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Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan has been mocked on social media this week with imaginary countryside rambles.

In May 2016 the Twitter account @DanHannanMEP posted: "15 miles up and down over Hampshire's sloping fields, pausing for a pie @vinehannington. God, I love England in May."
Alongside the words were an image of what was supposedly the Hampshire countryside. There was one problem: The photo he shared was taken in Glamorgan, Wales in 1998 by photographer John Ball.

Mr Ball told the BBC he was made aware of the "misuse" of the photograph a few days after the tweet in May 2016, and it was originally used in the Images of Wales feature on his website 18 years before.

The @DanHannanMEP account was suspended later in 2016, and evidence of the tweet exists only in screengrabs and reposts.
Although the erroneous photograph was tweeted over a year ago, and the blog Zelo Street interviewed Mr Ball in October 2016, it caught people's attention again this week and they have been keen to let Mr Hannan know of their imaginary walks.
Twitter user @twlldun used a stock photo of the Pyramid of Khafre to illustrate his walk through a town in Gloucestershire.

@twlldun said a tweet from the Independent's Tom Peck had made him aware of the image. "I missed it completely in 2016," he added.

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Juli 20, 2017