Nigel Farage faced a protest from Stand Up To Racism protesters when campaigning in Barnsley on 11th June. The protest was noisy but peaceful. Seperately an individual tried to throw a stone or brick at Farage from an adjacent building site. They were not connected with the protest although of course serial liar Farage tried to claim they were (Labour is probably launching a defend Farage campaign).
Farage claims to be a great patriot and to stand up for the rights of the Englishman (and occasionally woman). Tumults at Election times are a great tradition.
Writing in The Times on 8th June historian Dominic Sandbrook reflected on the robust history of election protests. For example at Bristol in 1818 candidates were ‘pelted with stinking fish, dead dogs, cats and rats’. A popular tradition Farage should surely be defending not complaining about
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