Game Of Thrones fans make the same joke as UKIP announces new leader

UKIP has a new leader.

The honour of leading the party forward has fallen on the shoulders of Henry Bolton, who will become the party's fourth leader in just over a year.

Bolton, an ex-soldier, won 30% of the vote, seeing off Anne Marie Waters's challenge. But wait... what's this? https://twitter.com/ArchieMaddocks/status/913781679126433794 Yes. Yes it was. And you, Archie W Maddocks, are not the only person to make such a comment... As Game of Thrones fans will testify, the Boltons - Roose, and even more so his bastard son Ramsay - were indeed 'megapricks'. Long before being ripped apart by dogs (don't give us that spoilers shit now - that was Season 6), Ramsay tortured Theon Greyjoy into submission, eventually cutting his dick off and sending it back over to the Iron Islands to his dad. Nice. Although nobody is suggesting the new UKIP leader is capable of kidnap and torture, or that he might one day be fed alive to a pack of dogs by his political opponents, plenty were quick to make the connection to Game of Thrones' most notorious characters... https://twitter.com/SamNonTheWiser/status/913779800766078976 https://twitter.com/RosieBrent/status/913778664394903553 https://twitter.com/colincoyle/status/913782553420685312 https://twitter.com/michaelmckay00/status/913787653388193792 https://twitter.com/Bloobird87/status/913789158933614593 https://twitter.com/PhiliusBoro/status/913778896025341953 https://twitter.com/BenProcterUK/status/913778628533669888 https://twitter.com/Annabel_Giles/status/913802509063467009 https://twitter.com/MagicManeTree/status/913799807919108097