Peter Gammons is UKIP’s London mayoral candidate and people can’t quite believe it – 7 meaty responses

UKIP have announced their candidate for mayor of London and it’s a man called Peter Gammons. It really is.

Dr Peter Gammons (@Gammons4London) is UKIP’s candidate for London Mayor, taking our fight to the Khanage left behind by Labour.

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— UKIP (@UKIP) November 12, 2020

Dr Gammons – doctor of what we’re still trying to work out, but that’s what it says here – is running under the slogan ‘Vote Gammons for London Mayor’. Come on, this has got to be a joke.

Apparently he’s an ‘internationally respected motivational speaker and an award-winning and best-selling author’. He is also, presumably, a born and bred Gammon.

Anyway, it prompted no end of responses as you might imagine and these are our favourites.

1.

Dr Peter Gammons is running for London Mayor on behalf of a party led by Dick Braine. This is not a joke, it is merely a fact. https://t.co/6mBWvmjSN7

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) November 12, 2020

2.

ukip having an account for their mayoral candidate called Gammons For London is just the most ukip thing I cannot https://t.co/KDbvDABRtw

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) November 12, 2020

3.

https://twitter.com/BeardedGenius/status/1326868284164218881?s=20

4.

Whoever's writing the script for 2020 just jumped the shark. https://t.co/TKKK9ocIrE

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) November 12, 2020

5.

I hope his campaign is called Back Gammon. https://t.co/sxhqXX19d9

— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) November 12, 2020

6.

on the stroke of midnight, new year's eve 2020, i died and my brain was put in a jar. scientists have been pulsing it with electricity ever since. none of you can see me this, because none of this is real. i am in a simulation. dr peter gammons is a figment of my dying mind https://t.co/tYiz8rVjLm

— Joel Golby (@joelgolby) November 12, 2020

7.

you wouldn’t be laughing at this if he was called peter prosciutto. disgusting classism yet again. https://t.co/FpK0HMWTwz

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) November 12, 2020

Basically, this.

There are no words https://t.co/WDvmnt0INc

— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) November 12, 2020

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