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Nigel Farage has condemned a Gay Pride event in Chesterfield after the LGBT celebration urged punters to “toss a milkshake” at a cardboard cutout of the Reform UK leader.
Attendees of the pride event, organised by Stand Up to Racism, were able to win prizes for hitting different coloured circles on the Nigel Farage model, including sweets and Stand up to Racism badges.
The stall offered punters sponge balls in four “flavours”, representing mango, raspberry mint and blueberry milkshakes.
The attraction made light of the assault suffered by Mr Farage while campaigning in Clacton during the general election.
Mr Farage has now told The Express that while he is “all for mockery and a good laugh”, he suggests that “this goes too far”
The newly-elected MP added: “Liberal intolerance is clear for all to see”.
The Derbyshire Times also reported one local man, Richard McAllister, who drew attention to the pride stall, fuming: “I think it’s particularly unacceptable after the assassination attempt on former President Trump”.
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While Derbyshire Police said it had received a complaint, they said no further action is being taken.
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Britain, I beg of you, please finally shut this fucker up. Holy crap how can you deal with him being there still, talking, words falling out of his fishman mouth?!
We elected him as MP for checks notes Clacton… Unfortunately
If you hate this guy, stop doing things that invite more media coverage of him.
Nah, tis funny.
Sure, let’s ignore them and let them do and say whatever they want. Yeah, great idea.
Let’s ignore them so no one else can learn how stupid he and other people like him are. Yeah, great idea.
Let’s just ignore anything we don’t like and live in some bubble where we don’t see things we don’t like. Yeah, great idea.
Ignoring stupid people doesn’t stop stupid people from doing and saying stupid shit. Pointing out stupid shit is important.
How is all of that working out at the moment?
Better than ignoring it. Notice Farage’s party didn’t win any notable positions in the last election? Yeah, its because of media coverage and people discussing politics. Just because you want to ignore everything and feel useless doesn’t mean everyone should.
Is it better than ignoring it? In case you hadn’t noticed, everything Farage has wanted politically, he’s ended up getting.
And now he’s even an MP. Doesn’t sound like this tactic is working against him too well.
How does ignoring him help? He’s still going to run, he’s still going to spew his bullshit. Without criticism, his party could have gained more seats/positions. Without the media, more people are able to see how stupid he is. The ones that voted for reform were going to vote that way anyhow. It is worth it to discuss stuff to keep others from being swayed their way.
Ignoring stuff doesn’t automatically make things go away. Ignoring stuff isn’t going to change the minds of people who would consider voting for people like him.
If you still disagree with me, thats cool. I don’t really care because at least you arent supporting him or his shit platform.
Yes, ignore them. Deplatforming works. Let them talk all they want, but don’t publicize every fart they make. It limits their reach and in the end limits their ideas from being spread.
I can’t believe this is not simply understood. That’s how advertising works, too. Out of sight, out of mind.
That doesn’t mean banning them from social media, just stop over reporting every thing they say.
let them do and say whatever they want
Yes. That’s how it works in a democracy.
We don’t silence people through violence just because we disagree with them.
No kidding. My statement was made in the context of the article, where he’s spewing BS and pointing it out that it is BS.
Here, I’ll expand more f9r your benefit.
let them do and say whatever they want …
Without arguments or counterpoint, or pointing out how fing dumb the statements/actions/whatever are.
And at no time did anyone in this thread condone violence to silence them. Where did you get that from?
I agree. I think it’s bit of a feedback loop.
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He’s an MP now.
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Well played, Chesterfield Pride, well played 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The social contract goes. Only those that are tolerant are tolerated. If you break it you only have yourself to blame.
Tolerance doesn’t necessarily entail “turning the other cheek”. Jesus actually said, “Show them both cheeks!”
That’s tolerance for ignorant, illiterate, bigoted racist fascists that is the extreme right.
Oh, is that what goatse was all about? Now I get it.
I’m asking from across the pond here. How the fuck is this guy still relevant at all? Wasn’t he the face of UKIP a few years ago? And now he rises from the ashes as an MP?
Look, I know we have our own dirty laundry to deal with here, and for the sake of the rest of the planet, I sincerely hope we do. Guys like Nigel farage and Donnie douchebag need to be launched into the fucking sun. How do we make this shit end?
The same troll farms, bots and organised disinformation campaigns that support Trump in the US, support bottom-feeders like Farage in the UK, the FN in France, the (literal) fascists in Italy, Orban, Erdogan, and other shitstains ad nauseam. In all those cases, there are indigenous groups that believe they have common cause with Putin, with the goal of weakening Western democracy, scapegoating marginalised groups and polarising civil society. And Putin needs dissension in the west, within and between countries, in order to weaken Western resolve to resist the resurgence of Russian imperialist ambitions and to interfere with measures to address the climate crisis, which weaken the demand for fossil-fuel exports. Fossil fuels are Russian’s primary source of export revenue.
He campaigned in a constituency which as far as I understand it is economically depressed. Apparently that is somehow the fault of a party that isn’t in power, and therefore they chose to elect a right-wing extremist who will spend most of his time campaigning for Trump in the United States, and not doing his actual job in th UK. This may be a blessing in disguise really, but technically he should be in parliament.
He’s popular because he has easy answers for hard problems. At least he claims to have easy answers to hard problems, but since him and his merry band of morons don’t have a snowballs chance in hell of getting anywhere near power, he can claim whatever he wants, without having to face the inconvenience of actually implementing any of it.
In some ways him being in parliament now is actually a good thing because when he inevitably fails to deliver on any of his rhetoric, his brand will be damaged.
nazis crying at the slightest pushback as always
This is fucking disgusting. How dare he call us liberal.
Yeah, the Lib Dems are still basically irrelevant.
Sounds like he’s pretty lactose intolerant
MTG lacks toes, too. And she’s defo intolerant.
What a pathetic frog-faced snowflake.
Liberal tolerance is the only reason that milkshake cup was just filled with milkshake
He’s not dead. Sounds like he’s being tolerated more than some victims of conservative belief.
So all conservatives are legitimate targets of violence, in your view?
Fascists are - we fought a whole world war about it and everything. Nigel Farage is a fascist.
No, he’s not a bloody Fascist. Words mean things.
Yes, they do mean things. I use the word very specifically and deliberately when referring to fascists like Farrage. He is a fascist, in the model of Mussolini more than Hitler
I’d say he’s more a quisling, and it’s far from coincidental that so many of his talking points exactly match those in Russian propaganda oultlets such as RT.
Not being a fascist is intolerant, says fascist.
