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People are reporting Nigel Farage for fly-tipping after he flung a tray of haddock into the Thames.

The former Ukip leader dumped the fish into the river as part of a bizarre protest against the Brexit transition deal.

He joined others on a Kent fishing boat for the stunt directly outside the Houses of Parliament ahead of Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.

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While on the vessel, Farage, said the Government did not have the ‘guts’ to stand up to the EU.


He added: ‘They told us they would take back control in 2019 – that is not happening. We are now told at the start of 2021 it may happen.



‘I don’t think this Government has got the guts or the strength to stand up and take back our territorial waters.’

Following the odd stunt, many have reported Farage for flytipping:

Did you know you can report Nigel Farage for fly-tipping fish carcasses today?

Highly recommend that you do #fishprotest https://t.co/B6QrgpErbf pic.twitter.com/TedFK2zcNr — Sarah #FBPE (@SarahLeeNotCake) March 21, 2018

Nigel Farage has just dumped a box of haddock into the Thames. Ahem…. https://t.co/Q8DorAEYV9 — Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) March 21, 2018

A spokesperson for Scotland Yard told Metro.co.uk that no arrests were made following the protest.

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The spokesperson told us: ‘The Marine Policing Unit had three boats in the central London area of the Thames to monitor and facilitate a protest at 9am on Wednesday, 21 March.’

Meanwhile, Farage’s actions also drew criticism from Europe.

The European Parliament’s Brexit co-ordinator Guy Verhofstadt said Nigel Farage ‘should have done his job as a member of the fisheries committee’ of MEPs rather than ‘throwing dead fish in the Thames’.

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The bizarre stunt saw a red, white and blue boat bobbed along on the Thames while a number of fish were thrown overboard, before it sailed back upriver tailed by a police escort.

Earlier, prominent Brexiteer and Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who did not board the vessel, said he believed Theresa May had made a mistake on the deal, which will see Britain effectively remain in the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy until the end of 2020.

What was the fish protest about? Former pro-Brexit UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, center, helps tip a container of fish into the River Thames (Picture: AP) Under a draft withdrawal agreement, Britain will remain bound by the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy during a 21-month transition period after the U.K. leaves the bloc in March 2019. That has angered British fishing communities and their representatives, who have long railed against other European countries’ right to fish in British territorial waters. On Wednesday a group of fishermen and politicians boarded a trawler on the Thames near Parliament, where Nigel Farage, former leader of the euroskeptic U.K. Independence Party, dumped a tray of haddock into the river. The protesters say the fish can’t be sold in Britain because of EU rules. Farage said the British government lacks ‘the guts or the strength to stand up and take back our territorial waters.’ Several politicians from Prime Minister Theresa May’s governing Conservative Party put in an appearance at the protest but did not take part in the fish-throwing.