A gay pride event has landed itself in hot water after “making a mockery” of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.
Chesterfield Pride organisers Stand Up to Racism have been forced to defend their decision after creating a “milkshake game” at their event, which urged punters to “toss a milkshake” at a cardboard cutout of the party leader.
Condemning the game, Farage said that while he is “all for mockery and a good laugh”, he suggested that the game “goes too far”.
He also told the Daily Express that “Liberal intolerance is clear for all to see”. However, Stand up to Racism responded to the backlash and insisted that the game was merely “light-hearted” and “harmless fun”.
Nigel Farage’s milkshake attack has been made into a game at Chesterfield Pride
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A spokesperson said: “We like to think it’s the sort of game that Nigel himself would smile at. He is surely aware that although four million people voted for him, many more object to his views on LGBT rights, women’s rights and migrants”.
“Nobody was harmed and many people had a good laugh and welcomed our presence. Some community police officers did stroll past but clearly thought it was harmless fun too. The spirit of Chesterfield Pride is a joyful day out in defence of a serious cause. That was the spirit of the game too.”
Reacting to the game on GB News, Senior Political Commentator Nigel Nelson hit out at the event organisers and branded the move “distasteful” and “making a mockery of political attacks”.
Nelson fumed: “It’s not just distasteful, the whole thing is worse than that. It makes a mockery of actually how dangerous these things are.
Derbyshire Police took no action against the game after the Chesterfield Pride stall was reported
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“During the election, when Nigel had a milkshake thrown over him, what he wouldn’t have known at that moment that it was a milkshake.”
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Detailing accounts from other politicians who have been subject to attacks, Nelson shared: “I’ve talked to so many politicians that this has happened to – you don’t know whether it’s acid or something else. All he would have felt was the liquid hitting him.
“That’s why doing something like this really, really leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
Sharing his thoughts on the game, host Stephen Dixon claimed that those who “don’t care” that Farage was hit with a milkshake, it could have been “so much worse” and those people need to consider “people like Katie Piper”.
Stephen told GB News: “I know she’s not a politician, but she obviously had acid thrown on her, and thank God she’s turned her life around through it all. But it’s devastating.”
GB News political commentator Nigel Nelson says the move was ‘distasteful’
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Echoing Stephen’s verdict, commentator Claire Pearsall stated that attacks on politicians are “no joking matter”, particularly following the killings of two MPs in recent years.
Pearsall told GB News: “We’ve had two politicians in this country killed, so it’s not a joking matter on MP safety, whether you like a politician or not, doesn’t give you the right to go and assault somebody, which is essentially what this is.
“And no, it isn’t funny. I don’t care that people don’t like a certain person’s politics, you don’t behave in that manner.
“And to put it in a fun game, so to speak, I think is really, really distasteful.”