The Egg Man

The chap who pelted the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, with eggs the other day may have a good aim - but his political views are all over the place.

Dean Porter (38) is reported to have unleashed his volley of six eggs  for the following reasons:

1 The Iraq War
2 Homelessness
3 Anger at the banks
4 A sense of grievance that Ed beat his brother David in the 2010 Labour leadership election 

Now that covers a whole lot of ground, politically speaking, and I'm not sure that Ed can be held to blame directly for any of them - other than using his trade union chums and undemocratic union votes - to overturn the will of individual party members in the Labour leadership race.

So, it seems to me that Dean Porter is a complete plonker and I'm only sorry that Ed didn't give him a well deserved left hook to the chin - in the style of John Prescott some years ago when Two Jags was similarly attacked by some long-haired, egg wielding yob - while out on the campaign trail.

If you ask me that was probably the highlight of John Prescott's political career, so useless was he in other areas - and it would have done Ed's geeky image a power of good to give some High Street bully a taste of his own medicine.

Apparently Ed asked the Police not to press charges against the egg-pelting Dean, but for the life of me I can't see why - people who behave in that kind of anti-social way will only be encouraged if they walk away Scot-free.

And that's why John Prescott's assailant would think twice before doing the same thing again.