All shook up: Brexit Party's Nigel Farage doused with milkshake on campaign

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All shook up: Brexit Party's Nigel Farage doused with milkshake on campaign

 

Brexit Party leader Nigel gestures after being hit with a milkshake while arriving for a Brexit Party campaign event in Newcastle, Britain, May 20, 2019. REUTERS/Scott Heppell

 

NEWCASTLE, England (Reuters) - Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's Brexit Party, was doused in milkshake by a protestor on Monday, the latest anti-EU figure to be targeted during campaigning for the European parliament elections.

 

Farage, one of the leading figures in the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, was covered in the milkshake at an event in the northern English city of Newcastle.

 

Shortly after addressing supporters he was hit by a shake thrown by a man in his early thirties, before being escorted away by aides and into a taxi, according to a Reuters witness.

 

The leader of Britain's Brexit Party was campaigning for the European parliament elections when a protester hurled the drink at him.

 

"Sadly some remainers have become radicalised, to the extent that normal campaigning is becoming impossible," Farage tweeted after the incident. "For a civilised democracy to work you need the losers consent, politicians not accepting the referendum result have led us to this."

 

Farage's newly-formed pro-Brexit party is predicted by opinion polls to win the most support in Britain at the elections later this week, promising to take the country out of the European Union without a deal.

 

Other anti-EU candidates not associated with the Brexit Party have also been targeted by milkshakes in recent weeks.

 

Farage, a 55-year-old former commodities broker, played an instrumental role in persuading Britain's mainstream political parties to hold a referendum on leaving the European Union in 2016, and then convincing voters to back Brexit during the subsequent campaign.

 

Britain remains deeply divided over the issue and parliament has been unable to agree when, how or even if the country should leave the bloc.

 

(Reporting by Scott Heppell, writing by William James in London; editing by Michael Holden/Guy Faulconbridge)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-05-21

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[baansgr]

Lefties at it again....think and do as we say or you are a fascist, racist bigot

[darren1971]

the "poundshop Enoch Powell" getting what he deserves, love it

[Basil B]

It was a criminal waste of a damn good milkshake.

 

Eggs well past their sell by date and rotten tomatoes would have been better.

[PingRoundTheWorld]

Whether you like him or hate him, there is no place for violence in politics, and that includes throwing food and drinks at politicians you disagree with. There's another word for using violent tactics to silence political opponents: fascism...

[Basil B]

Quote

The Electoral Commission is to visit the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.

A spokesperson said the visit on Tuesday was part of its "active oversight and regulation" of donations.

Ex-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small "undeclared, untraceable payments".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48337499

should be interesting...

[darren1971]

6 minutes ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Whether you like him or hate him, there is no place for violence in politics, and that includes throwing food and drinks at politicians you disagree with. There's another word for using violent tactics to silence political opponents: fascism...

it was a milkshake, stop being so dramatic

[BritManToo]

Surprised his security didn't give the thrower a good kicking.

As for the Electoral Comission, no need to visit his offices as everyone has to submit funding accounts after the election. Sounds like the big boys are really running scared.

[geoffbezoz]

Just now, BritManToo said:

Surprised his security didn't give the thrower a good kicking.

They certainly look like East end thugs.

[geoffbezoz]

26 minutes ago, Basil B said:

It was a criminal waste of a damn good milkshake.

 

Eggs well past their sell by date and rotten tomatoes would have been better.

And the plastic container was left by the Farage thugs laying on the pavement.  Certainly Farage is not interested in the environment. ????  Complete waste of plastic as he could have used it to spit out his Brexit bile into it.

[fishtank]

Could not have happened to a better bloke.

Odious little turd.

[animalmagic]

1 hour ago, Basil B said:

Quote

The Electoral Commission is to visit the offices of The Brexit Party to review how it receives funding.

A spokesperson said the visit on Tuesday was part of its "active oversight and regulation" of donations.

Ex-PM Gordon Brown accused the party - which is riding high in polls ahead of the European elections - of receiving a large amount of money via small "undeclared, untraceable payments".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48337499

should be interesting...

But the law dates from 20 years ago when Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer; he didn't seem to think there was a problem during his years in power.  The law is simply inappropriate now due to the changes in social media, crowdfunding and electronic payments.

Looks like Brown has been wheeled out to spread suspicion.

[Brigand]

This sort of childlike response along with denying platforms to speak etc. is just intolerant nonsense because you don't like what someone says. Can just imagine the reaction if it was Anna Sudbury being shaked by some Brexiteer shouting "Traitor!" What this moron doesn't realise is that his snowflake intolerant leftie hissy-fit probably only benefits Farage in the end. Used to be a time (which we need to get back to) when people debated others who held different views in order to win over people and their votes instead of this close-minded emotionally unintelligent rubbish we see now.

[Basil B]

11 minutes ago, animalmagic said:

But the law dates from 20 years ago when Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer; he didn't seem to think there was a problem during his years in power.  The law is simply inappropriate now due to the changes in social media, crowdfunding and electronic payments.

Looks like Brown has been wheeled out to spread suspicion.

Political parties have always been inventive on how they acquire funds and how they spend them.

 

Problem for Farage is his brexit party would have very little start up funds, and very little time to accumulate a war chest, election law is there to make elections more fairer, or supposed to anyway, by:

• Preventing parties and candidates spending money the do not have.
• Capping the amount of money they spend on a campaigns.
• Controlling where the money comes from.

 

 

[Basil B]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

Surprised his security didn't give the thrower a good kicking.

