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    Dear Siblings,

    There is a tabloid news report out that Cameron put his penis
    in the mouth of a dead pig, and that there is photographic evidence of this.

    I'm not kidding.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ngdon-boy.html

    Quote But Cameron went a great deal further. He also got involved in the notorious Oxford dining society, the Piers Gaveston, named after the lover of Edward II, which specialises in bizarre rituals and sexual excess.

    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.

    My co-author Isabel Oakeshott and I initially assumed this was a joke. It was therefore a surprise when, some weeks later, the MP repeated the allegation.
    A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig while at university. The PM is pictured holding a pig in recent years
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    A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig while at university. The PM is pictured holding a pig in recent years

    Some months later, he repeated it a third time, providing a little more detail. 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.

    It's obviously very gossip-worthy that the PM stuck his dick in a dead pig's mouth.
    I'm sure this story is _meant_ to damage his career.

    The question is: What's the story, behind the story ?

    Was it payback for allowing the paedophilia investigations to be carried out ?

    Was it simply treachery from a colleague that wants his job ?

    Is the govt not doing as it's told by it's American masters ?

    Any thoughts or theories... are most welcome

    be happy :-)

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    This is revolting and disgusting - just the kind of aberrant behaviour that one always suspects occurs at get-togethers of creatures of this ilk. I'm glad it's being exposed. (no pun intended)

    But could someone please change the spelling in the title to "tale"? Unless they also did something repulsive with the tail of the poor beast, in which case I don't want to know about it.

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    Hello Siblings,

    This story is going to be really big and extremely damaging.

    Here's rt.com's coverage, together with some of the early jokes.
    http://www.rt.com/uk/316045-cameron-dead-pig-jokes/

    The jokes will just keep going and going for months.
    (Probably long enough to increase the chances of a Corbyn win
    at the next election)

    be happy :-)

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    Quote Posted by Fellow Aspirant (here)
    But could someone please change the spelling in the title to "tale"? Unless they also did something repulsive with the tail of the poor beast, in which case I don't want to know about it.
    Done ... you got lucky and I happened to notice your request .
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    Quote Posted by Fellow Aspirant (here)
    This is revolting and disgusting - just the kind of aberrant behaviour that one always suspects occurs at get-togethers of creatures of this ilk. I'm glad it's being exposed. (no pun intended)

    But could someone please change the spelling in the title to "tale"? Unless they also did something repulsive with the tail of the poor beast, in which case I don't want to know about it.

    Brian
    IMO, it's no different as a control mechanism than the speculated thing of the skull and bones, where new members, initiates, apparently lie down in a coffin and tell of their deepest secrets, or at least some of their deepest secrets. This provides a leverage of a sort on the individual.
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    Interesting time on Social Media regarding this:
    #piggate

    Oh & BBC radio 4 evidently just ran the story lol

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    There is also the 'revelation' that he took drugs, specifically cocaine......... I'd be more shocked if the story stated he had not taken drugs.

    What is interesting though, is the fact that this is in the press at this time. And the fact that it is lord ashcroft who has received an apparent snub by not being handed a promised 'significant position', after palming over £8 million in tory party sponsorship......... no chump-change by anyones' standard.

    So there it is, all laid out on a Monday morning. How the political parties' work........ and a brief glimpse of the next layer of power above the prime minister.

    And of course the timing of this is the real story.


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    Cool Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    Do you remember a program called Black Mirror?
    There is an episode called "National Anthem"
    Well art imitates life yet again in the past (2011) predicting the future.

    Check this out



    Here is full episode not best quality due to copywrite



    There is a story line interwoven into the premise in the OP.

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    Coincidence?

    Black Mirror episode in which:

    Quote The opening programme to the series is a political thriller in which Prime Minister Michael Callow (Rory Kinnear) faces a huge and shocking dilemma when Princess Susannah, Duchess of Beaumont (Lydia Wilson), a much-loved member of the Royal Family, is kidnapped. For her safe return, the Prime Minister must have live sexual intercourse with a pig on national television, with a list of technical specifications designed to make it impossible to fake.
    Source
    Why yes I do remember it...



