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Last Updated: December 4, 2014By

Something’s amiss in Trumpton!

It seems somebody has launched a (fake) branch of UKIP in the (fictional) town, and run-of-the-mill* party members aren’t happy about it!

According to the Huffington Post, UKIP MEP David Coburn has urged his fellow members to block and report the Twitter feed of the imaginary town’s UKIP branch, in a bid to have it banned.

His knee-jerk demand is yet another example of a UKIP member shooting himself in the foot. The account, @Trumpton_UKIP, isn’t causing any harm – unless its readers don’t know the difference between realpolitik and gentle satire.

Here are some examples of @Trumpton_UKIP tweets, as chosen by the HuffPost:

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As the paper says, in a message cleverly hidden as part of the story’s web address: calm-down-david-it’s-only-satire.

* It was very hard to devise a description for ordinary UKIP members. ‘Non-puppet’ doesn’t work because there’s widespread opinion that UKIP is a Tory front or – increasingly – vice versa. ‘Human’ doesn’t work because many of them have displayed inhumanity towards others. ‘Real-world’ doesn’t cut it either – how many UKIP members do you think actually live in the real world that the rest of us recognise?

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7 Comments

  1. keiroc December 4, 2014 at 1:08 am - Reply

    Nigel is upset he only got a bit part.

    • Mike Sivier December 4, 2014 at 2:10 am - Reply

      That’s what he gets for being drunk in charge of a fire engine.

  2. beastrabban December 4, 2014 at 8:32 am - Reply

    Ah, but is Nigel Farage really half man, half biscuit, and ready for the Trumpton Riots?

    • Mike Sivier December 4, 2014 at 10:49 am - Reply

      You are a genius; I was wondering how to get that into the piece.

  3. Peter Wyatt December 4, 2014 at 11:23 am - Reply

    And in the Trumpton News Web blog page, As been flooded with UKIP propaganda by members and supporter alike (2) on orders from head office.

    • Mike Sivier December 4, 2014 at 11:57 am - Reply

      That’s the mentality of the playground bully. No – children are better behaved.

  4. Peter Wyatt December 4, 2014 at 1:54 pm - Reply

    Depends on who’s children, UKIP children are not they are fully grown adults

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