No 10 ridiculed after adding poppy to David Cameron Facebook picture

An hour later, Downing Street deleted the picture and replaced it with one of the prime minister actually wearing a poppy, but not before the original photo had been spotted by other people on social media. Photograph: Twitter

Downing Street has been ridiculed for digitally adding a remembrance poppy to a photograph of David Cameron that it was using on its Facebook page.

Twitter user Dylan Morris first spotted the change on Monday afternoon, tweeting:

Has the official 10 Downing Street Facebook page photoshopped a poppy onto David Cameron for their new picture? pic.twitter.com/inLOOVcR5G

— Dylan H Morris. (@dylanhm) November 2, 2015

They definitely have. Here's the original picture from July. Embarrassing. pic.twitter.com/SX9xOJsjor

— Dylan H Morris. (@dylanhm) November 2, 2015

An hour later, Downing Street deleted the picture and replaced it with one of the prime minister actually wearing a poppy, but not before the original photo had been spotted by other people on social media.

Update: they’ve changed it to one of David Cameron wearing an actual poppy. That was fun while it lasted. pic.twitter.com/tOhnk0agq4

— Dylan H Morris. (@dylanhm) November 2, 2015

The incident was quickly dubbed Poppygate, and the internet reacted in its usual way.

.@BestoftheMail @dylanhm Now with added patriotism. pic.twitter.com/TQ26i6mUmy

— Skeptical Rob (@wcskeptic) November 2, 2015

Here's a poppy wearing a photoshopped David Cameron badge pic.twitter.com/8KPdPCTEEI

— ste (@stevahen) November 2, 2015

@paulwaugh @mrjamesob @dylanhm Thank god they didn't go for the first draft of that photoshop! pic.twitter.com/FexJreOBST

— Ian Payne (@01101001) November 2, 2015

Number 10's first crude attempt to photoshop a poppy onto an old pic of David Cameron was an even bigger blunder. pic.twitter.com/AXFyG2CcVU

— David Whitley (@mrdavidwhitley) November 2, 2015

I see NO evidence that David Cameron’s poppy pic was Photoshopped. People need to stop jumping to conclusions. pic.twitter.com/xISpGwESD1

— Tom Phillips (@flashboy) November 2, 2015

The original photograph of David Cameron was uploaded to Facebook in July and has been used widely in Downing Street publicity materials. A No 10 spokesperson blamed the incident on an “oversight” and said the digitally enhanced picture had now been deleted.