They feel betrayed over Brexit - and are not just crying about it from afar
Nigel Farage's pro-Brexit march started in Sunderland on Saturday and is aiming to finish in Westminster later in the month.
Saturday 16 March 2019 22:21, UK
Sweaty, unkempt and obviously thirsty, Nigel Farage strode into the Merry Go Round pub in Hartlepool on Saturday afternoon with his own small circus in tow.
The Westminster merry-go-round this week has simply hardened the resolve of the 100 or so Brexit supporters who have decided to march almost the length of England from Sunderland to Westminster.
They want Brexit delivered. No extensions, no halfway house deals. A clean cut from the EU on 29 March - whatever the cost.
So they marched and marched pretty fast. It's over 280 miles in total - a big ask for anyone. They won't cover every mile - some will only do part of it. But they are marching because they feel so exasperated with the political crisis that has unfolded since the referendum back in the summer of 2016.
They feel disillusioned, betrayed and angry and there's a lot of that in the communities of County Durham that they walked through on Saturday.
At Riley's fish and chip shop in the village of Blackhall they watched the hundred or so marchers striding past in dribs and drabs - heads lowered into the driving wind and rain.
Dorothy, a Leave-voting pensioner who was picking up her chips for lunch, told me: "I'd join them if the weather was better... I do admire them. Everybody voted to go - so go."
"If I could move house I would - it's just rubbish at the minute... we need to get our own laws back."
Every customer we met at Riley's was fizzing with indignation at the political mess that the country now faces - a mess they pin squarely on the door of the House of Commons.
A third "meaningful" vote, an extension to Article 50, even remaining in the EU after all - the options that now seem perhaps more plausible are distinctly unpalatable here.
The only people they see standing up to it are Farage and the people around him.
"I'm ready to go again," the former UKIP leader joked as he staggered into the bar at the Merry Go Round.
"And if you'll believe that you'll believe anything."
He says he will rejoin the march when it suits his schedule - if Mrs May gets her deal through parliament at the third attempt, who knows if they will all plough on through the Midlands to the capital. Will it still be worth it if the deal is done?
Who knows?
There will certainly be arguments and changes along the way - but the marchers are at least doing something. Not just complaining bitterly from afar.