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Anti-EU web addresses provide surprising message from Rick Astley
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 18 April 2016
Just when you thought there was no possible way ‘rickrolling’ could remain funny, someone’s gone and used it to troll those campaigning for the UK to leave the EU.
Rather than providing information supporting the campaign, voteleave.com, voteleave.co.uk, voteleave.net, voteleave.org and voteleave.eu all point to the video for ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ by Rick Astley.
Those domains were seemingly registered last September before the official Vote Leave campaign could get their hands of them. And in what is perhaps another cruel twist of irony (or another example of Brussels meddling in our affairs, depending on how you look at it) the man behind the prank is Belgian.
Of course, most people don’t both much with URLs these days, so it’s debatable what effect the joke will have on the campaign. Still, this is another example of anti-EU politicians being unable to look after something as basic as a URL.
