Pro-EU campaign group mocks Nigel Farage by buying a Brexit Party website domain

Nigel Farage has been ridiculed by a Remainer campaign group who claim the Brexiteer politician threatened them with European legal action if they did not remove their hoax website – thebrexitparty.com.

Led By Donkeys, a group of pro-EU activists, have been taunting the Brexit Party leader since they snapped up the domain, even offering to sell him the site for over £1million.

The campaigners said the entire fee, which will increase by £50,000 each day, would be donated to the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants as a further swipe at the right-wing leader.

Oliver Knowles, co-founder of Led By Donkeys, said they bought the website in May when the newly-founded Brexit party stormed to a decisive victory in the European elections.

The letter, purportedly from Mr Fargage’s lawyers, implied the website had ripped off the Brexit party logo, which was protected ‘as a European Union design under the provisions of Council Regulation 6/2002

Led By Donkeys, a group of pro-EU activists, have been taunting the Brexit Party leader since they snapped up the domain, even offering to sell him the site for over £1million

And on the site, the group recently posted: ‘Scroll forward a few months and we just received an 8-page legal letter from his corporate lawyers Wedlake Bell coming after us for copyright and intellectual property infringement. 

‘And guess what? Farage is using European law to attack us.’

The letter, purportedly from Mr Fargage’s lawyers, implied the website had ripped off the Brexit party logo, which was protected ‘as a European Union design under the provisions of Council Regulation 6/2002’.

The website features a rising total of the cost, along with an ‘election advent calendar’ – which offers examples of the ‘lies, lunacy and hypocrisy’ of the Conservatives and Brexit Party every day until December 12.   

Mr Knowles said: ‘When Farage and his millionaire backers set up the Brexit Party they didn’t have the foresight to buy up all of the websites with their own name – and we did.

‘With the advent calendar, we are telling the story of the Brexit Party and the Tory Party who are now election partners – and the threat they represent to the country.’

Asked why they chose the immigrant support charity, Mr Knowles said: ‘Nigel Farage peddles an ideology of hatred and division and it felt like this would be a good and just cause.’  

The website features a rising total of the cost, along with an ‘election advent calendar’

All versions of the Brexit Party logo have been removed from the current version of the website.

Behind the first door of the advent calendar features a video of Mr Farage saying ‘we’re going to have to move to an insurance-based system of healthcare’.

‘There will be a series of other pieces of information about their collaboration and highlighting the lunacy and hypocrisy of their Brexit position over the past few months,’ said Mr Knowles.

‘Some are describing it as the most important election in a generation and we’re inclined to agree.’

In a statement, the Brexit Party said: ‘The Brexit Party have issued a legal letter, via lawyers, Wedlake Bell to Led by Donkeys requesting they cease and desist from using the Brexit Party logo and Brexit Party materials on posters, document download site and via their website at thebrexitparty.com.

‘They have offered to comply with these requests, but so far they are refusing to transfer the domain name.’

Led By Donkeys has made its name protesting against Brexit with various large-scale projects in public spaces, first going viral in early 2019 by sharing politicians’ past comments on billboards.