Right wing student group Turning Point UK’s Twitter launch was sabotaged to glorious effect
The UK launch branch of Turning Point, a right-wing student movement for “free markets, limited government and public responsibility”, has just launched on Twitter but it hasn’t gone entirely to plan.
Turning Point, which has the backing of Nigel Farage and Jacob Rees-Mogg (so it must be good) launched as @TPointUK on Twitter and is keen to reassure its followers that young people can be right wing too.
https://twitter.com/TPointUK/status/1091309024581222400
Except you might struggle to find it because a whole bunch of spoof accounts shot up at the same time, Spartacus-style, all claiming to be Turning Point UK. And it’s glorious.
turning point UK’s twitter launch is a fucking mess, I love it pic.twitter.com/5VHWBJeO9S
— Andrea (@Neeerts) February 2, 2019
With lots of spoof feeds like this.
Very wise words from our founder, god rest his soul pic.twitter.com/9UDp2BunFC
— Turning Point UK (@TurningPointUK2) February 3, 2019
— John Varley (@JohnTomVarley) February 3, 2019
And these.
And just general trolling like this.
https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1092040329061122048
https://twitter.com/Direthoughts/status/1092390443701153792
https://twitter.com/josh_salisbury/status/1091800429950894081
So the real Turning Point UK – at least, we think they’re the real ones, felt the need to clarify matters.
Down the rabbit hole! pic.twitter.com/v51Qjqvzvg
— don mackeen (@donmackeen) February 3, 2019
To conclude …
https://twitter.com/Gilofthepeople/status/1091696589280890880
And …
https://twitter.com/MikeStuchbery_/status/1092342665239248897