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Frankie Boyle Describes #PigGate Allegations As 'Bizarre Ritual Of The Elite'

Frankie Boyle Delivers A Surprisingly Considered Verdict On #PigGate
Sara C Nelson
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Comedian Frankie Boyle has delivered a surprisingly considered verdict on the pig scandal endured by David Cameron.

The Prime Minister is alleged to have "put a private part of his anatomy" into a dead pig's mouth, sparking a media storm now dubbed #PigGate.

Citing a single, unsubstantiated source, biographers Isabel Oakeshott and Lord Michael Ashcroft suggest Cameron committed the act during an initiation ceremony at a Piers Gaveston event at Oxford University, while the animal’s head rested in the lap of another member.

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Comedian Frankie Boyle has blogged about the PigGate scandal

In a blog posted to his website, Boyle mused: “The interesting thing for me is that because the allegation is that he did it in a roomful of people wearing dinner jackets it’s sort of OK.

“If someone had walked in on him doing it alone in his constituency office he’d have had to resign… It’s certainly an upper class thing.

“No working class person has fantasised about sticking their cock in a dead pig’s mouth [since Raul Moat died.]”

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Prime Minister David Cameron is alleged to have 'put a private part of his anatomy' into a dead pig's mouth

The Prime Minister, who along with London Mayor Boris Johnson is also a former member of the Oxford-based exclusive drinking society the Bullingdon Club, has been roundly mocked over the allegations.

He has not directly addressed the matter, other than to remark he believes “everyone can see straight through it” and that he is “too busy running the country” to consider legal action.

Boyle, who has previously described Cameron as an “evil genius”, continued, wondering: “What is the real purpose of these kinds of bizarre rituals of the elite?”

They exist, Boyle reflects, in order to “filter out the only remaining threat to corruption: people who insist on playing by the rules.”

He adds: “My guess is that our elite simply likes to check that it’s members have a broadminded approach to personal morality.”

Speaking of the elite, here are five things we know about the Bullingdon Club:

Five Things We Know About The Bullingdon Club
Members hold bizarre initiation ceremonies(01 of05)
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As with many university clubs, an initiation is required in order to join its ranks. In 2013, it was reported that members of the Bullingdon Club were required to burn a £50 note in front of a beggar as part of an “initiation ceremony”. The Daily Mirror reported that a friend of one of the club's members revealed the prank to the student newspaper. (credit:EncroVision via Getty Images)
They trash pubs and restaurants(02 of05)
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In 2004, it was reported that a country pub near Oxford was wrecked by members of the Bullingdon Club. A group of students smashed 17 bottles of wine, every piece of crockery and a window at the 15th Century White Hart pub in Fyfield, near Oxford. The BBC reports that the landlord, Ian Rogers, said the ringleader claimed to be from the Bullingdon Club. Four of the group were arrested, spent a night in the cells, and fined £80. The Telegraph quotes Mr Rogers as saying: "It was totally bizarre. They were extremely well-dressed and well-to-do young men. I assumed they had all gone to Eton or Winchester by the way they spoke. But they just erupted and smashed everything up, shouting, swearing and attacking each other. It was like a drinking club mixed with a fight club. I called the police and threw them out." The Mirror quoted a former Etonian. who went by the name of 'Edward' in order to protect his identity. Edward said: “One night we started drinking the finest whisky and port. Then we went to an Indian restaurant. The restaurateur couldn’t believe his eyes when the Bullingdon arrived so smartly dressed. But by the end the man was crying into his hands – we caused £10,000 of damage. It was f***ing carnage." He called it "posh hooliganism" and said they paid £10,000 that night to buy the restaurateur’s silence. (credit:Heiko Küverling via Getty Images)
It's misogynistic(03 of05)
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Rumours of sexism in the all-male club have circulated for some time. With most of the men in the Bullingdon Club coming from all-male boarding schools, their attitudes towards women has been scrutinised. In a piece penned by Barney Ronay in The Guardian, called "Young, rich and drunk", he writes: "Then there's the Bullingdon's committed and longstanding misogyny. It's not just the all-male exclusivity, more the tales of hiring strippers to preside at the initiation of new members at the annual breakfast. Plus the trapped, frantic and vaguely sexual energy of the whole thing. The Bullingdon is simply a no-go area for women. These are teenagers almost exclusively from an all-male boarding school background. It's no real surprise that some of the naive, hostile and retarded attitudes fostered there resurface at a university reunion. You just have to hope they grow out of it." (credit:themacx via Getty Images)
Members like to drink. A lot.(04 of05)
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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." (credit:Brand New Images via Getty Images)
It inspired the film The Riot Club(05 of05)
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In 2014, 'The Riot Club' was released in cinemas. The film, which was adapted from Laura Wade's 2010 play 'Posh' follows the lives of two new university students at Oxford University. Both boys become members of the elite drinking club, which has been linked to the Bullingdon Club.The film's director, Lone Scherfig, said: “Laura’s play is inspired by the Bullingdon Club but you won’t recognise any contemporary politicians in my film.” (credit:Dave Hogan via Getty Images)

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