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Brexit referendum: 'In' and 'out' camps face off on River Thames

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06-16-2016 12:58 BJT

 “In” and “Out” camps of the Brexit referendum have faced off on London’s Thames River. Both campaigns have clashed in front of the Houses of Parliament. The leader of a British anti-EU political party led a small fleet of fishing trawlers from the seaside town of Ramsgate along the river. That is a part of their party’s call for Britain to take back control of fishing around the British coast.

“We are much better off out of the European Union. We will get our 200-mile fishing limit back. The Spanish are making a fortune out of our fish, and that is not right. We want that work for the North East of Scotland; it is very important,” said David Coburn,member of the European Parliament for Scotland.

The fleet was greeted by rivals from the “In” camp. Across the river, both campaigns exchanged insults, while Metropolitan Police boats intervened to prevent violence. Several polls released earlier this week suggested the “Out” campaign was leading by around seven percent.

“If the so-called Brexit people win, there will be a legacy of very right-wing populist politics in this country, which I think we have seen emerge during this campaign. And it is not the sort of Britain I would like to see, and they are not the sort of people I would like to see running the country,” said Harvey Morris, former journalist of Financial Times.

“The EU Commission is unelected. They initiate the laws that come out of the EU and there is a question of where their direction comes from. I do not think that is clear or obvious, and it is just not democratic,” said a London resident named James.

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