


UKIP leader Nigel Farage is taken away in a police van
Nigel Farage bundled into police van after being barricaded inside pub where he was going to promote Scottish by-election candidate
- Protesters shouting 'racist Nazi scum' storm UKIP press conference
- They then lay siege to the pub forcing police to barricade doors
- Mr Farage is in Scotland campaigning for Aberdeen Donside by-election

Not-so-Braveheart: Ukip leader Nigel Farage is bundled into a police riot van after anti-fascist protesters laid siege to a pub where he was today launching his campaign to win more seats in Scotland

Public disorder: Police restrain angry protesters as they take Mr Farage to safety in the riot van

'Racist Nazi scum': Angry protesters heckle Mr Farage outside the Canon's Gait Pub in Edinburgh after his attempts to flee by taxi were foiled. He is seen being led back to the safety of the pub by police officers

Outside the Canon's Gate Pub: Today's demonstration against Mr Farage and his policies is understood to have been organised on social media by a group called Radical Independence Edinburgh

'People in Scotland blatantly don't want him': Mr Farage's attempts to flee in a taxi were foiled when protesters surrounded the vehicle and one woman rolled her wheelchair in front of it to stop it from driving away

Not going anywhere: Protesters block the street ahead of Mr Farage's taxi. The woman in the wheelchair, who gave her name as Rachel, said: 'He is a racist b******. His views on immigration are just wrong'

Time for plan B: Mr Farage is escorted by police as he exits the taxi to return to the now empty pub

Anger: A protester confronts Mr Farage inside the Canon's Gate pub as he tries to give interviews to the Press. The pub's management said the Ukip leader did not even bother to inform them of his plans

Mr Farage responds to the hecklers: A member of the bar staff said the first they knew of the press conference was when police phoned them at three in the afternoon - just three hours before it was due to start
NIGEL FARAGE is a dangerous man, he is a snake, Hitler, you name it.... he thought Scotland would welcome him with open arms, LOL! WHAT A MORON! KICK HIM OUT! THE ENGLISH ARE EVIL! IMPERIALISTS AND VILE! LOL! VIVA INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND!