Farage told to expect more protests at Scottish rally
Nigel Farage has been warned to expect noisy protests when he arrive sin Edinburgh tomorrow for his first European election rally in Scotland.
The former Ukip leader was famously barricaded inside a Royal Mile pub in 2013 after being surrounded by protesters during the independence referendum campaign.
But his Brexit Party is confident of securing an MEP in Scotland by drawing Eurosceptic votes from the SNP, Labour and the Cons ervatives.
“Farage’s obnoxious blend of casual xenophobia and snake-oil sales man tactics is not welcome here,” Green candidate Chas Booth said. “I fully expect he will receive a similar welcome from the people of Edinburgh to the one he got on his last visit.”
The Brexit Party has been mocked by opponents for charging supporters £2.50 a head to attend the rally.
Brexit Party candidate Jim Ferguson, the Scottish chairman of charity Crime stoppers, said police would “take any kind of law breaking very seriously” around the event at the Corn Exchange. Mr Ferguson said the Brexit Part y appealed to voters fed up with the Tories, Labour and the SNP. “People see us as a political alternative,” he said.