What a Wuss!!!! Nigel Farage Requests Police Bodyguards For Ukip General Election Campaign

Nigel Farage has reportedly requested police bodyguards during the general election, following a series of incidents on the campaign trail and having been hit on the head and heckled in the past.

The BBC said Farage's party Ukip had lodged a formal application with the Home Office for taxpayer-funded officers to ensure its leader's safety.

MI5 and the police will now assess if Mr Farage needs specially-trained officers to protect him for the campaign - which will begin in earnest after March 30th when parliament is dissolved.

Mr Farage has previously pointed out that other parties are given state help when Ukip has to pay for his transport and security from its own funds.

He revealed last year that a previous request had been denied.

The police service which would likely protect Mr Farage if the request is granted would be what was known as Special Branch, now fused with Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, whose role is to protect high-profile VIPs from threats using intelligence.

Usually, the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the opposition would receive such protection during a general election campaign. David Cameron and then-prime-minister Gordon Brown were guarded during the 2010 campaign, although Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was also afforded police protection.

Public events featuring Mr Farage are regularly targeted by protesters - and he was recently forced to abandon a walkabout in Rotherham.

He cancelled his plans after protests and accusations of "rubber-necking" at victims of child sex abuse. Instead of cutting the ribbon on the campaign office of would-be Ukip MP Jane Collins, his team said he would not come out of the building in the South Yorkshire town on police advice.

And last year, Farage had to be escorted by police from a pub in Edinburgh after seeking refuge from an angry crowd.

He was taken away in a police van after being heckled by protesters as he left the Cannons Gait pub during his visit to Edinburgh, as part of a plan to build on electoral gains in England and start winning in Scotland.

The BBC reported that Mr Farage was reluctant to make the request for protection, but that there is a growing concern among some Ukip senior members that the repeat protests against its leader could hinder its General Election efforts.
Neither Ukip nor the Home Office would comment on security arrangements.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/02/26/nigel-farage-ukip-police-protection_n_6763532.html?utm_hp_ref=tw


Can I suggest the police escort him to a very crowded location and then leave him.

I think it's a fair request. There are people who seem to hate the guy, and he's entitled to be protected from lunatics.

He's the lunatic, throw him to the wolves.

PS, that was a joke, but only kind of.

Bastard takes his MEP money but doesn't attend and now going to cost the taxpayer more?

Nigel Farage is entitled to protection as much as anyone else, I don't vote for UKIP but he should be allowed to speak without morons and thugs trying to stop him. Free Speech any one?

risingsun wrote:He's the lunatic, throw him to the wolves.

PS, that was a joke, but only kind of.

Bastard takes his MEP money but doesn't attend and now going to cost the taxpayer more?  

If David Cameron had been hassled or threatened, he would get protection. They all cost the tax payers money really.

So anyone who is going to speak in public should be given police protection? Really? You do know where you are going with that?

Raggamuffin wrote:

risingsun wrote:He's the lunatic, throw him to the wolves.

PS, that was a joke, but only kind of.

Bastard takes his MEP money but doesn't attend and now going to cost the taxpayer more?  

If David Cameron had been hassled or threatened, he would get protection. They all cost the tax payers money really.

PM, Queen etc automatically get protection.

As Farage takes his MEPs pay, lets things that he actually disagrees with go through European Partliament because he is never there to vote, let him use that to pay for protection.

risingsun wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

If David Cameron had been hassled or threatened, he would get protection. They all cost the tax payers money really.

PM, Queen etc automatically get protection.

As Farage takes his MEPs pay, lets things that he actually disagrees with go through European Partliament because he is never there to vote, let him use that to pay for protection.

Do other politicians pay for their own protection? Perhaps they all should.

The Queen can afford it herself too.

Well the Greens have a larger number of members now than UKIP, and they don't get any protection.

The Greens have never been subject to the level of hate that Farage gets. Although in my opinion they should be as they would reduce us to living in caves with no lighting or heating if they were in Government.

The Greens have never been subject to the level of hate - well no lol

Living in caves, don't be ludicrous, we'll be lucky to live in caves if we don't do something to make this planet safe.

MR Putin is likely to cut off our gas, windmills are a joke they just make lots of money for land owners. GET FRACKING!

no nicko...THAT we dont want its dealy that game

Get some nuke stations built

Those as well!

nicko wrote:MR Putin is likely to cut off our gas,  windmills are a joke they just make lots of money for land owners.  GET FRACKING!

