David Cameron's drinking

[jacster33]

What do you think of the pictures of David Cameron drinking Guinness at 3.30pm in the afternoon, with new baby daughter in the room?
Responsible parenting?

I love the idea of a barmaid emoticon. It would have to be Bet Lynchesque, surely?

These threads are why I love MN. Crappy journo comes fishing for a story and instead concern is for crap Guinness

ROFL. Some PR person thinks it would be great to have ex-Bullingdon Club member David Cameron drinking Guinness. Man of the people stuff.

Then comes the backlash of the parental irresponsibility angle.

You've just gotta laugh

Maybe he's got shares in Guinness?

surely if he had shared he'd make sure he'd been given a proper Guinness pint glass - and got someone to pour one that looked half decent.

I have found lots of examples of badly poured Guinness - but none quite that bad

God enough already of the doting father baby Florence pics.

DC couldn't give a stuff about other peoples kids, do the Tories really think most sane people give a stuff about his.

We weren't subjected to a constant stream of Gordon Brown's dc or Blair's.

Really irritating,puts my teeth right on edge.

Oh how cute is that baby ? I want one

If DC has a track record of drinking Guinness do you think that possibly... rather than 'cultivating an image'... he actually likes the stuff?

^In my professional opinion, it's a badly poured pint of stout [barmaid emoticon]
As in, they just poured the whole thing in one go, without leaving it to settle at all.
You can see the tiny black line at the bottom where it is just beginning to settle.^

I'd be worried if he had a raw egg in that stout - traditional hangover cure from the 1960s.

Lucky the journo missed him lighting up his spliff!

If I had to give a speech to the Tory party, I'd want something alcoholic, preferably before not afterward.

If he's caught putting Guinness in Florence's bottle, come back.

Couldn't care less about him drinking Guinness although suspect it is about image and feel he'd probably be more at home with something less, well, earthy. I see him as more of a single malt man - you know, something excluisve that not everyone can have. Something that says "I'm alright, Jack."

What do I think? I think you have too much time on your hands because I really couldn't care less.

Drinking alcohol is not illegal and it's not like he was stumbling around paralytic.

I'm not a Tory or a DC fan, but like, who cares if he drinks Guinness at 3.30PM on a Saturday afternoon around his baby?

I used to have a glass of wine with the evening cluster feed whilst DD2 nursed away.

Get a life.

What a strange OP

"One often leads to two" Yes please, and make mine a large one!

Don't usually sympathise with DC but maybe he needed it after the Tory conference? He might have wanted to drown his sorrows after even his own supporters failed to applaud all that Big Society gubbins.

3.30 pm ? not like he was having beer in his breakfast cereals is it? I am definitely not a fan of alcohol but that is not really shocking behaviour IMHO.

Do you suppose if DC was some kid-from-a-council-estate-made-good... and had been spotted drinking a glass of Chablis during the conference... we'd be saying 'he'd probably prefer a can of Special Brew and he's just drinking wine to be in with the tory crowd'? :) I think the 'posh people don't drink Guinness' thing is really funny, actually.

I once dropped a whole pint of Guinness on a 6 month old DD1. at 4 in the afternoon

I am more concerned that his extreme vanity has caused him to be the first pm to employ a personal photographer to wander round and 'catch moments'

And anothe thing - while not claiming to be the breastfeeding police or anything is it not equally as bad am image to portry having photos of him feeding that small baby on what is obviously not a breast?

I can't stick Cameron but this is perhaps the least thing to care about!

I never get people who think drinkinga round kids is a terrible thing: responsible drinking (not being drunk) is fine. It teaches kids IMO that moderation is a possible option.

Although yuck to Guinness at any time, and drinks always put me to sleep anyhow so a no to lunchtime drinks here sadly.

I know what he's drinking - I drink it a lot - and it's definitely not Guinness. It's a great pick-me-up, tastes fab, but looks revolting.

Half a pint of fresh orange juice and half a pint of coke!

Just to clarify a few points:
It is Guiness I'm drinking (who would drink coffee out of a pint glass?), but it's from a can and needed time to settle
Yes, Flo's nappy had leaked onto my shirt a little bit, it was highly embarrassing, but I couldn't change as I didn't have cufflinks, and my only other shirts required their use
Her sleepsuits are indeed getting a bit tight, we've just finished unpicking the seams at the bottoms of the legs to eke a week or so extra out of them
Thank you for the kind comments about her :)

Roisin- round Somerset way that drink is known as mud.

DC is a Guinness drinker. DH bought him a drink and that's what he asked for. If he's pretending to like beer to seem more "down with the people" he wouldn't be the first PM to do it.

Re the baby's bottle: it could easily be expressed milk (not that it's anyone's business but theirs). It would be nice if she felt able to, but Sam Cam is unlikely to whip em out to feed her in full view of a camera. My SIL always gave her first son expressed breast milk in a bottle in public as she felt too shy to BF in front of others.

DCameron - why do you feel the need to have a personal photographer? and if it is indeed personal why are the pics in the Mail?