UKIP wants people to boycott Walkers over Gary Lineker’s 2nd referendum support – our favourite 11 responses

UKIP MEP Gerard Batten wants people to stop buying Walkers crisps in protest at Gary Lineker coming out in support of a second Brexit referendum.

Can I suggest that Leavers boycott buying Walkers Crisps. If they see a dip in sales they’ll get the message and sack him. https://t.co/6oVG7zuZFv

— Gerard Batten MEP (@GerardBattenMEP) July 30, 2018

Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith joined in and said the Match of the Day presenter was abusing his £1.7m BBC position by getting involved in Brexit. Possibly the former Tory leader remembers when Lineker said this.

Iain Duncan Smith is either daft, a liar or a complete self-publicist. Then again there's not one i but 2 in Iain.

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) January 24, 2017

Anyway, here are our favourite responses to the UKIP Walkers ‘boycott’ so far. It’s going to get tasty …

1.

Considerably more than half of the UK's population will buy more Walkers products. I'll buy a family bag and I don't eat crisps. Walkers can anticipate a surge in sales.

— Look Behind You #FBPE #Finalsay (@LookBehindYou20) July 30, 2018

2.

Other parties have elected MPs. The most power you wield is a boycott of cheese and onion crisps.

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) July 30, 2018

3.

I'll buy a few large boxes and donate to the local food bank just to annoy you, UKIP berk.

— BurntPlasticCard (@nine_shields) July 30, 2018

4.

Post Brexit Britain. Day 1554. The army have not brought supplies in weeks. Food is scarce, we only have a box of cheese and onion walkers. We cannot eat them, out of protest. We are starving. https://t.co/A1FZTUgVDK

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) July 30, 2018

5.

Boycott them?

I've been stockpiling them as part of my post Brexit survival strategy….well to be honest it's more of a working white paper

— Moo (@Mooby_Doo) July 30, 2018

6.

Go on @walkers_crisps @GaryLineker, make this happen. pic.twitter.com/4CAYwdL2bo

— Dai Lama (@WelshDalaiLama) July 30, 2018

7.

The Walkers marketing department must be rubbing their hands with glee.

— Look Behind You #FBPE #Finalsay (@LookBehindYou20) July 30, 2018

8.

Hahaha haha "boycott Walkers crisps" hahaha haha said no, serious, politician ever

— NIALL (@Groundhog1963) July 30, 2018

9.

For pity's sake! This business of trying to get people fired from their non-political jobs for holding the "wrong" political opinions has gone way out of control. It's like some latter-day Inquisition. We shldn't all need to believe the same moral & political things to get along. https://t.co/Z8tL64sP4u

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) July 30, 2018

10.

Gerard and other UKIP members will soon change their tune when Walkers introduce their new Brexit range of pickled snoek, Spam and powdered egg flavours. https://t.co/QBYlahuLZV

— Peter Smith (@Redpeter99) July 30, 2018

11.

Campaign to replace Gary Lineker as the face of Walker's Crisps with a Union Jack teatowel and a Britain First meme about when kids didn't have computers.

— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) July 30, 2018

In the interests of balance and all that, there was also this.

I’m not buying anymore. My Lineker is absolutely fine because none of this affects him. He sits there in his ivory tower trying to tell people less well off how to feel and think.

— Tracy Edwards (@Psychnurse10) July 30, 2018

Make sure to check all the other brands @walkers_crisps produce & avoid them as well.

— Kevin Saunders (@h8kes) July 30, 2018

Good luck with that. It requires actual research.

— Mike Bevan de Courcey, Mutineer #FBPE (@MikeBevan_RG) July 30, 2018

As for Lineker, he had this to say.

This tweet from a year ago is being bandied about. Happy to admit I’ve now changed my mind. Didn’t envisage at the time that we’d ever contemplate a ‘’no deal Brexit’ and the ensuing carnage that would bring. https://t.co/xI90kHZBZQ

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) July 26, 2018

And this.

https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1022488296084172800

But final word to this person.

Loving the suit, is it.. prawn cocktail? pic.twitter.com/qak3rZzTd2

— JaneyK (@janeyk72) July 30, 2018