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    Default Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    LOL! Who said Monday's are not fun?
    Now, let's wait for his public statement assuring every citizen with words: 'I did NOT have sexual relations with that piggy'

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    Looks like a balancing act from some higher echelon to counter all the flak Corbyn is getting in the MSM. There was a report of an 'unnamed' General in the Army suggesting mutiny if Corbyn proved to be too 'peace-loving'.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-10509742.html

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    Chunky Mark's Perspective



    Mark interviews Max & Stacey about it...




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    Default Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    The Tories have done a lot worse over the years and still get back into power
    and the system is not rigged ? !!!. Just like those 'Scull & Bones' boys over the
    pond...LOL Scene from the movie , but in real life I think they lie naked in a
    coffin , confessing their deepest secrets for future blackmail purposes, when
    they are in positions of power as they are the equivalent of the UK elites....



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    I just posted this as a 'banter' post to Pan on the Jeremy Corbyn thread hense
    the Sheep ref, but on a serious note the Tory B------'s are a selfe serving bunch
    that should have died out with Thatcherism ....LOL. All the same scandals go on
    every decade over and over again.

    Though I added the bit above and vids of the 'New Statesman' although 'satire'
    they are very telling , more like a docu /comedy imo....

    New Statesman on healthcare



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    This clip has reference to many scandals still going on to day.....' Covering up Dossiers '.......

    The New Statesman - Happiness is a Warm Gun




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    Quote I'd only just been saying about you lot picking up your game and next thing there's #piggate
    It puts a whole knew meaning on 'Party Animal' ..He was so high , he might of
    been trying to outdo those Welsh , Ozzy & All Black " S----p S-----'s on a lonely
    outback evening...LOL I expect MI ? whatever have got plenty of uncompromising
    photos....How else would these two 'Tory Bozos' get the top two jobs in London.....

    Other than be the new chosen ones Osborne chancellor hes a ' Swear word '.
    He was best mates with another ' swear word' Rothchild heir !!!







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    It’s an image dripping with privilege — scions of the wealthy laying claim to their place at the top of the social pyramid.

    No wonder Tories have been keen to downplay this new picture of Chancellor
    George Osborne posing in 1993 with Oxford University’s elite Bullingdon Club,
    notorious for its drink-fuelled excess. Today, we reveal the identities of his
    fellow members - two MPs, six bankers and ten Old Etonians - who continue
    to dominate society’s upper echelons . . .
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    By Beth Hale for the Daily Mail
    Updated: 11:57, 29 October 2008

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    Fast forward 16 years, however, and giving George Osborne and Nat Rothschild
    access to that sort of weaponry within aiming range of each other might be a tad
    risky.

    After their spectacular falling out over who said what in front of a Russian
    billionaire, the friendship fermented at the Bullingdon drinking club at Oxford
    University has lost its fizz



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    B'Stard making a political comeback.....

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    Question Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    Are there any pig orifices left to debauch ...

    Apparently not ...




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    I know this is not directly linked but I'm just angry about these 'Elite Bastards' all
    over the world.....The Kenyan workers story at the bottom is very sad and probably
    only the tip of the iceberg especially for third world 'guest workers'...SLAVES...


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    I don't believe it...LOL Its not April 1 is it ? I just had a look on todays
    headline page and was met by this ......This is beyond a joke !!
    Even the Saudi delegates looks as if he cannot believe this crap !

    WTF ? Crucifixtion , Beheading , Stoning ,Saudi Arabia and ISIS/ISIL have near-identical punishments !!

    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...22#post1001222
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    The Independent...




    Fury after Saudi Arabia 'chosen to head key UN human rights panel'


    Wife of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi says move amounts to "a green light to flog him"

    Tom Brooks-Pollock

    Sunday 20 September 2015

    ‘The United Nations has been criticised for handing Saudi Arabia a key human
    rights role – despite the country having “arguably the worst record in the world”
    on freedoms for women, minorities and dissidents.

