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Farage doused in drink during Clacton trip
4 June
2024, 3:11pm
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/farage-doused-in-drink-during-clacton-trip/
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Reform’s
new leader Nigel Farage has been busy wooing crowds in Clacton as he launched
his election campaign in the Essex seaside constituency this lunchtime. But the
visit didn’t go off without a hitch for poor Nige, whose trip was rather rudely
ruined by a bystander who threw a drink at the politician as he left a local
pub.
The former
Ukip leader was leaving Clacton’s Wetherspoons, the Moon & Starfish, when
one decidedly disgruntled member of the public chose to make their feelings
towards Reform’s newest candidate known. In what appears to be an attempted
repeat of 2019’s milkshake attack — in which Farage was doused in the sugary
substance by an unimpressed Geordie — the Reform founder had a similar run-in
today. On leaving the pub, the politician was drenched in drink by a passing
protestor — raising questions about yet another slip-up by his security team.
The
perpetrator slammed the new Reform leader, telling reporters: ‘He doesn’t stand
for me, he doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around
here.’ But Reform’s Richard Tice doesn’t quite agree, fuming:
The
juvenile moron who threw a drink over Nigel has just gained us hundreds of
thousands more votes. We will not be bullied or threatened off the campaign
trail.
Strong
stuff. It has now been reported that a 25-year-old woman was arrested after the
incident, on suspicion of assault. Farage has certainly made a comeback and so,
it seems, has MilkshakeGate…
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