An egg-citing week in politics (cringe)

Fresh from egg-throwing incidents, David Cameron's face filled our TV screens once again last night at the second ever priministerial debate of its kind in our country. I'll wait for a later date to speculate on that, but what I want to focus my attention on in this entry is the first part of the first sentence. Yes, the title of this blog entry does not deceive you, unlike Cameron himself just might be trying to: it will focus on what we might for want of a better word, refer to as the 'eggy incident' that took place this Wednesday afternoon.
Of course, dear David is not the first politician to be splattered with egg yolk, nor is he likely to be the last. But my God, of the other two famous eggings that immediately spring to mind, did he handle it the best. Cool, calm and collected, he appeared as the press put it 'unruffled' and even made a joke about it which saw him somewhat as having the last laugh, feeble as it might have been.
Bear in mind the contrast of Nick Griffin's immature whines when he got egged, referring to the culprit as something like 'none other than a stupid student, what do you expect.' Then of course there was the Prezza Punch, which made John Prescott appear a bit TOO human for most people but got ample amounts of press coverage all the same.
The point is, the way the two polticians (if we can call NG that... which is stretching the limits a bit, to be fair) handled their eggings is regrettably cringeworthy. Nick Griffin talked condescendingly of an entire sub-cultural group and made very sweeping generalisations (but then again, what do you expect?), while Prescott to put it bluntly bawled like a baby. Neither of these reactions will have boded well in the public eye, but David Cameron's response was appropriately sober and non-accusational, with the subtle nuance of it coming 'after' the chicken (ie. the more positive bit) so as to still indicate a very mild judgement on the young boy's actions. It seems something you'd expect politicians to be all geared up for managing, being a fairly common incident, but as the above instances show, only Cameron truly responded with grace.
As for the Lib Dems, their egging day still appears to be yet to come. But hey, sure there'll be plenty of opportunities for Nick to get that splat yet, even if the media love him at the moment. One can dream at least - if only in metaphors...