A so-called psychic pig’s prediction of who would be the UK’s next Prime Minister has turned out to be wrong in an embarrassing failure for porky prophets everywhere.
Mystic Marcus has, like outgoing PM Boris Johnson, got the “big calls” right in the past – predicting the outcome of the last World Cup, the result of the 20160 Brexit referendum and even the election of Donald Trump.
But when he was called upon to pick the winner of the Conservative party’s current leadership tussle, Marcus missed by a mile.
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Shown a range of apples labelled with the names of the likely winners of the contest, including former Secretary of State for Defence Penny Mordaunt and multi-millionaire chancellor Rishi Sunak, Marcus made his choice.
He strolled over and carefully selected the apple representing the Attorney General for England and Wales, Suella Braverman.
But Ms Braverman was knocked out of the running in a vote today, leaving the remaining candidates scrambling to scoop up her supporters to bolster their own bid.
The contest appears to be settling into a two-horse race with Mordaunt and Sunak well ahead of the remaining contenders, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Former equalities minister Kemi Badenoch and widely-respected backbencher Tom Tugendhat also still in with an outside chance.
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Marcus made his prediction live on ITV’s Lorraine show yesterday morning (Wednesday, July 13).
As he was released from his pen, former Countdown star Carol Vorderman exclaimed: "He's looking serious and he's not happy about this selection of candidates.”
“You might think that is very silly,” Carol added, “but pigs are very intelligent, I think you’ll find.”
After Marcus had picked out Ms Braverman as the winner, Carol exclaimed: "What a revelation, no one would have put money on that, I'm straight off to the bookies!"
We have to hope that she didn’t stake too much on the porcine prophet’s poor-quality prognostications.
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