What happened when the Bully XL protesters met the ‘Rejoiners’?

London was swamped with protesters this weekend but not all of them saw eye to eye. Bully XL dog owners and ‘Rejoiners’ who want Brexit to be reversed stomped down Whitehall. Anti-monarchists Republic were also in town. Things ended predictably badly: one angry dog owner heckled the ‘Rejoiners’, screaming ‘Traitors’ at them as they waved EU flags; another video showed a poor anti-Brexit protester end up swept up in the wrong mob, surrounded by dog owners.

What is most striking about all three of these insurgencies is that the participants in all the groups looked exactly like you would expect them to look. The ‘Rejoiners’ were very Marks & Spencer, healthy-looking late middle aged or pensioners. A youthquake this is not: they wore blue berets and looked jolly-angry rather than actually-angry, prone to the occasional interpretive dance outside Parliament. The majority have melted away, leaving only an indissoluble rump of true believers.