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#Piggate
Holy cow. British politics are a pigsty.
There is of course this new clean Labour leader who became a vegetarian and animal rights activist after seeing the cruelty on a pig farm he worked at. But there is also David Cameron.
A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event, involving a dead pig. His extraordinary suggestion is that the future PM inserted a private part of his anatomy into the animal’s mouth.
The source — himself an MP — first made the allegation out of the blue at a business dinner in June 2014. Lowering his voice, he claimed to have seen photographic evidence of this disgusting ritual.
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The pig’s head, he claimed, had been resting on the lap of a Piers Gaveston society member while Cameron performed the act.
The MP also gave us the dimensions of the alleged photograph, and provided the name of the individual who he claims has it in his keeping.
Yeeeks. Didn't he read the bible?
"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine"
So who should the Brits choose? The vegetarian or the man who, allegedly, committed necrophilia with a brave police officer?
Will Cameron confess that he loves pork? Literally. Or will he deny it: "I did not have sexual relations with that pig." So far Downing Street is tight snouted.
Will he claim that #piggate is total hogwash? Would that save his bacon now he's been squealed on? Pigs might fly …
His admirers though are defending him:
@LouiseMensch
Let's be clear that the story is rubbish, number one. And number two if it isn't, to quote the anti-nowhere league, "So f****** what?"
@LouiseMensch
It's bacon my evening this one. I like politicians who cut pork, but this story more of a porkie. No pic? No pig.
I don't think that the "if it isn't rubbish …" line is really helpful. It's okay for her that men fuck pigs just because her husband does it all the time?
Besides that. Isn't the journalistic point of scandalous tales to get a response to them, no matter which one, and to then expand on it? The best response is therefore no response at all.
Now for the porcine side of the story:
@CameronPig
Look, it's embarrassing for me, too.
@CameronPig
I ask that you respect my privacy in this difficult time.
@CameronPig
The whole episode left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
@CameronPig
.@David_Cameron it was a one time thing. Stop texting me.
Oh well. She was young, she needed the money. Always the same story.
I don't care much about Cameron. #IStandwithPorky. Or is it Kermit who I should feel sorry for?
Late at night, sloppy work, my bad. So amend that to “long-time back bencher.” In Opposition or Government, a weaker figure than a Senator or Representative, due to the nature of parliamentary politics.
The larger point should be clear — many, many more far more powerful officials and well-connected figures amongst the Tories and Blairites bear far, far more culpability for Savile’s crimes. Like, maybe, folks who employed him and freaking knighted him?
This item from the Telegraph in late 2014 is clear who is to blame – the Royals and Thatcher to blame for Jimmy Savile scandal. Fellow Beeb presenter Noel Edmunds said of his colleague:
“Savile was in deep with the Royals, with Mrs Thatcher, with the hospitals and with Broadmoor.
“There’s a whole establishment that let him into its heart. Not just the BBC.” [emphasis added]
Corbyn is many things, but I don’t think our leftist backbencher, vilified by Fleet St., is in the ranks of the Establishment.
This item from The Express makes it clear, while there were rumors in entertainment circles, nothing was public knowledge. As early as 1978, Johnny Rotten told the Beeb in a suppressed interview, Savile was “into all sorts of seediness. We all know about it but we’re not allowed to talk about it. I know some rumours.”
I’m glad to see Lydon was able to Rise to the challenge; the Beeb banned him for years thereafter, he says. The dirt on Savile only became public in 2012, after his death.
And several items noted, had those actually in power actually had looked, Savile was fairly open about his activities in his auto-biography.
These attempts to tar Corbyn with this brush stem from July of this year. Given Fleet Street’s hatred for the man, this is surprising balance from the Daily Mail. They emanated from a fellow Labour MP, Mann. Not a disinterested defender of children and upholder of the law, by the way – slated to be a minister in the shadow cabinet of Yvette Cooper. I would note Mann is a key figure on the official anti-semitism committee. These allegations surfaced after highlighting his solidarity with the Palestinians failed to kill his numbers; a number of Jewish organizations there aided that campaign.
Please note here, if you would, the character of Geoffrey Dickens. A boy crying wolf immediately came to mind. Even Mann in his letter noted that “There are many people who also rubbished the idiosyncratic Mr. Dickens” and allowed that Corbyn only “inadvertently helped the rubbishing.”
Your a bigger anti-semite than most fascists, and a bigger hard-ass on Corbyn than his accuser. At least you’re consistent on this point.
This is just some blogger, but I think they make some valid points and comparisons. Play a very minor part in a sordid affair, you’re not qualified to be PM. But bleeding howl for senseless, destructive wars in Iraq and Syria, you get to be Home Secretary.
And I again reiterate, the English Labour voters, with much more knowledge of the allegations and a far greater stake in the outcome, clearly did not take them seriously. Neither do I.
Posted by: rufus magister | Sep 25 2015 0:11 utc | 77
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