Such a patronising ‘People’s March’

alMoST three- quarters- of-amillion people thronged the streets of london on Saturday, waving placards and petitioning for a so-called ‘People’s Vote’ for a second referendum (left).

Who — or what — do they think the 17.4 million- odd who voted leave were, if not ‘people’? Fish? lizards? orangutans?

The notion that we Brexiteers didn’t know what we were voting for — and that, given a second chance, we would get it right next time — is patronising in the extreme.

In the midst of all their hugging and virtue-signalling, I wonder if the protestors spared a single thought for those for whom membership of the eu has brought nothing but hardship . . .

For the homeless on the streets of athens; the Italians whose life savings have been swallowed up by their failing banks; the British fishermen deprived of their livelihoods; the millions of young people in europe with no jobs.

It is those march leaders who are the true little englanders — the ‘I’m all right Jacks’ who don’t care about anyone beyond their comfortable circle of well- bred, well- fed and wellconnected friends.