Of all the places across the United Kingdom where David Cameron can expect a lukewarm welcome, north of the border must be one of the least likely. So Mr S was happy to hear that Cameron is at least now proving popular at one Scottish joint.
Just as the Prime Minister may think Piggate is well and truly behind him, one bright spark has come up with a way to revisit the story just in time to cash in on the festive season. Cornelius Beer — the Edinburgh-based drinks outlet — have made their own special brew entitled FigPucker in tribute to the — unsubstantiated — claim in Lord Aschcroft’s David Cameron biography that the Prime Minister had once enjoyed intimate relations with a pig. The beer is already proving popular with Scottish punters as they plan their Christmas gifts:
‘Expertly brewed by one of our favourite breweries, FIGPUCKER is our cynical attempt to cash in on the festive, comedy, secret santa-gift buying market. It’s a tasty, moderately priced saison spiced with honey and fig.’
As for the name and label — which is made up of an illustration of the Prime Minister clutching a pig — on the beer?
‘Simply put-someone had to. The very fact that The Prime Minister of The United Kingdom has been accused by erstwhile colleagues of engaging in necrobestiality is amazing enough, but what’s even more extraordinary is the way the (patently untrue) story has disappeared from public discourse mere weeks after breaking.’
The brewery insist, however, that no offence is meant. In fact, they say that if they had wanted to offend, they would have focussed on other more damaging aspects of Lord Ashcroft’s biography:
‘If we wanted to be political, we would of made reference to the multiple times he misled the house about the tax affairs of a lord and party donor. If we wanted to make it a class issue, then we would have mentioned the secretive oxbridge societies who engage in humiliating initiation rites purely as a means of mutual blackmail when their members hold high office or become captains of industry.’
Somehow Mr S suspects no-one in No.10 will be ordering this one as a stocking-filler.
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