I like milkshakes as much as any sweet-toothed fan so I’m against wasting them, particularly when it’s an upmarket £5.25 Five Guys banana and salted caramel drink.
Nigel Farage, the latest milkyshake kid, injects poison into politics and his bigotry undoubtedly fuelled a rise in racist attacks so Lady Justice’s scales atop the Old Bailey would weigh against the Right-whinger.
His referendum campaign's Breaking Point racism and downplaying of MP Jo Cox's assassination - bullets were fired, Farage - were nauseatingly contemptible.
But chucking sticky liquids on the Brextremist con man doesn't win an argument when it earns him sympathy, allows the preacher of hate to play the victim and distracts from questions about his and the party’s distinctly iffy funding.
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Boo Farage, yes. Heckle the old fraud, yes. Protest when the serpent appears near you, yes. Vote against him, certainly yes. Assault him, no.
Milkshakes are on the lower end of the assault scale and I admired the young British Asian who refused to be intimidated by Far Right convicted thug Stephen Yaxley Lennon and the extremist heavies, sharing his McDonald’s strawberry shake with a tinypot tyrant using the “Tommy Robinson” football hooligan monicker.
Yaxley Lennon can have no complaints when brutality is his calling card.
Yet love or loathe Farage, and I’m in the latter camp, the Thatcherite’s still a politician seeking votes not turning up in town to physically intimidate opponents.
Condemning the Brextremist idiot who smashed an egg on the side of Jeremy Corbyn’s head in a Muslim centre(he was jailed for 28 days, my suggetion community service might be more appropriate earning a giant raspberry on Twitter) then cheering Newcastle’s milkshake man is one-eyed politics.
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Sticky drinks are a long way from a Hitler obsessive assassinating Jo Cox or another Neo-Nazi’s conviction for plotting to murder MP Rosie Cooper.
We need to cool assaults, however, and I don’t mean adding extra ice to shakes.
Scotland Yard's warning abuse of MPs is soaring with unprecedented security required.
MPs complain daily marauding mobs leave them struggling to represent constituents and do their jobs.
Nigel Farage drenched by milkshake during Brexit Party walkabout in Newcastle
I’ve survived a couple of unpleasant scrapes with aggressive Far Right yobs and a clash with a vile mob outside Parliament who verbally abused the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
Farage played a part, arguably quite a major part, in creating then fuelling and legitimising menacing anger.
But we don’t want politicians, even those we don’t like, requiring heavy police guards whenever they go walkabout in city centres.
Defending anything that happens to Farage is uncomfortable so I'll now climb off the moral mole hill.
