Reform UK candidate Nigel Farage has been hailed for storming ahead with his General Election campaign trail, despite facing two attacks from the members of the public.
Farage had a milkshake thrown at him in Clacton last week and this week faced another attack by a protester, who threw a coffee cup and suspected rubble at the Reform battle bus.
In criticism of Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey, who has visited another outdoor pursuits location on his trail today, GB News Michelle Dewberry said the party leader looks "ridiculous" in comparison to Nigel Farage.
Michelle suggested: "I think you should line up some of the Sub-Postmasters that were affected, when he turned around and said that he wouldn't meet Mr. Bates. You should get them in the sidelines watching some of these antics."
Matt Goodwin has praised Nigel Farage's 'grassroots' politics on the Reform campaign trail
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In defence of Davey, Former Labour Minister Bill Rammell argued that the Lib Dems are "getting visibility and exposure" by choosing to take on the excursions with outdoor sports venues.
Rammell explained: "Nobody ever analyses the Lib Dems. Everyone knows they're almost certainly not going to form the government, but they struggle for visibility and these stunts are getting him that."
In contrast, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent Matthew Goodwin praised Nigel Farage for his "grassroots" approach to the campaign trail.
Goodwin told GB News: "I think it's revealing that the only politician who I can see who's actually doing old fashioned grassroots, real politics, meeting people on the street, walking into communities and towns that he hasn't been in before is Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage has continued his campaign trail despite facing two attacks in Clacton and Yorkshire
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"And I think one of the interesting things this week we saw was the objects being hurled at Farage in Barnsley by the radical left activist."
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Goodwin also warned that following the attacks on Farage, there is a real danger of "getting perilously close to somebody experiencing serious real world violence and harassment", similar to other MPs who have been murdered in the past.
He scolded: "I feel with Farage it's a double standard actually. I feel like people don't take it as seriously."
Revealing his reaction to the targeted attacks on Farage, Rammell claimed he was "angered" by the incidents: "My reaction was real anger with that nutter who threw whatever it was at Nigel Farage, completely unacceptable.
"We've had two MPs of both parties murdered in the last few years in this country, and people like that, we ought to throw the book at them."
Matt Goodwin says Nigel Farage is the 'only person' doing 'real politics'
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Turning the conversation to Nigel Farage's latest interview on LBC, where he defended Reform UK candidate Steve Chilcott for claiming that "Islam and Nazi's are the same thing".
Farage told LBC host Nick Ferrari: "People are allowed to have opinions, people are allowed to express views."
Reacting to the remarks, Goodwin told GB News: "Nigel has a point, because over the last 20 years or so, we can all sense the national debate, the national conversation, the marketplace of ideas being whittled down so that it only reflects the values and the beliefs and the tastes of an elite minority in this country.
"If you question mass immigration, if you are critical of radical Islam, if you don't agree with woke ideology, if you want to express free speech and free expression, you are basically silenced or stigmatised as being somehow socially unacceptable."
