Campaigners take Brexit to the Thames

Britain's opposing EU referendum camps took their war of words onto the water as campaigners aboard rival vessels demonstrated on the River Thames in London on Wednesday.

The battle for Brexit sends a shot across the bow.

What was quickly dubbed the Battle of the Thameson Twitter began when campaigners for Britain to leave the EU sent a flotilla of some 30 fishing boats up the river decked in colourful flags andanti-EUbanners.

Faragesays yes toBrexit.

NigelFarage, leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party, stands aboard one of the boats in a flotilla of fishingvessels campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union.

BobGeldofwants Britain to stay.

Musician and activist BobGeldof, centre, was on hand for a counter-demonstration by Remainsupporters who wavedpro-EUbanners.

Dinghies were no match forBrexiters.

Remaincampaigners in dinghies tried to disrupt the demonstration by the Leaveflotilla of fishing vessels.

FaragesaysGeldof speaks only for the rich.

Farage denounced Geldof's supporters as "a bunch of upper-middle-class rich people and multimillionaires laughing at people whose voices have never been heard for 40 years."

Britain's EU decision is imminent.

Britain's referendum on the country's membership in the European Union occurs on June 23.