Brexit BETRAYAL: Leavers express fury at 'London BUBBLE' for exit delay
BREXIT may be on a knife edge but some of the country's most committed Brexiteers were on a cliff edge yesterday, on the first stretch of a march from Leave-voting Sunderland to Westminster.
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Scores braved the elements to join Nigel Farage and fellow campaigners in sending a message to the political establishment in the "London bubble". Many marchers fear MPs will betray the 2016 referendum result. Barry Lockey, 60, from Blaydon, said: "I'm passionate about my country and I'm frightened I'm going to lose it."
Yes, we will carry on the fight
Postponing the March 29 departure date would be nothing less than a betrayal, he warned. "If they betray the people, what's the point in having a democracy?"
Ros Watson, a carer from Meriden, West Midlands, fears that "the people in the London bubble and also in the EU are selling their souls for money".
The march is also a return to the spotlight for Mr Farage, 54, who bounded on to an open-topped bus to address the crowd.
Turning his guns on politicians, he said: "They think they can walk all over us.
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"But we're going to march back to them and tell them that whatever tricks they play - if they extend it, if they don't deliver it, if we even have to fight this again - we will beat them again."
Details of the march had been kept low-key but pro-EU campaigners still turned out to confront their arch-enemy.
However members of pro-Brexit group Leave Means Leave made it clear they are still up for a battle.
Chairman John Longworth vowed: "Yes, we will carry on the fight."