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Reuters: UK right-winger Farage doused with drink at election campaign launch

Culprit:

Apparently not even the first time it’s happened to him:

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

It was a setup. The woman is the girlfriend of a reform party member. Farage has form for this sort of publicity stunt.

Edit

https://ibb.co/wsygrdp

Farage is all anyone is talking about at the moment, the stunt seems to have worked.

Edit

According to the BBC a woman’s been charged, so it seems like the initial skepticism was misplaced.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could be. I’ve no trust in The Express though. It’s a right wing rag.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've seen other british tabloids reporting the same thing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

tabloids

lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

She looks exactly like every other British girl that age. This proves nothing, you're chatting pure shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I’m not chatting anything you biff, I shared what I saw. You can make your own mind up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I didn't say you're chatting shit, I'm just commenting on what I saw.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

while i’m inclined to believe you, some sort of source or even the woman’s name would help a lot….

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course, you’re right. I’ve edited my post to include what I read earlier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

thank you 🎩👌

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing, would suggest another edit here:

Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, is due to appear at Colchester Magistrates' Court on Tuesday, 2 July charged with assault by beating and criminal damage, Essex Police said.

BBC: Woman charged after milkshake thrown over Farage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

And thanks for the update!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Unless he's getting off on it, I'm just glad he's milkshaked.

[–] [email protected] 149 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Staged to get into the media spotlight by any means necessary. The security guy is wearing that jacket zipped for a reason; is looking right at her; is not reacting in any way to stop her. Looking at the reaction of the crowd, it looks like the work of a sophist; the true hallmark of the Right.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

This will be most people's first heads up that Farage is back in the game

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

If it is staged, we should all be pouring milkshake on the guy everywhere he goes until he stops.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No one man has done more harm to the UK in recent years than Farage.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He is just a vulture flying on top of the destruction caused by David Cameron's political incompetence

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

He fucking caused Cameron's incompetence.

farage stoking the fires of Brexit existed long before Cameron's idiocy. Ukip

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Her milkshake would bring me (a boy) to her yard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Her yard of course being her onlyfans

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No such thing as bad publicity so might as well have an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

an acquaintance's life-size barbie embarrass you with a milkshake.

Because women are property in the mind of @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Whatever you say, bub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Of course the horribly sexist comment was intended as a joke. A sexist joke is sexist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Calling someone a life sized Barbie is a sexist comment, but writing the comment makes the commenter sexist in the same way that playing the T-1000 makes Arnold Schwarzenegger an android from the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had more of a problem with the ownership words than the description of the woman as looking Barbie-like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Still, you're not getting it. The commenter is speaking from the perspective of the type of person who would do this. They are doing so to mock that type of person. If you give the commenter the benefit of the doubt, assuming that they are not on the side of the rightwing psychopaths they are explicitly criticizing, then it makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People saying is fake, but you can't fake the smile of the red shirt guy.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That is a dark purple shirt for the people who aren't colorblind.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Nuh uh, it's maroon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Also more commonly known as black for us simple folk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Just because the main two were in on it doesn't mean the bystanders have to be

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Fuck that guy

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Some bigots wear milkshakes though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

404 no hero found

It was either political violence or a false flag operation. Either way, no heroes were involved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Political violence is when milkshake

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

I was hoping that milkshakings return after Andy Ngo pretended he suffered severe brain injury from one, and it's a staged one...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Im not sure he was asking for the politician