Police ordered a McDonald's in Scotland to stop selling milkshakes over fears people would dunk them over Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, staff said, after a flurry of incidents left prominent right-wing campaigners doused in them.
Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, was holding an event in Edinburgh on Friday ahead of next week's European elections.But police were concerned that protesters would buy milkshakes from a McDonald's a few hundred meters away with the intention of pouring them on the hardline Brexiteer's head.
— Scott Macdonald May 17, 2019 "We will not be selling milkshakes or ice creams tonight. This is due to a police request given recent events," a printed sign in the McDonald's window read on Friday.The chain's major competitor, Burger King, took a more lassez-faire approach to the movement after news of the McDonald's ban emerged."Dear people of Scotland. We're selling milkshakes all weekend. Have fun. Love BK #justsaying," they wrote on Twitter.
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