CAMPAIGNERS took to the streets for an action day to promote a People's Vote on a 'disastrous' Brexit deal.

The Worcestershire for Europe Action Day was held outside Worcester Guildhall in the city's High Street on Saturday.

Judging by the Worcester Brexitomer, residents are in favour of staying in the European Union and believe a People's Vote on the deal now on offer should decide our future.

People had the chance to put stickers in various boxes reflecting what they believed was 'best for the UK'.

Very few stickers showed any support for Prime Minister Theresa May's deal or leaving with no deal. When asked who should decide our future only one sticker was placed in the box for Theresa May's cabinet, a few more believed the UK's future should be decided by MPs in Parliament but the vast majority backed 'a People's Vote'.

Military veteran Stuart Thomson, chairman of Worcestershire for Europe, said they had been organising similar events for the last two years of which there have been more than 65 in different parts of the county, including Worcester, Malvern, Evesham and Bromsgrove.

The group has just under 400 members and membership is 'growing rapidly'. In the last two months they have launched Malvern for Europe, Droitwich for Europe and Wyre Forest for Europe. During the last two action days in Worcester alone the group signed up 75 new members.

Mr Thomson said the people's vote would give the Government the opportunity to put the best deal together.

He said: "The People's Vote says we put that deal on the table, put it to the people, or we remain in the EU. The last referendum did not have the detail behind it.

"I'm British and European. That's a really important part of this. We want the best for this country. The best, we believe, is to stay in the European Union with like-minded people."

He stressed that the UK was now 'an empire of ideas' rather than one expressed through 'industrial or military might'.

Among those to support the People's Vote were Richard Croxton of Warndon Villages, Worcester, who described Brexit as 'a vote for coarse racism', referring to himself as a 'federal European'.

Lawrence Brewer, a former chairman of the European Movement West Midlands who worked for Royal Worcester porcelain and previously for the largest malt whisky distiller in Scotland said: "Brexit is dead."

He said he believed European rules, standards and regulations assisted trade and raised the amount of tax generated generated which could be spent on the NHS.

Tim Mason, a former teacher at the Royal Grammar School and King's School, said: "I have always been remain. I'm old enough to have campaigned in the 1975 referendum for us to stay in (the United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum)."