It’s two weeks today until International Milkshake Day. Get the 2nd of May in your calendars Comrades! The day we started a milkshake movement that spread around the world. It started with the milkshaking of Tommy Robinson in Warrington, followed by Carl Benjamin, Nigel Farage and even arrived in America with the milkshaking of a far right Trump backing republican congressman.
I failed my driving test that morning on the 2nd of May 2019. But it was soon forgotten about when I watched Tommy Robinson get a milkshake thrown over him and I managed to get it on video. You can hear me shout “That’s what you get for being a fascist”. I sold the video to the Daily Mirror and it also went viral off my Facebook. When I got home I’d been messaged by many journalists from the mainstream media, was interviewed through a Skype call by Euronews and a few days later I even had a message from someone from the The New York Times. I also had loads of messages off Tommy Robinson supporters calling me anything from an “anti-fascist prick” to receiving big long voices notes, one clearly from someone who struggles to string a sentence together telling me why people like me “Make the world a fucked up place”.
I went into the barbers the next morning and two young lads next to me were watching the video laughing. It was really all quite amusing until that night I was contacted by anti-fascists who were gathering intelligence on the far-right. They let me know the fascists had my dad’s address and were circulating it around far-right Facebook groups. One fascist in particular was a former BNP candidate and he was sharing a picture of myself and Jeremy Corbyn calling me a communist scumbag and making threats towards my family. I contacted the police and had an urgent response marker placed on my house and also at my dad’s where my younger brother lives. The police rang me every day for about 2 weeks and said they were taking it serious due to the high profile nature of the incident it was related to. I was also contacted by a journalist from The Guardian and was interviewed over the telephone.
Two weeks went by and after my messenger had been going off constantly my life returned to normal and I was actually quite relieved.
The trend of milkshaking carried on all through the summer, but thankfully I wasn’t at the centre of it. Burger King even got themselves into trouble with the The Advertising Standards Agency for a tweet encouraging the milkshaking of fascists.
So on the 2nd of May I’ll be posting a picture of myself holding a milkshake for International Milkshake Day and I ask others to do so also. In defiance of fascism I’ll be holding my milkshake proudly to show that we the left will not be intimidated by the fascists and will always stand up to racism. Who would of thought a bit of milkshake was the only thing the fascists were scared of? Join me on International Milkshake Day, the 2nd of May to celebrate the 3 months that rocked the world in the form of dairy-based civil disobedience.
The Anonymous Prole
