Charlie Brooker is as shocked as anyone about #piggate

Eerie similarities between a 2011 episode of Brooker's Black Mirror and a news story about David Cameron are purely coincidental says the writer

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By Paul Jones

Published: Monday, 21st September 2015 at 10:14 am

Charlie Brooker has something to say – any similarities between David Cameron’s alleged university misadventures and Brooker’s Black Mirror story The National Anthem are purely coincidental…

Just to clear it up: nope, I’d never heard anything about Cameron and a pig when coming up with that story. So this weirds me out.

— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015

He then began looking back through the script – which contains swearing – to uncover just how similar the two stories were…

Just been nosing through old Black Mirror files now, of course. pic.twitter.com/6Xhuhby0Gj

— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015

Before looking forward to this week’s session of Prime Minister’s Question Time…

I hope Jeremy Corbyn is going to read out questions from members of the public again this Wednesday.

— Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) September 20, 2015