London Brexit Protest: Thousands March For EU

[B00Mer]

London Brexit Protest: Thousands March For EU

Tens of thousands of people are marching through London to protest against the vote to leave the EU.

Starting on Park Lane, the crowd is making its way via Pall Mall and Whitehall towards Parliament Square.

The March For Europe demonstration was organised on social media by comedian Mark Thomas who wanted to express his "anger, frustration and need to do something".

He said: "We would accept the result of the referendum if it was fought on a level playing field. But it was full of misinformation and people need to do something with their frustration."

The crowd, expected to reach up to 40,000 people, cheered as the march began.

Some protesters, using the Twitter handle @wewantbackin, said they are handing out banners and megaphones.

Flags bearing the EU circle of stars, along with banners bearing slogans that include: "EU & me always & forever".

Bill Baker, 59, from Islington, north London, attended the march with his 22-year-old daughter Jess.

Mr Baker said: "We didn't want to leave but if you respect the decision of the referendum, which we should, we still want Britain to be EU orientated, outward looking and inclusive."

Genevieve Parke, 34, who is seven months pregnant, marched carrying an EU flag with her two-year-old son Ernest.

Mrs Parke, who lives in London but is originally from Fermanagh close to the border in Northern Ireland, said: "Leaving the EU will have a polarising effect on communities at home again.

"I don't want to go back to a border with guns and checkpoints. That will bring back a lot of horrible memories for people, if nothing else."

William Dramard, 36, moved from France to Manchester to study 16 years ago.

The engineer, whose wife is Finnish said: "My family exists thanks to the EU. One of the reasons my wife and I came here was because of freedom of movement. We met here and started our life together here.

"This is what we consider to be our home now."

Philippa Griffin, 40, from Hertfordshire, said: "I'm absolutely outraged at the way people voted, the lies the referendum was based on and the divide in the country because of it."

London Brexit Protest: Thousands March For EU

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Well this is what you get when you vote on fear.. the Fear pushed by the likes of Trump.

 

[Walter]

Second place is the first loser.

 

[B00Mer]

Second place is the first loser.

They will not leave the EU.. so blow it out your azz loser.

 

[Blackleaf]

Bunch of left-wing losers who only accept democracy when it goes their way.

Seeing a whole bunch of liberals and luvvies and Guardianistas and mung-bean-eating, Fairtrade coffee-drinkers from the out-of-touch lefty bubble that is London so upset again at the referendum result means that Brexit is the gift that keeps on giving.

The arrogant left liberal Establishment has taken a mighty beating and it will take years for them to recover.

 

[Danbones]

just point them to the tunnel

 

[Blackleaf]

As for famous British "comedians", why are they all so rabidly left wing?

 

[Curious Cdn]

As for famous British "comedians", why are they all so rabidly left wing?

Maybe, the right wingers have no sense of humour?

 

[captain morgan]

He said: "We would accept the result of the referendum if it was fought on a level playing field. But it was full of misinformation and people need to do something with their frustration."

Hilarious... There was more doom-'n'-gloom predicted, let alone the end of the world, replete with WWIII predicted by the stay side during this entire event.

Yet, here we are with the financial markets stabilized, no mobilization of armies and no zombie apocalypse.

"I don't want to go back to a border with guns and checkpoints. That will bring back a lot of horrible memories for people, if nothing else."

Love the above quote: I'm trying to think back to that time when you couldn't walk the streets of London without a heavily armed masked soldier demand Your papers!.. Give them to me now!.

Well this is what you get when you vote on fear.. the Fear pushed by the likes of Trump.

... Talk about selling fear

They will not leave the EU.

A little late for that sentiment now

 

[Blackleaf]

Maybe, the right wingers have no sense of humour?

It's usually lefties who have no sense of humour.

And most of these leftie comedians aren't funny at all.

 

[Locutus]

Voice of Europe ‏@V_of_Europe

UK - Can you believe it, idealistic teens marching for EU totalitarianism? Poor generation snowflake #marchforeurope

this weak-minded halfwit population is actively seeking to hang themselves.

 

[Blackleaf]

Hilarious... There was more doom-'n'-gloom predicted, let alone the end of the world, replete with WWIII predicted by the stay side during this entire event.

Yet, here we are with the financial markets stabilized, no mobilization of armies and no zombie apocalypse.



Love the above quote: I'm trying to think back to that time when you couldn't walk the streets of London without a heavily armed masked soldier demand Your papers!.. Give them to me now!.





... Talk about selling fear



A little late for that sentiment now

All these Remain numpties who keep banging about border controls along the land border between non-EU UK and EU Republic of Ireland because of Brexit ignore the fact that there has been a Common Travel Area (CTA) between the UK, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands since 1923 - 50 years before the UK and the Republic of Ireland joined what is now the EU.

 

[captain morgan]

Europe somehow managed to trade and exist with each other for centuries before the EU.

