Objects including wet cement thrown at Nigel Farage during campaign trip
A 28-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of public order offences after objects were thrown at Nigel Farage on the General Election campaign.
The Reform UK leader was on top of a party battle bus in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning, when a cup was thrown, narrowly missing him.
A man in a red hoodie could be seen shouting from a work site below, before reaching into a bucket and throwing something else, which also missed.
“Wet cement and a coffee cup”
Workers appeared to then haul the man from the site and he ran off, before police officers tackled him to the ground.
Mr Farage said he believes the objects were some wet cement and a coffee cup.
He posted the footage on X, saying: “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.”
Mr Farage had been warned by police not to get off the bus.
It comes after Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, was charged with assault by beating and criminal damage when a milkshake was thrown over Mr Farageas he left the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex on Tuesday last week.
Mr Farage was seen with the yellow drink splattered across his dark blue suit as he boarded his campaign bus.
Arrest
During a campaign walkabout in Newcastle in 2019, he had a £5.25 Five Guys banana and salted caramel milkshake thrown at him
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.”
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Farage is the absolute ultimate ‘Marmite’ politician – plenty of people – mainly English, of course! – ecstatically adore him and plenty of others viscerally loath him.
I doubt he minds incidents like this very much, because it’s all publicity for him and his faction and not very much publicity for people like him turns out to be unambiguously bad publicity..
He was getting plenty of publicity here before this incident.
I suspect that he doesn’t think that there’s any such thing as too much publicity!
While no fan of Farage, throwing rocks at a politician because you don’t like their views is the lowest of the low.
I hope the individual is charged with GBH
I do not condone violence, but why on earth would you charge someone with GBH when he missed and no one was hurt in the slightest, besides which the CPS would, without question, dismiss such a charge
Politicians are protected like no other, imagine being a Professional con artist, which is given free license by the government and then crying when someone takes their frustration out on you by throwing some cold tea on you. The powers that be know that both Labour and Tories have done some irredeemable things so what do you know, here comes reform just in time. I hope people see through it but unfortunately I don’t think they will.
That occasion in Newcastle in 2019 was shocking. I mean, £5.25 for a milkshake?! What a waste.
While I do think that assault of any candidate is unacceptable, the only place Farage would be safe from harm, given his obvious hate peddling rhetoric, would be back in Germany on the platforms he shared with his neo Nazi friends.
Some people can be too forgiving, tally up the mortal harm this man has done to our countries for his own nasty little self…look at him in the photo, what do you see…
a grubby fearful failed politician spiv…he ain’t no wizard of oz…
He’s getting more stuff thrown at him this time around, even in leave areas like Barnsley, because people have had enough of him. Enough of his lies and bigotry. As much as I don’t condone objects thrown, he had it coming for being being one of the worst architects of the mess this country is in. Hopefully, his party will get zero MPs and he’ll crawl back under the stone from where he came.
iT WASN’T ME!!
Look, this is the Nigel Farage show. He not unfamiliar with flying projectiles coming hurtling out of the sky. He happen to be in one once when he flew an Anti-EU banner from a plane which caused it to crash. For 11 years used & abused the EU for self gain, ate Kangaroo’s love-spuds in the jungle for a cool £1.1 million , and now our fag puffing pint swigging fluffy fascist has set his sights on becoming the Westminster MP for Clacton, and yes it’s his eighth attempt too. He’s like a skidmark on society that no amount of… Read more »