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| Farage swarmed by angry protesters in Edinburgh | |
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| UKIP leader Nigel Farage had to find refuge in a pub after he was swarmed by angry protesters as he left a press conference. | UKIP leader Nigel Farage had to find refuge in a pub after he was swarmed by angry protesters as he left a press conference. |
| When he later left the Canons' Gait pub in Edinburgh's historic old town and was escorted into a police van, protestors chanted "scum, scum, scum". | When he later left the Canons' Gait pub in Edinburgh's historic old town and was escorted into a police van, protestors chanted "scum, scum, scum". |
| Mr Farage was in Edinburgh to launch his party's Scottish campaign. | Mr Farage was in Edinburgh to launch his party's Scottish campaign. |
| The party, which wants to leave the European Union, hopes to build on electoral gains in England. | The party, which wants to leave the European Union, hopes to build on electoral gains in England. |
| Mr Farage told the BBC he had never had a reaction like this before. | Mr Farage told the BBC he had never had a reaction like this before. |
| Earlier this week, Mr Farage said First Minister Alex Salmond was "illogical" to want to keep an independent Scotland in the EU. | Earlier this week, Mr Farage said First Minister Alex Salmond was "illogical" to want to keep an independent Scotland in the EU. |
| During the protest, Max Crema, 21, Vice President of services at Edinburgh University Students Association, suggested UKIP has "a well documented history of racism". | |
| Mr Farage replied: "If you believe that then you are less intelligent than you look, dear boy. | |
| "We are a non-racist, non-sectarian party and unlike every other party in British politics we actually forbid people who have been on extreme left or right-wing extremes from joining our party." | |
| Protesters chanted "Farage is being lifted" and "How does it feel to be treated like an asylum seeker?" | |
| A UKIP spokesman described the scene as "inchoate rage". | |
| "Was it anti-English? I doubt it, I don't think they thought that far," he said. | |
| "I don't think he was shaken up by it. He was laughing, in fact." |