It's disingenious to believe that it will fall apart without it

 

[B00Mer]

CBI urges government to allow EU workers to remain in the UK

Branson says Virgin Group loses third of its value after Brexit

LOL and it's going to get worse..

 

[coldstream]

100s of thousands, millions around have protested over the abject failure of the EU to deliver on its promises over the last decade.. as the European economy staggers from one crisis to the next.

I suppose its not hard to get 40,000 stock brokers, financiers and lawyers to come out for a march if their jobs in merchant banks and global trade are put in jeapardy. For every winner in this new economy there are twice as many (or many more) losers tossed out of secure, fairly paid industrial jobs.

It's a world wide trend... Global Free Market Capitalism, which has ruled the world for 40 years, is collapsing. The only alterative is the sovereign nation state... or global chaos.

 

[captain morgan]

It's a world wide trend... Global Free Market Capitalism, which has ruled the world for 40 years, is collapsing. The only alterative is the sovereign nation state... or global chaos.

nonsense.

Venezuela, Cuba and N. Korea are the final bastions of direct socialism that are breathing their last gasps. China and Russia have already come to that realization.

 

[B00Mer]

Brexit: EU referendum was a 2-2 'draw' and UK exit will not happen, LSE professor says

 

[Locutus]

heh

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Owen Jones's Mum ‏@owensmum

Tens of thousands march on London to demand a replay of the England v Iceland game. #marchforeuros

 

[Blackleaf]

Brexit: EU referendum was a 2-2 'draw' and UK exit will not happen, LSE professor says

The referendum wasn't a 2-2 draw. It was a 52%-48% victory for Leave.

These Remainers need to realise that the people of Britain have spoken and Brexit will occur as that is what the people of Britain voted for. I'm fed up of these losers telling us that "Brexit may not happen" and "there should be a second referendum." Don't they understand how democracy works?

What the Remainers fail to grasp is that many of those people who voted Leave did so because they are fed up of the arrogant, out-of-touch Establishment ignoring them. So how would it look if the Establishment STILL ignores them even after more people - 17.4 million - voted for something than have ever voted for anything before in Britain? There'll be even greater anger at the Establishment.

As for the Scots and Northern Irish, I don't give a **** that they voted Remain. This was a nationwide UK referendum and, therefore, the whole of the UK will leave the EU. Those Scots and Northern Irish who voted for Remain make up just 6.2% of all those people who voted in the referendum and there will be many millions of Leave supporters in the United Kingdom, in all four nations, who will be very unhappy if the UK is forced to stay in the EU just to satisfy Scottish and Northern Irish Remain supporters, who make up just 6.2% of all those who voted. It's sheer hypocrisy to say that the democratic wishes of those Scots and Northern Irish Remain supporters, who make up just 6.2% of all those who voted in the referendum, should be met whilst, at the same time, saying the majority - 52% - of all those who voted in the referendum should simply be ignored.

Not only that, but the English and Welsh are perfectly entitled to vote anyway they like and shouldn't feel as though they should vote a certain way just to please the Northern Irish and, especially, the Scots. What makes the Scots so special that everyone else in the UK has to vote a certain way just to please the Scots?

It's time the Remain supporters just accept that they lost and get on with their lives. The British people have spoken.

Coffee House

The march against democracy – have we hit peak Remania?

Steerpike

Steerpike
2 July 2016
The Spectator

So 17 million people vote to take Britain out of the European Union – but 40,000 of the Remainers took to the streets of London today to protest. We heard the voices of Britain’s growing anti-democratic movement: those who believe that Brexit was the result of consulting voters who were confused, malign, northern – or all three. Who, the Bremain protesters seemed to ask, are these people? Where the hell is Dunstable? Why do we Londoners allow them them to vote?

Every revolution has its reactionaries, and they were on the march today. Mr S was reassured to see the well-heeled crowd mocking themselves, with placards referencing 80s and 90s pop songs (“Never gonna give EU up”, “Nothing compares to EU”) etc. The joke being that the logic for staying in the EU belongs in the same decade.

The march against democracy – have we hit peak Remania? | Coffee House

 

[Remington1]

Mistake or not, the majority has to win. I would have been amongst the 'remain' myself, just looking at Larage would have convince me, he fits his name 'rage', but his overbearing superiority complex has no place anywhere, other than maybe his bathroom mirror! That speech in Belgium, seriously embarrassing.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

In this case I'm completely on Blackleaf's side. They had a referendum which may well have been the most free, fair, honest ballot in human history. The winners won, the losers lost. Parliament can either get the lead out and invoke Article 50, or face the wrath when they make it clear to the people that the people's will counts for nothing in Whitehall.

I think it was a bad decision for the Brits (which is why I supported it). But it was done right, it was done fair, and Parliament either gets on with it, or they have no business calling themselves a democracy.