#Piggate

***snooky*** · 23-09-2015 10:32 AM

[QUOTE=marinello59;4470525]Looks like she has read the-leveller and simply regurgitated Lawrence Richards. A bit naughty if she is passing that off as her own.
The National was my paper of choice until recently. It's more a political fanzine than a newspaper now which is sad, it started so well.[/QUOTE]

Alas, there's always the temptation to slip into a single political rut - like the UK media have already done, en masse.

**Beefster** · 23-09-2015 11:47 AM

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Might be advisable keeping a low profile on this thread mate, considering your user name I mean

I'm not telling you what I did as a young man to get the nickname!

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please read the thread .... I responded after being insulted by another poster..... do you intend to warn them......

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You were responding to my post so, if you felt insulted by it, I think you may have missed my point.

***marinello59*** · 23-09-2015 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by snooky

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Alas, there's always the temptation to slip into a single political rut - like the UK media have already done, en masse.

There's plenty of decent journalism and commentary in the media out there. The National's standards have slipped badly. Just because it reinforces the world view of its already converted readers doesn't make it a decent paper.

***Hibbyradge*** · 23-09-2015 04:32 PM

You can slag Alex Salmond off as much as you want. I don't particularly care for him but I don't see the relevance of a picture of him eating a pie on a thread about the prime minister having oral sex with a dead pig.

Excuse the grammar.

***Moulin Yarns*** · 23-09-2015 05:00 PM

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You can slag Alex Salmond off as much as you want. I don't particularly care for him but I don't see the relevance of a picture of him eating a pie on a thread about the prime minister having oral sex with a dead pig.

Excuse the grammar.

Grammar is fine. But referring to Sam as a dead pig???

***GreenLake*** · 24-09-2015 11:23 AM

Are they suggesting Cameron was pig headed?

**HUTCHYHIBBY** · 25-09-2015 10:09 AM

Perhaps someone said to him "I'll see you in The Hogshead" and he got the wrong idea!

***Hibbyradge*** · 25-09-2015 10:55 AM

**hibsbollah** · 25-09-2015 11:35 AM

He's getting a very easy time about all this if you ask me. Imagine if Corbyn had done the same?

or Sturgeon?

***Hibbyradge*** · 25-09-2015 04:16 PM

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or Sturgeon?

I know people who would pay good money to see that!

***snooky*** · 25-09-2015 07:42 PM

I now have my suspicions on who sprayed "Oink" on all the Scottish road signs in the 70's.

***Hiber-nation*** · 25-09-2015 09:05 PM

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***snooky*** · 25-09-2015 11:17 PM

Cameron today as reported on the BBC website:
"I've had an interesting week. It's a week in which thousands of trees have died in vain, sales of Supertramp albums have gone through the roof and one man's reputation lies in ruins. I don't think Michael Ashcroft will ever recover."

Oh how we laughed, Dave.

What a feeble effort at throwing the hand grenade back at the tosser.

***snooky*** · 05-10-2015 04:43 PM

The club was founded in 1780 as a hunting and sporting club, but is now better known for being a drinking and dining society. Presenter, David Dimbleby, lambasted Boris Johnson for his "disgraceful" behaviour during his time in the Bullingdon Club. Dimbleby, who was once a member of the club, said that the mayor, David Cameron and George Osborne had turned the 200-year-old group from a well behaved gentleman's club into a riotous organisation. He said: "We never broke any windows or got wildly drunk. It was a completely different organisation from what it became when Boris Johnson, David Cameron and George Osborne joined," adding: "We never did these disgusting, disgraceful things that Boris did."

Okay, hands up, the naughty boys.

**heretoday** · 06-10-2015 12:08 PM

Actually, the Tories seem to be making a pretty good job of burying this story.

***snooky*** · 06-10-2015 12:13 PM

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Actually, the Tories seem to be making a pretty good job of burying this story.

Exactly - it shows how much influence they have over the 'free' press.

***easty*** · 18-10-2015 08:32 AM

https://www.facebook.com/Channel4New...3285154501939/

Well played Nicola Sturgeon.

***Hibrandenburg*** · 18-10-2015 08:57 AM

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https://www.facebook.com/Channel4New...3285154501939/

Well played Nicola Sturgeon.

Love it.

***Jonnyboy*** · 18-10-2015 06:12 PM

Not so much a pig in a poke as a poke in a pig, you might say

johnbc70 · 18-10-2015 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by snooky

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Exactly - it shows how much influence they have over the 'free' press.

Maybe because its actually not much of a story at all, maybe has some novelty factor, if proved true which I don't believe it has, but what were you expecting to happen? Some kind of public enquiry or something?

***Hibrandenburg*** · 19-10-2015 07:25 AM

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https://www.facebook.com/Channel4New...3285154501939/

Well played Nicola Sturgeon.

Posted this on my Facebook feed and got a few comments regarding the tacky nature of Sturgeon's speech, no mention of the fact that Cameron stuck his nob in a dead pig's mouth. Sometimes I feel like I live in the twilight zone.

**Beefster** · 19-10-2015 08:27 AM

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Posted this on my Facebook feed and got a few comments regarding the tacky nature of Sturgeon's speech, no mention of the fact that Cameron stuck his nob in a dead pig's mouth. Sometimes I feel like I live in the twilight zone.

The story about Cameron is more than likely utter pish.

***marinello59*** · 19-10-2015 08:37 AM

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The story about Cameron is more than likely utter pish.

Probably. The pigs reputation has been totally ruined with no firm evidence to back the story up.

**Beefster** · 19-10-2015 09:00 AM

Originally Posted by marinello59

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Probably. The pigs reputation has been totally ruined with no firm evidence to back the story up.

It's getting a lot more likes on Tinder since the story broke though so every cloud and all that.

***Hibrandenburg*** · 19-10-2015 02:34 PM

Originally Posted by Beefster

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The story about Cameron is more than likely utter pish.

So why isn't he taking the author to court?

johnbc70 · 19-10-2015 02:39 PM

Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg

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So why isn't he taking the author to court?

Because he has more important things to do like running the country maybe?

**Beefster** · 19-10-2015 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by Hibrandenburg

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So why isn't he taking the author to court?

Possibly because, rather than it being forgotten about by the majority of the population within a fortnight, a civil trial would drag it out over months and months? Given government ministers often have to resign to sue for libel, would it really be worth suing anyway?

One of the book's authors has already conceded that the story might be mince.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/med...tecall-me-dave

***Hibrandenburg*** · 19-10-2015 06:26 PM

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Because he has more important things to do like ruining the country maybe?

Fixed that for you.

***Hibrandenburg*** · 19-10-2015 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by Beefster

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Possibly because, rather than it being forgotten about by the majority of the population within a fortnight, a civil trial would drag it out over months and months? Given government ministers often have to resign to sue for libel, would it really be worth suing anyway?

One of the book's authors has already conceded that the story might be mince.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/med...tecall-me-dave

Sounds more like "Dave's" minders have paid her a wee visit.