STAGGERING CLAIMS that a million people turned up for a People’s Vote march in London were demolished yesterday.
Experts claimed the actual number who attended on Saturday may have been as little as 312,000 to 400,000, according to factchecking website Full Fact.
An effigy of British Prime Minister Theresa May is wheeled through Trafalgar Square during a Peoples Vote anti-Brexit march[/caption]
They claimed People’s Vote’s figure that there were 4.5 people per square metre appeared wide of the mark.
Professor Keith Still of Manchester Metropolitan University said it could have been as low as 2 per square metre along the route.
Arch Tory Brexiteer David Jones said: “400,000 is a respectable number.
“But it is a pity that the organisers felt the need to inflate it so much.
“We should remember the silent majority of the 17.4million who want us to leave the EU, and whose votes must be respected.”
Hundreds of thousands of people took part in the Put It To The People March – but experts say numbers weren’t near one million as predicted[/caption]
The march started in Park Lane and finished in Westminster, outside the Houses of Parliament[/caption]
An online petition to revoke Article 50 is nearing 6million signatures[/caption]