YELLOW-VESTED protestors and counter-demonstrators confronted each other again in the town centre.

Members of a group known as the Swindon Yellow Vests marched along Regent Street at midday yesterday chanting 'Brexit now!' and were met by a group of pro-EU anti-fascists.

Shoppers looked on with concern and amusement as the two groups surrounded the Fountain and spent an hour trying to persuade passerby that their cause was the right one.

Steve Webb, 31, from North Swindon. said: “What annoys me is people waving flags and calling leave voters fascists and racists, they need to stop tarring people with the same brush.

“The government lied to Remain and Leave voters and I can see both sides of the debate but the fact is we voted to leave and some people just can’t accept the fact that they lost.”

A few heated arguments broke out between shoppers and yellow vests but nothing serious enough to prompt the police who were keeping an eye on things to intervene.

After the demonstration, the yellow vests heckled the departing antifascist group before going on to block traffic on Regent Circus by standing on the pedestrian crossing until they were moved on by police.

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Steve Rouse supported the anti-fascist group. He said: "I saw some quite bad behaviour from the yellow vests and I'm horrified that this has happened in Swindon's town centre.

"I'm really sad that so many people have been radicalised and believe all sorts of conspiracy theories about MPs and the EU. David Cameron and Nigel Farage have done what Napoleon and Hitler failed to do - turn British people against each other.

"The yellow vests made fools of themselves last time and there was a lot of confrontation, so everybody agreed this time to try and avoid that, which is the British way - to disagree without hating each other."

WATCH: Yellow Vests arrive in town centre and taunt anti-fascist counter-demonstrators.

The last confrontation between the groups ended in a verbally-fraught clash by Swindon's cenotaph which was later criticised by members of both sides.

At yesterday's protest, one yellow vest member said: "We are here to protest against the government who have kicked the can down the road for two-and-a-half years. We want to leave the EU on March 29 - are you listening, Theresa May?"

James O'Leary from Lechlade said: "I voted remain but I don't mind people making their point like this as long as it's a friendly protest and there's no violence."