Mass protest in London: Hundreds of thousands of Britons call for new Brexit referendum

The pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May is growing not only in Parliament and in Brussels, he is now also on the road. Already last October, up to 700,000 Britons in central London demonstrated against Brexit, this Saturday it will be far more angry citizens. They had already gathered from the morning for a protest march from Hyde Park to the government district under the motto: "Put it to the People": "Let the people decide." Official estimates of how many participants have the big demo did not exist until the late afternoon.

Three years after the referendum on Britain and Northern Ireland's exit from the European Union, the demonstrators are calling for a new referendum. The frustration over Mays awkwardness and the absurd procedure blockade of the policy between the twice abgeschmettertem exit deal with simultaneous rejection of referendum reissue and "No Deal" -Brexit, drives people out.

"This is a complete mess," says Gareth Rae, who has traveled from Bristol to London, to the action of the British government. He would have a better feeling, he said, if Brexit was a well-organized process and the government made sensible decisions. The prospect, as it is now with Britain and the EU, is gloomy: "The country will be divided, whatever happens."

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This is also May's favorite argument when it comes to preventing another referendum. She has rejected any demands to re-interview the people yet, and has insisted on delivering Brexit to the citizens, as was desired three years ago. In the referendum in June 2016, 52 percent (17.4 million) of the British had voted in favor of a Brexit, 48 percent (16.1 million) voted for their country to remain in the EU.

But even after years of debate and tough negotiations with the EU, it is still not clear if and when and under what conditions Britain will leave the EU. Citizens fear economic chaos, supply and supply shortages and restrictions, to water and food shortages, when it comes to a "hard" Brexit without a deal. A published by the "Guardian" in excerpts Secret plan of the government for this case reveals the excessive demand of Authorities with the expected extreme situation.

One week before the originally planned EU exit on 29 March, the EU had granted a brief breather on Thursday evening. If the British Parliament agrees to the negotiated withdrawal agreement that has already been rejected twice in the lower house next week, Brexit will be postponed until 22nd May for the necessary legal implementation. However, if the Parliament does not agree again, the deadline extension should only apply until 12 April. At the very most, there is one thing that is unanimous: no one of the parties really has any interest in Britain having to take part in the European elections at the end of May under the circumstances. It would be absurd.

More than four million sign anti-Brexit petition

A parliamentary petition confirms that many Britons are willing to withdraw from the EU, which has already collected over four million signatories within a few days. At times, the website was paralyzed because of the onslaught. About 100,000, it says on the associated website, were enough for Parliament to deal with the petition. "The government keeps claiming that leaving the EU would be the" will of the people, "according to the petition. This must be put at an end by making clear the strength of public support for remaining.

Meanwhile, The Times and The Daily Telegraph reported that many MPs were more or less openly demanding May's resignation. The coming week is the "Destiny Week" of the Prime Minister. It is allegedly already talked about a schedule. However, government officials said on Saturday that the reports were wrong.

May, in turn, pulls at the last remaining screws that remain to her: In a letter to the MPs of the House of Commons, she wrote that they might not be able to vote for the third time, as planned, on the Brexit agreement negotiated with Brussels. She would only put the deal back to the vote, she wrote, if there was sufficient support. Otherwise Britain would have to ask Brussels for another respite. But that would automatically entail participation in the European elections.

It remains tricky. For, according to the British Electoral Commission, a second Brexit referendum would require at least four, if not up to six months of preparation.

Also a Rosenmontagswagen is there

British media rates May's chances of getting approval for their agreement with the EU as very low. The majority of EU leaders also consider this unlikely. Some had estimated the probability of approval to ten percent, others to five - and some would have considered that too optimistic, it was said from Brussels.

The Northern Irish DUP party, on whose votes Mays minority government relies since a botched election, had previously indicated that it would continue to support the agreement. Scotland's Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Saturday at the demonstration in London that she was proud to be present at the protest, she said in the midst of colorfully disguised people with EU flags. Even London's mayor Sadiq Khan said via Twitter that he was in the march: "I'm marching with people from every corner of our country," wrote the politician of the opposition Labor Party. Only Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn did not show up. He is not considered a proponent of a new referendum.

The Dusseldorf artist Jacques Tilly also participates in the demo with a Rose Monday carriage. The motive car shows May, impaling the British economy with a long lie nose.