EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

This is quite possibly so (in same way running races have entry limits), unlikely to have been limited to so few though.

Looking at choice of clothing on marchers in the vids, most who've been out in that rain all morning could well be near hypothermic now.

^ hypothermic is not a small village south of Sunderland fwiw.

In case we forget, Hoey’s constituency returned the highest remain majority in the UK.

“My boyfriend goes to a different school, you won’t know him.”

Yes, it's good. I'm a big fan of those 'donkey' people are all their billboards.

This has been one of my favourites (coinciding with a visit by May).

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/led-by-donkeys-billboard-in-brussels-for-theresa-may-visit-1-5900661

There was a recent interview by Matt Frei of Channel 4 news where he interviewed Farage in Strasbourg. Farage has been at an event in London the evening before, so Frei was asking him how he’d got there, given there were no scheduled flights or trains that could’ve got him there by that time. Farage was quite evasive (surprise, surprise) and Frei pressed the point and Farage admitted to having flown there by private jet. Thereby demonstrating his man of the people credentials.

I'm puzzled as to why her constituency haven't done anything about her... I recall there was a Lib Dem challenger for the last election but he seemed a little underwhelming, and there have been some subsequent murmurings of de-selection, but all to no avail. That said, Vaxuhall has been held consistently by Labour since the 1950s (rarely under 50% of votes), and perhaps Corbyn is somehow helping keep her there.

And yet she survived a general election after the referendum 😞

That was comedy gold. It took Farage a while to work out that he was being led into admitting that he'd taken a private plane. Here it is. I don't think I'll ever grow tired of watching that clip.

OMG... I've just read that they're actually following the march with those signs!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/march-to-leave

I think it's partially because a lot of the time, people are voting for parties rather than MPs.

Which is what makes the arrogance of the Independent Group even more irritating. They know they'd be highly unlikely to get back in as independents.

The Lib Dems might have some nice, genuine candidates (unlikely but you never know), but they're not going to get in to a lot of constituencies because of the Coalition.

Gold.

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Bit cold in Sunderland.

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Check out @Femi_Sorry’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1106906803160387586?s=09

Re Will Melling ... looks like the path from Pin Mill to Woolverstone. Amirite?

You are not.

From the Sunderland Echo’s coverage of the march:

Organisers of the March to Leave event, which will be led by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, say it will leave central Sunderland at 9am on Saturday - but have yet to confirm the starting point location or its route.

The route is here though:
https://www.marchtoleave.com/route

In case we forget, Hoey’s constituency returned the highest remain majority in the UK.

That is true of Lambeth, in which Vauxhall is one constituency, but if you take the official-ish estimate by constituency, Vauxhall voted Leave by about 20%.

Edit: this is nonsense, I blame a cold.

“Despite Hoey being a prominent campaigner for leaving the European Union, Vauxhall voted to remain in the EU by 77.6% in the national referendum on 23 June 2016”

Where did you get that from?

Check https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum_by_constituency or the data at https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/parliament-and-elections/elections-elections/brexit-votes-by-constituency/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_(UK_Parliament_constituency)

Yeah, well it's very wrong. See sources I've just added above.

Edit: nope, I'm still talking rubbish here.