Things that are hilarious, but not actually that important: A politician doing something embarassing by putting his penis in a dead pig
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More seriously. I thought Rob Fahey's analysis was quite good; is this sort of thing routine now, the way it is in the US? Is it common on the Left as well as the Right?
And the power brokers must know who they want next; presumably not Johnson whose skeletons must be an equal match for Cameron's at the very least, and not Osborne whose newt-like forebrain must surely be a liability.
On the 'everything is a cock-up not a conspiracy' side of the discussion though, it's possible that having sex with dead pigs is a sufficiently common practice amongst the Tory elite that the rush of twitter comments saying 'gosh, didn't any of you ever do anything debauched in your youth?' reflected a genuine belief that the population just wouldn't care very much.
Laura Kuenssberg tweeted "Revenge best served cold? Story PM could do without today, trickiest bit maybe row over Lord Ashcroft's tax arrangements, who knew what when?" -- which must reflect not just the earlier BBC gag but a real belief that the tax issue is more important than the shenanigans.
And the power brokers must know who they want next; presumably not Johnson whose skeletons must be an equal match for Cameron's at the very least, and not Osborne whose newt-like forebrain must surely be a liability.
On the 'everything is a cock-up not a conspiracy' side of the discussion though, it's possible that having sex with dead pigs is a sufficiently common practice amongst the Tory elite that the rush of twitter comments saying 'gosh, didn't any of you ever do anything debauched in your youth?' reflected a genuine belief that the population just wouldn't care very much.
Laura Kuenssberg tweeted "Revenge best served cold? Story PM could do without today, trickiest bit maybe row over Lord Ashcroft's tax arrangements, who knew what when?" -- which must reflect not just the earlier BBC gag but a real belief that the tax issue is more important than the shenanigans.
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As for the US, I've seen concerns that the FBI blackmails the federal government.
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