Why I'm marching


Thousands of people are set to take the streets this Saturday to March for a People's Vote and put an end to this Brexit mess - if you're going, tell us why!

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  • Zoe McCormick
    commented 2019-03-21 11:04:34 +0000
    I’m marching because the government aren’t listening. Since the referendum, 16 million people have been ignored, mocked and cast aside. The government are showing that they can be bullied and bought by criminals. They are destroying our country. The hypocrisy of Theresa May repeatedly bringing back her vote despite resounding defeat is mind boggling. We need to fight this corruption.


    I want peace and prosperity, something we will lose if we leave Europe. We are stronger as part of a team.


    People are losing their jobs. Food prices are rising. Hatred is everywhere. Schools, hospitals and local authorities are being financially asphyxiated. The government don’t seem to care.
  • Susan Butler
    commented 2019-03-21 10:53:37 +0000
    Terry and I are marching. He’s my husband of 34 years, we’re early 70’s, Both pro EU. We remember the country before membership. Poor shabby UK. Don’t want that back. We also have three sons. Two did their Masters Degree in the Netherlands. No Probs. That will be taken away from kids in the future. Why in this world, with Russia and China expanding do we choose to become smaller poor and less secure? It’s insanity.
  • Janet OMalley
    commented 2019-03-21 10:37:38 +0000
    To show support for the Remain campaign as Brexit of any form will be a disaster. We’re very worried for the future particularly those in work and for the younger generations. We feel very European, to be a narrow minded little englander turning our back is not an option for us.
  • Carolyn Bell
    commented 2019-03-21 09:56:22 +0000
    I perceive my identity as Welsh, British and European and I don’t want to lose any part of that. I see no future for the the country separate from the rest of Europe. We need to stand together behind our shared values and principles and work together to resolve the problems which do exist within the EU. We are without doubt stronger and better together.
  • Beverley Townsend
    commented 2019-03-21 09:47:19 +0000
    For the futures of my 3 grown up children and my 4 young grandchildren. Peace in Europe. Stability and unity. A spirit of cooperation between nations. To protect people’s existing rights. To end Brexit because to ‘honour’ the referendum result honours criminality, unlawful practices, lying, cheating and bullying.
  • Giuliano Maielli
    commented 2019-03-21 09:42:50 +0000
    Because Brexit is an exercise of political and economic abuse at the expenses of the most vulnerable in society
  • Ella
    commented 2019-03-21 09:34:37 +0000
    I want to remain in the EU and certainly don’t want to leave without a deal. On a personal level, I am a Law and Spanish student and am currently facing the increasing likelihood that the Erasmus scheme for my year abroad in Spain is going to be stopped. European citizens living in the UK add so much to our country, most notably in holding up the NHS. Also, in terms of the 2016 referendum, it was illegal and corrupt, people did not vote on legitimate information, and anyway so much has changed since then that the people deserve/need some say on the reality that faces us now, which is very different to what even leave voters voted for in 2016.
  • Chris Gough
    commented 2019-03-21 09:05:18 +0000
    I live in France but I’m still a UK citizen. I’m coming over from Toulouse to march, because I’m outraged at a) the self-evident jaw-dropping stupidity of wanting to leave the EU; b) the constant lies about ‘the will of the people’ and the advisory referendum being ‘an instruction’ to Parliament; c) the idea that just over one third of a restricted electorate barely scraping a wafer-thin margin is sufficient to trigger significant constitutional change; d) the mendacity, venality, hypocrisy and second-rate intellects of Brexiteer MPs; e) the fraud, financial chicanery and sheer criminality behind the Leave campaigns; f) the tragic impact of Brexit on the young, brought about largely by cohorts of elderly people and of the poorly educated; g) the catastrophic economic impact of Brexit, and the loss of essential EU workers in the NHS and across industry; h) the irresponsible collateral damage caused to nations that should be the UK’s friends and neighbours in the EU; i) last but not least, being stripped of my cherished EU citizenship without getting any say in the matter, based on the votes of xenophobic, ill-informed, wilfully ignorant ’bigots.
  • Helen Halls
    commented 2019-03-21 08:56:20 +0000
    Because we need to go back to the people to try and break the deadlock. Our nation’s prosperity is at stake.
  • bryony landsbert Landsbert
    commented 2019-03-21 08:37:07 +0000
    The well-being of a whole generation of children is at stake. They have already suffered from lack of resources due to austerity and lack of funding to mental health services, social care and education. These services are literally crumbling around these vulnerable children. We cannot risk austerity lasting any longer.
  • Mj Homfray
    commented 2019-03-21 08:13:25 +0000
    Parliament has lost the plot. Run by rich arseholes out of touch with reality and aware of how much money they will make from brexit. Brexit is not the will of the people but the will of the rich. It must be stopped and the conservatives must be crushed
  • Sarah Firoozan
    commented 2019-03-21 08:10:40 +0000
    If we stay at home on our sofas the PM can maintain her deluded narrative that somehow we are all on her side.


