Date: October 21st, 2018 3:04 AM
Author: Big-titted candlestick maker theater
this is like libs demanding a re-do of 2016
https://www.ft.com/content/38ac2d60-d46a-11e8-a854-33d6f82e62f8
London marchers call for new Brexit vote
Organisers say protest is biggest yet in support of a rethink on leaving EU
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Robert Wright in London October 20, 2018
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Hundreds of thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday to demand a new referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, in the biggest demonstration so far in support for a rethink of the historic 2016 vote.
Organisers of the People’s Vote march said 700,000 people attended the demonstration, which by the start time of noon had spilled over from the intended route on Park Lane to fill much of the western end of Hyde Park.
Attendees marched through bright autumn sunshine to Parliament Square to hear speeches from representatives of the three main parliamentary parties, includingConservative MP Anna Soubry, Labour’s Chuka Umunna and Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable gave speeches.
“It is clear we are the many,” Ms Soubry said. We are winning the argument, most importantly against those who voted leave.”
Mr Umunna, who is one of parliament’s most prominent pro-Remain voices, told the Marchers that the Leave side had tried to set different parts of the UK against each other. But, he said, whether people came from Remain-voting or Leave-voting areas, the problems were the same.
“Whether you are from Liverpool, Lincoln, Llandudno, Livingston in Scotland or Lambeth, where I am, Brexit is not going to make those problems better,” Mr Umunna said. “It is going to make them worse.”
In a video message of support, Nicola Sturgeon, Scottish first minister said: “Let me say this loudly and clearly, if the issue comes before the House of Commons, SNP MPs will support a People’s Vote which includes the option to remain in the EU.”
Among the marchers to start was Steve Gough, 61, from Chichester, who was wearing a “Bollocks to Brexit” T-shirt.
“I think that we deserve a second vote on the outcome of the Brexit deal — and it doesn’t seem to be going very well,” Mr Gough said.
Nearby, Sara Wissman, 44, a tourist from Cologne, said she and her family had opted to join the demonstration when they encountered it en route to visiting the Victoria and Albert Museum.
“We don’t want to leave you,” she said. “We want you to stay.”
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Sunitha Dwarakanath, 28, from south-west London, said she had attended because she believed the government was making decisions only in the interests of the narrow majority of people who supported leaving the EU, not the whole population.
“There was a lot of disinformation that resulted in people voting to Brexit,” Ms Dwarakanath said.
The Metropolitan Police declined to give an official estimate of the crowd size. The People’s Vote campaign’s said it was London’s largest demonstration since a march against the Iraq war drew an estimated 1m people in 2003.
Theresa May’s government has ruled out a second referendum on membership, saying it would be an undemocratic denial of the result of the June 2016 Brexit referendum, which voted 52-48 in favour of leaving. The main opposition Labour party also officially remains opposed, although Keir Starmer, shadow Brexit secretary, last month said the party had not ruled out supporting a new vote.
Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney-general, on Saturday morning told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that he believed the Brexit talks were reaching a “dead end”.
“There may be some sort of deal on offer but one which I have to say looks pretty second-rate to me,” Mr Grieve told the programme. “When you get a problem of that sort, in view of the first referendum, the only solution is to go back and say to the public, ‘Is this what you really want?’”
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4111652&forum_id=2#37065930)