In March, detectives spent a month tracking down the part time carer, Debra Burt, and ordered her to stay well clear of the Prime Minister.
She’d said on Twitter that she’d like to throw an egg at David Cameron because of the way his government was cutting back on benefits. She said she made the quip out of frustration.
“I’d like to chuck and egg at him but I’d never do it. I’m just unhappy I can’t find more work,” she told The Sun newspaper.
Two detectives knocked on her home in Ramsgate, Kent, the day before Cameron was to appear at Canterbury Cathedral for the inauguration of the new archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. They told her they’d been hunting her for weeks and that she should stay well away from the cathedral . . . and Mr Cameron.
A Kent Police spokesman said officers did monitor Facebook ahead of the PM’s visit. He added: “We responded to information that someone was going to throw an egg. Officers visited the person and were satisfied there was no threat”. Hurling verbal abuse and sometimes rather rotten eggs at incompetent and unpopular politicians used to be a British tradition. Maybe no longer.
I’m starting to regret scrubbing the faces of Cameron and Nick Clegg off my Pound Shop t-shirt. But my number’s in the book if a couple of cops would like to pop round and have a cup of tea.
Given they’ve got nothing better to do, that is. – Trevor Grundy, Kent, England
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