Burger King's Surprisingly Political Ad in the U.K. Takes Aim at Brexit

It mocks the divisive campaign's most notorious 'whopper'

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Burger King has gone viral once again with a bus ad that puts the heat on Westminster politicians in the U.K.

Placed on the side of a red London bus by global creative agency BBH, the ad is simple, but quite direct indeed: “Another Whopper on the side of a bus. Must be an election.”

The ad references Vote Leave’s notorious Brexit campaign bus ad, which claimed that the U.K. sends £350 million (over $458 million) to the EU—a statement that U.K.

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