I went to the demo today, counted everybody in and reckon there were 1,000,002 people there. The last two were me and a woman who once owned a shop in Covent Garden. She used to design clothes, jewellery and put on acid house parties. The lady wanted to dance behind a mobile sound-system, so that's what she did. Ed Chemical was among the DJs who played.
It took a long time to get from Hyde Park and onto Picadilly. We got as far as Old Park Lane and it started raining. So we retired to a pub, where we bumped into people we knew. At this point we learned Letwin's amendment had passed and Johnson pulled the Brexit bill. I also found out that Chelsea had beaten Newcastle and Spurs lost their game. The latter was the most important news of the day.
On the tube into central London this morning, a lady in her Sixties from Poland sat next to me. A former Tory voter, she wished me the best of luck on the demo but said we wouldn't win. She has given up supporting the Tories, because they are too right-wing and now votes for the Lib-Dems. I told her I was a socialist, but will vote Green in future.
She said she was glad she is old and feels sorry for the generation coming through. They have major political and climate problems to deal with worldwide and there doesn't seem to be a straightforward solution.
We both agreed that racism and nationalism is on the rise in England, no matter what happens concerning Brexit. She thinks the Tory Party and its drift to the far right is central to this.
Jack
