'I want a clean conscience': meet the marchers for a people's vote

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/23/i-want-a-clean-conscience-meet-march-peoples-vote

‘I want a clean conscience’: meet the marchers for a people’s vote

Ammar Kalia, Poppy Noor and Libby Brooks

Sat 23 Mar 2019 07.00 GMT

The timing feels right’: Jamie Thomas, 30, Dorset

I’m marching because I feel that people need to engage with Brexit again. It was meant to be the will of the people but we’ve been forgotten that amongst all of the parliamentary infighting. My whole family supports me and they are coming from all over the UK to march too.

The timing feels right to march now: we could make a real difference because things have come to a head after rumbling on for so many months. It’s gotten to a point where we really could be influential. I hope the march will show that there are a substantial number of people who don’t want to leave and that they need to be consulted too.

‘This is my first protest march’: Bev Osborne, 60, Leeds

Initially, I wasn’t going to go on the march because I have PTSD and anxiety which makes it very difficult to be in crowds. But I’ve made friends through Twitter who are also going and they persuaded me to come and walk with them. I decided this is such an important issue that I’ve got to do it. This will be my first protest march.

When we thought Labour was supporting a people’s vote, we thought it could make a difference, but Corbyn now doesn’t seem to have any concrete positioning. It’s been unreal watching our politicians’ incompetence, ignorance and their arrogance. I just hope they won’t ignore us now when we come to London – so many people are making a long trip and we need our voices to be heard.

‘Young people will be angry’: Shakira Martin, 30, London

I’m marching because young people want to live in a country bigger than our back yard. We want to live, work and travel across Europe. We appreciate our teachers and doctors who come to work in Britain and make it a vibrant place, a better place.
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