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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www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/jun/11/david-cameron-daughter-behind-pub?newsfeed=true

Ha !

Piss up in brewery gag has to be the one to go for in the headlines !

Didn't spot that one SelfRighteous

They didn't forget but thought she was with the other parent so they made a false assumption It happens.

And it's a small country pub where the Camerons are known, accompanied by armed security officers so I don't think a paedophile is going to chance his arm do you? Or for that matter a potential kidnapper wait for the moment when one parent thinks the child is with the other.

WidowWadman sounds like two very good thread titles to me

What MrsDv and WidowWadman said.
'Tis true.

Lovely example of manipulation.

pagwatch can I borrow your dd to train up mine. She is 12 and practically phobic of public loos, mind you in her defence she has had an unusually high number of incidents getting herself trapped in toilets including one where the door had to be kicked in by dh (unfortuantely that one was at home) .

I once left ds at dds ballet class as was in the habit of him being at home with dh at pickup time. DH was away and I got home (5 mins drive) and thought wheres dh's car, oh yeah hes away, oh F* ds. Most terrifying 5 mins of my life driving back there with every possible option of what could be happening to him going though my mind. DS was about 4 I think (mostly blocked out due to terror) but safely chatting to ballet teacher when I got back. I was in a terrible state but ds was blissfully unaware as sensible ballet teacher had realised what had happened and told him Id just popped to the shop. Took me several days to get over that one

Hi I am new to this but felt I have to say something about the PM leaving his child behind in the pub. I have 4 children and have never miss placed or left any of them any where. The comments that are " easy done" are rubbish.

Someone once mentioned on MN that after a similar 'I thought she was with you!' 'NO, I thought you had her!' event, they decided to do what their pilot dp/dh did at work and announce they were handing over control. 'You have '. Important point is you don't assume your other half is looking out for the child unless they have acknowledged that they are. Makes me giggle but dh and I did start doing this after the infamous 'oh shit I've lost my niece in the RAF Museum' incident. BIG hangers. Full of big aeroplanes. Loads of places for a small person to hide and very hard to see round/into all the obstacles.

(Niece was fine, enjoying herself in the cockpit of something a loooong way from where all four of us had been while she was at our ruddy feet - how she managed to escape without any of us noticing I do not know.)

This is what happens when you give your nanny a day off...

OP - YABU.
Rest of the whinging gang, oh, grow up.

it's difficult to get children out of the pub. some insist on staying till closing time.

i can't understand why this matter is being raised again - it was out weeks ago.

loads of children and two cars? a child busy doing her own thing? of course she'll be left behind. she should be more careful next time!

her mum and dad were no doubt terrified something bad had happened. punishment enough, i think.

I left one of my in a clothes shop when she was 10 days old; completely forgot I had had a baby. I think I left one of the others in the car seat in the hall once as well.

DH would lose children all the time if I wasn't checking. He once left dd in a buggy park (still attached to the buggy). Luckily she was fine if a bit confused.

I left my umbrella on the train today.

OP - YABU. This 'I thought she was with you' parenting nightmare has happened to the best of us.

Cameron shouldn't be allowed to run the country because he's a dick.

(confession - I haven't read the whole thread - wanted to get that in but I bet someone else has said it already). oh well.

Some of the comments on the Guardian website are hilarious

"In fairness to Cameron, he had just realised he needed to get home quickly in order to shred some documents he had forgotten about.

Nancy, who had been sent to flush documents down the pub toilet, was completely forgotten about in this mad rush of Leveson preparation."

I agree with previous poster - I have 3 children the same age, I have never left any of them anywhere - and I don't have a retinue of PAs, bodyguards & nannies to help keep track of them either. I don't think this is easily done. I don't think it happens to most people. Spin.

Has confirmed what I have suspected for awhile - he's a bit of a Tim-nice-but-dim who has landed where he is more by luck than judgement.

I've left one in a butcher's shop locally and one in a clothes shop in Krakow.

My mum and dad left me at Dover once after we got off the ferry. They got all the way home before they realised

Except I was in the van all along. I'd rolled myself up in a bit of foam and was asleep under a seat.

They were halfway back to Dover when I woke up

Yay! Mrs DeVere

All the people who say "I left my newborn outside the shops" yeah well the clue is in the word "newborn" . . . it is a relatively common thing to be very muddle headed when you have just had a baby.

The big word in all this is "PUB" I guess. I don't suppose they were there for Nancy's benefit, then the poor wee thing doesn't even get taken enough notice of to realise she isn't there.

So to Fuck with all the "we've all done it." I can categorically state that I have never left one of my kids anywhere.

And as for leaving them behind in the pub. So lower class darling.

why is a pub lower class, they went out for a pub lunch, something lots of familes do up and down the country, regardless of class! and leaving your child behind, in this kind of mix up is also something that plenty of parents have done, she nipped to the toilet, perfectly reasonable thing for a child her age to do and then both parents presumably thought she was with the other one, if they had all been in the one car it wouldnt have happened, but as they were in two i can see how it did.

and i am NOT a fan of DC at all, but seriously this is just a non issue.

Well firstly 5mad I was making a wee joke.

Secondly I didn't say a pub was lower class, I said leaving them in the pub was lower class. Sounds like a something that would happen in Shameless.

I'd expect the Camerons to leave their kids behind at the Tennis Club, or at Henley.

i realised after i posted that you were being sarcastic :) but kids can get left behind anywhere, i posted earlier on the thread about how we lost ds4 at age 3!! and we have done hte load them all in the car, be about to drive off and realise baby is in carseat but in the front porch and not the car!

It's a thing plenty of PARENTS do, but not security guards

i think others have said on this thead that the security guards are NOT there for the children even eugene and beatrice dont have their own security guards, and i am pretty sure the security guards will have had a dressing down about the cock up but it wasnt their responsibility anyway.

'Distraught' haha, I'm sure.

God can you just imagine the indignant outrage on MN if the Camerons had blamed the security guards?

There would be cries of "Buuut the Camerons are the Parennnts!"