David Cameron held up by trains..

Being English isn't easy. Occasionally it feels like we're nothing more than a nation of idiots being told what to do by morons who get their orders from absolute perverts. It's quite a painful experience.

To top that off, there's the bad weather, the yobs yelling at each other outside Tesco, apathetic police officers, propaganda on the telly, price collusions between the people that you buy your food from, and enough disdain, pain and misery harboured within in the average citizen to start a riot. It is, as they say, an age of discontent.

It's refreshing to hear then, that not even the big fellas are immune from the perils of society. Despite their media savvy approaches to life, contacts, and large pay checks, even the gods-amongst-men that we refer to as MPs have a bad day every once in a while. Westmonster was particularly gratified to hear that David Cameron had one just yesterday.

According to The Guardian, Mr Cameron was one of the thousands of passengers that got held up due to railway problems yesterday after a signal popped on one line and somebody jumped in front of a train on another. Estimates state that the delay held the Conservative leader for approximately two hours, but don't say whether or not he missed any important appointments.

However long he was there, it's somehow satisfying to imagine old Dave out there on his own, surrounded by the panic and the chaos, a thousand suited business men yelling into their cellphones and smashing their suitcases into one another.

It's nice to know that you're not alone for a change. That this is just the way things are supposed to be and that nobody can do anything about it. We're all going through it together.

Maybe that can be the next Tory campaign slogan....

Written by Oli Anderson on 7 May 2008 8:42 AM. Permalink