There are some stories that you can’t help but pay attention to.
The Prime Minister of the UK allegedly inserting “a private part of his anatomy” into a dead pig’s mouth is one of those stories.
It’s times like this that Twitter comes into its own, and here are some of the best reactions we saw.
First we had the early mischief makers…
Wanted to find out more about the Piers Gav Society. Someone's amended the Wiki page already https://t.co/zHlieTrpsR pic.twitter.com/pIOPbS2C71
— Conor Pope (@Conorpope) September 20, 2015
Then a few people spotted some strange coincidences…
https://twitter.com/BarackObadyin/status/645727941838663680
https://twitter.com/Grant_Johnson87/status/645727764608249856
https://twitter.com/grthdvd/status/645853044123508736
*pins up all the recent pig stories*
My god…how deep does this thing go? http://t.co/gGLDNdiLJz #DavidCameron— Sarah_Woolley (@Sarah_Woolley) September 20, 2015
Soon the pop culture references began to flow…
https://twitter.com/BookStannis/status/645730435801214977
South Park on Cameron:
"Why would you call me a pig f***er, Philip?"
"Well first of all, you f*** pigs." #baeofpigs pic.twitter.com/5s70dZ7pSe— Oli Franklin-Wallis (@olifranklin) September 21, 2015
And there was some debate over which hashtag we ought to be using…
https://twitter.com/mpopv/status/645772667665059842
https://twitter.com/Alex_Edelman/status/645754576524705792
Some strange denials had to be issued…
Shit. Turns out Black Mirror is a documentary series.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
Just to clear it up: nope, I’d never heard anything about Cameron and a pig when coming up with that story. So this weirds me out.
— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015
And in the end it all came back to politics…
https://twitter.com/TheMediaTweets/status/645719226674716672
If Corbyn just tweets one solitary pig-face emoji that'll be it, game over, election won. https://t.co/MGuC9FukBD
— keewa.bsky.social 🇵🇸 (@keewa) September 20, 2015
