Red Mosquito

macphisto wrote:

Pigs represent the people considered to be at the top of the “social ladder”, wealthy and powerful, but which also manipulate the rest of the society and encourage them to be viciously competitive and cutthroat, so the pigs can remain powerful.

Each of the song’s three verses introduces a different “kind of pig”, whose identiyy remains a matter of speculation. In fact, only the third verse clearly identifies its subject as morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse, a British woman who led a movement to keep sex off TV, who is described as a “house proud town mouse” who has to “keep it all on the inside.”

Allegedly, the first verse depicts a deceitful businessman, the hypocritical and collusive self-proclaimed superior who feels he can cheat and persuade his way to the top, while the second verse might refer to the up-and-coming political figure Margaret Thatcher, who was at that time a leading member of England’s Conservative Party but eventually came into power as Britain’s Prime Minister