Half a million people participated in the Brexite demonstration – News

More than 100,000 people were expected at the Marching Westminster Palace, where Parliament sits, writes The Guardian. According to organizers, nearly 570,000 protesters received training in the British capital to demand the vote on the final exit agreement between Britain and the European Union.

This is the second most important demonstration of this century, after the million people who would have protested against the war in Iraq in 2003, said a spokesman for the grassroots organization in the Guardian.

Many participants demonstrated not only for a vote on the withdrawal agreement, but also against the Brexit.

The government does not have a mandate to radically change the country overnight. Before voting, we should have been better informed and we should have noticed what it really means to leave, says activist Adam Bradford at the Guardian.

Peter Andrews, who along with 500 others traveled to London with the Bath for Europe group, is on the same path.

Leaving Europe is the most stupid idea I've ever seen. It will ruin the future of my children and my future, "he says.