No political campaign is without its humiliations and the satirical political campaign group Led By Donkeys have just activated their trap card. As announced on social media on Thursday, the group owns the domain www.thebrexitparty.com and is kindly willing to sell it to Nigel Farage and the party...provided he pays up £1,008,037 (at the time of publication), which the group would kindly donate to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
As the group explains on the page, which features floating ten-pound notes falling across Farage’s despondent-looking face, “Nigel Farage likes to think he’s a political genius, but most of us know he’s just an opportunist who preys on people’s fears. Anyone who’s failed seven times to get elected to Parliament (once beaten by a dolphin called Flipper) is no strategic guru. So perhaps it was no surprise when we noticed he forgot to buy the website for The Brexit Party - his shiny new ego vehicle.”
Several months after purchasing the domain, Led By Donkeys received a legal letter from Farage’s corporate lawyers at Wedlake Bell, complaining about copyright infringement for ripping off his logo and demanding they hand over the website. Funnily enough, the anti-EU crusader is using European law to attack the group.
Led By Donkeys responded to the claim with this, highlighting their goodwill: “However... in the spirit of goodwill and Christmas cheer we are willing to give it to him. For a million quid. All proceeds to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (the price goes up £50k a day).Over to you Mr Farage. If you really want this website then stump up the cash.”
In the meantime, the page also has a “Tory-Brexit Party electoral alliance advent calendar”, which will open doors each days to reveal “examples of lies, lunacy and hypocrisy.” The political campaign group uses satire to target pro-Brexit politicians and was founded in December 2018. Since then, the four founders have called out what they describe as “thermonuclear hypocrisy.”
It appears the Brexit Party has instead settled for the domain name www.thebrexitparty.org, having had the .com prize evade them.
