Sadly there seems to be a growing trend from supporters of Remain to resort to violent tactics....it will of course have the opposite effect..

I thought the left were tolerant.

You think that the Brexit party will get sympathy votes because of a few idiots with milkshakes? I doubt it. Calling it violence seems a bit of a stretch to me, rather like calling squeezing a girl round the waist when she's not expecting it sexual assault. I'd call it slapstick in the "good old British" tradition.

It's a silly and offensive thing to do, and not fair on the guy in the photo. Nigel "we won without a single bullet being fired" Farage, on the other hand, I have little sympathy with.

Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attack

BREAKING: Nigel Farage says voters have a clear choice this week; namely strawberry, chocolate or vanilla.

twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1130487268941193218

Jo wrote:
You think that the Brexit party will get sympathy votes because of a few idiots with milkshakes? I doubt it. Calling it violence seems a bit of a stretch to me, rather like calling squeezing a girl round the waist when she's not expecting it sexual assault. I'd call it slapstick in the "good old British" tradition.

It's a silly and offensive thing to do, and not fair on the guy in the photo. Nigel "we won without a single bullet being fired" Farage, on the other hand, I have little sympathy with.

Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attack

BREAKING: Nigel Farage says voters have a clear choice this week; namely strawberry, chocolate or vanilla.

twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1130487268941193218


It's classed as assault Jo,even Tony Blair was horrified the other day with the Farage incident....and it seems to be coming from Remainers with some regularity...you may find it funny now,but when it spreads and people on the other side of the debate cannot go out and campaign you will not be so impressed....

....it has no place in modern democratic politics...and your reply does nothing to promote your otherwise tolerant stance on this board...

Silent Minority wrote:
Jo wrote:
You think that the Brexit party will get sympathy votes because of a few idiots with milkshakes? I doubt it. Calling it violence seems a bit of a stretch to me, rather like calling squeezing a girl round the waist when she's not expecting it sexual assault. I'd call it slapstick in the "good old British" tradition.

It's a silly and offensive thing to do, and not fair on the guy in the photo. Nigel "we won without a single bullet being fired" Farage, on the other hand, I have little sympathy with.

Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attack

BREAKING: Nigel Farage says voters have a clear choice this week; namely strawberry, chocolate or vanilla.

twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1130487268941193218


It's classed as assault Jo,even Tony Blair was horrified the other day with the Farage incident....and it seems to be coming from Remainers with some regularity...you may find it funny now,but when it spreads and people on the other side of the debate cannot go out and campaign you will not be so impressed....

....it has no place in modern democratic politics...and your reply does nothing to promote your otherwise tolerant stance on this board...

I know someone who could be killed by being hit with a milkshake, due to an allergy.

Even without that aspect, to use aggression to stop someone with opposing views speaking is gang-handed thuggery.

Supporting this is like saying that bullying is ok if we dont like the victim very much.

Jo again shows more stupidity whilst, Honey and SM show common sense. Next time it won't be milkshakes it be corrosive chemicals.

honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
Silent Minority wrote:
Jo wrote:
You think that the Brexit party will get sympathy votes because of a few idiots with milkshakes? I doubt it. Calling it violence seems a bit of a stretch to me, rather like calling squeezing a girl round the waist when she's not expecting it sexual assault. I'd call it slapstick in the "good old British" tradition.

It's a silly and offensive thing to do, and not fair on the guy in the photo. Nigel "we won without a single bullet being fired" Farage, on the other hand, I have little sympathy with.

Nigel Farage shelters on campaign bus to avoid milkshake attack

BREAKING: Nigel Farage says voters have a clear choice this week; namely strawberry, chocolate or vanilla.

twitter.com/haveigotnews/status/1130487268941193218


It's classed as assault Jo,even Tony Blair was horrified the other day with the Farage incident....and it seems to be coming from Remainers with some regularity...you may find it funny now,but when it spreads and people on the other side of the debate cannot go out and campaign you will not be so impressed....

....it has no place in modern democratic politics...and your reply does nothing to promote your otherwise tolerant stance on this board...

I know someone who could be killed by being hit with a milkshake, due to an allergy.

Even without that aspect, to use aggression to stop someone with opposing views speaking is gang-handed thuggery.

Supporting this is like saying that bullying is ok if we dont like the victim very much.

Very well said Honey...a child was in the news recently after having died from a piece of cheese thrown at them....the idiots who found it funny,either here or on the biased BBC would be the first to complain if it happened to them...and lets face facts...you cannot be selective about violence...a milkshake today,a soda with sharp pieces of ice tomorrow...humans are an inventive lot...remember the Holocaust started with a lot of broken glass....and ended in the horrors of the extermination camp!....I doubt the stupid jokes on the BBC helped Farage lose votes...in fact the opposite..

