THOUSANDS of pro-EU demonstrators marched in London at the weekend demanding that Britain hold another referendum on membership.

The People’s Vote campaign says a second vote should be held on the terms of departure.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable told marchers that the 2016 vote to leave the bloc had been based on ignorance.

“We didn’t know about the cost of the divorce bill … we didn’t know that we’re going to destroy the trading system on which Brexit depends,” he declared.

The decision to leave was the fault of old people, he claimed, saying that “the younger generation have been shafted by the older Brexiteers.”

But Green Party leader Caroline Lucas cautioned against calling Leave voters “stupid,” saying the campaign to stay “can’t afford to be defenders of the Establishment.”

Former Conservative MP for Stroud Neil Carmichael, who lost his seat to Labour’s David Drew last year, brandished a Tories for Remain placard and argued that leaving the EU would interfere with Conservative free trade principles and could “finish” the party.

Speaking to the Open Labour conference at the weekend, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Labour wanted a general election rather than a second referendum in response to the government’s shambolic negotiations with the EU.

Some on the demo attacked Labour’s leader, chanting: “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn?” in reference to his refusal to back their demands. Mr Corbyn was visiting a refugee camp in Jordan.

Left Leave campaign Lexit convener Alex Gordon told the Morning Star that Saturday’s march was “a reactionary, lavishly funded protest.”

He said: “At its heart is the complaint by the entitled upper middle classes in British society that they have not been allowed to get their own way as usual.

“The fact that the People’s Vote march rapidly became a focus for anti-Corbyn slogans tells you all you need to know about the political outlook and class interests of those supporting it.”

Last year’s general election saw Labour and the Conservatives, which both pledged to respect the referendum result and leave the EU, receive their largest combined share of the vote since 1970, while pro-Remain parties such as the Lib Dems, Greens and Scottish National Party all lost ground.