As for the Electoral Comission, no need to visit his offices as everyone has to submit funding accounts after the election. Sounds like the big boys are really running scared.

They are probably visiting his office to check that in receiving donations by bank transfer and card payments he has safeguards in place to ensure that the donations come via British banks, and people do not make multiple donations. 

 

That will not show up on his parties submitted election returns.

[nauseus]

1 hour ago, geoffbezoz said:

And the plastic container was left by the Farage thugs laying on the pavement.  Certainly Farage is not interested in the environment. ????  Complete waste of plastic as he could have used it to spit out his Brexit bile into it.

It's OK, a Farage supporter picked it up and binned it.

[baboon]

2 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Whether you like him or hate him, there is no place for violence in politics, and that includes throwing food and drinks at politicians you disagree with. There's another word for using violent tactics to silence political opponents: fascism...

Because throwing a milkshake at someone is the direct equivalent of the Holocaust, isn't it?

[owl sees all]

2 hours ago, darren1971 said:

it was a milkshake, stop being so dramatic

Only a milkshake!?

 

It could have gave him an eye infection; or worse. Could have caused him to slip and hit his head and be in a coma; causing a sympathy vote that would see the Brexit party sweep up the Euro votes this week

 

And what about others slipping on the split shake and hitting their heads and dying?

[DoctorG]

Sad (but not surprising) to see the number of people applauding this type of (admittedly low-level) political violence. How easy it is to escalate from eggs and shakes to rocks and acid. It is not surprising when so many are sprouting that it is good to "punch a Nazi" but when they consider everyone to the Right of them to be Nazis, then we will only see more violence.

The other targets mentioned but not named in the article were Tommy and Sargon.

[nauseus]

8 minutes ago, baboon said:

Because throwing a milkshake at someone is the direct equivalent of the Holocaust, isn't it?

No but it could have been anything. Security was the pits. Farage needs more money for a serious minder upgrade! ⛔

[JonnyF]

Pretty childish behaviour from the person who threw this.

 

First of all Remainers won't accept the result of the democratic vote, and now they resort to throwing milk at people who disagree with them. I thought the Remain side were supposed to be the sensible, intelligent, moderate people and the Brexiteers were the uncivilized, uncultured, racist bad guys? It would appear not.

[transam]

2 hours ago, geoffbezoz said:

And the plastic container was left by the Farage thugs laying on the pavement.  Certainly Farage is not interested in the environment. ????  Complete waste of plastic as he could have used it to spit out his Brexit bile into it.

Is that the best you could come up with....????

[JonnyF]

5 minutes ago, owl sees all said:

Only a milkshake!?

 

It could have gave him an eye infection; or worse. Could have caused him to slip and hit his head and be in a coma; causing a sympathy vote that would see the Brexit party sweep up the Euro votes this week

 

And what about others slipping on the split shake and hitting their heads and dying?

I wonder what your reaction would be if someone walked up to you on the street and threw milk over you? I'm sure you'd find it all very amusing, right?

 

It's childish and pretty offensive behaviour from someone who cannot accept they lost a democratic vote.

[vogie]

11 minutes ago, baboon said:

Because throwing a milkshake at someone is the direct equivalent of the Holocaust, isn't it?

Justifying assault is never a good thing, even if you don't agree with their opinion.

[nauseus]

Just now, JonnyF said:

Pretty childish behaviour from the person who threw this.

 

First of all Remainers won't accept the result of the democratic vote, and now they resort to throwing milk at people who disagree with them. I thought the Remain side were supposed to be the sensible, intelligent, moderate people and the Brexiteers were the uncivilized, uncultured, racist bad guys? It would appear not.

It certainly seems that way. Beta soy attack from the soft left.

[nauseus]

10 minutes ago, transam said:

Is that the best you could come up with....????

That's the best he's ever come up with.....????

[owl sees all]

13 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I wonder what your reaction would be if someone walked up to you on the street and threw milk over you? I'm sure you'd find it all very amusing, right?

 

It's childish and pretty offensive behaviour from someone who cannot accept they lost a democratic vote.

Well!! I'm with you on this JonnyF.  Simply pointing out the things that could happen when thugs get these violent thoughts in their little heads.

 

I have to say though, I think any eggs should be de-shelled before throwing. Eggshell in the eye could be life-changing.

 

And as a footnote; it has happened to me, but worse than a milkshake. A cat!!

[baboon]

17 minutes ago, vogie said:

Justifying assault is never a good thing, even if you don't agree with their opinion.

I did not justify a thing, any more than the poster I replied to justified the Holocaust.  Let the authorities deal with this matter as they will.

However I will not sit in silence when those howling in faux outrage blow a minor incident up out of all proportion.

[Alan Michael]

2 hours ago, PingRoundTheWorld said:

Whether you like him or hate him, there is no place for violence in politics, and that includes throwing food and drinks at politicians you disagree with. There's another word for using violent tactics to silence political opponents: fascism...

There's also the same word for others on this forum that have applauded violence against Nigel. They are no better than the Nazis brown shirts and their behavior in the 1930's. If you don't think how I think, or do what I believe you will get hurt. Despicable thugs.

[vogie]

Just now, baboon said:

I did not justify a thing, any more than the poster I replied to justified the Holocaust.  Let the authorities deal with this matter as they will.

However I will. not sit in silence when those howling in faux outrage blow a minor incident up out our all proportion.

It is assault no matter how "minor" you deem it to be. Would you be so complacent if someone threw one at you. Let's not trivialise assault just because you don't like the man.