Slimy CUSTARD ATTACK & Such : Democracy BRIT Style !

A slimy in-your-face custard attack on British politician Peter Mandelson ! * * * * * ------ [FEB 06 2009]

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Friday's custard attack by an environmental campaigner on UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson was the latest episode in a rich British tradition of political splatterings.

The protester, aligned with the anti-airport expansion group Plane Stupid, stepped forward to greet Mandelson as he stepped out of his ministerial car Friday morning, before hurling the green gunk concealed within a coffee cup straight into the minister's face.

"Thankfully, it wasn't paint and I've come through it intact," Mandelson said afterwards.

A veteran and often controversial political operator, once nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness," Mandelson can perhaps take some solace from the fact that he had avoided a public dunking for so long.

Flying eggs, custard, paint and ink have long been an occupational hazard of a political career in the UK as Mandelson's Labour Party colleague, former deputy prime minister John Prescott, would attest.

At the 1998 British Music Awards -- an event which had acquired a reputation for iconoclastic protest after pop star Jarvis Cocker had two years earlier stormed the stage in outrage over Michael Jackson's overblown performance of "Earth Song" -- Prescott was doused with a jug of water by singer Danbert Nobacon, a member of the anarchist pop collective Chumbawumba.

Three years later, during the 2001 general election, Prescott responded to being yoked while on the campaign trail by swinging a punch at his egg-throwing assailant before the pair were separated by police.

In recent years, British politicians have lived in fear of Fathers 4 Justice, the group behind a series of high profile stunts to raise awareness about the issues faced by fathers separated from their children after family breakups.

In 2004, the group successfully targeted Tony Blair, hitting the then-prime minister with condoms filled with purple flour as he spoke in the House of Commons.

Blair's education secretary Ruth Kelly also bore the brunt of Fathers 4 Justice's campaign. In 2006 a protester smashed an egg on the back of Kelly's head as she left a court where she had been giving evidence against another protester on trial for a previous attempt to handcuff himself to her.

"This is just one of those things that comes with being a politician," Kelly remarked.

CONTINUE STORY: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/03/06/uk.politics.gunkings/

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[leeds0united]

American politicians= Snipers and handguns

British politics= Eggs and green custard

[scratchyboy]

What a fuckn clown this pofteris is. Good on you lady this faggot is so much up his own arse their is no room for air.

Mandy your a loser.

[100TEEDEE]

I think the slime rejected him!!!

[duderme]

@leeds0united And recently glitter.

[Villain1982]

stupid slut, i hope she gets raped.

[LOCOMOTIONNUMBER1]

Why waste green slime on an unelected politician. So much for the great British democracy!

[azto19]

All i wish is that the crooked politicians would have the balls to actually resign when they are caught with there hands in the till.

Peter Mandelson has been shamed more times than I have had hot dinners and he has been made a lord? WTF!!!!

[SamCarruthers1986]

@che21chango07b If anyone did that to the Royals they would have a bounty on their head.

[faireytalz]

I would have layed down the smackdown on her, damn!!

[fuktheusa]

You're right. We need to be more ambitious. Lighter fuel and a lighter would work wonders. Burn the bastards!

[russscience]

don't forget shoes with Bush