{"id":43436,"date":"2018-09-07T01:47:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T15:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=43436"},"modified":"2018-09-08T23:16:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T13:16:26","slug":"nigel-farage-in-melbourne-friday-september-7-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=43436","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage in Melbourne : Friday, September 7, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

See also<\/em> : Nigel Farage colonizes Australia<\/a>, Zoya Sheftalovich, politico, September 6, 2018 | Deplorables love in for Tony Abbott and Nigel Farage<\/a>, Aaron Patrick, Australian Financial Review, September 7, 2018. <\/p>\n

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The final leg of Nigel Farage’s blitzkrieg tour Down under takes place at the Sofitel Hotel<\/a> (25 Collins Street) later today.<\/p>\n

The Campaign Against Racism & Fascism (CARF) has organised a protest outside the venue. For more details and to keep up-to-date with what’s up, see the Facebook event page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Victoria Police have declared the blocks surrounding the venue a designated area, granting them various additional powers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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To this point, ticket sales appear to be somewhat disappointing for organisers, with the original Sydney venue (September 6), the International Convention Centre<\/a> (which previously played happy hosts to some barking-mad anti-Aboriginal hate-speech courtesy of Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern) being pulled and the event taking place at Doltone House<\/a> instead. This parallels the experience in Adelaide — where it was marketed as being at the Town Hall but with attendees being directed to a smaller venue a short distance away — and so too Perth.<\/p>\n

To add to the tour organiser’s woes, there’s been a falling out between Damien Costas and Max Markson, the dynamic duo responsible for bringing Nesquik to town in December last year. Thus:<\/p>\n

… the party has suddenly come to a spectacular halt and the “bromance” is over amid wild accusations on both sides and a trail of debt, with Mr Markson claiming Mr Costas owes him $90,000.<\/p>\n

Mr Markson and Mr Costas are also at war over hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid bills from the tour, with money owed to everyone from venue operators to security guards, Yiannopoulos and the family of one of Australia’s biggest drug smugglers.<\/p>\n

Mr Costas confirmed Yiannopoulos was still owed money from the tour, but he wasn’t the one owing it. Mr Markson said Yiannopoulos, who agreed to do the tour in return for a $250,000 fee, was still owed several thousand dollars, but denied he was responsible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See<\/em> : Private Sydney: Markson sparks up in court in dispute with Penthouse publisher<\/a>, Andrew Hornery, The Sydney Morning Herald, September 6, 2018. See also<\/em> : Poor ticket sales force Nigel Farage to move Australian gig to smaller venue<\/a>, Jonathon Read, The New European, September 6, 2018.<\/p>\n

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Maybe 200 or so folks staged a rally outside the Sofitel; a handful were arrested. Cooked Convict Neil Erikson was detained by police, Rino ‘Bluebeard’ Grgurovic lost his MAGA hat, and their mate Andy Nolch (see<\/em> : Anti-feminist charged over Eurydice Dixon graffiti has ‘no remorse’, court hears<\/a>, Tammy Mills & Sarah Emery, The Age, September 8, 2018) was also there to be entertained by Farage.<\/p>\n

See<\/em> : Nigel Farage: Clashes break out at former UKIP leader’s Melbourne event<\/a>, Joshua McDonald, ABC, September 8, 2018 | Arrests after hundreds rallied against right-wing Nigel Farage in Melbourne\u2019s CBD<\/a>, The New Daily\/AAP, September 8, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See also : Nigel Farage colonizes Australia, Zoya Sheftalovich, politico, September 6, 2018 | Deplorables love in for Tony Abbott and Nigel Farage, Aaron Patrick, Australian Financial Review, September 7, 2018. BEFORE The final leg of Nigel Farage’s blitzkrieg tour … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,9,893],"tags":[3384,3390,3389,2049,3323,3252,3286,3387,3386,3385,3388,2025,3287,3256,3257,3383],"class_list":["post-43436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-state","category-thats-capitalism","tag-25-collins-street-melbourne","tag-andrew-nolch","tag-andy-nolch","tag-campaign-against-racism-and-fascism","tag-cooked-convicts","tag-cooks-convicts","tag-damien-costas","tag-doltone-house","tag-icc-sydney","tag-international-convention-centre","tag-max-markson","tag-neil-erikson","tag-nigel-farage","tag-rino-bluebeard-grgurovic","tag-rino-grgurovic","tag-sofitel-hotel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-biA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43448,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43436\/revisions\/43448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}