It's not uncommon for UKIP and its various, ever-shifting leadership to make rather bizarre claims.

It wasn't that long ago when Henry Bolton, former leader, claimed that he could kill a badger with his bare hands.

Or when Paul Nuttall, another former leader, claimed he was a professional footballer for Tranmere Rovers and that he lost friends in the Hillsborough disaster (neither of which are true).

Or when the party's manifesto wanted to make the London Underground Circle line back into a circle again.

I could go on for longer, but the point is that this is a party in which wild claims abound.

Now, thanks to UKIP's group leader for the party in the London assembly, we can add another bizarre statement to the list.

Peter Whittle launched an odd attack on the BBC yesterday when he tweeted "I’ve taken a picture of my lunch for posterity, because like the dodo, this will soon be extinct. According to the nice man on the BBC."

I’ve taken a picture of my lunch for posterity, because like the dodo, this will soon be extinct. According to the nice man on the BBC. 😥 pic.twitter.com/TavFVDaNEy — Peter Whittle AM (@prwhittle) July 31, 2018

Attached was a picture of what looks like a cheese and ham sandwich.

We suspect the tweet was in response to Jim Winship, from the British Sandwich Association (BSA), warning that post-Brexit delays in importing food could have a serious impact on the UK sandwich industry.

Winship claims that reduced imports mean reduced variety and availability – something that Whittle took to mean the BSA were claiming Britain would permanently run out of sandwiches.

However, if you think that's odd, it gets better.

That isn't Peter's lunch.

It's a photo of a sandwich on the Kraft website...

We have officially reached a political tipping point for UKIP, where even claims about what they had for lunch must be treated with a degree of scepticism.