Anger as BBC SUPPORTS Jo Brand Acid Attack comments

The fallout over the remarks from Jo Brand concerning Battery Acid continues with Nigel Farage saying that the Police must take action.

On their own website The BBC has written the following piece defending the corporation over what many regard as an incitement to violence:

The BBC has defended Jo Brand against claims she incited violence through comments made during a radio show. The comedian, a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Heresy on Tuesday, joked about throwing battery acid at “unpleasant characters” rather than milkshakes.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who was hit by a milkshake last month, said “the police need to act”. The BBC said the jokes made on Heresy are “deliberately provocative as the title implies”. It added they are “not intended to be taken seriously.”

Brand, speaking after Mr Farage and a number of far-right European election candidates were covered in milkshakes during campaign walkabouts in May, said “Why bother with a milkshake when you could get some battery acid?”

The comic then went on to immediately make clear she was joking and criticised the milkshake stunts. “That’s just me. I’m not going to do it,” she said. “It’s purely a fantasy, but I think milkshakes are pathetic, I honestly do, sorry.”

Her follow-up comments were edited out of widely-shared clips on social media. Mr Farage said the comments amounted to “an incitement to violence”.

At the end of show, host Victoria Coren Mitchell said she hoped Brand’s remarks had not caused offence, but reiterated that the long-running series had been set up to “test the boundaries of what it’s OK to say and not say”.

She later responded to Mr Farage on Twitter, accusing him of double standards, as an outspoken advocate of free speech and critic of political correctness.

She wrote: “Nigel! I’m genuinely disappointed; we don’t agree on everything, but I would totally have had you down as a free speech man. Especially when it comes to jokes.”

The comments in reply to Coren Mitchell are nearly all negative towards her with many arguing they believe in Free Speech but not incitement to violence. With @brighton_alan saying ‘it may indeed stand as a joke… until somebody does it. Then it will be in the headlines. Jo should be brighter’

As of yet we have not heard whether the Police are preparing to take action but the scourge of Milkshake attacks appears to now be seen by the hard left as a legitimate form of attack and it is coming with tacit endorsement by prominent media figures, politicians and celebrities.

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