Disabled pensioner says Farage minders assaulted him over disabled parking spot

Disabled Shetland pensioner Don Whittle has accused Reform UK leader Nigel Farage‘s ‘heavies’ of ‘manhandling’ him – assault, in other words – after Farage’s car took a disabled parking bay.

Incident caught on camera

75-year-old Whittle has rheumatoid arthritis, heart failure, a pacemaker and a spinal condition that weakens his arms and legs. He says that the thugs grabbed him after he tried to take photos of Farage’s car in a disabled spot he needed to drop his wife off. The incident was caught on camera:

‘Lucky’ henchmen

An unfazed Whittle quipped that the henchmen were “lucky – I could have used my martial arts training”. He went on:

I’m disabled and I take offence to people that park in ­disabled spots who are not disabled. I went down to take photographs of them parked there and so they started to move off and decided to park on a corner on double yellow lines. I photographed them there.

This clown wouldn’t let me through. And I couldn’t go through on the pavement because of the protesters. I just wanted to get through to the front to take pictures of them blocking the street. [After Farage got in the car] I walked past them and went and stood in front of his car, thinking, ‘Well, if you can stand and block me, I can stand and block you.’

So I stood there. And two of his henchmen came out and manhandled me across the road out of the way. They weren’t considerate. They didn’t say, ‘Would you mind moving out of the way?’ They didn’t even ask. They just grabbed me. I said, ‘I’m disabled.’ And they didn’t care.

Shetland Greens intervene

Shetland Greens mounted a protest against Farage’s visit. Party candidate said:

We are here to oppose the toxic Trumpian politics of Nigel Farage. We stand against hate, our politics are guided by kindness, and we support the human rights of all people including migrants, ethnic minorities, and all marginalised people.

The Reform grifter could easily have afforded to pay for a parking space. He has been identified as having the second-biggest non-parliamentary earnings among all UK MPs after spending more than 1,100 hours outside Parliament working for fourteen outside employers. Clacton voters have complained that he is rarely in the constituency.

A sign spotted on a fence alongside one of Shetland’s main roads described Farage as a “frog-faced wanker”.