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Posted by Chris Spags on April 30th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

Susan Boyle is a pig so it’s only logical that her global emergence is closely followed by a Swine Flu outbreak, right? Makes sense to me and a pretty clever line at that. But England is up in arms over a junior minister making that crack on his Twitter.

Thank goodness ministers are taking the swine flu outbreak so seriously. Or at least some of them are.

Just as Gordon Brown was gravely announcing that two more Britons had been diagnosed with the virus, one government figure, I can disclose, decided that the potential pandemic was a great opportunity for a joke.

In a bizarre attempt at humour, junior minister Sion Simon suggested that unlikely Britain’s Got Talent singing sensation Susan Boyle is to blame.

The MP for Birmingham Erdington, 40, posted his comment online on his Twitter page, writing: ‘I’m not saying Susan Boyle caused swine flu. I’m just saying that nobody had swine flu, she sang on TV, people got swine flu.’

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