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The London crowd: from the People’s Vote marches to the Brexit rally
Anti-Brexit campaigners on a protest in March last yea

THE several thousand people who gathered in Parliament Square on the evening of Friday January 31 appeared from all the pictures that I saw to be mainly men of a certain age.

How can we characterise such a crowd? It was certainly not one of protest, since the object was to mark the departure of Britain from the EU, which was something achieved by the current Conservative government.

It may have had aspects of the mob to it, but reports suggest it simply dispersed fairly peacefully at the end of proceedings. 

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