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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I don't want to give him a break.
He is a fucking arse who is treating the most vulnerable like shit.
He doesn't deserve understanding.
He has consistently made pronouncements about how people should conduct themselves even though he has lived a rarified and privileged life.
He can't even keep hold of an 8 year old child with the assistance of his wife and several serfs.
He is a Tosser.

Bravo!

Whoop, whoop MrsD!

Well yes, there is all that of course MrsD

A bit like if some head honcho at started whining about late payment charges on their nursery fees or somesuch.

Maybe I need to fold myself a new tinfoil hat, but it's interesting that this not really interesting story which makes most sane people go "meh, happens to the best of us" was released on the beginning of the week where the Leveson enquiry is becoming extra spicy for Dave and his friends?

So we get 18 pages of "C'mon, who hasn't forgotten their kid once in a while?" instead of focusing on the interesting questions of "Why the fuck did Coulson get a job?" and "Why on earth is Hunt still in office?"

I think the security guards did a bit of a rubbish job actually - they had two adults and three children to look after during a pub lunch with friends, and get back home safely in two cars. And they messed up. Give me their job ??!

I hope it doesn't put pressure on the Cameron's marriage - they've been through enough with the loss of Ivan.

(Politics aside as like MrsDV I'd like to see the government doing more for struggling and vulnerable people and families)

What widowwadman said.

Thought this as soon as I heard about this " we are just parents doing the best we can" humility crap this morning.

Haven't read all the thead but my suggestion would be that Dave and Sam Cam should pop down to their local Boots for their free parenting class vouchers

I mean between that and it being England's first match today who gives a flying f*ck about the boring old Leveson enquiry?

I will yield to nobody in my conviction that yes, as a politician Dave is a tosser and a git. However, this story isn't about him as a politician. It's about a minor event in his and Samantha's lives as parents and I think it's really crap actually to insinuate they don't care about their children. This 'story' should never even be in the news.

Course he cares about them, he has just never had to care for them.
And he is a tosser

northernlurker - read up there at what widowwadman said ^ THATS why it's in the news - as a distraction and to show him as a regular bloke prior to his grilling on Thursday at Leveson;

goes to the pub - tick
spends sunday with his family - tick
likes a pint - tick
makes mistakes like the rest of us plebs - tick

Blurgh...

I love threads like these as it just neatly shows who are the sensible people on mn and who are the ahem less sensible ones.

Oh and Northernlurker is right.

If I, as a young (at the time) single mum had left my child in the pub, there would rightly be uproar!!!

Good thing he fucked with the social services threshold eh??

Oh, and what MrsDV said

"Hmmm, social services would be coming down like a ton of bricks on a 'normal' family that did this..."

No they wouldn't. They didn't do anything with the McCanns and they repeatedly left 3 very young children alone for considerably longer, and did it deliberately.

Yes, there was a column in one of thr papers about this point widow ie, that the papers are actually very careful about printing stories regarding the PM's security, especially concerning his family and that if the Camerons had refused to comment on the story it would have gone away swiftly. As it is, because of the Downing Street statement, it's made a major splash. Could just be a coincidence, its timing with the Leveson enquiry. Or not.

Ceebeegeebies, well IMO that's just plain daft. All kids need an emergency contact number, they cannot be expected to navigate the world without being able to call for backup. No matter who you are, stuff happens.

I am reminded of the time Euan Blair was found in the gutter after his GCSEs, when they had to take him into custody. Apparently the call was interpreted as Chief of Police Ian Blair being found in the gutter as it was misheard ... anyway, his mum was in Portugal at the time and Tony Blair appeared to have no idea where his son had got to, and none of Euan's friends had the decency to stick him in a taxi and point him in the direction of Downing Street ... perhaps that's what you face when you're the child of the PM.

What MrsDV said.

Are you reading this, Dave you tosser?

I agree with NorthernLurker. Shame on the person who gave (sold?) this story to the paper. How is this in the national interest?

I don't like the way the Tories are running the country, but this is irrelevant and unfair imo.

They're not just any old family and they all dropped the ball in spectacular fashion. It might not have mattered for another family but it might have had very serious consequences for this particular child because she is their child, and they all should have been paying much more attention.

@ MrsDV

why would this detract from Leveson?

Doesn't detract from Leveson as far as I'm concerned, now I know DC can't run the country without his corrupt mates AND can't organise a piss-up in a brewery pub. Some people may be concentrating on poor old Dave making one little mistake though- sigh.

I always agree with NorthernLurker

Then again I agree with mathanxiety too

See why I'm always juggling those oranges ?

Did I tell you my dd is making a lemon and orange cheesecake at school tomorrow ?

Is that all he did? Really? Oh my word I won't even begin my list of parenting mistakes and mishaps