To think throwing milkshakes over people is disgusting?

[GrumpyCatLives]

So apparently it’s okay to chuck milkshakes over people we disagree with?

Now, I do not like Tommy Robinson, Carl Sargon, or Farage. However, I think that chucking cold food at them, or threatening to, is pathetic. If you disagree with them, then debate them. Take down their argument intelligently. Chucking a cheap milkshake makes you look like a toddler.

Without freedom of speech we have nothing and we should defend the right to freedom of speech with everything we have.

Who exactly is stopping Farage et al saying what he wants when he wants?

@badlydrawnperson exactly.
I also think we live in a country that has had a contingency in place for what happens when the Queen dies. It's been in place and practiced for years. Headlines are waiting to go when the time comes. The procedure is ridiculous.
I'm no Royalist and to me, when she does pass away, we know either Charles will succeed her or William will.
Yet for Europe and our possible (at the time), exit from it, something which will have ongoing effects to every aspect of politics, employment, laws, movement, you name it, it will effect it, Cameron had nothing. Not a sausage. Not one idea, contingency, nothing.
The smug git ran away within hours of the vote going the other way!

Does it really cost £5.25?

Must have been about that. I pay over £10, nearer £15 for a cheeseburger and shake, no fries.

Strangely that makes me feel I have to try one!

"Without freedom of speech we have nothing and we should defend the right to freedom of speech with everything we have."

Freedom of Speech enshrines the right to say what you want without fear of persecution. It means you won't be arrested for speaking against the government, it doesn't give you the right to say what you want without consequences or repercussions from someone who disagrees.

With the media giving constant airtime to Farage and Robinson, there are certain sections of society which will vote for them because to them, it's no longer taboo to vote that way

And why should it be taboo? People vote in ways you don’t like, basically, and that’s a problem to you?

If politicians can’t make coherent arguments to get people out to vote for them, how is it the fault of the voting public?

if the voting public support right-wing politicians who pretend immigrants and/or the eu are the hugest problems we face and who offer dumb slogans instead of actual workable solutions - how is it not their fault?

Who exactly is stopping Farage et al saying what he wants when he wants?

That would be......people throwing milkshakes. It's not possible to give a speech or deliver your message (whether we like the message or not), when people are throwing stuff at you.

Farage doesn't know if it's going to be a milkshake, or acid, or a brick.

But hey, it's OK because I don't agree with him.

That would be......people throwing milkshakes.

No.......it wouldn't.

if the voting public support right-wing politicians who pretend immigrants and/or the eu are the hugest problems we face and who offer dumb slogans instead of actual workable solutions - how is it not their fault?

If the far right say free speech is dead, and the English can no longer say anything in their own country, and then they have a milkshake thrown at them to stop them speaking, it kind of proves their point.

Their target audience isn't university lecturers, it's unemployed white people off the local estate. Their average recruit isn't going to carry out a full political critique of their policies. We're not talking MENSA candidates here!

Do something useful and be equally outraged at the Brexit Party banning Channel 4 News from their events.

Quintella, have you ever spoken in public? If so, the next time you do, let's get people in the wings to hurl stuff at you, and let's see how you get on.

Way to put yourself forward as a militant twat there @MangoFeverDream
Farage isn't a political party. They have no manifesto. They don't have any MPs. They have no mandate. They don't disclose where their funding comes from. He's a racist chav friendly Zeitgeist at best, a evolutionary rung backwards at worse.
This is a man who preaches how disgraceful foreigners are, yet is married to one. He may as well put on jackboots and start goose stepping.
What does he stand for other than racism for racism sake?
Until he has actual political standing, with clear manifesto of where he stands bar "Europe are shite" and "non white Brits are taking our homes and jobs" then the press needs to ignore him.
I hope he hurries up and fucks off back to that other two faced racist Trump pronto.

Fuck me, but Farage's milkshaking has generated so much more outrage than anyone trying to silence Jess Phillips with a rape joke. Can't think why.

Not if it’s Nigel Farage. Then it’s totally acceptable.

I don't think it's disgusting. That sounds hysterical. But it is assault. And a sign of our increasingly debased, abusive, intemperate public and political discourse. Along with 'traitors', saboteurs', 'enemies of the people', 'quisling', dragging around effigies of politicians with nooses around their necks, yellow vests. I wonder if this is who we really are. The, oh we're so polite, love to queue, always apologising, forming just a very thin veneer covering something very ugly.

well im on the fence about milkshakes - but if three years after the ref people still believe in Farages lies then thats their fault not mine.

and its not white unemployed people on estates who are his biggest fan base by any means...

Their target audience isn't university lecturers, it's unemployed white people off the local estate.

This is simply what they want you to think. It isn't the working class driving the far right movement, nor supporting it in great numbers.

Tommy Robinson's pal got run out of Bootle recently (the video is on twitter). Not by university lecturers - by the local mums. He also got accused of being a "class traitor" for working with Tommy. They could see TR and his supports for exactly what they are - elitist dickheads trying to use the working class to further their agenda. It won't wash with them.

its not white unemployed people on estates who are his biggest fan base by any means....

Indeed not.

Agree OP, totally trashy behaviour.

The Independent newspaper wrote an article calling the incident "hilarious".

This country seems to have lost its complete moral compass: the language and behaviour of people is appalling.

And if this is what Remainers want to align themselves with, it says a lot about them.

People on here are literally describing people as being ‘sub human’ And then complaining of fascism with NO sense of irony...

Exactly @Quintella
But she's female so no one gives a fuck. The way certain types are, we are moments away with "well if she'd have been in the kitchen where she belongs" affixed as an excuse.

Jo Cox was outrageous, unnecessary, extreme violence which we are right to be angry about. Farage et Al getting a dairy based beverage launched at them- not so much.

Fuck me, but Farage's milkshaking has generated so much more outrage than anyone trying to silence Jess Phillips with a rape joke. Can't think why.

Being hit with a rape joke is not as serious as being hit with a milkshake. Words v actions. Disgusting remark v physical assault.