Wake up to revoke petition at over 4 million. Ought to be hard to ignore. Clips of today’s people’s vote on Brexit march in London remind us of the anti Iraq invasion demo we went to in 2003. Not THE demo of February 2003, but the second anti Iraq invasion march five weeks later, with an estimated 200,000 marchers rather than the February 15 one with probably a million people. All estimates vary wildly, in part because huge demo number determinations difficult to do, as people enter at various points and cover an unphotographably large territory. Remember asking J: well, are we joining? J answering: You may not have noticed, but this march is made up of segments and the people now passing us are the Maoists. Me: Right, we can wait for the environmentalists. Estimates as of four o’clock London time today are about a million. May or may not be accurate, but hard to imagine a demo five times the size of our anti Iraq experience. our demo had a couple of signs we won’t forget - “How did our oil get under their sand?” and “They know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction - they still have the receipts” spring to mind. Some good posters on this one as well. “Don’t blame the Bulgarians or Romanians - Blame the Etonians, for example”. Or “IKEA make better cabinets” and “Even Baldrick had a F**king Plan”. By evening petition over four and a half million.
Complaints that it’s easy to sign more than once using same email with explanations from the relevant techies about why this is not in fact so. And the following tweet: “Seen a few people talking about how the revoke petition is compromised because someone signed it from Kyrgyzstan. That was me. I’m here for two weeks for work. People move around the world. Imagine that”. Leading a number of people to joke about the probability of similar unfounded accusations re march participants, and post their comments to accompany photos - or better still video clips - of the crowd:
*Apparently you can turn up using as many different emails as you want, though.
*The people who've finished are catching the tube back to the start and doing it again!
*I've shown up as three different people.
*Nah, they’re all bots
*And some of these people aren't in the UK
*Paid actors. The lot of ‘em!!!
*It’s all fake photography. I was just there and the streets were virtually deserted 😀
*I'm there in my capacity as a Macedonian server farm.
