Yob pelts Brexit party supporting army veteran with MILKSHAKE outside polling station
- Military veteran who spent 22 years in Army was covered in milkshake today
- He had been campaigning for Brexit Party outside polling station in Aldershot
- It’s the latest incident involving people attacking public figures with milkshakes
- Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and EDL founder Tommy Robinson also targeted
The unnamed man was doused in the pink milkshake today in Aldershot, Hampshire
A military veteran who spent 22 years in the Army was covered in a milkshake today while campaigning for the Brexit Party outside a polling station.
The unnamed man was doused in the pink liquid this morning in Aldershot, Hampshire, while campaigning on European Parliament election day.
It is the latest in a spate of incidents involving people attacking public figures with milkshakes, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and English Defence League founder Tommy Robinson among those targeted in recent days.
Passer-by Lucy Blackman said: ‘I arrived just after, he seemed shocked. He just told me to watch out for the milkshake on the floor so my children didn’t slip.’
Dominic Farrell, a former Army major, added that the victim was a ‘very popular man with the local community’.
Mr Farrell claimed a man on a bicycle had passed by and abused the man, before buying the milkshake from a local shop and attacking him with it.
Yesterday, Mr Farage denied claims he hid on his Brexit Party bus to avoid being doused in a milkshake again.
The military veteran who spent 22 years in the Army was covered in the milkshake today
He was campaigning in Kent when two men and a woman were spotted waiting for him at his next stop in Rochester.
One of Mr Farage’s supporters said they were carrying milkshakes and he was quickly alerted.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was struck by a milkshake while in Newcastle on Monday
His bus driver Michael Botton said the Brexit Party leader had to quickly change his plans to avoid an attack – though later his spokesman insisted that Mr Farage had not hidden inside the bus.
The group were accosted by Brexit Party organisers who prevented them from getting too close to Mr Farage.
They continued to shout anti-Farage slogans. Police challenged them about the milkshakes – which they claimed were for their own consumption.
Mr Farage was covered in a £5.25 banana and salted caramel milkshake while campaigning in Newcastle on Monday.
Paul Crowther, 32, has been charged with common assault and criminal damage after the incident, Northumbria Police said.
Earlier in the day he had visited Dartford and Gravesend, where he left the bus and joined a throng of around 30 fans.
He told followers he was relaxed about Monday’s attack, and that he was ‘less worried about the milkshake saga’.
At a Brexit Party rally in West London on Monday, party chairman Richard Tice said the milkshake incident in Newcastle was ‘a grave attack on Nigel and his family’.
The spate of milkshake incidents follows previous attempts to attack politicians, including when former deputy prime minister John Prescott punched a protester who threw an egg at him outside a theatre in Rhyl, North Wales, in 2001.
Other politicians who have fallen victim over the past decade to egg attacks include Ed Miliband, George Galloway, Peter Mandelson and Nick Griffin.
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