Extremists Attack UKIP Campaigner with Bleach in Grimsby

Seventy-one-year-old Clive Colam claims he was attacked with bleach in Grimsby town centre whilst campaigning for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) ahead of this Thursday’s general election.

Mr. Colam (above right), who is treasurer of the Cleethorpes branch of UKIP, said his back was doused in bleach whilst he was taking down displays in the town centre of Grimsby, the Grimsby Telegraph reports. Colam had been campaigning all morning with UKIP candidate Mike Hookem (above left) who is running for Parliament in Great Grimsby.

Colam described the attack saying he felt something wet down his back as he was putting away campaign material. He said he went to a nearby pub to wash the substance off, which started to burn his skin and discoloured the UKIP t-shirt he was wearing.

“There was a big stain where the bleach had gone through the shirt. It was only me who they went for because I was the one who was wearing a Ukip shirt,” he said adding: “It’s stupid. People who do that want their heads testing really.”

Colam called the police who took the shirt away as evidence but so far no suspects have been named. None of the other campaigners with Colam claim to have seen the person who threw the bleach, though all gave statements to the police.

“I used to be in the army and so I am used to a lot of things but anyone who does that sort of thing is a silly low life,” Colam said. “I’m not giving up campaigning. If anything it has made me more determined to carry on. It’s not going to stop me.”

The attack is not the first time UKIP candidates or campaigners have been the subjects of violence from left wing extremists.  In February of this year so-called “anti-racists” attacked campaigners during the Stoke-on-Trent Central bi-election ripping off the rosette of one supporter and later admitting to the attack.

In late April, another UKIP supporter was attacked by a “Remain” activist in Hartlepool which escalated into outright violence. UKIP distanced themselves from the incident claiming the woman was not one of their supporters, but a local resident who had only come out to a UKIP event that day.

“One woman was a local resident and one was a hard left activist who was disrupting things. They are absolutely nothing to do with us,” a spokesman for UKIP said.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is also no stranger to threats from violent extremists as Breitbart London revealed last year he had been the subject of hundreds of threats online including many against his life.

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