Alternative scenario: protester gatecrashes private event and throws acid all over the Chancellor while everyone stands around and does nothing.

Field was absolutely right in his reaction, what with the random attacks on politicians we've seen over the last few years. My only regret is that she wasn't given a good kicking as well.

Would you have found his actions acceptable if she had been a man behaving in the same manner?

This is a political argument now.
Check on this thread which political persuasion thinks whether it was or wasnt justified.
I bet if it was a tart in a TR tee shirt it would have been the correct thing to do. Irony is strange.
She now thinks that Mr field should go to anger management classes ,personally she should f*** off and get a life the stupid idiot.
I would laugh mytits off if it comes out that she has form and all you appeasers can suck one then.

And it’s also the same people who were outraged at the throwing of milkshakes and a comedian making a joke who are defending this.

Politics is completely tribal on both sides now, as you so often demonstrate.

You’ve written that like a newspaper headline;

To describe the throwing of a drink on someone as actual assault, and in the same sentence describe Field’s actions as ‘calmly escorting’, is not at all consistent.