Remainers' latest attempts to thwart democracy by milkshaking Brexiteers campaigning in the EU elections...
Meet the milkshake truthers
James O’Brien is among those spreading the conspiracy theory.
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23rd May 2019
This afternoon, British political Twitter has been awash with a photo of Don McNaughton, an elderley veteran and Brexit Party teller from Aldershot, with milkshake splashed across his front. Dominic Farrell tweeted about this latest anti-Brexit gunking earlier today, alleging that a Remainer on a bike got McNaughton outside the polling station where he was on duty for the EU election:
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(((Dominic Farrell))) @DominicFarrell
Radicalised Remainers are now attacking old men in Aldershot. A very popular man with the local community, many are very angry about this. Thoroughly disgusting. The politics of the mob.
6,412 likes
10:07 AM - May 23, 2019
This latest incident comes just days after Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was hit by milkshake in Newcastle – and both are part of a broader trend for politically motivated ‘milkshakings’ against pro-Brexit and hard-right politicians. Or are they? Because some prominent people on Twitter have caught the whiff of conspiracy, rather than banana and salted caramel.
LBC host and King Remoaner James O’Brien wondered out loud on Monday if Farage might have had an incentive to have himself milkshaked – a scheme that would have presumably involved the milkshaker in question (32-year-old Paul Crowther) going deep undercover, faking an online profile as a Remainer and Labour supporter, and then willingly taking the rap for his dairy-charged crime.
James O'Brien ✔ @mrjamesob
If I was worried about a former Prime Minister expressing fears about my new ‘party’ laundering dirty foreign money, I would probably pay someone to lob a milkshake at me & hope that the relatively trivial story distracted attention from the profoundly serious one.
9,292 likes
5:04 PM - May 20, 2019
O’Brien isn’t the only one with his tinfoil hat on. Today, writer, lawyer and noted sex pest Rupert Myers went even further, poring over the images of recent milkshakings like frames from the Zapruder film, speculating about splash patterns and beverage consistency, and suggesting the Aldershot incident might be a Brexit Party setup.
Rupert Myers ✔ @RupertMyers
· May 23, 2019
If this happened the way it’s claimed to have happened, it’s wrong. Did it, though... that’s the question.
Nigel Farage ✔ @Nigel_Farage
Yet more disgusting behaviour. When democracy fails, civility ends. Let's get Brexit done and finish this.
Rupert Myers ✔ @RupertMyers
I’m no expert, but milkshake splashes don’t seem so concentrated in one area. I realise I’m in danger of becoming a milkshake truther, but this story is *so* convenient & well timed for the Brexiters pic.twitter.com/DhTioneTA7
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4:52 PM - May 23, 2019
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Remoaner conspiracy theories are nothing new – you can read them in the Observer most Sundays. But milkshake trutherism has got to be the most hilariously unhinged one yet.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/23/meet-the-milkshake-truthers/
PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Throwing milkshakes at a war hero? You've lost the battle
By Amanda Platell for The Daily Mail
25 May 2019
Despite his great age, retired Para hero Don MacNaughton was on duty outside a polling booth, campaigning in the European elections.
Don, 81, wasn't wearing his uniform — the red beret and insignia of the elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army. Just slacks, a white shirt, his regimental tie and a blue rosette supporting the Brexit Party.
Within minutes he'd been splattered with a strawberry milkshake, thrown by some 'imbecile' — to use his word — who objected to what he was doing, just as his party's leader had been days before. Although in Nigel Farage's case it had been an up-market salted caramel version.
Despite the goo dripping from his shirt, Don refused to abandon his post in Aldershot, Hampshire. He turned down offers from passers-by of a fresh white shirt — and continued to campaign for what he believed in, a United Kingdom free from Brussels.
Don, 81, wasn't wearing his uniform — the red beret and insignia of the elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army
The former member of the Red Devils parachute display team wore his battle scars with pride, even if they were just strawberry milkshake rather than the blood of past conflicts.
Don MacNaughton's sole crime was voicing a political opinion. For this he was attacked by a cowardly yob with a 'milkshake missile'.
Whatever you may think of Don's political views — although around a third of the country are predicted to have supported the Brexit Party — this kind of behaviour is nothing short of thuggery. True, it was nothing compared to what he'd faced serving in Northern Ireland. Yet even die-hard Remainers such as comedian Ricky Gervais and Match Of The Day's Gary Lineker were appalled.
Gervais said: 'I voted Remain. I will argue with people who disagree, always respecting their right to do so. I won't throw things. That would mean I'd run out of good arguments.'
Lineker said: 'Throwing milkshakes or whatever else at people is not the answer and is unjustifiable.'
And that surely is the point. Violence and physical abuse are the antithesis of democracy and debate.
During this acrimonious Brexit campaign, many Remainers have vilified Leavers as ignorant, racist fools. In doing so they have emboldened ignorant thugs such as Don's assailant.
Yet the former Para is refusing to press charges saying: 'The silly man has cemented the iron will, I'm going to keep fighting on.'
How fitting that a distinguished, elderly ex-serviceman has claimed the moral high ground from a young moron. Don MacNaughton has published a novel based on his time in the military entitled They Stayed A Soldier. And indeed he has.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...ng-milkshakes-war-hero-Youve-lost-battle.html
Meet the milkshake truthers
James O’Brien is among those spreading the conspiracy theory.
spiked
23rd May 2019
This afternoon, British political Twitter has been awash with a photo of Don McNaughton, an elderley veteran and Brexit Party teller from Aldershot, with milkshake splashed across his front. Dominic Farrell tweeted about this latest anti-Brexit gunking earlier today, alleging that a Remainer on a bike got McNaughton outside the polling station where he was on duty for the EU election:
View image on Twitter
(((Dominic Farrell))) @DominicFarrell Radicalised Remainers are now attacking old men in Aldershot. A very popular man with the local community, many are very angry about this. Thoroughly disgusting. The politics of the mob.
6,412 likes
10:07 AM - May 23, 2019
LBC host and King Remoaner James O’Brien wondered out loud on Monday if Farage might have had an incentive to have himself milkshaked – a scheme that would have presumably involved the milkshaker in question (32-year-old Paul Crowther) going deep undercover, faking an online profile as a Remainer and Labour supporter, and then willingly taking the rap for his dairy-charged crime.
James O'Brien ✔ @mrjamesob If I was worried about a former Prime Minister expressing fears about my new ‘party’ laundering dirty foreign money, I would probably pay someone to lob a milkshake at me & hope that the relatively trivial story distracted attention from the profoundly serious one.
9,292 likes
5:04 PM - May 20, 2019
O’Brien isn’t the only one with his tinfoil hat on. Today, writer, lawyer and noted sex pest Rupert Myers went even further, poring over the images of recent milkshakings like frames from the Zapruder film, speculating about splash patterns and beverage consistency, and suggesting the Aldershot incident might be a Brexit Party setup.
Rupert Myers ✔ @RupertMyers · May 23, 2019
If this happened the way it’s claimed to have happened, it’s wrong. Did it, though... that’s the question.
Nigel Farage ✔ @Nigel_Farage
Yet more disgusting behaviour. When democracy fails, civility ends. Let's get Brexit done and finish this.
Rupert Myers ✔ @RupertMyers I’m no expert, but milkshake splashes don’t seem so concentrated in one area. I realise I’m in danger of becoming a milkshake truther, but this story is *so* convenient & well timed for the Brexiters pic.twitter.com/DhTioneTA7
49 likes
4:52 PM - May 23, 2019
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Remoaner conspiracy theories are nothing new – you can read them in the Observer most Sundays. But milkshake trutherism has got to be the most hilariously unhinged one yet.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/23/meet-the-milkshake-truthers/
PLATELL'S PEOPLE: Throwing milkshakes at a war hero? You've lost the battle
By Amanda Platell for The Daily Mail
25 May 2019
Despite his great age, retired Para hero Don MacNaughton was on duty outside a polling booth, campaigning in the European elections.
Don, 81, wasn't wearing his uniform — the red beret and insignia of the elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army. Just slacks, a white shirt, his regimental tie and a blue rosette supporting the Brexit Party.
Within minutes he'd been splattered with a strawberry milkshake, thrown by some 'imbecile' — to use his word — who objected to what he was doing, just as his party's leader had been days before. Although in Nigel Farage's case it had been an up-market salted caramel version.
Despite the goo dripping from his shirt, Don refused to abandon his post in Aldershot, Hampshire. He turned down offers from passers-by of a fresh white shirt — and continued to campaign for what he believed in, a United Kingdom free from Brussels.
Don, 81, wasn't wearing his uniform — the red beret and insignia of the elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army
The former member of the Red Devils parachute display team wore his battle scars with pride, even if they were just strawberry milkshake rather than the blood of past conflicts.
Don MacNaughton's sole crime was voicing a political opinion. For this he was attacked by a cowardly yob with a 'milkshake missile'.
Whatever you may think of Don's political views — although around a third of the country are predicted to have supported the Brexit Party — this kind of behaviour is nothing short of thuggery. True, it was nothing compared to what he'd faced serving in Northern Ireland. Yet even die-hard Remainers such as comedian Ricky Gervais and Match Of The Day's Gary Lineker were appalled.
Gervais said: 'I voted Remain. I will argue with people who disagree, always respecting their right to do so. I won't throw things. That would mean I'd run out of good arguments.'
Lineker said: 'Throwing milkshakes or whatever else at people is not the answer and is unjustifiable.'
And that surely is the point. Violence and physical abuse are the antithesis of democracy and debate.
During this acrimonious Brexit campaign, many Remainers have vilified Leavers as ignorant, racist fools. In doing so they have emboldened ignorant thugs such as Don's assailant.
Yet the former Para is refusing to press charges saying: 'The silly man has cemented the iron will, I'm going to keep fighting on.'
How fitting that a distinguished, elderly ex-serviceman has claimed the moral high ground from a young moron. Don MacNaughton has published a novel based on his time in the military entitled They Stayed A Soldier. And indeed he has.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/...ng-milkshakes-war-hero-Youve-lost-battle.html
