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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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
