It was having Steve and the group from SODEM there day after day as they were the country’s Remain beacon who we deeply respected and coalesced around.
I couldn't vote in the referendum and I felt very wronged, because after 26 years living and working in the UK, I loved this country as if it was mine.
I was fed up with the media and government treating Remainers as "enemies of the people", and other lovely names.
I found Liverpool for Europe and started to get involved campaigning locally. I attended all the marches too. I am Scouse and European, that is it.
I think I attended the second ever SODEM, after being unable to attend the first due to being out of the country (working freely in the EU!).
I planned to leave the UK, but kept putting it off as I love this country, my home of 50 years. And I am devastated to leave family and friends behind in this chaos.
I think the first time I attended SODEM was February 2018. I had admired what Steve was doing. All I remember was that it was freezing cold and snowing.
We were outnumbered by unpleasant Brexiters, when suddenly the jolly Yorkshire contingent swept in with a musical parade singing 'your Brexit Deal is crap' to the tune of 'On Ilkley moor by tat'.
I was complacent about our democracy until Brexit. There was huge evidence of dark money and undemocratic influence behind the vote. A constitutional change that big should not be decided by an advisory referendum with a small majority.
The press portrayed the protest as always aggressive. Mainly it was an object lesson in peaceful civil disobedience.