Activist Group Interrupts Nigel Farage Speech With Huge Putin Banner

A speech by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in Walton-on-the-Naze, England, on Saturday, June 29, was interrupted when a banner of Russian President Vladimir Putin descended from the ceiling.

The activist group Led by Donkeys posted footage to X showing the moment the Putin banner, with the words “I heart Nigel”, dropped from the ceiling as Farage addressed the crowd.

Farage can be heard asking “Who put that up there?” before joking: “Someone at The Columbine Center needs to get the sack”. Video shows two men attempt to remove the banner from the ceiling as audience members jeer and chant “rip it down”.

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Video transcript

The poison that is being taught to our Children.

They are being told that the stories of Columbine don't matter.

All they're being told are the bad things that we did in our history.

And I'm standing up and saying enough, We should be proud of who we are, where we are.

Figure that out.

Someone at the Columbine Centre needs to get the sack OK in the make sure that that is the case.

Come on.

OK, What?

Ok, that's right.

Oh, or is that far from it?

I don't know.