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david cameron on respite in news today

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:03

He is choalking at times, it is close to home for him.

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:04

He is a politician, and a grieving father, I feel so sorry for him.

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:05

Nervous laugh after silence, everyone in the room sounded so touched!

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nickelbabysnatcher · 20/01/2011 15:10

have you got a link to the interview?

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:11

It was on bbc news 24, it was from the heart, I feel quite tearfull.

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RoadCraftGuru · 20/01/2011 15:12

TV news? I haven't seen it.

It must be a very difficult issue for him to comment on with impunity. On the one hand, he has direct experience of living with, loving, and sadly losing, a very disabled child. On the other hand, he must be equally aware that he was in a position to pay for the kind of practical help that is so far out of the reach of so many carers of a child with similar needs.

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:13

Yes TV news, I would imagine it will be repeated later.

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rolandweary · 20/01/2011 15:13

So what is he going to do about it?

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:24

Roland, he said nothing new that other politicians said earlier, it was more about his empathy for other families in the position of having a disabled child to care for.

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2shoes · 20/01/2011 15:28

I hope it is on again later, should be interesting.
he hasn't a clue

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:32

I would imagine it will, he was at some european conference, I think there were other pm's there. At the end of the day he is a grieveing father himself. I don't suppose he has a clue regarding care and it's organising, I imainge that his wife did most of that, if Samantha had to tell him how many nappies they got for thier son. It was he awkward silences, and he went off on a tangent, and then he got everyone to laugh.

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HalfTermHero · 20/01/2011 15:40

I just saw it on bbc news 24. He did not stike me as being overwhelmed by emotion.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 20/01/2011 15:41

its not emotion people are after, it is hard concrete action.

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:45

I just got back in again and the news was on and they played some of it, not all, he was not tearfull or anything like that, I though he sounded choalked at times.

Yes action is required and I don't think he is going to do anything really, he said he will not ringfence, it is up to councils.

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pagwatch · 20/01/2011 15:49

Can I just say that having a disabled child is a bit easier if you have money in that you have access to things that you need like nappies and equipment.

But the emotional toll, the fears and anxieties, the tearful nights worrying about support, education, health is not lessened.

I cannot get care for my son in spite of the money because he can't tolerate it and I cannot find people able and available to help. Plus he is my son , he needs me AND my dh, who is as involved as I am.

I would never compare my situation to someone who has no cash or resources but I can understand it and I can genuinely empathize.

The suggestions that he is disinterested, uninvolved in his childrens care because he us a man is horrible and reminds me of the endless meetings we gad about ds2 and while dh was so distraught, mourning and sad, all he ever got asked was was he helping me Hmm as if only a mother struggles with the sadness.

And to suggest that he can't empathize or care about it her children having experienced such sadness and loss just because he us wealthy is as nasty a suggestion as those who call poor people feckless.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 20/01/2011 15:50

Is this a response to Riven's thread the other day?

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MummieHunnie · 20/01/2011 15:53

I didn't put her name in the title or the posts as she asked to stop with her, yes he was responding to her, Oldlady.

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RoadCraftGuru · 20/01/2011 16:11

Pag, that was kind of where I was coming from. As usual, you said it much better than I ever could Grin

DC clearly didn't have to be up all night every night and face the grinding despair of brick wall after brick wall of refusal of financial aid, but OTOH it doesn't take away from his empathy on the emotional side.

Highlander · 20/01/2011 16:23

I hate the Tories and I hate DC as a politician.

However, as a person I can see he is lovely and I think the emotion of caring for a disabled child was written all over his face.

I hope he realises that it was his money that allowed him respite from being a carer in order to continue his career. Maybe when that twigs, he'll realise that, instead of depriving families of cash needed for basic care and dignity, he can ask the rest of the population for a little bit more.

We don't mind a little increase in tax - you only have to ask. Oh, that's right - you didn't did you? You'd rather have us all believe that disabled people and their families are whingeing scroungers

2shoes · 20/01/2011 17:03

sorry but if he understood, he wouldn't be taking lifelines a way from disabled people and their carers.

Pan · 20/01/2011 17:23

"he must be equally aware that he was in a position to pay for the kind of practical help that is so far out of the reach of so many carers of a child with similar needs."

no I don't think this is the case at all.

RoadCraftGuru · 20/01/2011 19:08

Really Pan? What makes you say that?

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