A Tory MEP has been accused of illustrating a walk he was enjoying the Hampshire countryside by tweeting out stock photos of Wales from 1998.

Unbelievably, this isn’t the oddest part of this thread.

First up, that slightly unusual country walk.

How have I never seen this? Dan Hannan goes on imagined walk in Hampshire. Tweets stock pics of Wales. Is he mad? https://t.co/3vgg1DS2ii pic.twitter.com/vDV5G1t4QV — Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 17, 2017

Here’s the tweet.

And that familiar looking stock photo.

Yep, they’re the same alright.

No, the fun really starts when @tompeck suggested it might be a slightly unusual thing to do.

He went for a walk in the country & tweeted out a nice picture of countryside to go with it. You seriously want to claim that’s mendacious? — Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) July 17, 2017

Well I, like you, have got no idea if he went for an English country walk or not, because his picture is from Wales. — Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 17, 2017

I’ve got a pretty good idea if he went for an English country walk, cos he said he went for an English country walk. — Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) July 17, 2017

Well I haven’t, because his picture of his nice country walk was taken by someone else, in Wales, 20 years ago. — Tom Peck (@tompeck) July 17, 2017

if you went for an English country walk and wanted to post a picture, why wouldn’t you take a picture? — Josh (@SurreyCricBlog) July 17, 2017

Because whilst you are walking, you might want to concentrate on the walking, not on your phone. — Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) July 17, 2017

it takes about five seconds to take a picture… — Josh (@SurreyCricBlog) July 17, 2017

It also takes longer to search Google for a ten year old photo, save it to your phone then tweet it as your own. It’s weird isn’t it? — Jon the rascal (@giftedrascal) July 17, 2017

yeah, I don’t even care if he did or didn’t go on a walk…i just want to understand what the point of it was…what’s his goal?! — Josh (@SurreyCricBlog) July 17, 2017

And then, with joyous inevitability, this began.

Fifteen miles up and down over the slopes of Winterfell, pausing for a pie. God I love Westeros in the summer. pic.twitter.com/zrZaPSQMFb — Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) July 17, 2017

15 miles up and down Bowscale Fell. God, I love the Lake District pic.twitter.com/fRz9ey9PfZ — Henry Mance (@henrymance) July 17, 2017

15 miles up and down Hampshire’s sloping fields, pausing for a pie @VineHannington. God, I love England in May. #hannanviews pic.twitter.com/t4Lh5wmTrj — Laurence Horton (@laurencedata) July 17, 2017

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