UKIP are clearly very keen on cosying up to Donald Trump.
Nigel Farage in particular has been a vocal supporter of the President-Elect for some time now, and Trump has in turn espoused the credentials of the son-of-a-stockbroker man-of-the-people for a diplomatic role between the UK and the US.
In many ways, it is easy to see why. Both UKIP and Trump are proudly anti-immigration in their policies and manifestos, unashamedly nationalist in their rhetoric, and have successfully managed to realign mainstream politics further to the right.
Eager to take advantage of the Trump-Farage 'special relationship', UKIP's new leader Paul Nuttall took to Radio 4's Today programme to praise the Donald, and enthuse about what his premiership could mean for the UK as a whole.
Except in attempting to relay Trump's love of the English (presumably forgetting that he supposedly represents the rest of the UK too), the party leader ended up suggesting the very opposite.
"I'm massively excited about Donald Trump! It's clear he's an Anglophobe..." explained the man once famously described on Twitter as a 'bad Bootle UKIP meff'.
We're pretty sure he meant 'Anglophile' (a person who is fond of or greatly admires England) rather than 'Anglophobe' (a person having a strong dislike of England), but in this age of FAKE NEWS, who knows...
https://twitter.com/rosschawkins/status/821274109862625280
https://twitter.com/IsabelHardman/status/821272116498755584
https://twitter.com/LauraSlinn/status/821275502220550144
https://twitter.com/andybarc/status/821275479470669826
