Campaigners in France team up to join anti-Brexit march

PEOPLE are making plans to travel from all over France to join a march against the Brexit planned for Saturday March 25 in London.

The Unite for Europe march will be heading from Park Lane to the Houses of Parliament, at 11.00 – and people in France are getting together to organise their trips and to discuss ideas for banners for the event.

The group Remain In France Together (RIFT) is taking a lead in helping Britons in France organise their plans by running a Facebook group called ‘Come fly with EU’, together with the Bremain in Spain and Brexpats HOV groups for Britons in Spain and Belgium.

They are also coordinating with EU citizens in the UK who are offering free accommodation to Britons in EU countries who are flying or otherwise travelling in to the UK to take part.

The expat groups plan to march together on the day, which will also coincide with the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, one of the EU’s founding documents.

One march supporter, British philosopher A.C. Grayling said in a video message: “One of the things we can do is show Theresa May and the government and those who voted for Leave just how strong our feelings are about keeping the UK in the EU. We’ll do that with a major gathering, a major march showing our support for our EU membership.”

Another campaign organisation, Open Britain – the successor organisation to the official ‘Remain’ campaign – is organising its own day of protest action next Saturday, March 11, against a ‘hard’ Brexit.

This comes as campaigners against a so-called ‘brutal Brexit’ or threats that the UK could crash out of the EU with ‘no deal’ if government negotiation demands are not met launched a poster and video campaign called Stop the Silence, with the slogan: ‘we didn’t vote for this’.

RIFT is part of a ‘coalition’ of expat campaign groups, such as the British Community Committee of France, Ecreu, Fair Deal For Expats and Brits in Europe.