The Metropolitan Police have arrested a man who tweeted at Nigel Farage on 8 May: “I am going to shoot you in the head if you win.” He was only arrested yesterday…
Farage was told about the arrest today. He told the Telegraph:
“This is the first time the police have ever proactively acted on a social media post and I hope they are looking at the other three or four hundred similar posts from this year alone.
This has been going on for years, not just words but videos of people firing guns and so on, and in the past we have put multiple reports in to the police, always to be told that these social media posts don’t meet the threshold, which is extraordinary.
And it goes deeper than that. It’s about the comedian Jo Brand joking about throwing battery acid in my face, it’s about Noel Fielding telling people to stab me, and if the police now decide to act to protect the lives of serving and ex politicians, then at least something good will have come out of Ann’s horrific death.”
Long arrest time…
Robert Jenrick on the Today programme:
“Can you now give a guarantee to your listeners this morning that no BBC presenter in the future will be exposed as a paedophile, as a number have been in the recent past? No, of course you can’t…”