Power Engineers diverted from repairing major blackout to flip Cameron's fusebox switch.

Posting an article from The Mirrow eh? Good choice of reading sir, it explains a lot

No, I think newspapers are a horrible anachronism, I don't generally read any of them. Someone I'm Facebook friends with posted the link on their Facebook wall. The source is kind of irrelevant though, assuming the basic facts as presented are true.

Is the ability to fix a trip switch beyond him or his minders pay grade or was there a health and safety issue for the protection unit?

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

I don't see what the issue is.

No, it really isn't.

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.

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. The ok thing to do would have been wait his turn. This is patently what he did not do.

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.

Does being a total arse come naturally to you, or do you get up early and practice?

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.

Agreed, but the article doesn't say they didn't.



The allocation of the job was down to the electricity company, not the PM



Agreed, but


not sure I believe that one.



The allocation of the work is down to the electricity company and David Cameron didn't personally divert the engineers. There may well have been pressure (implied or otherwise) to attend quickly but there are nothing in the article to support this.


That is probably true but I'm not sure all the blame goes to David Cameron.

Nah, I'm not particularly sensitive, despite your opinion. Maybe you're not an arrogant ill-mannered arse, but I doubt that.

I used to work for one of the tabloids, on the IT side, not journalism, and it was while I was working there that I stopped buying 'papers as I lost interest in reading somebody else's opinion of what happened yesterday.

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

Is it me?! lol

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No, not you. I don't remember having any explosive debates with you at all. As I said previously, I can't stand ignorance and even more so stupidity, and these two traits tend to be demonstrated mostly in the news section. Unfortunely regularly by the same people and they bring out the worst of me. But if you really want to know, have a look at my post history in the News forum, two most recent threads will sufice. No need to name names.

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

And modest.