David Cameron shoved by protester in Leeds

[T_i_B]

Source: Daily Telegraph (UK)

David Cameron has been shoved by a protester in Leeds, it has been reported.

In a massive security breach, a member of the public confronted Mr Cameron outside Leeds Civic Hall and was seen pushing the Prime Minister before police were forced to step in, Dan Johnson a BBC journalist reported.

He was in Leeds for the launch of a report into a fast Leeds-to-Manchester rail link, dubbed HS3.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11190075/David-Cameron-shoved-by-protester-in-leeds.html

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Shame they don't say what the protest was about. It's not like there isn't that much stuff to protest about.

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. He's lucky he leads a country where disaffected people are as likely to argue with fisticuffs as by

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by shooting someone. Fewer guns= less gun violence.

Sounds like our leader isn't the only one with security detail issues.

Edit to update: Luckily it turns out the "protester" was just a jogger headed to the gym. A statement from the police later said they had "de-arrested" him.

[Prophet 451]

2. Dammit, I misread that as "stabbed" and got really excited.

[ReRe]

3. .

[T_i_B]

5. My first thought when I read your reply....

....was "If he'd been in the Chapeltown area of Leeds, he might well have been stabbed".

All that will come of this I suspect, is that the prime minister will become even more cocooned off from everyone else by security then they were before.

[Throd]

6. You did?

[Nye Bevan]

8. You got excited because you thought that someone had assassinated him?

Interesting thought process. Personally I cannot think of any politician, no matter how much I disagree with them, whose murder I would get "excited" about.

[Prophet 451]

9. I'm one of those targetted by his welfare cuts

He is literally taking food off my table. I take that personally.

Also, I'm mentally unstable.

[Bosonic]

4. Rushed by Russell Brand

https://vine.co/v/OMmHqp07rxa

[SoapBox]

7. Ohhhh....poor baby.

I hope he got REALLY scared.

Any clue dude, that people are fucking pissed off?

...he needs a few more shoves.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Not a protest, apparently

Dean Balboa Farley, who is a keen runner, was arrested after appearing to collide with the prime minister as he left the city's Civic Hall in Leeds.
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Following the incident, Chief Inspector Derek Hughes of West said: ''Around midday, a 28-year-old local man was briefly arrested after he came close to the prime minister's group who had just left the civic hall in Leeds.

''No threats were made, and after the man's details were checked, he was de-arrested and allowed on his way.''

The police said they believed the man was jogging to a nearby gym.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29784493