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.”

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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If that bit is true, then calling the engineers out is the right thing to do

The source is kind of irrelevant though, assuming the basic facts as presented are true.

You assume that a tabloid like Mirror would get the basic facts right? Really? Oh dear, this is getting worse and worse...

Wow, attacking someone straight off the bat, for posting a news story.

First of all, what they should have done is call their provider's help line and wait their turn like everyone else. They didn't do this.

Secondly, the guys diverted weren't retail service engineers, they were emergency response main grid maintenance staff whose job was to work to restore power to hundreds of people, not to go and see what the issue was with one particular house. They didn't call the engineers out to fix his power, they diverted engineers who already had a vital job to do.

At best, they used his job to jump a very long queue he had no right to jump, indeed he should have been looking after his constituent's interests before his own.

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

At worst, he diverted two highly qualified engineers away from a task they were assigned to and as a result cost his constituents grief, money (ruined contents of freezers etc) and possibly even property and (at the worst extreme, although this hasn't been reported) lives.

There is nothing about this which is ok.

I am pretty sure I am not attacking anybody here. Maybe you are little bit too sensitive.

It is no secret that Jon is one of the two people here that have very low (in Jon's case) or no credibility in my eyes. The fact that somebody not only reads, but also believes what is presented in a tabloid like Mirror clearly justifies my position. But feel free to disagree and also you can also clarify where you stand when it comes to tabloids.

I know it sound supercilious but I not going sugarcoat things just not upset few sensitive people.

By the way, koli... Which one of us had no credibility in your eyes?

Is it me?! lol

I don't suffer fools lightly but around intelligent people I am a really nice guy, well mannered too