Has Kirby Delauter been taking advice from UKIP?

[T_i_B]

The whole Kirby Delauter may be amusing, but it's very reminiscent of the behaviour of far right British tea party wannabes the UK Independence Party as shown on the below thread in the UK forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10887150

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/dec/06/ukip-mep-ridiculed-twitter-call-ban-spoof-trumpton-account

A UK independence party (Ukip) MEP has been ridiculed on Twitter after calling for a spoof account based in the fictional town of Trumpton to be banned.

David Coburn, the party’s sole Scottish MEP, said on Tuesday that the @Trumpton_UKIP account was “fake”, asking his 9,000 followers to “please block/report”.

Since making his appeal, the Trumpton account has gained thousands of new followers, bringing the total to more than 11,000.

Dicks said Coburn had threatened to take legal action over the account’s use of the Ukip trademark – and even the use of the letters U, K, I and P.

[pinboy3niner]

1. The last sentence sounds like a Sesame Street sketch

[T_i_B]

3. We certainly agree that UKIP are a bunch of muppets

[Ken Burch]

2. Here's the link to the account UKIP is complaining about:

https://twitter.com/trumpton_ukip

My favorite tweet from it so far is this one:

UKIP Trumpton @Trumpton_UKIP · 1h 1 hour ago
We do not have a pension policy because we know that most of our current supporters will be dead before we get any power #ukip #Trumpton

There's also THIS:

https://medium.com/@Trumpton_UKIP/a-brief-history-of-trumpton-ukip-d1073c5f0c3a

(for non-UK DU'ers...a bit of explanation...TRUMPTON was, originally, a stop-motion animation on British tv back in the 1960's. What they've done is to repurpose some of the images from the program as a commentary on contemporary British politics. There are also twitter site for the Labour, Tory, and Green Party branches located in Trumpton, as well as one for the "Trumpton National Front&quot .