With claims over the last few days that Vladimir Putin and Daesh would back Leave, and Hitler would back Remain, the National wondered what Kim Jong-un thought. Unfortunately the North Korean embassy didn’t return our calls. It’s not the first time claims have been made about how Daesh and Hitler would vote in a referendum. In two separate fairly preposterous interventions, both were said to back independence during the latter stages of the 2014 campaign up here. What we’ve not had yet is the debate on how Rabbie Burns would have voted in the EU referendum? Expect that any day soon. Magneto came out in favour of Remain yesterday. Sir Ian McKellen, who plays the X-men’s evil metal moving mutant, said it was the EU’s record on LGBT rights that would make him back a remain vote: “It bothers me a bit that if Europe begins to break up then the idea that gay people should be looked after may go out the window. “I think on those grounds, that’s why I’ll be voting to stay in.” Meanwhile, in possibly his most bizarre claim of the campaign so far, Boris Johnson said the EU stops people in Britain buying more than three bananas at a time. “It is absurd that we are told that you cannot sell bananas in bunches of more than two or three,” Johnson told an adoring crowd. It is absurd, it’s also patently not true, as anyone who has ever bought a bunch of bananas will know. Maybe he said bananas but actually meant packets of paracetamol. Talking of bizarre interventions, Tinder, the ruthlessly efficient dating app, is being mobilised for the referendum campaign. The Prime Minister is signing up in a bid to get more people out to vote on June 23. He told The Times: “We are always looking for ways to try and encourage people to register to vote.” And what, asked nobody ever, is Ukip’s David Coburn up to? Well it seems he’s mostly complaining about the amount of celebrity coverage in the Independent. “Who is Jennifer Lawrence? Why is she getting so much coverage?” he tweeted to the newspaper about the Oscar winning actress.
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