WHEN Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown in his face by some smiling pea-brain, it went down a storm in the Labor Left madhouse.
“A work of art!” sang one Corbynista commentator.
The social media platforms of Stand Up To Racism – President Diane Abbott – were flooded with crying-with-laughter emojis.
And you can’t help but wonder.
Would a milkshake thrown in, say, Diane Abbott’s face be equally fun? Of course. That would be outrageous!
But we’ve been here before.
“I’m thinking, why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?” joked comedian Jo Brand on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
The BBC later ruled that Brand’s “joke” about throwing battery acid in a politician’s face “went beyond what was appropriate” – no joke! – but “it wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.”
But in a country where politicians from both major parties have been assassinated in recent years, Brand’s comments sounded like an incitement to violence.
In a land where the memory of the Labor Party’s Jo Cox – shot three times in 2016 – and the Conservatives’ David Amess, stabbed in 2021, is still alive, making light of a physical attack on any politician should turn one’s stomach.
It is pious hypocrisy that stinks.
It’s cowardly double standards.
I hold no candle to the Reformation of the United Kingdom.
Every vote for Nigel Farage’s protest party is an act of national self-harm. Reform will not reform anything.
Your vote for Reform means that we will be governed for five years – or ten – by Keir Starmer and his demanding, demanding cronies.
But Farage’s bullying disgusts me.
This ritual humiliation is counterproductive.
Does throwing a milkshake in Farage’s face mean making him crawl away?
That’s not going to happen, comrade.
This milkshake has now sealed Farage’s success with voters.
The bookies – always the most reliable political experts – say Farage has a chance of becoming Clacton’s MP at the general election.
And with Reform neck and neck with the Tories in the polls, Farage can afford to laugh at it – happily raising a McDonald’s milkshake in salute, as if it were a pint of his beloved IPA.
I believe the rise of the Reformation will be detrimental to this country.
If the patriotic, pro-business right is divided, the patriotic, pro-business right will certainly be defeated.
If, as the polls suggest, all those disappointed working-class ex-Tory voters defect to Reform, then they will soon be living under a Labor Government that they will despise with all their hearts.
I don’t think Reform will bury the Conservative Party in this election or any other.
Because I suspect Reform’s talent base is very small and its motley crew of colorful candidates will look much less attractive up close.
But that pea-brain smoothie guaranteed that Reform would have at least one deputy.
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