SCOTLAND'S solitary Ukip MEP has been ridiculed on Twitter after failing to see the funny side of an account purporting to come from the fictional children's TV town of Trumpton that spoofed the right-wing anti-immigrant, anti-Europe party.
David Coburn called on his Twitter followers to block the account after it suggested the party's policies were more suited to an imaginary toy land than modern British politics.
Coburn slammed the @Trumpton_UKIP account as "fake", and urged his 9000 followers to "please block/report".
Since making his appeal, the Trumpton account has gained thousands of new followers, bringing the total to more than 12,000.
The fictional town of Trumpton conjures up images of beloved TV characters like Windy Miller and the town's famous firefighters Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.
However, it appears that members of Ukip have become rather less than fond of the fictional town.
The creator of @Trumpton_UKIP, Mike Dicks, said: "They use social media a lot but I don't think they understand it. If they had turned around and gone along with the joke it would have petered away."
Spurred on by Coburn's complaints, Dicks now plans to keep the account going until at least the General Election.
One of @Trumpton_Ukip's followers wrote: "Trumpton is a town existing only in 1960s stop-motion TV. UKIP is a political party for whom motion stopped in a 1950s which never existed."
Coburn's inability to see the funny side of things made the joke even better for Ukip's opponents, who have since set up Trumpton branches of other political parties, including the British National Party.
Last week, Coburn's right-hand man, Ukip Scotland chairman Misty Thackeray, attacked the Sunday Herald's sister paper, pro-independence daily The National, calling it a "McPravda propaganda sheet".
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