    Critics, including the wife of imprisoned pro-democracy blogger Raif Badawi –
    sentenced to 1,000 lashes for blogging about free speech – labelled the
    appointment “scandalous”, saying it meant “oil trumps human rights”.

    Mr Badawi’s wife, Ensaf Haidar, who is leading an international campaign to
    free her husband, said on Facebook that handing the role to Faisal bin Hassan
    Trad, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador at the UN in Geneva, was effectively “a green
    light to start flogging [him]again”.’

    Read more: Fury after Saudi Arabia ‘chosen to head key UN human rights panel’

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-10509716.html

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    Default Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    Sorry Lucidity for going slightly off topic but these Tory B------'s have no soul....

    Following in his 'Goddess' Thatchers footsteps . Osborne only wants to
    serve the 'elites' with a free ' meal ticket' for his 'Bankster' friends & masters...

    'Maggie' stole the milk from the children and Osborne wants to steel the crumbs
    of their plates....

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    By David Icke on 21st September 2015 Political Manipulation



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    Jamie Oliver has called the possible decision a 'disaster'

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    Osborne’s November spending review, it has been reported.

    According to Sky News, the government is considering the cut despite
    pledging to continue the policy in the 2015 Conservative manifesto.

    Free hot school meals for all schoolchildren between four and seven,
    regardless of their parent’s income, were introduced by former Deputy
    Prime Minister Nick Clegg in 2014. It was estimated that it would cut
    costs to parents by £400 per year, per child.’

    Read more: George Osborne ‘to scrap free school meals for infants’
    – despite pledge in 2015 Conservative manifesto

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    I've just got to the Three little pigs story on the headline page...LOL
    This should be no surprise , with all the 'porkies' we are told by some mp's,,


    British Prime Minister and an obscene act with a dead pig’s head: How David
    Cameron took part in sordid initiation ceremony after joining Oxford dining society
    as a student

    By David Icke on 21st September 2015 Illuminati Criminals



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    British Prime Minister and an obscene act with a dead pig's head: How David
    Cameron took part in sordid initiation ceremony after joining Oxford University
    dining society as a student
    Shocking claims emerge of David Cameron's university days in new book
    Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography is written by Michael Ashcroft
    Distinguished Oxford contemporary, now an MP, claims Prime Minister once took
    part in an outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig

    By Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott For The Daily Mail

    Published: 23:21, 20 September 2015 | Updated: 13:07, 21 September 2015

    When Cameron arrived at Oxford, it was in the wake of the huge success of the TV
    series Brideshead Revisited.Based on Evelyn Waugh’s novel, it featured the
    handsome and decadent Lord Sebastian Flyte, who wore a cricket pullover and over-
    indulged in alcohol.Did Cameron take this Edwardian fop as his inspiration? James
    Delingpole, an Oxford friend, certainly recalls the future PM being fond of wearing a
    cricket sweater.‘There was a division at Oxford between those of us who wanted to
    live the Brideshead lifestyle — to ape it — and the people wearing donkey jackets
    who were in support of the miners,’ he says.

    ‘‘The atmosphere among those of us who wanted to live the Brideshead life was
    really quite pleasant. There were cocktail parties in the Master’s [head of college]
    Garden . . . and we could all play at being Sebastian Flyte.’

    But Cameron went a great deal further. He also got involved in the notorious
    Oxford dining society, the Piers Gaveston, named after the lover of Edward II,
    which specialises in bizarre rituals and sexual excess.

    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.’

    Read more: British Prime Minister and an obscene act with a dead pig’s head: How
    David Cameron took part in sordid initiation ceremony after joining Oxford dining
    society as a student


    A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an
    outrageous initiation ceremony involving a dead pig while at university. The PM is
    pictured holding a pig in recent years


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3mNxjrxMi
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    Default Re: Prime Minister Cameron and the tale of the dead pig

    no need to apologise Cidersomerset, you're doing excellent work :-)

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    Dave may have just of been a muppet fan ......




