Last night some UKIP supporters decided to explain why they backed their party.
UKIP is the only party that supports grammar schools and a resurgence in social mobility #WhyImVotingUkip
Why are you voting UKIP this year? Tell us, tell Twitter and let's get it trending! #WhyImVotingUkip
And pretty soon #WhyImVotingUkip was trending. Except...
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#WhyImVotingUkip because I once ate some French cheese which gave me a tummy ache
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#WhyImVotingUKIP I'm incompetent enough to fear that my job actually might be taken by an unqualified Romanian who doesn't speak English
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#WhyImVotingUkip DEY TERK ER JERBS
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#WhyImVotingUkip because I once got stung by a wasp and I bet it was from the EU
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#WhyImVotingUkip guy in the corner shop kept the 1p change i didn't need
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#WhyImVotingUkip because I find Venice frightening and difficult to navigate. I think I saw a ghost there.
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#WhyImVotingUkip David Cameron didn't wish me happy birthday
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#WhyImVotingUkip because I ordered a chicken sheesh but I received a lamb doner. Dinner and country ruined.
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#WhyImVotingUkip because voting far right and blaming minorities after an economic downturn worked so well before, let's try that again
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#WhyImVotingUkip Because I like to think that people from other countries who live in mine are the main reason I have failed in life.
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#WhyImVotingUkip To try and leave Man City.
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#WhyImVotingUkip SIk off FibDems an NuLieBores and torees r week abuot they putting mosckes on my kids' schooles and wearin scarfs go home
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#whyImvotingUKIP because I can't tell what accent Aiden Gillen does on #GameOfThrones & I don't want us all to speak like that by 2020.
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#WhyImvotingUkip because I know that a public school educated stockbroker is an anti establishment figure
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#WhyImVotingUkip I had to move to Spain to get away from all the immigrants who are ruining Britain.
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#WhyImVotingUkip Because we must honour those who died to defeat fascism by voting for it.
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#WhyImVotingUkip because Romanians and The Gays are responsible for my ignorance, indolence and inability to keep up a buy-to-let mortgage.
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#WhyImVotingUkip: because no political party is standing up for the white, middle-class, heterosexual male, and that needs to change.
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#WhyImVotingUkip Because gay people shouldn't be able to control the weather.
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#WhyImVotingUkip Because Nigel says Romanian pixies will move to the bottom of my garden if I don't.
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#WhyImVotingUkip because I accidentally stood barefoot on a Lego piece this morning and I'm 146% sure the EU are to blame.
...continues for over 21,000 tweets at present.
