Emeritus Prof Christopher May1d ago

As always the massive Together Alliance march against the far right already involves a dispute about how many were involved - organisers claim half a million, the police say 50,000 (while admitting they found it difficult to count). That's a pretty big disparity... but film on the Guardian website suggests a big demo, so perhaps we might say the average of the two estimates - quarter of a million?

In any case, great to see people out en-masse demonstrating!

#politics
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2026/mar/28/london-protest-march-together-alliance-against-the-far-right-latest-news-updates

‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – live

Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right

the Guardian
Show threadMàrtainn D 22h ago
@ChrisMayLA6 I very much doubt the Met don’t know the numbers. I’m sure they have tech resources that could count the number of cellphones and get location data and work out how many phones moved along the route. Unless, of course, the demonstrators were being very cautious and only about 50k of them brought their phone.
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher May

@ginger_tosser

well there may well be a different between what the know and what they say... which wouldn't be the first time

Mar 28 at 9:15pmWeb