    Moi by Miss Piggy

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    Ashcroft and Cameron - an inevitable end?
    Laura Kuenssberg
    Political editor

    6 hours ago.....From the section UK Politics

    Short clip on link..
    Story 'very funny' but ‘a few paragraphs in a long book’
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0332t86

    David Cameron/Lord Ashcroft

    Two powerful men need each other, and then one of them becomes
    more powerful, and doesn't need the other anymore.

    The understanding which they had comes to break down, recriminations
    follow, and sometimes, full throttle revenge. But the roots of the
    embarrassment that has sent social media into overdrive in the last day
    were laid before Twitter was invented. In fact, the origins of the spectacular
    parting of ways are fifteen years ago.

    Notwithstanding the stink the allegations former Conservative donor Lord
    Ashcroft makes in his new book about David Cameron's high jinks at university,
    the stories are the final, and maybe inevitable end of a tortured relationship
    that has dogged the Conservative Party for many years.

    And although Lord Ashcroft denies it, it looks a lot like revenge.

    While Downing Street does not want to "dignify" the more salacious claims
    which may have more impact in the public's minds, what may prove trickier
    in the long run is what Lord Ashcroft claims about his tax status.

    David Cameron came into politics making, as new leaders tend to, all sorts of
    claims about how he wanted to clean things up; he wanted a new kind of politics
    (just in case you'd been wondering, Jeremy Corbyn wasn't the first).

    But he inherited a tricky situation from his predecessor, William Hague - a
    relationship with an extremely wealthy and eager backer, Lord Ashcroft, who
    after concerns in the Civil Service about his tax status made this promise to
    the-then Tory leader back in 2000.

    "The undertakings I gave were confirmed in a memorandum to William Hague dated 23 March 2000.

    "These were to 'take up permanent residence in the UK again' by the end of that
    year… In subsequent dialogue with the government, it was officially confirmed
    that the interpretation in the first undertaking of the words 'permanent residence'
    was to be that of 'a long term resident" of the UK.

    "I agreed to this and finally took up my seat in the House of Lords in October 2000'."

    That deal was not publicly known, and after David Cameron took over in 2005, with
    his promises of new, more transparent ways of doing things, questions about Lord
    Ashcroft and his tax affairs continued.

    The Conservatives needed him, as all political parties need money, and between
    2002 and 2011 he gave more than £5m.

    Enduring headache

    But the scrutiny over his affairs was a headache that refused to disappear.

    Some Conservative MPs at the time wondered privately if the relationship was
    really worth it. Labour, despite their own woes over party funding, asked again
    and again about Lord Ashcroft's finances - was he paying tax in this country as
    he ought to as a member of the Lords?

    Those questions in the end led to the peer and the Conservatives publishing the
    details of his non-dom status just before the election in May 2010. And the focus
    on Lord Ashcroft probably led to changes in the law around non-doms. But the
    attention and embarrassment of the whole affair meant, for some Conservatives,
    that Lord Ashcroft was seen as tainted.His money had certainly been useful, but
    there was no way he could be given a major role in government if and when they won.
    As is clear from his account of events published today, the job he says he was offered
    after the 2010 election was seen as derisory, not fitting a donor of his stature.

    But once the Conservatives were in government, the political baggage that came with
    his cash meant it was perhaps no longer worth keeping him close. David Cameron won't
    be able to avoid answering again similar questions to those he had to back then.

    When did Lord Ashcroft tell him about his tax affairs? How could he really not have known?

    Did he really never ask until just before their publication in 2010?

    But Downing Street's hope is that the former peer's agenda is so clear, that the pressures pass.

    But with more to come from Lord Ashcroft's book, there'll be nerves too about what comes next.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34318242
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