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Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party trolled on TripAdvisor over B&B

Harry Shukman
The Times
Reviews for Annapurna Guesthouse, the registered address of Nigel Farage’s new party, were unsympathetic
Reviews for Annapurna Guesthouse, the registered address of Nigel Farage’s new party, were unsympathetic
Harry Shukman
The Times

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has had to look for new headquarters after the guesthouse it was based in received hundreds of negative reviews online.

The party had registered its address on February 5 at the Annapurna Guesthouse, a bed and breakfast in Lingwood, Norfolk, run by the husband of Catherine Blaiklock, the party’s leader.

Trolls repeatedly left one-star reviews on the B&B’s listing on TripAdvisor, bringing the average rating down from 4.5 to three out of five stars. TripAdvisor has since deleted those reviews and suspended comments.

One fake reviewer pretended to be Gerard Batten, the leader of Ukip, and posted about what time to check in: “Any time before 1945 is acceptable, post-1970 becomes too inconvenient.”

“Couldn’t wait to vote leave,” added one reviewer.