Quoting a "distinguished" contemporary, the Daily Mail reported that the then-future British Prime Minister, in his student days in Oxford, participated in an outrageous initiation ceremony that involved a dead pig's body and at least one of Cameron's "private" parts.
Monday's Daily Mail front page:
Revenge!
#tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers pic.twitter.com/jU3P3WiGF4
โ Nick Sutton (@suttonnick) September 20, 2015
And now we go live to our studio in Lincolnshire where the victims parents are about to make a statement #piggate pic.twitter.com/KqU3DwMew5
โ Killie Me Softly (@mickmcavoy) September 20, 2015
Shortly after being published online, the paper's Monday front page triggered an avalanche of reactions, varying from cautious disgust to exuberant amusement...
For obvious reasons, the majority were jokes...
Poor David Cameron. He would've got away with it but some pig squealed on him. #piggate
โ Paul N (@PaulNCov) September 21, 2015
So now Corbyn isn't the only one being criticized for loving Hamass. #piggate
โ Imran Garda (@ImranGarda) September 21, 2015
... or TV & movie classics...
Exclusive footage of @David_Cameron in the act #piggate https://t.co/1X7oI8sS7g
โ Rhys Sutherland (@rhys199) September 20, 2015
"At least mine was still alive, you muppet". #piggate pic.twitter.com/AviNm1RPdb
โ Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) September 20, 2015
When you're 15 minutes into Peppa Pig and chill and then David Cameron gives you this look pic.twitter.com/xeX9INEHhX
โ David Skuzbee (@davidskuzbee) September 20, 2015
"My desires are... unconventional..."
"So show me."
"..."
#piggate pic.twitter.com/8fN9ONGu2E
โ Lisa (@biscuitahoy) September 20, 2015
Some of those who have lost sleep over the sudden revelation have tried to recall whether anything in the PM's public actions could provide further hints on Cameron's special relations with pigs...
Notice how in this picture David Cameron isn't wearing his wedding ring. Suspicious... pic.twitter.com/ZfHcYfrOem
โ Ryan Shields (@BarackObadyin) September 20, 2015
My second favourite thing about #piggate is getting to revisit this story with fresh eyes http://t.co/UTgW5roqRm pic.twitter.com/Fr8xHlCoXb
โ Glen Coco (@MrPooni) September 21, 2015
Cameron's office has refused to acknowledge the claims, and will not issue a formal response.
One source told the Guardian the claims were "nonsense"
"These claims from Lord Ashcroft - the suggestion that Cameron was a member [of the Gaveston society], the suggestion that there was some sort of initiation ceremony - are utter nonsense."
Shout out to David Cameron's press team, figuring out how to put lipstick on a pig
โ Dave Clark (@DaveClark_AFP) September 21, 2015
David Cameron is now a threat to our national security, our economic security, and your pig's dignity.
โ Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) September 20, 2015
I would give all the tea in Yorkshire to see the look on the Tory press officers face who just opened their Twitter feed #piggate
โ Dominic Stevenson (@Fantastical_Dom) September 20, 2015
I suppose Cameron will be greeted by oinking from the Opposition benches during Prime Minister's Questions... #piggate
โ Mark Pesce (@mpesce) September 20, 2015
David Hameron after he finished porking the dead pig. #piggate pic.twitter.com/PF23KS0a0O
โ Serge (@Zinvor) September 21, 2015
The denial did not come out before renowned internet prankster Casetteboy had remixed the incident in an entertaining video called "Gettin' Piggy with it"...
The saga continues...
Comment: From the Wikipedia page of the Oxford 'society' that Cameron apparently did this for, we read: We're reminded of the initiation rituals to the all-male 'Skull and Bones' cult at Yale University that the Bushes and John Kerry were members of.
While #PigGate is producing some hilarious reactions among the British public, let's not forget that the debauchery practised by Cameron and his kind are indicative of the psychology of those in power. The cost, to them, of wearing a 'mask of sanity', as psychologist Harvey Cleckley termed it, is that they must regularly take 'vacations into filth' to relieve themselves of the 'burden'- from their perspective - of pretending to be human.
Regarding the initiation rituals of various 'elites', they serve the purpose of 'binding' them to secret societies, clubs and cults that both reward and control their subjects over the course of their future careers. It may be worth considering whether this information is being made public now in order to exert pressure on Cameron and his government; a little reminder, perhaps, that 'we can destroy you'...