
UKIP leader Gerard Batten is starting to get as bad at Twitter as his predecessor Nigel Farage.
In this year alone he has already made social media blunders when talking about Ireland and when asking the Queen to suspend parliament.
His latest faux pas came after he tried to troll LBC radio for promoting an upcoming series of shows from prominent Labour MP's and the pro-EU Tory MP Anna Soubry.
Five days, five big names to host LBC shows next week, standing in for James O'Brien. @DavidLammy @EmilyThornberry… https://t.co/lXA313T9so— LBC (@LBC) 1550138638
Sensing that this would possibly be a bit anti-Brexit, Batten chose to reply to the tweet by subtly voicing his disdain for the forthcoming lineup.
Unfortunately for Batten, who is a 64-year-old man and a member of the European Parliament, he really should have spellchecked his tweet before posting it, as it contained a minor but glaring error which was duly pointed out by LBC's most prominent anti-Brexit broadcaster, James O'Brien, with a scathing tweet for the UKIP leader.
It’s ‘too’. You’re never going to integrate if you don’t master the language. https://t.co/hbQdyZaXGV— James Oh Brien (@James Oh Brien) 1550217725
Oh dear...
O'Brien wasn't the only person on Twitter to point out Batten's mistake and he was on the receiving end of brutal trolling.
@mrjamesob @Paulos_the_fog Mastering the master language...— Marc #FBPE Folgate 🇪🇺 (@Marc #FBPE Folgate 🇪🇺) 1550232879
Still, it's hardly the first time that UKIP has embarrassed themselves grammatically on social media.
I see you’re bribing people with free apostrophes again. https://t.co/6KjBL45sDV— The Irish Border (@The Irish Border) 1524583835
HT The Poke