Ukip Mistake Cathedral For Mosque, Twitter Gleefully Responds

After Ukip managed to mix-up Westminster Cathedral with a mosque whilst attempting to make a jibe at the BBC, Twitter leapt in to help out the confused Eurosceptic party.



Ukip's South Thanet branch - which recently hurtled to the forefront of British politics after Nigel Farage was selected to be the constituency's general election candidate - was left red-faced after making a social media fail of epic proportions after mistakenly thinking the BBC was guilty of some gross "liberal bias".



It all started when the BBC's Daily Politics tweeted out a planned experiment on the general public to see whether Farage has what it takes to become Prime Minister.

Has @Nigel_Farage got what it takes to be PM?



See how the balls fall in @reporterboy film on Tue #bbcdp after 1200 http://ift.tt/1rpOnU6

— DailySunday Politics (@daily_politics) November 25, 2014

Ukip icily responded by trying to accuse the BBC of being "selective" in its location shot before, their error was highlighted and the person tweeting for the South Thanet branch slumped into a pit of humiliation, it is assumed.







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Twitter, meanwhile, gleefully responded to the mix-up by helpfully pointing out other things that could be mistaken for mosques to Ukip.

That absolutely wonderful moment when the EDL thought Brighton Pavilion was a Mosque. #ThingsThatAreNotMosques http://ift.tt/1yizeo3

— J. Ali (@junayed_) November 26, 2014

Mosque-oh! #ThingsThatAreNotMosques @Nigel_Farage http://ift.tt/1Fv6Q2y

— Adrian Clark (@adrianclark) November 26, 2014

@sturdyAlex @Nigel_Farage

Moccasins

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques http://ift.tt/1rpOqiQ

— Scott Taylor (@SCO_77) November 26, 2014

This is not a Mosque, but those gentlemen look decidedly 'Foreign' don't they?#ThingsThatAreNotMosques http://ift.tt/1rpOqiX

— Steven Moore (@MrStevenMoore) November 26, 2014

Musk ox...@Nigel_Farage http:http://ift.tt/1Fv6QiT #ThingsThatAreNotMosques

— cronsey jones (@cronsey) November 26, 2014

#thingsthatarenotmosques Are you sure this is isn't a Mosque #ukip? Looks foreign to me. http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qj2

— David Joseph Brady (@WolfPenguined) November 26, 2014

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques Mosquito http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qzi

— Keir Shiels (@keirshiels) November 26, 2014

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques But it's got a dome, it must be a mosque?! http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qzk

— Edward James (@edwardajames) November 26, 2014

The Jedi Temple on Coruscant #ThingsThatAreNotMosques http://ift.tt/1yZwESo

— Alan (@AlanLewis05) November 26, 2014

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques

Moss http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qzo

— Simon Hoyle (@iskibar14) November 26, 2014

Moosques? ;) #ThingsThatAreNotMosques http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qzu

— Paul Bernal (@PaulbernalUK) November 26, 2014

#thingsthatarenotmosques It was the name that got me http://ift.tt/1rpOoHR

— Grilling Kippers (@GrillingKippers) November 26, 2014

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques Moss, K. http://ift.tt/1Fv6SHr

— Keir Shiels (@keirshiels) November 26, 2014

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques Masks http://ift.tt/1Fv6Qzy

— Keir Shiels (@keirshiels) November 26, 2014

Ukip admitted their mistake in the end, but firmly stood by their "random vote remark."

@reporterboy I have got it wrong about the building as was wrongly advised and apologise. The random vote remark still stands

— Ukip South Thanet (@ukip_sththanet) November 25, 2014

http://ift.tt/1Fv6SaC



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