UKIP poster mistake leaves innocent woman inundated with hate calls
A blunder by UKIP caused a woman to be inundated with phone calls, some very abusive, after they accidentally printed her mobile phone number on campaign billboards about potholes.
The phone concerned was her work phone for her business as a photographer, which she had spent money marketing. After the UKIP billboards went up in Surrey, and pictures of them were posted on social media sites such as Twitter, Alex Hall (who lives on the opposite side of London from the area where the posters went up) started to receive large numbers of calls and messages - from prank calls or accusations of being a racist to a councillor phoning to talk about the billboard. The latter call alerted her to what had happened.
"People started phoning calling me a racist and swearing at me for no reason." she said.
“Now every time the phone rings I get anxious because it's not nice being harassed by people being so aggressive.
“Most of them don't even enter into conversation, they just shout things at me.”
When asked about this, UKIP blamed the mistake on a "printer error."
So if you see a UKIP billboard or poster, please don't ring any phone numbers on it - it may be a typo and you may be making life hell for some entirely innocent person.
Maybe the entire UKIP manifesto for the 2010 General Election was a typo too - hence Nigel Farage disowning it live on TV during an interview with Andrew Neill as you can watch here ...
The phone concerned was her work phone for her business as a photographer, which she had spent money marketing. After the UKIP billboards went up in Surrey, and pictures of them were posted on social media sites such as Twitter, Alex Hall (who lives on the opposite side of London from the area where the posters went up) started to receive large numbers of calls and messages - from prank calls or accusations of being a racist to a councillor phoning to talk about the billboard. The latter call alerted her to what had happened.
"People started phoning calling me a racist and swearing at me for no reason." she said.
“Now every time the phone rings I get anxious because it's not nice being harassed by people being so aggressive.
“Most of them don't even enter into conversation, they just shout things at me.”
When asked about this, UKIP blamed the mistake on a "printer error."
So if you see a UKIP billboard or poster, please don't ring any phone numbers on it - it may be a typo and you may be making life hell for some entirely innocent person.
Maybe the entire UKIP manifesto for the 2010 General Election was a typo too - hence Nigel Farage disowning it live on TV during an interview with Andrew Neill as you can watch here ...
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Not a policy in there, just some vague ambitions, which condradict each other. Its fab.
Enjoy
20. Scrapping the poorly planned HS2 project, saving up to £50bn
eh? - not spending is a saving? - I have decided not to buy a new Ferrari, thus I have just saved £150,000. Bet you wish you could save your money as fast as I can.
Of course almost anyone's list of 100 things to do is going to contain some sensible ones - how many people are going to argue against
"Cracking down on honour killings, female genital mutilation, and forced marriages"
or
"Promoting the employment of young, British workers"
Although most of the sensible ones are already being done by the present government (I counted sixteen of those) or have been Conservative policy well before they were also adopted by UKIP (another eleven).
The one which made me laugh out loud was the number 18, the Single Farm Payment - introduced by Margaret Beckett when Labour was in power to hand out EU money, and it has been a total disaster.