Knowing me, knowing EU

In things that actually happened in Britain, in 2016, Nigel Farage and Bob Geldof led anti- and pro-EU flotillas down the Thames for a spot of small-scale naval warfare.

With the referendum on Britain's future in the EU just a week away, the campaign is increasingly starting to resemble satire.

And, as the excellent Political Partridge Twitter account pointed out, Nigel Farage was caught in an almost impossibly perfect Alan Partridge pose while sailing down the Thames:

Sadly, there were no dead cows in sight...

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