The Metropolitan Police has said it will not be taking any further action over Jo Brand’s comments on a radio show about throwing battery acid at politicians.
Brand was accused of inciting violence after making a comment on BBC Radio 4’s Heresy about throwing acid instead of milkshakes at “unpleasant characters”.
The Leader of the Brexit Party, Nigel Farage, accused Brand of inciting violence. During the EU election campaign he was covered in Milkshake whilst out on the campaign trail.
Mr Farage said on Twitter: “I am sick to death of overpaid, left-wing, so-called comedians on the BBC who think their view is morally superior. Can you imagine the reaction if I had said the same thing as Jo Brand?”
According to the BBC themselves:
In the episode of theHeresybroadcast on Tuesday, Brand told presenter Victoria Coren Mitchell that people who attacked “unpleasant figures” with milkshakes were “pathetic”, adding: “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.
“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. Ofcom said it received 65 complaints about the episode.
Appearing later at Henley Literary Festival, Brand said: “Looking back on it I think it was a somewhat crass and an ill-judged joke.”
She added: “Nigel Farage tweeted the first bit that I said without the second bit when I apologised and said it was a joke and not something I would encourage.
The current situation is I’m being chased around England and being asked if I feel I should apologise. I felt I apologised for it as I did it on the night. I’m a human being and people make mistakes. I apologise to all the people who I have offended.”
I don’t think it’s a mistake. If you think it is I’m happy to accept that. Female politicians and public figures are threatened day in, day out, with far worse things than battery acid… rape, murder and what have you.
At least I’m here and trying to explain what I did. I don’t think I have anyone to answer to. Nigel Farage wasn’t even mentioned by me on the night so why he has taken it upon himself I don’t know.”
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