EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Metropolitan Elite with your sophisticated wurdz

No march for me, only because I was forced to endure a fucked up transport infrastructure and travel delays between the capital and the coast to resolve a breakdown in the supply-chain of important medications to vulnerable people (my mum is too unwell to go pick up some urgent medicine from the pharmacy which closes at 1pm until monday morning).

Still feels quite brexity though.

I don't run the petitions site, so I can't really say whether it's had much bot activity or not but those who do seem relatively confident in their anti-bot measures.

I was keeping half an eye on the scramble to make it scale with the load it was being put under though - quite an effort by the team responsible. The stats were the bit that they sacrificed first - calculating the rate of signatures and even the sum total were putting quite a load on the backend I think, so they took them down for a bit to allow the site to continue to function. They reappeared later once some optimisations had been made (again, I don't know the details).

Best guess would be that they scaled their database server up massively and optimised some queries or some other code somewhere, maybe making it more asynchronous or cached at the same time.

You'd hope they used replication and moved the analytics to point at a clone rather than the primary instance supporting the app

Didn’t expect the spring classics to feature at the March.

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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage re-joined the March to Leave in Linby, near Nottingham, on Saturday morning telling around 200 Brexit supporters that Mrs May had reduced the nation "to a state of humiliation".

Speaking from the top of an open-top bus, Mr Farage said those gathering for the People's Vote march in London were not the majority, before leading the crowds through the village.

Ha! I was just looking at that and thinking the same thing

200 vs ~1,000,000

Maths bro, do you even?

I've been at prochoice marches in Belfast with grassroots funding VS criminalisation of abortion marches which were church funded. Those were bigger, the size doesn't always determine right / wrong.

As both marches only have grass roots funding the kippers clearly can't organize a piss up in brewery...

^^ That is blatantly fake people. Bots and that. Or Russians...

It was more his claim to 200 people that they were the majority (which may or may not be factually accurate) but is amusingly incongruous when you are comparing those 200 to 1 million

Hadn’t been to a demo since 82.

What is it with rhe new generation and saddle height?

Better for le wheelies.

Absolutely.

Happened on the right. Didn’t have a Leica.

Am I being daft, but would there normally not be a link in news articles to things of interest? In this case, a link to the petition.
It might be my extreme paranoia and cynicism but I would normally expect to see a link.

Dropper posts.

No imperial BA at the Red Hand. I’m off to the Axe for a Rasputin.

I guess he's referring to the voting majority.

But his hard rescue brexit crowd numbers are seriously low. Now maybe cos brexit "won", maybe cos it's a long walk, but I still think general uselessness in actually mobilization of people plays a role.

Even when you want to give him a fair hearing he just fails at anything bar giving inflammatory/rousing (depending on mental capabilities for nuance) speeches :)

Some good banners on the million+ people's march

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And some more

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i was at parliament square to listen to the speeches -

Dominic Grieve, Caroline Lucas and Nicola Sturgeon I though were excellent - the chair of the BMA and the NHS Drs and nurses who spoke were also very good.

oh and Sandi Toksvig -very impressive

We were stood at the top of Park Lane for about 90 minutes before walking around the march. I've never seen anything like it.