{"id":143398,"date":"2015-02-06T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=143398"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:48:41","slug":"nigel-farage-blocked-protesters-rotherham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/nigel-farage-blocked-protesters-rotherham\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage blocked by protesters in Rotherham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>George Arthur<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A lively protest confronted Ukip leader Nigel Farage when he came to Rotherham today, Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Farage had planned to cut the ribbon to open Ukip campaign headquarters in the town.\u00a0But instead of his usual victory march in front of the media Farage was trapped inside the Ukip office.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters were angry at Farage\u2019s attempts to take advantage of the latest report on the child sex abuse scandal in Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201csomething had gone badly wrong\u201d in Rotherham and that the abuse was down to multiculturalism that had \u201cdivided not united\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chants of \u201cSupport the victims, don&#8217;t let racists divide us\u201d echoed around the office.<\/p>\n<p>Barnsley Central TUSC candidate Dave Gibson said that Ukip\u2019s policies would not benefit cash strapped services to support victims of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The protest included a number of local people who had made up their own placards and were determined to stop Farage having his usual media outing.<\/p>\n<p>One mother breastfed her baby in defiance at earlier comments Farage made that women should \u201csit in the corner\u201d to breastfeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m disgusted that Farage said we have to breastfeed our babies in a corner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has nothing to offer us but hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/socialistworker.co.uk\/art\/39904\/Nigel+Farage+blocked+by+protesters+in+Rotherham?\" target=\"_blank\">This piece<\/a> was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\" target=\"_blank\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Arthur A lively protest confronted Ukip leader Nigel Farage when he came to Rotherham today, Friday. Farage had planned to cut the ribbon to open Ukip campaign headquarters in the town.\u00a0But instead of his usual victory march in front of the media Farage was trapped inside the Ukip office. Protesters were angry at Farage\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-143398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}