Whatever your view on the Referendum, if any of your relatives believe that fish comes from the supermarket

 Nigel Farage the leader of Ukip, is to lead a flotilla of fishing trawlers up the Thames to central London to call for the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, in a mass protest timed to coincide with prime minister’s questions. It is predicted the event would be “big, visual and dramatic”.

The flotilla of at least 35 boats – including huge herring and mackerel trawlers from the north of Scotland as well as smaller vessels from English ports – is being organised by Scottish skippers, who set up the pro-Brexit Fishing for Leave campaign several weeks ago.

The vessels, expected to include small inshore fishing boats and trawlers from English ports including Newlyn and Ramsgate, are to gather off Southend in Essex at dawn before sailing up the Thames.

The number of boats is limited by Thames navigation and safety rules, the organisers said, but Farage predicted the event would be “big, visual and dramatic”.