Why Protesters Keep Hurling Milkshakes at British Politicians

When the Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage was doused Monday with a milkshake while campaigning for the European Parliament elections in the English city of Newcastle, it was unclear whom he was angrier with—the protester who threw the drink at him or the security team that didn’t see it coming. “It’s a complete failure,” Farage told his security detail as the banana-and-salted-caramel concoction dripped from his lapel. “Milkshaking,” as it has come to be known, has emerged as the latest form of protest in Britain, where a number of mostly right-wing political candidates have been drenched by shake-wielding demonstrators on the campaign trail.