Anti-Brexit Rally in London, Saturday 23 March - Image, Youtube
It's been reported by the mainstream media that over a million people marched in London on Saturday March 23 to demand a second vote on leaving the EU.
Full Fact - an independent fact checking charity reports that the number was more like 312,000 - 400,000.
According to Full Fact:
Last Saturday, protestors marched in London to call for a ‘People’s Vote’ on the final Brexit Deal. The organisers claimed that 1 million people marched, and that figure was repeated by a number of news outlets. We’ve been asked by readers to check this claim.
The reality is that it’s hard to precisely measure crowd sizes at non-ticketed events. That said, experts in crowd estimation have said the crowd on Saturday was less than half the size estimated by its organisers.
Talking to Wired magazine, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Professor Keith Still, said “based on the visuals from the helicopter image, it’s between 312,000 and 400,000 people.”
This type of crowd estimation, called the Jacobs method, is done by dividing a crowd site area into sections, measuring the size of each section and then multiplying each area by the estimated density of people within that subsection.Read more: Full Fact
Meanwhile, a petition to revoke Article 50 which has been signed by over five million people has been shown to be fraudulent.
The Daily Express reports:
Thousands of names on a record-breaking petition to derail Brexit by revoking Article 50, signed the petition from outside the UK.Read more: Daily Express
There are at least 10,500 signatures from France, about 5,000 from Germany and almost 4,000 from the United States. There are signatures from Russia, from China, from the Vatican, from Cuba, and even from North Korea and Mongolia.
Some Remainers were enthusiastically touting their details on line and encouraging people to use them as a way of getting round the Parliamentary rules.
