Brexit battle on the Thames as leave and remain boats clash

“Leave” campaigner Nigel Farage has been leading a flotilla of tens of boats down the Thames going past key sights of London today.

Geldof, who was on a boat that blasted out songs such Chicago’s If you leave me now and Dobie Gray’s The In Crowd, added: “We wish these hardworking families all the best but you ain’t the man for the job, dude”.

And it is framing of the day as a battle between the elite against the oppressed fisherman which means it was Mr Farage’s naval conquest.

When covering the news on a day-to-day basis, or even when political campaigning, it is easy to move from one event to the next, rarely ever reflecting on what you’ve just witnessed. “Stop lying. This election is too important”.

Despite a string of polls giving a lead to Leave, Mr Farage said he was not taking the result for granted.

He said: “These are communities that have been devastated”. These are communities that no one has listened to for years.

“The disastrous Common Fisheries Policy has caused 65% of our boats to be scrapped and thousands of jobs to be lost”. Fish stock is that should be within the UK’s internationally recognised territorial waters are now shared our European Partners.

Momentum youth activists said leaving the European Union could “sink their future” and urged the public to vote Remain next week. “Today’s flotilla is not a celebration or a party but a full-throttled protest. We want our waters back”, he said in a statement.

The UK possesses 13% of the EU’s sea area and is allocated 30% of the current fish quotas.

“Europe would be lacking a lot if Great Britain made a decision to leave”. You’ve got to give Geldof credit for trying, but the juxtaposition of a non-dom millionaire and hard working fisherman probably didn’t do Remain’s case any favours.

“It reminds me of pre-Iraq where there doesn’t seem to be a plan and we woke up one morning and realised we were in a bad disaster”.

Ray Finch, the UKIP MEP in charge of the party’s fishery policy, meanwhile, summed up the mood. “Everything in my career in politics has been about next Thursday, everything”.

“It’s outrageous. We should be like Norway and Iceland having our own fishing waters”. “We must be getting something right”.

But the Ukip leader had clearly not bargained on the buccaneering spirit of Britain’s premier musician cum fundraiser and, as of lunchtime yesterday, waterborne counter-demonstrator. “We’ve gone from 33 boats in the 1980s to eight now”.

The Prime Minister defended his government’s actions saying that the United Kingdom fishing industry had grown by around 20 per cent thanks to its reforms. Two, Britain has the second largest quota for fishing in Europe after Denmark. Using a loudspeaker turned up to a very high volume, Geldof attacked Farage as a “fraud”.

In the impromptu interview, Widdicombe joked: “Are you in or out, Nigel?”

“There are much for boats for Leave so far, there aren’t many at all for Remain”.