An Exeter cake shop owner says she was threatened with violence after responding to comments by Ukip leader Nigel Farage that breastfeeding mothers could "perhaps sit in a corner".
Kate Shirazi, of Exeter's Cakeadoodledo, placed a 'Breastfeeding Mums Welcome' sign on her shop window asking Ukip supporters to "eat in the corner".
But she chose to change the sign to say "we welcome everyone" when she received a backlash from party followers.
She told the Echo: "I'm disappointed rather than surprised. It's a shame there's a level of hypocrisy about openness of discussion and the ability to say what you think."
The row started when a mother was apparently asked to cover-up while breastfeeding at Claridge's hotel in London.
Speaking on a radio station, Mr Farage suggested women who breastfeed in public should do so without being "ostentatious".
Mrs Shirazi was sent the original poster by a North Devon man, and placed it in her shop window on Deanery Place.
It read: "If you are a Ukip supporter we politely ask, for the comfort of other customers, that you eat in the corner, or in the toilet, or under a large tablecloth that we drape over you.
"We're sure you understand that, when people are eating, they don't want to have to look at a complete and utter tit. Thank you."
Mrs Shirazi said she put up the sign to show support for the mother and to say how "ridiculous" the Ukip leader's comments were.
She said: "It's just bonkers really. We have a lot of mothers who come into the shop with their babies; it is insane that we wouldn't let them breastfeed in the shop.
"The whole fiasco beggars belief and has been stirred up by Ukip."
But Mrs Shirazi decided to put up an alternative sign after receiving around 100 negative comments.
It read: "We got rather bored by the veiled threats sent to us, so we took half the poster away.
"Unlike Nigel Farage we don't think breastfeeding mothers should be put in a corner. We've never seen anyone breastfeed 'ostentatiously'. We welcome everyone. Come in, eat cake, feed your baby. It's all good."
