Brexit flotilla sails through London after budget warning

A flotilla of pro-Brexit fishing boats sailed up the River Thames Wednesday ahead of next week's knife-edge referendum over EU membership, as the government warned of tax hikes and spending cuts if Britain voted to leave. UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage joined the procession of around 30 trawlers that steamed past parliament to protest against EU fishing quotas while Prime Minister David Cameron was facing MPs in his final debate before the June 23 vote. "The battle line of this referendum is ordinary folk and their communities up against the big establishment," Farage told AFP on board one of the boats which was decorated with Union Jack deckchairs and balloons.

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