The Daily Telegraph reports that “British pensioners” pictured on current BNP electoral leaflets are actually Italian models. Italian photographer Luca Di Filippo confirmed that the elderly couple in the photo captioned ‘we’ve seen how this country has declined’ were actually his parents, who had only ever visited this country as tourists and do not share the views of the BNP.

The Spitfire pictured on the front of the leaflet has been identified as one assigned to the squadron of brave Poles who came over to this country to help defend us against the Nazis.

To complete a trio of mis-firing attributions, UKIP call in aid Winston Churchill on their leaflet. This is the same Winston Churchill who said to an audience in Zürich: “[…] re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and to provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom. We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

More extracts from the Churchill speech are here.

[Update, 2009-5-20] Yet another fake by BNP, using a purloined picture of an ex-guardsmen and putting words into his mouth which he rejects. Liberal Democrat Voice and the Sun’s web-site have the story.

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