    I am 53 and have never marched before, but I have concluded I now must. Only by turning up together at one time, at one place, can we express the collective strength of feeling shared by millions of us.


    If she will not dare to ask what the nation thinks today then we must come to her door and tell her.


    She is not on my side. This is not done in my name.


    Brexit.Is.Wrong.


    Simples.
  • Jane Thomas
    commented 2019-03-21 08:04:31 +0000
    To Stop Brexit. Leaving the EU will not solve the problems that created Brexit. People have been badly used by weak politicians and this must be resisted.
  • Ron Banning
    commented 2019-03-21 08:02:45 +0000
    The EU deal we have now is better than any proposed alternative put forward by the ERG liars.
  • David Simpson
    commented 2019-03-21 08:01:38 +0000
    Because i believe that we were lied to and that remaining in the Eu is in the National interest. It is in everyone’s best interest to have a strong flourishing UK economy.
  • Susie Hamilton
    commented 2019-03-21 07:56:02 +0000
    Because our separation from the EU has been revealed to more and more people as more and more disastrous, as a tragic, self-destructive act.
  • Peter Hollis
    commented 2019-03-21 07:51:43 +0000
    For peace, democracy, civilised and progressive values, international cooperation, and prosperity for all.
  • Alan Armstrong
    commented 2019-03-21 07:41:27 +0000
    For my soon to be born Grandsons future!
  • Craig Gershater
    commented 2019-03-21 06:03:13 +0000
    My wife and I are marching for the future of our children and our six grandchildren. They deserve better than this shambles, they deserve to be an integral part of a union of more than 500 million people with the guaranteed freedoms to live, work and love how they like in the magnificent community of the EU…
  • Julie Hortulanus
    commented 2019-03-21 04:14:13 +0000
  • Kai Uus
    commented 2019-03-21 02:49:05 +0000
  • Jack Watson
    commented 2019-03-21 01:09:21 +0000
    This isn’t the Brexit I voted for. I voted for a Brexit managed by moderates. By people who wanted what’s best for us. Not at tinpot leader who’s in it for herself. This country is divided like never before and it’s damaging our children and my generation’s chances of success. Nobody wanted Britain in the gutter. We have to admit the best deal is the deal we already have.
  • Charlotte Bailey
    commented 2019-03-20 23:22:08 +0000
    To protect those in poverty from being hit the hardest. To protect our young people and future generations. Because we have shot ourselves in the foot!
  • Sarah Lee Lee
    commented 2019-03-20 21:51:16 +0000
    Nobody voted for this deal or no deal. The referendum was an advisory vote on the principal of leaving the EU. Now we are sleep walking into a disaster involving medicine and food shortages as well as a brain drain of the best talent across the country as they leave what has become a small minded country. I am terrified for the future and the future of my children. We have to make our voices heard now and tell the Government that we want a vote on the reality of Brexit.
  • Richard Miller
    commented 2019-03-20 21:19:10 +0000
    I am 55 years old and have always felt European first and British second.
  • Anwen Edwards
    commented 2019-03-20 21:03:35 +0000
    For democracy, for my rights and those of my children to live, work and settle anywhere within EU – marching against a shrinking world being imposed on us
  • Susannah Dutton
    commented 2019-03-20 19:36:14 +0000
    I never wanted to leave. Even before the total shambles we are now facing. I believe we are stronger with our European partners whether in economic terms or in terms of culture, medicine, defence, fulfilling our employment needs and so many more reasons. No deal would make the catastrophe of leaving so much worse. Let us remain please!!
  • Susannah Dutton
    commented 2019-03-20 19:36:14 +0000
    I never wanted to leave. Even before the total shambles we are now facing. I believe we are stronger with our European partners whether in economic terms or in terms of culture, medicine, defence, fulfilling our employment needs and so many more reasons. No deal would make the catastrophe of leaving so much worse. Let us remain please!!
  • Clare Kendall
    commented 2019-03-20 18:50:26 +0000
    I am an emergency medicine doctor and I am marching because of the terrible effect that Brexit is having, and will have, on my department and the wider NHS; I speak to my outstanding European clinical colleagues, both doctors and nurses, and am saddened and embarrassed by the motivations that underpin the Brexit movement.
  • Berenice Wyeth
    commented 2019-03-20 18:18:35 +0000
    It’s decades since I have been on a march but this is the most important issue for the UK in our lifetime and I believe we need a second referendum so we can fix this disaster.