March to Leave

The March to Leave rally in the Parliament Square, 29 March 2019

The March to Leave (also known as the Leave Means Leave march[1]) was a 2019 pro-Brexit march organized by Nigel Farage and the Leave Means Leave campaign.[2] The march set off from Sunderland on 16 March 2019,[1] culminating in the Leave Means Leave Rally, a rally in Parliament Square on 29 March, the date Brexit was originally due to occur.[3]

The march

The march set off in a rainy Sunderland on Saturday, 16 March 2019 with roughly 100 marchers heading to Hartlepool led by Farage.[4] Supporters of Leave Means Leave had been asked to pay £50 to sponsor or to join the march from Sunderland to London and it had been claimed that more than 350 people had signed up although only 50 had agreed to walk for the full 14 days.[5] The marchers did not plan to walk the whole route.[5]

At the start of the march, Nigel Farage was quoted as saying "We are here in the very week when parliament is doing its utmost to betray the Brexit result ... It is beginning to look like it doesn’t want to leave and the message from this march is if you think you can walk all over us we will march straight back to you.”[6]

The following day roughly 150 marchers headed to Middlesbrough but Farage did not participate.[2] Farage rejoined the march the following Saturday in Nottinghamshire attended by roughly 200 marchers,[7] drawing unfavourable comparisons to the hundreds of thousands attending the anti-Brexit People's Vote March in London on the same day.[8][9]

The March for Leave then proceeded through Leicestershire and Buckinghamshire with its numbers reduced to around 100.[10][11]

The march was accompanied throughout by an advertising truck displaying anti-Brexit messages paid for by the Led By Donkeys campaign.[12][13]

Rally

On 29 March, the march arrived in London, to join the Leave Means Leave rally in Parliament Square.[3] The rally was reported to have attracted "thousands" of supporters.[14][15] The Financial Times quoted their reporter Sebastian Payne as stating that the crowd size was "a couple of thousand".[16] A separate pro-Brexit "Make Brexit Happen" rally, organized by the right-wing UKIP party formerly led by Farage, was also held nearby.[17]

References

  1. ^ a b "Brexit 'Leave Means Leave' march sets off". BBC News. 2019-03-16. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  2. ^ a b Halliday, Josh (2019-03-17). "March for Leave protesters descend on Middlesbrough – without Farage". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  3. ^ a b Gayle, Damien (2019-03-16). "Chaotic scenes as Nigel Farage's Brexit march sets off for London". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  4. ^ AP, Source: (2019-03-16). "Nigel Farage and Leave Means Leave march set off from Sunderland - video". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-03-28.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  5. ^ a b Tubb, Gerard (18 March 2019). "Nigel Farage will not complete Brexit Betrayal march despite urging supporters to join him". Sky News. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  6. ^ Heppell, Scott (2019-03-16). "Arch-eurosceptic Farage leads march over Brexit betrayal". Reuters. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. ^ "Nigel Farage says Brexit delay is 'an outright betrayal' as he rejoins Leave protest march". ITV News. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  8. ^ "Nigel Farage's walk to Brexit vs People's Vote march". Metro. 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  9. ^ "There almost certainly weren't a million people on the People's Vote march". Full Fact. 25 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  10. ^ Martin, Dan; Troughton, Adrian; Harrison, Dave (2019-03-27). "Live updates: Brexit protest continues through Leicestershire". leicestermercury. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  11. ^ "Please be aware of the March to Leave happening". @tfbalerts. Transport for Bucks. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  12. ^ Martin, Dan (2019-03-24). "Updates: March to Leave Brexit protest hits Leicestershire". leicestermercury. Retrieved 2019-03-24.
  13. ^ Jones, Stephen (2019-03-18). "Farage targeted with 'where's Nigel' signs on anti-Brexit march". The Independent. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  14. ^ "MPs abused in street as thousands join Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson rallies". The Independent. 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  15. ^ "Brexit supporters hold Parliament protests". 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
  16. ^ Odell, Mark (2019-03-29). "Leave march arrives outside Parliament". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-04-01.
  17. ^ "Brexit supporters hold Parliament protests". BBC News. 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2019-04-01.

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