To think that if you can't remember to take your 8 year old home from the pub then you can't be trusted to run the country?

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Right they had separate cars to minimise risk of death or whatever BUT they left their sprog ALONE!! Any madman watching in the corner of the room could've kidnapped her ad held her at ransom! So much for 2 cars and security! Seems dAve and sam were more worried about getting themselves in the car than kids.

snort at Joanna

I reckon something of that kind may happen at the next election

or maybe the voters will notice

Any madman watching in the corner of the room

Lax security if they didn't notice the clearly deranged man watching from a corner. In a trench coat, with his hat pulled low over his eyes...just waiting.

cockwomble don't bring Clegg into this. It's got nothing to do with him

maybe they are too used to other people looking after their kids...

Hardly a case for social services, and to be honest I'm a bit astounded at the people who think it is

Nice joke Joanna

On children left alone in precincts. One area had a policy involving police picking them up and taking them to school.

It is a more complex business than it seems. Parenting aint easy; but the rich do have nannies and other helpers.

I love that when a baby died because it had been left in a hot car for several hours everyone said 'you can't balme the parent
Really, they said that????
I would definitely blame the parent in that case.

Not so much David Cameron in this instance.

at Insancerre.

I went out for an hour or so and the thread is now rampant battiness with 8 year olds needing to be escorted to the loo presumeably for fear that the ButtGuffalo will nab them.

Who could have guessed?

(well all of us probably)

Social services? Words fail me!

They're not the first people to leave their child on their own by mistake (how many of our mums left us in a pram outside the shops and went home alone?) and they certainly won't be the last. Get a grip people!

but thing is Cockwomble, the 'madmen' arent usually dressed that way, only in fiction etc. they know better than to dress like 'dirty old men' or whatever. just saying.

easily done my arse.
Two parents and a whole fucking entourage and they lost an 8 year old!

A child who is possibly one of the biggest targets for kidnap in the country and they just sort of thought she was with someone.....

No I don't think SS would be involved with a a normal family either but like many of his dumbass policies it shows he lives on another planet.

I also like the assumption that a family pub serving meals is likely to be full of drunken people at lunchtime. Or does Cameron have form for dragging his offspring off to oldfashioned boozers?

why so many people supporting Camerons here, making it out to be an easy mistake to make? bizarre.

Belleflower

Actually the biggest threats are usually in your home. However they are dressed, strangers are massively less of a risk than family connections.

someone out to kidnap a kid isnt going to be drunk, or dressed overtly like a 'madman/madwoman' - more likely, they would interact with the child going to the loo alone, ask them if they knew the way, tell them they could show them where it was...that's all it would take so forgive me for sounding paranoid and over reactive about not really feeling comfortable with my DD going to the loo alone at 8 in a pub

Personally I think it's easier to lose a child if you are with a large group- would be far less likely to have happened if he'd popped into the pub for a spot of 1-1 time with his daughter.

i know that too, pagwatch

I'm no fan of DC but thinking about it, if there were enough people to have 2 cars to travel in. Someone must have noticed?

Its also a bit different from just mum/dad forgetting.

Two people are more likely to lose a child, or leave them behind, not less likely. The couple of times we've lost track of a child it's been when we were both there, separated and each assume the child had gone with the other.

Well it wasn´t really a large group, was it-three families?

It´s not just that whoever said they would have her in their car then assumed that the other parent had her-they left without her because they didn´t realise that she had gone to the toilet.

Excellent. Then you also know that the best way to protect a child is to encourage confidence and independence.
A child who is used to dealing with new situations independently and interacting in a normal way with the public is much safer than a child glued to their parents side, unable to develop intuition, common sense and risk analysis skills