Thousands left with no electricity as workers rushed to Cameron's house so he could watch TV

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As thousands of homes were left without power during the recent storms, engineers were diverted to fix a simple problem at David Cameron’s home.

Two workmen were part of a team battling to restore electricity to 11,000 houses in Oxfordshire after storms and floods left families ­shivering in the dark.

But they were suddenly diverted to the PM’s £2million family home after he lost his power while watching the Sound of Music on TV.

George Faulkner and Alan Paton told BBC Radio 4 they were “diverted to a house in ­Chipping Norton” – which was later confirmed by their company to be Mr Cameron’s home.

They arrived after a 17-mile diversion to find the ­blackout was nothing to do with the storms and power could be brought back simply by flicking the trip switch in his fusebox.     

Mr Cameron was among those who had criticised the “unacceptable” time it had taken for power companies to restore supplies over Christmas and New Year as vicious storms and floods battered Britain.

Now it has emerged the PM himself might have contributed to the delays because power workers were sent to fix a basic problem at his home near Chipping Norton.

A senior Labour source said: “This just shows how out of touch Cameron is. The idea that emergency workers were sent to his home to flick a switch so he could get his TV back while thousands were without power is appalling.” Earlier this month Mr Cameron told how his home was hit by a 95-minute blackout on New Year’s Day.

But now the two Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution engineers have disclosed they were carrying out emergency repairs in the Oxfordshire village of Kirtlington when they diverted to Chipping Norton where Mr Cameron lives.

Mr Paton said: “We could have been employed on better things but we got called out to a ­property where the trip had gone that they obviously hadn’t checked properly.

“They thought it was the storms and they phoned in and said they were off supply. So we went there for nothing really.” He said: “There were people out for days. Lots of people missed their turkeys.”

Mr Faulkner added: “It didn’t need much sorting out. If he had got his minders to check the trip switch it would have saved us the journey. There was nothing wrong with their mains.”

After the havoc caused by the storms, the PM claimed he understood the anger of families whose Christmas celebrations were ruined by power cuts, floods and leaks.

Speaking about his experience, Mr Cameron said: “We had wallpaper coming down and drips going into a bucket. The power went off just before the end of the Sound of Music.”

SSE denied the PM’s status was responsible for the speed of its response.

A spokesman said: “We would like to apologise to the 11,000 customers in the Oxfordshire area who experienced a power cut over the Christmas storm period.

“When a customer calls to report a problem, our staff will ask a series of questions. If there is any doubt as to the nature of the fault, we prefer to send our engineers to the property as it is always better to be safe than sorry.

“ The Prime Minister did not receive preferential treatment when we attended his property and this visit was not to the detriment of other customers who may have been without power.”

A No10 spokesman defended the decision to call out workers to Mr Cameron’s home. He said: “The power went down because there was a leaky roof. There was water around the fusebox. The engineers came to fix it, which they did.”

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   Disgusting.

He'll be hearing a different sound of music, come the next GE, when the public kick him and the rest of the Tory fuckers out.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

scrat wrote:
"Im not a fan of "dave",,,,but,,,,," bleats M'lud a familiar sentence is often begun,,,,, by racists.

"dave" is nowt but an Eton wastrel, and a cunt!,,,that's all you had to say.

You've been reading my posts for long enough for even you to realise that I am not a fan of Cameron - and never have been.

Here we go with the old "racist" jibe - the last abusive resort of someone with nothing useful or sensible to say.

Why not chuck in "homophobe" and "Tory c*nt" as well and complete your hat-trick?

Well M'lud, I'll be honest here, all I've ever read in your posts is your verbosity for talking shite, your hatred for the working man, your sneering contempt for those that represent them, your attempts of smoke and mirrors, and of course,,,,your grovelling sycophancy for the nasty party.

I did not call you a racist, although you do display these traits, your support for fascists, racists, and homophobes is common knowledge, I think you want to be a nazi, but do not have the courage of conviction to actually just come out and admit it.

scrat wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

You've been reading my posts for long enough for even you to realise that I am not a fan of Cameron - and never have been.

