Skip To Content

    21 Amusing Reasons People On Twitter Say They're Voting UKIP

    It would appear the motivations given for #WhyImVotingUkip have become slightly less serious over time.

    Last night some UKIP supporters decided to explain why they backed their party.

    UKIP is the only party that supports grammar schools and a resurgence in social mobility #WhyImVotingUkip

    Why are you voting UKIP this year? Tell us, tell Twitter and let's get it trending! #WhyImVotingUkip

    And pretty soon #WhyImVotingUkip was trending. Except...

    1.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because I once ate some French cheese which gave me a tummy ache

    2.

    #WhyImVotingUKIP I'm incompetent enough to fear that my job actually might be taken by an unqualified Romanian who doesn't speak English

    3.

    4.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because I once got stung by a wasp and I bet it was from the EU

    5.

    #WhyImVotingUkip guy in the corner shop kept the 1p change i didn't need

    6.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because I find Venice frightening and difficult to navigate. I think I saw a ghost there.

    7.

    #WhyImVotingUkip David Cameron didn't wish me happy birthday

    8.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because I ordered a chicken sheesh but I received a lamb doner. Dinner and country ruined.

    9.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because voting far right and blaming minorities after an economic downturn worked so well before, let's try that again

    10.

    #WhyImVotingUkip Because I like to think that people from other countries who live in mine are the main reason I have failed in life.

    11.

    #WhyImVotingUkip To try and leave Man City.

    12.

    #WhyImVotingUkip SIk off FibDems an NuLieBores and torees r week abuot they putting mosckes on my kids' schooles and wearin scarfs go home

    13.

    #whyImvotingUKIP because I can't tell what accent Aiden Gillen does on #GameOfThrones & I don't want us all to speak like that by 2020.

    14.

    #WhyImvotingUkip because I know that a public school educated stockbroker is an anti establishment figure

    15.

    #WhyImVotingUkip I had to move to Spain to get away from all the immigrants who are ruining Britain.

    16.

    #WhyImVotingUkip Because we must honour those who died to defeat fascism by voting for it.

    17.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because Romanians and The Gays are responsible for my ignorance, indolence and inability to keep up a buy-to-let mortgage.

    18.

    #WhyImVotingUkip: because no political party is standing up for the white, middle-class, heterosexual male, and that needs to change.

    19.

    #WhyImVotingUkip Because gay people shouldn't be able to control the weather.

    20.

    #WhyImVotingUkip Because Nigel says Romanian pixies will move to the bottom of my garden if I don't.

    21.

    #WhyImVotingUkip because I accidentally stood barefoot on a Lego piece this morning and I'm 146% sure the EU are to blame.

    ...continues for over 21,000 tweets at present.