The thug who threw a cup of cement at Nigel Farage whilst he was campaigning in Barnsley has been spared jail and given a suspended sentence.
Nigel Farage MP posted a video to X where he said:
So there I was in Barnsley campaigning in the general election and a lout opposite side of the street, gets a cup, fills it with cement, lobs it at the bus that I'm on, and you can see the picture here of me ducking and me shouting to everybody else, get down. It was a very dangerous, provocative, violent thing for this guy to do. Luckily, some builders who were working on the site stopped him, apprehended him. He was arrested. Today, he's been given a suspended prison sentence.
He will not serve any custodial time at all. But you see, in Keir Starmer's Britain, if he put something intemperate on Facebook after a couple of glasses of wine, he would have gone to prison. And that's the mess we're in. Can you believe, until the year to March, a 147,000 people guilty of carrying knives, some have sexual offences, have been given community orders, which means they don't get criminal sentences. Our prisons are full.
We're letting people out who are violent offenders to put Facebook offenders, thought speech, some of it not very nice, I'll accept, and to chuck them in prison for a short period of time. Law and order, crime is out of control. We're even allowing people to go shoplifting up to 200 quid without being prosecuted. You simply couldn't make it up. And I've got a feeling I've got a feeling that all of you out there, regardless what age you are, are increasingly concerned going out of an evening, walking around our streets, catching public transport.
We have to build more prisons. We have to make those that are violent, we have to make those that threaten our society pay some kind of price. Without deterrence, this can only get worse.
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1828848616208818305
Dan Wooton was one of many who complained about the light sentence compared to the sentences handed down to grandmothers following the recent bouts of unrest.
Dan Wooton posted to X: "Josh Greally, who tried to injure Nigel Farage by throwing objects before the election, has AVOIDED jail, being handed suspended sentence. Meanwhile, Julie Sweeney, the grandmother and carer who sent a Facebook post after Southport, languishes in a prison cell. TWO TIER BRITAIN!"
https://twitter.com/danwootton/status/1828788754007359947
