, along with people of many colours and faiths - an uplifting experience.

From this distance the UK has turned itself into an incompetent laughing stock, incapable of even shooting itself in the foot without destroying the whole leg (and more). Turkey used to be the sick man of Europe, but now, sadly and pathetically, there is no competition.

Betterbee | 25.03.19 - 9:46 a.m. | #

I did not go as at this time of year I suffer from tree pollen "hay" fever. I have supported the event in other ways though.

John | 25.03.19 - 12:29 p.m. | #

I didn't go because I'm not comfortable in huge slow moving crowds. My views have not changed on Brexit. It remains a monstrous disaster in the making plus a huge waste of public money.

Sadly Mrs May will pay no attention to the march or the online petition. She has gone "rogue" and is incapable of change. She is obsessed with her personal survival first and Tory party unity close behind. Everything else is of no consequence to her. On that basis we will crash out of the EU with no deal in April with all the dire consequences for all, apart from the very rich, that will follow.

PC | 25.03.19 - 4:24 p.m. | #

I would have been there but for having organised a trip to visit family just a few days before the date of the march was announced.

I'm nervous about a second referendum going the same way as the first, but it only seems fair that the public has a say about this particular Brexit, rather than just the vague notion of leaving the EU.

martin | 26.03.19 - 10:23 p.m. | #











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