#piggate

[-:Undertaker:-]

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Revenge! Drugs, debauchery and the book that lays Dave bare: How PM's snub to billionaire who funded the Tories for years sparked the most explosive political book of the decade

• Read our exclusive serialisation of Lord Ashcroft's book Call Me Dave
  
• It makes allegations of drug taking and debauchery by David Cameron
• Suggests he knew in 2009 Lord Ashcroft was controversial 'non dom'
• PM once 'put a private part of his anatomy' into dead pig, source claims

Lord Ashcroft and David Cameron MP in 2006

Today we lift the lid on the extraordinary feud between David Cameron and a billionaire Tory donor that has triggered the most explosive political biography of the decade. In the dynamite book, former party treasurer Lord Ashcroft makes allegations of drug taking and debauchery by a young Mr Cameron. The book also claims the Conservative leader was aware as early as 2009 that Lord Ashcroft was a controversial ‘non dom’ who did not pay UK tax on his overseas earnings.

Mr Cameron has previously said he did not know until 2010 about the tax status of a man who had given his party £8million – suggesting the public was deliberately misled in the run-up to that year’s general election. The pair fell out, the book reveals, when the Prime Minister failed to honour a pledge to give Lord Ashcroft a ‘significant’ job if he won power. In the wake of this split, the peer has penned Call Me Dave. It is co-written by Isabel Oakeshott, an award-winning journalist and former Sunday Times political editor.

Today the Mail starts serialising the biography, which is based on hundreds of interviews with friends and enemies, including Downing Street insiders. On Day One, the book claims that:

• Mr Cameron was a member of a ‘dope smoking group’ called the Flam Club at Oxford University;
• Cocaine was later allowed to circulate at his and his wife’s London home;
• Mr Cameron was also in a debauched Oxford society that specialises in ‘bizarre rituals and sexual excess’;
• The book reports a source who claims that during Mr Cameron’s initiation ceremony he ‘put a private part of his anatomy’ into a dead pig’s mouth. Furthermore, the source claims to have seen photographic evidence;
• Lynton Crosby, the pollster who guided the PM to electoral victory, privately thinks he is a ‘******’ and ‘posh ****’.

Published next month, the book sheds new light on Mr Cameron’s journey from privileged student at Eton and Oxford to Number 10, via a career in PR where he made significant enemies.

"They found out about the pig?" #piggate pic.twitter.com/jvpWSjxFXc

— Mohat McGandy (@M_Ullah) September 20, 2015

James Delingpole, a friend of Mr Cameron’s at Oxford, gives the first ever on-the-record account of drug taking by the future prime minister.

He says they smoked cannabis together in Delingpole’s room at Christ Church College, often while listening to the 1970s rock band Supertramp. Mr Delingpole says: ‘My drug of choice was weed – and I smoked weed with Dave…’ For the first time, the book tells of Mr Cameron’s membership of a decadent Oxford dining society, known as the Piers Gaveston. This was in addition to his time spent with the Bullingdon Club, a drinking society for the super-rich notorious for bad behaviour and trashing restaurants.

The authors report an account of an ‘outrageous initiation ceremony’ at a Piers Gaveston event at which the future prime minister ‘inserted a private part of his anatomy’ into a dead pig’s mouth. The story was recounted to them by a contemporary of Mr Cameron who went on to become an MP – and who claims that another member of the group has photographic evidence to prove it. The unnamed individual said to possess the picture failed to respond to the authors’ approaches.

"They found out about the pig?" #piggate pic.twitter.com/jvpWSjxFXc

— Mohat McGandy (@M_Ullah) September 20, 2015

For years, there has been fevered speculation at Westminster about the split between the PM and Lord Ashcroft, a man who was once integral to the Tory party machine – helping to save it from financial disaster and having an office next to Mr Cameron in CCHQ. But today is the first time the self-made businessman, who has donated vast sums to charity, lays bare what happened.

He writes in the book’s preface: ‘Long after he became prime minister, the impression persisted that he was more interested in holding the office than in using its power to achieve anything in particular. ‘His laissez-faire approach can create the impression that he is insufficiently concerned by results, and more than once he has appeared so relaxed that he has only stirred to avert disaster at the last minute. But my own particular beef with him is more personal.’

For the first five years of Mr Cameron’s leadership, Lord Ashcroft was deputy chairman of the Tory party. Significantly, in the run-up to the 2010 election, he was based inside Conservative Central Office – spending millions on a campaign to target and win key marginal seats. Lord Ashcroft, who says he has contemporaneous notes of his conversations with the PM, says a discussion took place between them over what role he would play if Mr Cameron was elected, and a not ‘insignificant’ job was apparently promised. But, once victory was in the bag – in part helped by the peer’s millions – no job was forthcoming.

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Not usually interested in personal political stuff but this is too weird and funny not to post.

There's some corkers on Twitter tonight with the #piggate hashtag. "I did not have sexual relations with that pig..."

Thoughts

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[lemons]

lmfao how odd

[Kyle]

anybody remember season 1 of black mirror? pretty sure this was an exact plotline

oh they made him have it away with a pig not quite as grotesque as black mirror then
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uii0KKUzYg

it's just drugs nothing serious

[FlyingJesus]

Happened in Ali G but with a horse

[MKR&*42]

Lmao gross.

Has he smoked cannabis more than once? If so I find him incredibly hypocritical with regards to his stance on drugs/legal highs etc.

[buttons]

Lmao gross.

Has he smoked cannabis more than once? If so I find him incredibly hypocritical with regards to his stance on drugs/legal highs etc.

probz in university, who hasn't? iv taken drugs but i don't like them

n lol I thought club initiations only happened in American films

[lemons]

gettin piggy with it

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[AgnesIO]

Grotesque thing to do, and not exactly my idea of a good time. Having said that, IF (and that's a huge if) he did do it, it was a long time ago, whilst at college. He would not be the only college student to do something ridiculously vile/stupid, and he certainly won't have been the last.

Ashcroft is an utter *** anyway.

[-:Undertaker:-]

@conservative;

Lord Ashcroft is a good guy. Saved (sadly) your party during its worst years, has donated loads of money to causes such as the WWII Bomber Command memorial in London and has contributed a lot in electoral research polling providing polls that other companies didn't have the resources to provide. I like him a lot tbh.



If that doesn't sum Cameron up then I don't know what does.

[AgnesIO]

@conservative;

Lord Ashcroft is a good guy. Saved (sadly) your party during its worst years, has donated loads of money to causes such as the WWII Bomber Command memorial in London and has contributed a lot in electoral research polling providing polls that other companies didn't have the resources to provide. I like him a lot tbh.



If that doesn't sum Cameron up then I don't know what does.

This book is evidently a childish attack on Cameron for not giving him a Cabinet role. There really is nothing more to it.

In fact, I'll eat my hat ​if that isn't the case.