Who would Peppa Pig vote for?
It is, like the Jesus question, unanswerable if not quite imponderable. Peppa Pig wishes to remain above politics, to the extent that the cartoon pig pulled out of a Labour event to promote Sure Start centres (although Peppa Pig does support Sure Start), for fear of courting controversy. The other thing that makes this question difficult to answer is Peppa Pig herself. Even in the broadest ideological terms, she remains a cipher. She’s part of a traditional family unit – Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig, brother George (also a pig) – but that’s where tradition ends. Mummy Pig spends her spare time working as a volunteer firefighter, while Daddy Pig goes out barbecuing with his mates. You can see where the plot of that particular episode is heading. Before now, Peppa Pig’s most overtly political statement was a very public failure to wear a seatbelt, the sort of libertarian “I can kill myself if I feel like it” thinking displayed by many Ukip sympathisers. But Peppa has, in cartoon animal terms, a