Here we go with the old "racist" jibe - the last abusive resort of someone with nothing useful or sensible to say.

Why not chuck in "homophobe" and "Tory c*nt" as well and complete your hat-trick?

Well M'lud, I'll be honest here, all I've ever read in your posts is your verbosity for talking shite, your hatred for the working man, your sneering contempt for those that represent them, your attempts of smoke and mirrors, and of course,,,,your grovelling sycophancy for the nasty party.

I did not call you a racist, although you do display these traits, your support for fascists, racists, and homophobes is common knowledge, I think you want to be a nazi, but do not have the courage of conviction to actually just come out and admit it.

 :/pwn://: 

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...oh dear.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Korben Dallas wrote:
So no evidence is
In its self evidence
Is what you're saying
I thought you were a reporter ?

I would hazard a guess and "might well indicate" and speculation is hardly fact is it

The points I have made regarding this are valid
when you loose a supply (we have all had this at one time or an other) you phone up the supplier they will tell you if its a local outage/the fault and hopefully when it will be back on they may even suggest if its not a local outage that you check the fuses

They will tell you if they send an engineer out and it's a fault on the client side, then you are liable to be charged
if there was water that caused the MCB to trip then flipping a switch was never going to work

a power surge obviously tripped the unit and Cameron is so out of touch with normal every day occurrence that he had no idea what to do and cooked up (him or someone for him) this ludicrous explanation to mitigate the fact he is a idiot


And i would never and have never wished anybody dead by terrorism or any other means and i am saddened that you threw that in my direction in your reply

While I am happy to defer to your vastly superior knowledge of the technicalities of the electrical supply system and would not necessarily disagree with your no doubt qualified opinion that Cameron is an idiot, he is neverthless the Prime Minister and a known potential target for terrorist attack.

Those facts alone must make it obvious to anyone with as few as two working brain cells that there is bound to be security protocol covering priority maintenance of the electrical supply to any premises where he happens to be at the time - even if he had been stupid enough to stick his fingers in a plug and short out the whole of the house.

Would you not expect the same priority status to be afforded to a Labour PM? I know I would.

Yes a superior knowledge of the technicalities of the electricity supply system would be an accurate assessment, but still a supersistion on your part however
One I am happy to accept as fact

And no I do not think that special branch sends an electrician round to check the power supply for anything other than sabotage or bombs at the places he visits EVERY DAY that would be bloody ludicrous

As I have stated, we don't unlike the Americans  do this kind of thing for our PM`s

scrat wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

You've been reading my posts for long enough for even you to realise that I am not a fan of Cameron - and never have been.

Here we go with the old "racist" jibe - the last abusive resort of someone with nothing useful or sensible to say.

Why not chuck in "homophobe" and "Tory c*nt" as well and complete your hat-trick?

Well M'lud, I'll be honest here, all I've ever read in your posts is your verbosity for talking shite, your hatred for the working man, your sneering contempt for those that represent them, your attempts of smoke and mirrors, and of course,,,,your grovelling sycophancy for the nasty party.

I did not call you a racist, although you do display these traits, your support for fascists, racists, and homophobes is common knowledge, I think you want to be a nazi, but do not have the courage of conviction to actually just come out and admit it.

What a crock of shit.
All the above is nothing more than the rants of bitterness not any common sense or intelligence. It makes absurd claims towards a poster based on no sound evidence but in fact nothing more than a childish reaction to nothing in regards to the actual debate but poor woeful claims to a poster showing how easily this is all you are left to posting when debating a topic the poster themselves and not the debate, pathetic.
All you have done here is rise to a lefty audience that wants drivel instead of debate.

I have always seen Me Lord state clearly he is against racism and homophobia, not everyone so to claim he must be off the back of absurd claims, shows you have no conviction in your own ability to post about the topic but you would drag yourself down to the level of those who just want to abuse posters with utter tripe with the childish belief it gains you the debate over the other poster.

Grow up