NIGEL Farage had “cement” hurled at him in a shocking attack on the election campaign trail today.
The Reform UK leader, 60, was pelted by a yob in Barnsley town centre on Tuesday while on an open top battle bus for his party.
PAFarage dodges the objects while on an open top bus in Barnsley today[/caption]
PAThe yob was pictured throwing wet cement at Farage[/caption]
X/@Nigel_FarageWet cement from a nearby work site was also hurled[/caption]
The thug threw a coffee cup and its content at the Reform UK leaderX/@Nigel_Farage
Farage, who was snapped dodging the flying objects, said wet cement from a nearby work site and a coffee cup with its contents in were launched.
Cops detained and arrested the man as he chanted: “Scum, scum, scum.”
Footage from the top of the bus shows Farage rush down the steps out of sight after the attack.
Members of Reform UK cheered and clapped as the suspect was cuffed.
Speaking from the inside of the bus, Farage said: “I’ll tell you what I’m worried about, a week after we commemorate D-Day, which was done so we that we could live in a democracy where we can agree to disagree and be very passionate, we’ve now got a mob that want to close down all the debates.”
South Yorkshire Police said: “We have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of public order offences following disorder in Barnsley town centre today.
“It is believed that the man threw objects from a nearby construction area.
“A suspect was quickly detained and remains in police custody.”
Farage has since thanked the force as he vowed not to be “bullied”.
He said: “My huge thanks to South Yorkshire Police today.
“I will not be bullied or cowed by a violent left-wing mob who hate our country.”
Farage was heading through Barnsley town centre when he was attackedX/@Nigel_Farage
Dean AtkinsA man, 28, was arrested by cops[/caption]
The coffee cup was snapped being launched at the bus
It was understood police warned Farage not to get on the bus before the parade.
It comes just one week after he was splattered in the face with a milkshake.
Victoria Thomas-Bowen, 25, was charged with assault by beating and criminal damage after chucking a banana milkshake over the politician at a campaign rally at Wetherspoons in Clacton, Essex on June 4.
The OnlyFans model vehemently denied that the attack was a stunt – but has now claimed she’s made £40,000 since her arrest from extra subscribers to her adult channel.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Victoria – who is a member of the Labour Party – told how she plotted the “milkshaking” just an hour before after spotting a post on Facebook saying that the Reform candidate was visiting the pier in her hometown.
But she insisted it wasn’t a calculated attempt to win her attention.
The former student at a strict all-girls catholic school said she had “hated” Farage since his campaign for Brexit.
She added: “I wanted to see him, I thought, if he is potentially representing me then I will see what he says.
“I have never agreed with his views on immigration or his approach to women.
“I hadn’t had any breakfast, and I was feeling quite lightheaded so I stopped at McDonalds on the way to the pier and got a banana milkshake.
“Then I remembered that he had been milkshaked before.
“I called my mum and I was like: ‘Yeah, I am where Farage is, and I have a milkshake.’
“She was like, ‘You’re not going to do that are you?’
“And I thought, yeah I think I will. So when he came out I just walked right up to him and chucked it.”
It is the second time the Brexit champion has been swilled – having been covered head-to-toe in Newcastle in 2019.
TONY PARSONS
WHEN Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown in his face by some smirking pea-brain, it went down a storm in the loony bin of Labour’s Left.
“A work of art!” crowed one Corbynista commentator.
The social media platforms of Stand Up To Racism — president, Diane Abbott — were awash with emojis weeping with helpless laughter.
And you can’t help but wonder.
Would a milkshake thrown in, say, Diane Abbott’s face be equally amusing? Of course not. That would be outrageous!
But we have been here before.
“I’m thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?” quipped comedian Jo Brand on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
The BBC later ruled that Brand’s “joke” about throwing battery acid in a politician’s face “went beyond what was appropriate” — no kidding! — but “was not intended to be taken seriously”.
But in a country where politicians of both major parties have been murdered in recent years, Brand’s comments sounded like an incitement to violence.
In a land where the memory of Labour’s Jo Cox — shot three times in 2016 — and the Conservatives’ David Amess, stabbed in 2021, is still raw, making light of a physical assault on any politician should turn the stomach.
It is the pious hypocrisy that stinks.
It is the craven double-standards.
I carry no candle for Reform UK.
Every vote for Nigel Farage’s protest party is an act of national self-harm. Reform will reform nothing.
Your vote for Reform means that we will be ruled for five years — or ten — by Keir Starmer and his high-taxing, knee-taking comrades.
But the bullying of Farage sickens me.
This ritual humiliation is counter- productive.
Is throwing a milkshake in Farage’s face meant to make him crawl away?
Bitterly ironic
Not going to happen, comrade.
That milkshake has now sealed Farage’s success with voters.
The bookies — always the most reliable political pundits — say Farage is odds-on to become the MP for Clacton at the General Election.
And with Reform neck-and-neck with the Tories in the polls, Farage can afford to laugh it off — cheerfully raising a McDonald’s milkshake in salute, as if it was a pint of his beloved IPA.
I believe the rise of Reform will be harmful for this country.
If the patriotic, pro-business Right is divided, the patriotic, pro-business Right surely will certainly be defeated.
If, as the polls suggest, all those disappointed working-class former Tory voters defect to Reform, then they will soon be living under a Labour Government that they will despise with all their hearts.
I don’t think Reform are going to bury the Conservative Party at this election or any other.
Because I suspect that the talent base of Reform is wafer-thin and their motley crew of colourful candidates will look a lot less appealing in close-up.
But that pea-brain’s milkshake has ensured that Reform will have at least one MP.
PACops warned Farage not to join the open top bus on Tuesday[/caption]
EPAFarage had bannana milkshake lobbed at him last week[/caption]
Victoria Thomas-Bowen threw the banana milkshake