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>You can be so posh that you accuse the current PM of raping a dead pig's head in the widest circulating tabloid and face absolutely no consequences. I was und

• cvcount 4y ago
  There doesn't seem to be any good reason to believe it did: the authors of the book don't even back up the anecdote particularly strongly. https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/oct/09/isabel-oakeshott-david-cameron-piggatecall-me-dave https://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2015/oct/0... "The thing to point out about that story is that there is no need for burden of proof on a colourful anecdote where we’re quite upfront about our own reservations about whether to take it seriously."
• notahacker 4y ago
  There were no consequences because the Prime Minister didn't sue, both because Prime Ministers generally have more important and less embarrassing things to be doing that testifying in court that they never stuck their penis inside a roast piglet for a funny photo during their adolescence (even if they didn't!), and because the authors knew how to word rumours and innuendo so that it probably didn't fall foul of libel law, and that a PM they knew personally would go all "I'm not even going to dignify that with a response" in response rather than spend the next few years pursuing a vendetta against them.
  • lostlogin 4y ago
    An alternative explanation for him not suing which I just made, is that the Prime Minister was part of a Black Mirror marketing campaign. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Anthem_(Black_Mirror) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_National_Anthem_(Black_M...