Let's frack under your house first then Nicko (your have read the reports from America where they are STOPPING IT because of the reports coming in of how hazardous it is).  

And lets remember, Denmark gets nearly HALF its electricity from wind now, some joke lol

Funny you should say that, last week most were out of action,there was hardly any wind.As for Fracking we will have to agree to disagree, ok.

funny old world isnt it....

when yu see how the left so dislike the idea that the target for their stormtroopers should be as protected as their idol....

see heres the myth of the peaceful left....

they are every bit as violent at their extremes as the right

they have their equivalent of the EDL

we see parts of it in action at almost every hunt...even if its only a drag hunt...the lefties militia turn out and assault huntmasters with iron bars " because it "could" turn into a real hunt" we have seen the L/W militia at work around some of our premier medical research facilities .

and now the object of that hatred, (Farage), should be left vulnerable to those very same slavering morons....

and of course...the reality of leftist politics... that of shutting down all debate either by law (if possible) but by violence if not is thus laid bare...

Notice how it is the L/W ..EVEN IN ITS MODERATE RANKS that slurs people with "bigot" and "islamophobe"

and yet

I have not heard the MODERATE R/W slur anyone with "islamophile" (which term I DO use, being sick of the L/W attacks over even resonable debate)

Wow, Nigel Farage needs police protection? That poor, persecuted man! He must be some romantic, revolutionary figure if that many people want to hurt him! But they do, he said it himself!

Ben_Reilly wrote:Wow, Nigel Farage needs police protection? That poor, persecuted man! He must be some romantic, revolutionary figure if that many people want to hurt him! But they do, he said it himself!

so, presumably, by that reconing NONE of the public figures....EVEN those shown subject to a credible threat should get protection either.....

or is it just the lefty mentality that says WE can threaten (and thus shut down democracy) and leave a potential representative of the people open to violence at the hands of our thugs....

darknessss wrote:or is it just the lefty mentality that says WE can threaten (and thus shut down democracy) and leave a potential representative of the people open to violence at the hands of our thugs....

Yes, I want to threaten people, make them afraid for their lives ... and then END their lives, and democracy itself. Lefty domination under an iron fist is my dream, for I am truly a piece of shit.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

darknessss wrote:or is it just the lefty mentality that says WE can threaten (and thus shut down democracy) and leave a potential representative of the people open to violence at the hands of our thugs....

Yes, I want to threaten people, make them afraid for their lives ... and then END their lives, and democracy itself. Lefty domination under an iron fist is my dream, for I am truly a piece of shit.

yes yes yes ben, and when exposed try hypebole and go for sympathy....


your own words speak volumes for you......

or are you DENYING that you approve of police protection for the incumbent assholes but NOT for Farage and that such a view is fomed soley out of your dislike of waht he represents...even though clearly a significant proportion of people DO approve of his politics....

and is that NOT, by definition, anti democratic....

are you not, by what you STATE .... implying that you would sooner he be beaten into silence (or worse)?

I don't want to see any harm come to Farage, dark. That's why I parodied your paranoid view that I secretly or openly want to see him beat up or assassinated. I made my original comment to point to the narrative that Farage is trying to encourage here.

well all one needs to do is see if the threat is credible....


i think the answer to that is Yes it is.....

the L/W militants are just as real (and, if it were possible even more obnoxious than) the R/W militants....

AND moreover...untill laws were brought in to restrain them, were responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks in the UK (except of course the gutless media wouldnt call them that...they were "animal rights campaigners")

they are still around....attacking even "drag hunts"

just plain mindless thuggery...but L/W thuggery non the less.....

How many people did they kill? How many has EDL/BNP killed?

so its only down to numbers killed...? and not intimidation ...economic interference with companies, actual violence against individuals.....

terrorism ISNT of necesity about killing...its about "terrorising"

take the drag hunt that was attacked earlier this year where te hunt master was beaten with "nunchakas" made from iron bar and chains....

what about the kid a few years back who was injured by a bomb that fell off a scientists vehicle?

what about companies having their fubding withdrawn...because the senior bank staff were threatened with accusations of paedophile activity (which even though baseless would have ruined them???)


as to how many deaths..apparantly its about impossible to get figure for either...but whether its one or a few on either side really matters not at all....

and besides THIS is only ONE small side of lefty intimidation.......

lets face it our nice MR Browns comment of "bigot" is, comming from a senior member of govt intimidation by any other name.....

my point is that the left are NOT "squeaky clean" when it comes to this sort of thing (which you make a pretense of beleiving)