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@catherine_mayer

If you want to know how our world became so polarised, look at the competing narratives about the #PutitothePeopleMarch. Critics from left and right denounce the marchers as members of an elite. It's worth acknowledging the extent to which that's true--and also true of Brexiteers

Yesterday's march was huge. As a veteran of marches following precisely that route, it was the largest by far that I've seen. After three hours, my group, nowhere near the back of the march, had been able to move only 0.4 miles, from Hyde Park Corner to the start of St James's St

During that time I spoke to people of different life experiences, backgrounds, socio-economic groups, religions, ethnicities, demographics. Quite a few women had to leave the march because they had caring duties. Others had made arrangements for care cover so they could attend

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Pilar Gomez #FBPE #facciamorete #FPHD

@redalphababe

My thoughts on #PutitothePeopleMarch
Thread #fbpe

Sincerity? Why did so many people go to London yesterday to stand and shuffle a couple of short miles over a period of 5 hours? Sincerity drove us there in coaches and cars and trains and planes.

Only a sincerely held belief can draw over a million, probably 2 million ordinary citizens from across the UK and make the statement they made to political leaders and self serving political gamers and operators.

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