Still in the EU

The latest anti-Brexit march - No to Boris, Yes to Europe - sneaked up with a lower profile and had a slightly different theme to previous events, triggered in part by the Conservative party's leadership election. We assumed it would be less busy than the previous march; in that we were correct, and arriving just about midday meant we spent less time hanging around, but it was still quite busy. We noticed quite a few sellers of merchandise; no doubt Peter Tatchell has written an article somewhere condemning the commercialisation of these events. The weather turned out much better than predicted and as a result, despite regular hydration, I had a headache last night, and this morning discovered quite a sunburnt neck.

We found ourselves close to the front of the Lib Dem group, which was still towards the back of the march and took about an hour to get going. Like Brexit itself, PlacardWatch seemed to be running out of steam; although there were some topical slogans in Latin (literally, "Brexiters, go home!"), and Cats against Brexit. We did, at least, make it to Parliament Square this time; but the square itself was full, Billy Bragg was on stage, and we couldn't find any agenda or list of likely speakers, so we decided to call it a day. Pending the collapse of the government in the interim (and who would bet against that?), we'll be back in October.