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Nigel Farage has milkshake thrown over him after launching general election campaign
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All the people cheering it on oblivious to the fact that this just helps Farage and garners more sympathy for him and his party.
She claimed she threw it because "he doesn't stand for what she believes in". If only there was some way of expressing that. Like a vote or something. ๐ค
I bet she won't even bother voting.
You're right. We should start throwing things at people we dislike.
I'm sure that will work. ๐
You make a good point, throughout history there have been many times where change began or could only be achieved through direct protest action, not by elections and votes alone.
So long as it's harmless and raises awareness for how evil and hated by the people of the nation certain groups or individuals are, throwing milkshake, rotten tomatoes and the like, are an excellent idea.
You're right, throwing food is not enough and kind of a waste.
Wheel out the guillotines.
I've looked on Amazon and Ebay and can't even find tumbrils. I'm a bit stuck, here. Plenty of supplies for the tricoteuses on Etsy, at least.
How does this garner sympathy for a fascist pig? Is it some secret cheat code that makes people forget all the evil someone's done, and make us feel sorry for them instead?
It was milkshake not poison, why should anyone sympathise with him who wouldn't already have done so, because of this?
It's called being a decent human being and not thinking it's acceptable to go around throwing things at people.
Yeah, it's not a huge step to throwing acid though, is it?
It kind of is actually. Throwing a milkshake isn't likely to cause much harm, and would probably result in an assault charge. Throwing acid can cause serious disfigurement and possibly death, and a far more serious charge.
You can condemn her actions without the hyperbole. This happened before and it didn't result in a wave of acid attacks and I've no reason to think this time will be different.
I mean, we've literally had two MPs murdered in the last 8 years.
It wasn't "just a milkshake" then, was it?
No, the stepping stone drug that is a milkshake was probably the start point though. Then protesters craved harder and harder objects to throw at politicians and it ended, as we could all have predicted, by those two poor politicians being crushed under a gargantuan boulder.
If only we had stopped the milkshakes.
No, but anyone who would try to establish an equivalence between a milkshaking and a murder is, to put it kindly, perhaps not thinking it through fully.
My point is that all of these types of incidents just mean that politicians are going to end up being more out of reach of the average person, and more out of touch as a result.
People complain about politicians not meeting ordinary people, and this stuff is precisely why they don't.
No?
I would say that's quite a big step.
fascists opted out of the social contract. sometimes being a decent human being means forcing dairy treats into a motherfucker's face.
it was right when it happened to Anita Bryant and it was right when it happened to Nigel today.
Do you understand what a fascist is? Because it doesn't seem like it.
Yup, gets his face on the front pages the same day as the big Labour/Tory debate on ITV. Whoever threw it has done Farage a huge favour.
Whoever came up with the rules for that miserable debate also did Farage a huge favour, or at least a disservice to Starmer and Sunak, who were forced to exchange 45-second soundbites when debating complex policies. That trivialises politics even more than hurling a shake does.
Perhaps that explains the pic of the 2 of them?
Lol. That's not her, but unsurprisingly the conspiracy theories have started already. ๐
Already confirmed it's not her. But the narrative is too strong.
Her name is Victoria Thomas-Bowen apparently. She models..
According to The Sun, or at least I couldn't find a source that didn't reference them if it even referenced a source at all. While whosit the press secretary probably didn't do it, I'm not sure The Scum is exactly a good source either
"Here's some evidence that it isn't this person".
"Nah, I prefer my conspiracy theory".
Literally not what I did. I said it's probably not whatshername, but I'm not in the habit of trusting The Sun either and it's as likely that they got it wrong as it is that Twatter got whatshername wrong. There's probably a reason why eg. The Guardian removed Victoria's name from their article โ and no, it's not that they think the press secretary did it
I just Googled her name and was provided different sources. But if those sources are referencing eachother I don't know. For some reason "journalist" don't have to provide sources.
The ones I checked either didn't have a source at all, or specifically said they got their information from The Sun
the mirror provided some pictures and links to the referenced persons socials. That's something.