Activists begin long march in UK to protest Brexit betrayal

More than one hundred people have launched a long march in the UK to protest what they believe is a betrayal of a 2016 public vote to leave the European Union.

The march began in Sunderland, northeast England, on Saturday, and is expected to end in London’s Parliament Square on March 29, the date on which Britain is expected to leave the EU.

The rally will be led by arch-eurosceptic Nigel Farage, the former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and a current member of the European Parliament. He is still believed as the architect of the June 23, 2016 referendum in which Britons narrowly voted for their country to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership.  

Farage said at the beginning of the rally that it was meant to prevent a betrayal of Brexit by lawmakers in the parliament and in the government amid concerns that their failure to agree on a path forward on how to leave the EU would cause Breixt to be abandoned altogether.

“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,” he said.

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