UKIP ATTACK
Ukip candidate Carl Benjamin who joked about raping Labour MP is attacked with milkshake on the campaign trail
The YouTuber was hit with a drink while he was campaigning in Cornwall
A CONTROVERSIAL Ukip candidate was today attacked with a milkshake on the campaign trail.
Carl Benjamin, who joked about raping Labour MP Jess Phillips, was targeted by a protester in Cornwall.
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The man approached him in Truro and tried to throw a milkshake at him.
Supporters of Mr Benjamin restrained the protester and forced him to the ground, before he walked away.
The incident comes after far-right activist Tommy Robinson was twice hit by milkshakes while campaigning.
Mr Benjamin, a YouTube personality who calls himself Sargon of Akkad, is a Ukip candidate in the South-West for the European Parliament elections.
He is being investigated by police over a string of comments he made about Ms Phillips.
In 2016 he sent her a tweet saying: "I wouldn't even rape you."
Discussing the supposed joke last month, he added: "I suppose with enough pressure I might cave. But, let's be honest, nobody's got that much beer."
Mr Benjamin claims to be a free-speech activist who makes deliberately shocking statements to demonstrate his point.
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On his visit to Truro today he was met by protesters with signs criticising his rhetoric.
One of the placards called him a "super callous fragile racist sexist Ukip a**ehole".
And when he was speaking on the street, a trumpeter deliberately stood nearby playing loud music to drown him out.
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