The Friday Joke 28/11/2014 - UKIP can't tell a Cathedral from a Mosque

Earlier this year I visited Westminster Cathedral and posted this tweet

Rog T ‏@Barneteye

Visiting Westminster Cathedral. Saw this. A timely reminder as to why I wont be voting #UKIP

 

Little could I imagine that the cathedral would form the centre of a Twitter storm, as Nigel Farage's UKIP branch mistook the Cathedral for a Mosque! The Guardian tells the full story here

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/27/-sp-ukip-mistakes-westminster-cathedral-for-mosque?CMP=fb_gu

It seems that the BBC were doing a straw poll outside the Cathedral on whether Nigel Farage has what it takes to be Prime Minister outside the Cathedral, and UKIP took exception to this.

Of course we all make mistakes. I suppose that it is quite easy to mistake the largest Roman Catholic Cathedral in the UK for a mosque if you are a bit dim. Luckily it seems that the people of Great Britain are only too happy to help to educate UKIP as to exactly what isn't a Mosque, to avoid further embarrassments. If you do a twitter search under #Thingsthatarenotmosques - Check it out (especially if you are a UKIPper and want to avoid embarrassment).

https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23ThingsThatAreNotMosques&src=tyah

Here are a few of my favourites.

Nigel Ohno ‏@nigelohno 4m4 minutes ago

Nigel! Oh No! moley345: RT sturdyAlex: #ThingsThatAreNotMosques Nigel_Farage

Helen Anderson ‏@Persipan 19m19 minutes ago

#ThingsThatAreNotMosques - It does contain palm trees, so could be confusing... 

Yrotitna ‏@yrotitna 20m20 minutes ago

@ukip_sththanet Moscow is a city not a design & build company specialising in mosques #ThingsThatAreNotMosques

Finally, we thought we'd add our own picture from Mill Hill, just in case!!!

Rog T ‏@Barneteye 9s10 seconds ago

#UKIP_STTHANET #ThingsThatAreNotMosques Just in case there are any confused #UKIP members in Mill Hill, this isn't