UKIP leader Nigel Farage. Photograph by Euro Realist
UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s Scotland trip ended in chaos after he was met with protests at every turn calling him a “racist” and telling him to “go home to England”.
Farage had been in Scotland campaigning for the UKIP candidate in the Aberdeen by-election, but continually had to change his plans on the advice of police after he was followed from location to location by protesters. He was due to have tea with Aberdeen Council leader Marie Boulton yesterday, but the meeting was called off after police saw groups organising protests on social media.
Farage’s trip had already faced issues with the Marriott Hotel in Dyce cancelling his reservation to hold a press conference after they allegedly received threats from the Aberdeen Anti-Fascist Alliance, although the hotel group said it was because the hotel was too busy.
Back in May Farage had to be given a police escort through a group of around 50 protesters to flee a press conference, with some calling him “racist Nazi scum”, with Farage describing the protesters as a “feral, baying mob of subsidised students” in an article for The Herald.