Dan Hannan: Ribbed with rambling tweets


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DATE: July 22, 2017, 2:52 a.m.

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  1. Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has been mocked on social media this week with imaginary countryside rambles.
  2. In May 2016 the Twitter account @DanHannanMEP posted: "15 miles up and down over Hampshire's sloping fields, pausing for a pie @vinehannington. God, I love England in May."
  3. Alongside the words were an image of what was supposedly the Hampshire countryside. There was one problem: The photo he shared was taken in Glamorgan, Wales in 1998 by photographer John Ball.
  4. Mr Ball told the BBC he was made aware of the "misuse" of the photograph a few days after the tweet in May 2016, and it was originally used in the Images of Wales feature on his website 18 years before.
  5. The @DanHannanMEP account was suspended later in 2016, and evidence of the tweet exists only in screengrabs and reposts.

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