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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
Pretty cool to see Tory MPs plotting to get rid of May ...
That never happened. None of them wants her job at this point because the chalice is overflowing with hemlock. That was just a bit of tactical lobby briefing to keep yesterday's million-person march off the front pages.
(Met Police estimate two million from helicam footage over the whole five hours -- I take it you all know that they apply special software to helicam footage to gauge numbers, and this is why they released the march from Hyde Park Corner an hour early to avoid crushing, a thing they have never had to do before, and I take it you know that they survey the whole event over time and take account of people joining and leaving as the hours go by -- but let's be conservative.)
Meanwhile, the Revoke Art.50 petition has broken 5 million in four days.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
That's 1 in 6 of the average turnout in an election.
In my constituency, Holborn & St Pancras, it's past 24,400, over 17% of constituents, and it is likely to go on and exceed Sir Keir Starmer's majority of 30,000. His absence in Parliament Square on Saturday was duly noted, especially as Tom Watson turned up and spoke. A lot of MPs are still pretending they don't need to take account of this movement. But they do.