...I hope you had a good day Honey,the weather was certainly lovely here on the Kent coast.

An update,the sight of a veteran in his 80s being assaulted by a young remainer thug has had quite an interesting effect...

A fund-raiser has already raised nearly £15,000...and he now has a couple of bodyguards.... ...let's see how tough these cowards who pick on an old man are now?

www.gofundme.com/don-mcnaughton-dry-clea...V3ig5I9cGK_GPSl0X6D0

throwing a milkshake on anyone is hardly violence (unacceptable yes) ..and bizarre that this bloke was said to be "WW2" veteran which would mean he's about 96 years old..he looks pretty young for a 96 year old.

Out of, what over 33 million voters the incidents of violence have been absolutely minimal.

But aren't you ignoring the rock throwing of the Brexit "Tommy Robinson" rally yesterday?

At least that was caught on camera unlike this alleged incident where we only have the word of our "WW2 veteran"..in his 90s (muddled ? )..perhaps he spilled his yogurt as the close up pics show small bits of strawberry in a quite thick mixture...surely one of the oddest "milkshake" incidents.

Look on the positive side..the "left" are doing their bit for British dairy farmers !!! (unless the milk is from the EU )

hedda wrote:
throwing a milkshake on anyone is hardly violence (unacceptable yes) ..and bizarre that this bloke was said to be "WW2" veteran which would mean he's about 96 years old..he looks pretty young for a 96 year old.

Out of, what over 33 million voters the incidents of violence have been absolutely minimal.

But aren't you ignoring the rock throwing of the Brexit "Tommy Robinson" rally yesterday?

At least that was caught on camera unlike this alleged incident where we only have the word of our "WW2 veteran"..in his 90s (muddled ? )..perhaps he spilled his yogurt as the close up pics show small bits of strawberry in a quite thick mixture...surely one of the oddest "milkshake" incidents.

Look on the positive side..the "left" are doing their bit for British dairy farmers !!! (unless the milk is from the EU )

Again Hedda in a democracy you are entitled to your view....and even making your silly little jokes is your right....but if you are going to make comments about his military record do it with a quote,and a source for it please...I've read this in a few papers,and didn't see any reference to the war....both my parents were involved in that,and yes if alive would have been close to the 100 mark.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7062321...teran-MILKSHAKE.html

This is from the Mail,fits quite well.

'A military veteran who spent 22 years in the Army was covered in a milkshake today while campaigning for the Brexit Party outside a polling station.

Don McNaughton, who is in his 80s and served in the Parachute Regiment from 1960 until 1982,'

Tommy Robinson....very few media mentions...and those that do from Remain/PC/Left sources are not even clear...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/may/19/...obinson-rally-oldham

'Police have condemned “speculation and ill-informed comments” on social media about violence that erupted during a Tommy Robinson campaign rally in Oldham.'

Again(and now again) Hedda do some research before posting,snippets without links are not the best way....why should I have to go trawling the net to find the facts you yourself should have backed up?

Green Man wrote:
Jo again shows more stupidity whilst, Honey and SM show common sense. Next time it won't be milkshakes it be corrosive chemicals.

Thank you, but someone having a different view doesn't mean they are stupid.

We all at times show uncharacteristic impatience or irritation over certain subjects, and musing on a forum is often about momentary ideas rather than fixed opinions. (for me, anyway )

Green Man wrote:
Jo again shows more stupidity whilst, Honey and SM show common sense. Next time it won't be milkshakes it be corrosive chemicals.

Good Morning GM...hope the weather is as fine for you as it is here for me.


I don't think Jo quite got the post in the way I intended it to be...and as such posted his reply...I do generally have a lot of time for Jo,he posts from the heart,is entitled to,and has strong beliefs,but is willing to take in facts,and accept them,even when they do not fit his 'plan'.

Silent Minority wrote:
Green Man wrote:
Jo again shows more stupidity whilst, Honey and SM show common sense. Next time it won't be milkshakes it be corrosive chemicals.

Good Morning GM...hope the weather is as fine for you as it is here for me.


I don't think Jo quite got the post in the way I intended it to be...and as such posted his reply...I do generally have a lot of time for Jo,he posts from the heart,is entitled to,and has strong beliefs,but is willing to take in facts,and accept them,even when they do not fit his 'plan'.

He? I thought Jo was a lady?

Morning, SM.

I don't think SM can tell the difference Honey.

JK2006 wrote:
I don't think SM can tell the difference Honey.

