As the images above indicate, sometimes the lack of a promise for 100,000 people to march on the Streets of London does not mean that that number of people are unwilling to step out from their comfort or indeed their lack of comfort to make it clear that our current arrangements are not acceptable. The fact that they are standing up in opposition to the views of Nigel Farage does not mean they are worth less than the 100,000 people he claimed he could bring out. That said his promise of 100,000 delivered less than a hundred supporters in the case of Farage.

The reality is unless a large number of our 650 MPs put down their Sunday Papers and spend some time considering how to meet the needs and concerns of the 100,000 people, there will be a major reaction to them carrying on as if nothing has happened. I did not attend the event because I was working all day to prepare for a relatives significant Birthday. The evening was lovely and as I reflected on the image on the RHS above a brief discussion took place with a good friend who along with some other of our friends took part in the 2003 March against the Iraq war. It is estimated that 10 to 20 times as many people did take part in that March, so we are not necessarily at a point that is as serious as that was, but it would not take much for the numbers to rise, particularly as we still do not know what the Government is proposing for next March.

It is clear from this mornings Marr that neither Jeremy Hunt or Nia Griffith are in any way listening to or responding to the concerns being expressed by the 100,000 people who took to the streets of London yesterday, let alone those of us who did not make it to London. It is equally clear that whatever the right way forward in the light of that march that both of these interviewees represent parties that are collectively deeply out of touch with many of us. To claim as Nia did that having voted in 2016, the UK public is still of the same mind is ridiculous. Many of us change our minds several times a day on things we do understand, on matters we don’t understand many of us would make a guestimate or choose to stay away, and then as the truth emerges come to a different point of view. For Jeremy to suggest that the 100,000 are simply wanting things to carry on as they are is equally stupid. Let us hope there are some MPs who may not have attended personally who are considering carefully how best to move forward and in which direction. They along with the ones who did from the Lib Dems and Green Party need to call for a different sort of debate and vote to the one that took place last week in Parliament.