Woman sentenced for hurling milkshake at Farage

[SticklinchJoe]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ywp7lgwvro

 

"Thomas Bowen has been given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, must pay the MP £150 compensation, complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs."

 

What do we think of this? If someone threw a milkshake in your face, do you think the perpetrator would get a sentence like this?

 

...and Farage (arguably) deserves it!

[steviewevie]

I don't think it's ok to throw milkshake over Farage even if he is a c**t, same as I don't think it's ok to shoot dead a CEO of a US health insurance company even if health insurance thing is f**ked and the shooter was cute.

[kaosmark2]

I think there needs to be a standard of protest/humiliation against politicians that is considered acceptable. It's worth emphasising that when Ed Miliband got egged, he laughted it off and treated it as a nothing - and eggs are actually more dangerous than milkshakes.

 

I don't really mind if throwing milkshakes is banned, as long as something is made explicitly legal as an act of not-violent but disruptive protest against individual politicians.

[GhostOfMaurice]

You should be allowed to do something as harmless as throw milkshake at someone when they're an arsehole. Farage is part of a long lineage of fascist UK politicians that caused harm in country just so they can make a few quid. Mosley, Powell, Farage et al. They're all harmless until they're not. I bet there are plenty of people who were in arms reach of Hitler who wished they'd done a whole lot more than throw a milkshake at him.

 

As for the original question, heck no, if I got a milkshake thrown at me the thrower definitely wouldn't get that sentence. Farage has special treatment, and this country is not a fair place 

[steviewevie]

oh right. I'll go chuck milkshake at someone who I think is an arsehole then.

(also, is Farage a fascist?)