Joey Barton's best and worst tweets

QPR footballer Joey Barton apologises on Twitter for describing Ukip as the best of 'four really ugly girls'

Joey Barton of Queens Park Rangers
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Footballer Joey Barton has apologised on Twitter after describing Ukip as the best of "four really ugly girls" on the BBC's Question Time programme.

During the live debate, Barton said that in the last election Ukip was the "best of a bad bunch". Then he added: "If I am somewhere and there were four really ugly girls, I'm thinking, 'Well, she's not the worst'."

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