Claims that David Cameron once put “a private part of his anatomy into a dead pig’s mouth” sent Twitter into a frenzy of Photoshopped pics, porcine puns and gasping disbelief.
Hashtags #Hameron #Oink and #piggate started trending on the social network minutes after the Daily Mail front page containing the allegations was revealed on Sunday evening.
Charlie Brooker, the satirist and broadcaster, was quick to respond to comparisons made between the claims in Lord Ashcroft’s unauthorised biography and his dystopic comedy-drama Black Mirror, in which a fictional prime minister has sex with a pig.
Shit. Turns out Black Mirror is a documentary series.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
There were bemused reactions from some politicians.
Typical! David Cameron once again hogging the headlines at the Lib Dem Conference.
— Paddy Ashdown (@paddyashdown) September 21, 2015
I have been writing my #gpconf speech tonight. I have not been distracted. At all.
— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) September 20, 2015
Political journalists competed to claim the best prime minister pig pun prize.
This explains Dave's big policy fail. We misheard. He's in favour of Pig Society.
— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) September 20, 2015
Whoever squealed on Dave must be a real trotter #imHereAllWeek
— James Lyons (@STJamesl) September 20, 2015
Some Twitter users dug up unfortunate pictures.
No comment: pic.twitter.com/6IEX3gM2CL
— Tony Barrett (@TonyBarretTimes) September 20, 2015
Ed Miliband’s bacon sandwich debacle made an inevitable return.
"Dave did WHAT with this pig?" pic.twitter.com/6cF26GYQaT
— evil monster (@blueliberal1) September 20, 2015
Strange stories from the past are looking even stranger.
Well this looks kind of suspicious in retrospect: http://t.co/7R4sKp4aQM pic.twitter.com/Me3JHy2W7q
— Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) September 20, 2015
Some felt the real revelation was the claim that Supertramp was playing during alleged dope-smoking sessions in Cameron’s student room.
What on earth was David Cameron doing listening to Supertramp in 1980s? Truly shocking revelation in Ashcroft book
— Robert Peston (@Peston) September 21, 2015
James Delingpole, a friend of the future prime minister at Oxford, was quoted by the Daily Mail about drug-taking by Cameron. He has since responded.
I deny everything. We didn't inhale. Or something.
— James Delingpole (@JamesDelingpole) September 20, 2015
Journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan could not resist a dig.
Oink. cc @David_Cameron
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) September 21, 2015
Others went for a more surrealistic approach.
In the back of Cameron's car like... pic.twitter.com/7iKuP9uXbY
— John Gusman (@johndavidgusman) September 20, 2015
And what did Downing Street say? No 10 declined to comment on the unofficial book but a Conservative source said it did not recognise any of the allegations made on the front page of the Daily Mail.
