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.

[notatwork]

OP I agree that throwing a cold milkshake over Tommy Robinson is wrong, especially when we are supposed to not be wasting food or using single use cups/straws etc.

Rotten vegetables/tomatoes and eggs have long been used to punish wrongdoers. Bring them back. And the stocks. Lets do the job right.
Good Thinking OP!

[Notabedofroses]

Very dangerous to get into a tit for tat situation, is all I am saying.....

[Theworldisfullofgs]

Obama went high. So did Hilary Clinton.

Trump got elected.

Ignoring doesn't work. Not sure milkshakes do but neither does ignoring.

[InspectorClouseauMNdivision]

With freedom comes responsibility.
Fuelling hatred towards a certain group of people is a misuse of freedom of speech.

[Papellino]

If you can't take a milkshake to the face I'd suggest that extremist politics isn't for you.

[Saucery]

As an expression of contempt I fully support the throwing of sloppy foodstuffs at fascists. It does need to be backed up with relentless questioning about funding, hate speech, domestic violence and all the other things those slugs would rather be hidden away.

[Aquilla]

The 'fascists' and 'nazis' are the ones trying to stop free speech you silly billies.
And I'd take either of them over the filthy communists you people vote for any day of the fucking week.

[Tiscold]

@Treaclesweet. Glad someone appreciated the joke

[Stillonly8am]

"It’s such a tiresome thing that those on the right expect those on the left to do nothing except hold placards and tut and sigh."

Yeah, this. I don't actually think throwing milkshakes is a good idea but I sympathise with the frustration behind it. These are people who constantly deal in rape threats and open threats to incite public riots and "civil wars". It's impossible to debate them because they lie and spread fake evidence. Yet we have to stay classy with every breath.

[2toddlers]

I think it’s pathetic, I mean really throwing drinks over people? I don’t agree with any of the views of the people mentioned but I don’t think throwing food, drinks or whatever over anyone is ok. The person who had the drink thrown over him, I think it was in Liverpool had it thrown directly in his face, for a split second he could have thought that was acid. How is that ever ok?

It really doesn’t achieve anything anyway.

[teyem]

I'm not very impressed by it, tbh. This is the kind of entertaining stuff that plays well on our various media platforms and, while it might be satisfying to see, it does nothing to unravel the legitimacy of their views and only serves to further polarise the debate between them and us.

[Patroclus]

Its just a joke, like when they they make comments about rape to MPs....

[Mrsjayy]

Ignoring doesn't work if anything it makes things worse because they just get louder these people are not civillised or democratic they are violent they are hatefilled and they manage to get people listening to them.

[Nesssie]

I agree OP. Assault is assault. Makes you no better than them, and we should really want to be better people than Tommy bloody Robinson etc

[LonelyTiredandLow]

Although I was shocked when it first started happening and I don't condone it, I suspect that in a few years (when the far right has a stronger foothold) we will look back on this as a huge turning point.

We've had eggs before, Farage has been in fights before...yet this is about an open unity against the nasty insidious 'them against us' behaviour too many people now parrot blindly. Brexit and Farage have divided us deeply and threats of violence and actual violence from the far right if they don't get their way have hugely outnumbered anything from the remain voices. It's hardly in the same league as putting an obstruction on several train lines with 'leave means leave' written on it, is it?

[LizzieSiddal]

It's not very British is it

I agree, but I think many other countries would be rioting by now.

We've had a very narrow margin win for LEAVE, with the winning side lying to the electorate and being found guilty of breaking electoral laws.
Politicians are not listening to anyone, unless you're a right wing, racist- see Boris Johnson and Reece-Mog.

IMO the country is at a very dangerous point, people who usually drink tea are getting very angry, milkshakes may just be the start.

[NoBaggyPants]

Would we like to see Vince Cable, a pensioner being pelted?

For his part in austerity, yes. Karma is a bitch.

[Saucery]

If Tommy Robinson thinks for a split second someone has thrown acid over him.......yeah, it’s a toughie........ummmm, nope, still don’t care. I bet he didn’t think that, with it coming from a fast food cup held by someone he had targeted to intimidate.

[LonelyTiredandLow]

Agree with the tit for tat post - we don't want to get involved in that. Debate far better, if only leavers would follow it It seems today the immediate has more effect, which is why we see this happening I suspect.

[Patroclus]

Suggest those saying it isnt very 'British' look up the treatment Oswald Mosley got in the north particularly. Its easy for middle class people and higher to tut at, these politics wont effect their lives everyday.

www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/history/fascist-leader-sir-oswald-mosley-660973

[woman19]

Just now, the 'Man of the Paypal' has been milkshaked.

"Paul Crowther, 32, from Throckley, Newcastle, said it was a £5.25 Five Guys banana and salted caramel milkshake.

He explained: "It's a right of protest against people like him.

"The bile and the racism he spouts out in this country is far more damaging than a bit of milkshake to his front"

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/breaking-nigel-farage-milkshake-thrown-16172690

[ILoveEurovision]

I agree OP it's a slippery slope, and easy to go from this to TRAs with baseball bats threatening to punch "TERFs" etc.

What would Grandi do? I don't think he'd be throwing anything.

[toomuchtooold]

The way their henchmen mob people on the street, they should think themselves lucky that a milkshake to the good court suit is all they get, and not a slap in the gob.

This'll probably get deleted for inciting violence, won't it? I'm not suggesting they should be slapped in the gob, just that I could totally understand why someone would

[BertrandRussell]

What’s an extremist feminist, OP?

[PickAChew]

Damn, I was in waitrose when frog face got milkshaked and missed all the action.