The British Election Campaign

Which Came First?
The age old question about the chicken and the egg has been answered during the U.K. general election campaign. Conservative leader David Cameron has been hounded by this chicken (sent on behalf of a British tabloid newspaper) up and down the country. But on Wednesday, a 16-year-old boy threw an egg on him. Cameron's response ("Now I know which came first — the chicken not the egg") was more restrained than that of former Deputy Labour Prime Minister John Prescott; he punched a protester who threw an egg at him during the 2001 election campaign.

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