Nigel Farage Immediately Takes a Milkshake to the Face on His First Day of Campaigning
Nigel Farage’s surprise campaign for the upcoming British general election got off to a sticky start Tuesday when someone chucked a milkshake in his face.
The right-wing populist, who announced a day earlier that he’d changed his mind after originally saying he wouldn’t seek a parliamentary seat in the July election, was making his first campaign appearance in the seaside town he’s hoping to represent when he was drenched by the drink. Video footage of the incident appears to show a young woman throwing the beverage at Farage outside a pub before running away.
The woman allegedly behind the attack told the BBC after the incident that she’d lobbed the drink at Farage because she “just felt like it.” “He doesn’t stand for me, he doesn’t represent anything I believe in, or any of the people around here,” the woman, who gave her name only as Victoria, said, according to The Times. “He doesn’t represent us, he’s not from here.”