NIGEL Farage has invoked a far-right trope used by the likes of Tommy Robinson after the woman who threw milkshake on him during the General Election campaign was given a suspended sentence.
Deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram sentenced OnlyFans model Victoria Thomas Bowen to 13 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months.
The 25-year-old previously pleading guilty to assault by beating after throwing the milkshake over the GB News host outside an Essex pub as he campaigned to become an MP on June 4.
Farage, who was subsequently elected MP for Clacton, was doused with the liquid and hit by the cup after it was thrown as he left the Moon and Starfish Wetherspoon pub in Clacton-on-Sea.
In a post on social media after Monday’s hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Farage said: “We now live in a country where you can assault a Member of Parliament and not go to prison.
“The latest example of two-tier justice.”
The concept of two-tier policing has been used by far-right figures to argue that they are treated more harshly by law enforcement than left-wing protesters.
Experts at LSE wrote of the “two-tier policing” trope in August: “This is not a new trick. The far-right has been using the communication strategy of reverse victimisation for years.”
They went on: “What we see in the claims of ‘two-tier’ policing is an attempt by the far-right to appropriate this new consciousness [about inequality in policing] for their own benefit."