And I don't think JK cares about the difference Honey

And a good Morning to you Doctor King....and yes I did make an assumption about Jo's gender....apologies if this has caused any offence to Jo.

Thanks, honey, and, yes, my comments are just musings that vary depending on the day and the mood! I realise that even Nigel Farage shouldn't be pelted with anything (the possibility of an allergic reaction occurred to me afterwards) but find the outrage over one drink thrown at him by "violent" and, according to The Sun, "radicalised" Remainers ridiculously manufactured and overblown. I personally find Farage's views, e.g. minimising the murder of a politician from the other side of the political spectrum or stoking anti-immigration/racist sentiment with his "breaking point" poster of a sea of swarthy faces, not to mention the apparent growing support for such views, far more offensive than some silly stunt that only damages a politician's pride. Pretending that milkshake is acid or some kind of slippery slope towards the extermination of right-wing politicians in concentration camps is just silly.

Silent Minority wrote:

Again Hedda in a democracy you are entitled to your view....and even making your silly little jokes is your right....but if you are going to make comments about his military record do it with a quote,and a source for it please...I've read this in a few papers,and didn't see any reference to the war....both my parents were involved in that,and yes if alive would have been close to the 100 mark.

Of course I am especially when I'm always right (99% 0f the time)

People pay me good money to write bad jokes you know.

But surely you are exaggerating the entire incident..the BBC reported him as a "WW2 veteran" in the beginning which was funny as I'm not sure there are any WW2 vets alive.

The sad truth of course is that even army veterans can be bloody old fools and this bloke is one considering that during WW2 (we all had relatives in it)..the EU really was born out of that conflict in the belief that a combined Europe would no longer be at each other's throats.

And didn't it work well.

So sorry I have little respect for some silly Little Englander who wants to pull apart a united Europe and if spilled yogurt gets him a new suit and a couple of butch blokes beside him turn him on...well bully for him.
## why does he even need bodyguards?..seems to be a huge lack of the public in the form of witnesses and..if it did happen how do we know it was about Brexit?...maybe he owes someone some money or upset a passerby.

(I hope our current military folk aren't frightened off a little tossed yogurt)

But still no word on the violence of the Brexit mad "Tommy Robinson's" thugs and their far worse violence encouraged (covertly) by that creep Nigel Farage.

Talk about a beat up !!

## incidentally..note the difference in media coverage of this (alleged) incident (why no witnesses?) and the tragic Milking of Robinson and Farage which at it's worse, was undignified and the reporting on the very real punch in the head (it's there for the world to see on video) of Jeremy Corbyn recently...a very viscous smack to the head ( so dangerous ) and he was ready for another swing until pulled away ...which was reported as an "egg attack".

### does being in the Armed Forces somehow instill greater intelligence or wisdom on a person? Does it mean their view is somehow more worthy of attention than others or mean they somehow are able to demand more respect?
Why even report this insignificant fact?
It's mentioned because somehow this signifies that he is a more worthy citizen than say, someone working on the bins.

hedda wrote:
Silent Minority wrote:

But surely you are exaggerating the entire incident..the BBC reported him as a "WW2 veteran" in the beginning which was funny as I'm not sure there are any WW2 vets alive.



The clear winner of this last exercise in democracy will be very amused to be called a little englander by somebody of your clear and precise political maturity....perhaps we can vote on this again?...After all...we were lied to...

Now just a couple of points ....the BBC has often been accused of bias...now it can be accused of stupidity....all the other press got it right...so why did you quote...without a proper quote of link ...hardly a useful addition to the thread...and talking of threads...I'm glad you didn't make an even bigger fool of yourself by posting your video of an Asian gang throwing stones at Tommy Robinson...you really are making a habit out of stupidity...and you;re very lucky i do not come on here more often to mention it...I'm too busy being a little englander myself....Bangkok next week...courtesy of the very same BBC...proof they have lost the plot?

JK2006 wrote:
I don't think SM can tell the difference Honey.

Using the wrong pronoun is an arrestable offence in some states.

The weather is fine in Eire, but I do prefer the wet weather it's better for hunting.

Off to America again from Monday, to see the family.

Green Man wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
I don't think SM can tell the difference Honey.

Using the wrong pronoun is an arrestable offence in some states.

The weather is fine in Eire, but I do prefer the wet weather it's better for hunting.

Off to America again from Monday, to see the family.

Maybe we can substitute throwing milkshakes at the game when hunting?....A sort of Vegan hunt

Quite hot here on the south coast today...but like yourself I'm off to Thailand next week...I may actually do some work....safe trip.