ONE of the highlights of a great campaigning 2018 for the Yes movement was the 500-mile walk for independence by a group of activists that began on Skye and ended triumphantly with the marchers heading the 100,000 people who “captured” Edinburgh on an unforgettable day last October.
Now, two of the original marchers are set to do it all again, this time taking the message to the heart of the British state that independence has been delayed, not dropped.
Hands Off Our Parliament innovator Clifford Serbie wrote to tell us that as of 10am on Monday, March 11, Karl Claridge and Wren Chapman will be setting off from the Holyrood Parliament to walk 500 miles in 18 days to Westminster.
Serbie said they are “true Tartan Spartans and taking ‘the pride in their stride’, heart on their sleeves and gear on their backs as they both put their best foot forward to walk #Another500Miles to Westminster from Holyrood”.
He added: “Their aim is to take the message to their not-so-far front door, that we the people will not be going back in our boxes.”
The original 2018 #500mile walkers were supported by The Proclaimers, and now Claridge and Chapman are doing what The Proclaimers famously said: “I will walk 500 miles, and I will walk 500 more.”
Serbie said: “This is all being done shoe-string style and it will cost no one anything to join us partially on the route to show why the likes of Nigel Farage and Westminster are so out of touch with the reality of our nation.”
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