OK, I did the math. If someone counted people at the rate of one person per second, it would take 69.44 hours to count 250,000 people, in other words almost 3 days. Anyone here besides me doubt whether such a count took place?
All of these estimates came from the captions of the pictures posted in this thread:
Tens of thousands of Britons joined a peace rally in London
Thousands of protesters march at Embankment
More than 50,000 Britons from all regions, ages and social backgrounds, marched in central London from Embankment
Preliminary crowd estimates varied from 50,000 demonstrators according to Scotland Yard to 250,000 people
Thousands of protesters gathered along the River Thames
An estimated 150,000 took part in the march
estimates varied from 50,000 demonstrators according to Scotland Yard to 250,000 people and more according to a spokesperson from The Stop the War Coalition, which helped organize the march.
More than 50,000 Britons from all regions, ages and social backgrounds, marched in central London Saturday
Stop the War Coallition and the Muslim Association of Britain estimated at least 350,000 participated in the march through London on Saturday
Joint rally organizers Stop the War Coalition and the Muslim Association of Britain estimated at least 100,000 participated in the march through London
Tens of thousands of Britons joined a peace rally in London to oppose a military strike on Iraq
It probably was 400 bobbies, 6 people from the gay liberation front, 16 homeless people, and 55 photographers. This is my estimate.
you know they have computers that count the faces in the video feeds these days. I wouldn't trust it for a accurate to the number count but i hear can be close. Scotland yard has them I'm pretty sure. This is troubling. Next time they may not be protesting.
After looking at video of the demonstration, one would have to question the 250k figure. My guess from the video would be 80k. I hear one interview of a cop on the street (protecting the protestors), and he reckoned that it was closer to 100k, max. It does not compare in anyway to last weekends rally of 400k people. That was more than obvious from the video. But that whole group concerned foxhunting only.