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Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukp...1339393899562A
Of course, the expected and conditioned response would be 'Oh, how incompetent!' or 'Oh, how can this man be in charge!' etc etc.Prime Minister David Cameron left his eight-year-old daughter in a pub following a Sunday lunch, after a mix-up with his wife Samantha.
The couple's daughter Nancy wandered off to the toilets while they were arranging lifts and they only realised she was not with them when they got home, The Sun said.
Mr Cameron rushed back to the Plough Inn in Cadsden, Bucks, where he found his daughter with staff.
A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister and Samantha were distraught when they realised Nancy wasn't with them.
"Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well. The Prime Minister went down straight away to get her."
Downing Street said the incident happened "a couple of months ago"....
Even so, I agree anyway. When my siblings and I were younger and out on holiday or whatnot with parents; when we were about to move from one place to another (be it airport to taxi, or restaurant to cinema), there was always a 'headcount' or something similar - it's just that simple.
So, what on Earth were these parents doing? And what on Earth were the security doing?
Lol, it really is quite silly. We all make mistakes, but it's not as if the Camerons are from a very low socioeconomic background and are constantly worrying about bills, bailiffs, mental instabilities etc to just let their child slip for a second.
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.I'm not David Cameron's number-one fan by any stretch of the imagination, but it's something that happens a lot more than you think.(Original post by ArthurWinterthurII)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukp...1339393899562A
Of course, the expected and conditioned response would be 'Oh, how incompetent!' or 'Oh, how can this man be in charge!' etc etc.
Even so, I agree anyway. When my siblings and I were younger and out on holiday or whatnot with parents; when we were about to move from one place to another (be it airport to taxi, or restaurant to cinema), there was always a 'headcount' or something similar - it's just that simple.
So, what on Earth were these parents doing? And what on Earth were the security doing?
Lol, it really is quite silly. We all make mistakes, but it's not as if the Camerons are from a very low socioeconomic background and are constantly worrying about bills, bailiffs, mental instabilities etc to just let their child slip for a second.
If I had a young child, they'd be like my second half, after the spouse of course.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18394690
I'm fairly sure it's happened to me when I was a child, and I turned out OK. I don't think it's fair that you're accusing him of being a terrible, negligent parent. Yes, I know it's a terrible, and abhorrent thing to do, but we all make mistakes. However much people don't like him, I don't think it's fair to write him off as a terrible father. It isn't as though he's physically or mentally abusing his child, and I highly doubt she'll be psychologically scarred from the experience when she's an adult. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a mother on a council estate left her child alone for 10 minutes while she went out to buy milk or top up the electric key or something like that, and she was deemed an unfit mother and her child was taken away from her. I see no difference.
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.It isn't quite the same. I'm not saying it's ok to do what Cameron did but he didn't intentionally do this, unlike the story you're talking about.(Original post by jimcatinnes)
I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a mother on a council estate left her child alone for 10 minutes while she went out to buy milk or top up the electric key or something like that, and she was deemed an unfit mother and her child was taken away from her. I see no difference.
Do you really think the child would be better off in care than with the natural parents who love them. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.I'm not saying they should take away the child, I'm just saying that had this been a working class family social services would be involved (obviosly had it made the news or something like that as stuff like this does happen often)(Original post by iSMark)
It isn't quite the same. I'm not saying it's ok to do what Cameron did but he didn't intentionally do this, unlike the story you're talking about.
Do you really think the child would be better off in care than with the natural parents who love them.
I also don't believe they should have taken away the woman's child. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.This is my first thread/post, so it took quite some time to be 'approved'.(Original post by TheHansa)
There's already a thread on this -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.New threads have to be approved?(Original post by ArthurWinterthurII)
This is my first thread/post, so it took quite some time to be 'approved'.
I did not know that. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.Really? Can I have a link to this story, be very interesting...(Original post by jimcatinnes)
I'm pretty sure I remember reading about a mother on a council estate left her child alone for 10 minutes while she went out to buy milk or top up the electric key or something like that, and she was deemed an unfit mother and her child was taken away from her. I see no difference. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.I cannot see what the fuss is about at all. I was lost all the time by my parents at theme parks and the like when I was younger; it doesn't mean that they were terrible parents.
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.If an average parent did this people would have a lot to say (and I'm sure social services might too)! Besides the point anyway - David Cameron should be setting an example, after all, he is the man in charge of the country, is he not? He can't even remember his own daughter; what hope is there for us?
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.What nonsense. He is a human being who makes mistakes, I'm sure Prime Ministers make mistakes when it comes to their families. Have you read the article?(Original post by Ryan_94)
If an average parent did this people would have a lot to say (and I'm sure social services might too)! Besides the point anyway - David Cameron should be setting an example, after all, he is the man in charge of the country, is he not? He can't even remember his own daughter; what hope is there for us?Last edited by meenu89; 11-06-2012 at 21:54. -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.I have looked for it and I can't find it, but I know it happened, I remember reading it in the news paper, I've looked online but I can't find it, it might have been in my local guardian, but it was a couple of years at now.(Original post by meenu89)
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.Dave does have form for absentmindedness.
Before the last election he locked his bike up to a bollard, wrapping the chain around it, outside a shop and went in.
A bollard. That is, a three foot post with no chains running off either side of it.
When he came out and found that some criminal mastermind had simply lifted the bike and lock off the bollard and made off with it, witnesses said he stood there repeatedly saying "But I locked it....but I locked it".
What cant speak cant lie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7RklF4j7FQ
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.LOL, I love the transparency of our socialist trolls. "What hope is there for us?!!? O, the humanity!"(Original post by Ryan_94)
If an average parent did this people would have a lot to say (and I'm sure social services might too)! Besides the point anyway - David Cameron should be setting an example, after all, he is the man in charge of the country, is he not? He can't even remember his own daughter; what hope is there for us? -
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Re: Prime Minster of Britain 'loses daughter in pub'.Haha, just after I'd been born my parents left me outside of a shop and drove home... only to return ten minutes later panicking to find me still there waiting.
I'm sorry but this is such a non-issue, it's even quite understandable how it happened. The two Camerons simply thought that the kid was with the other one. It's not like Dave went on a massive binge sesh and took his daughter with him to try and sell into service.
These things happen. They can end badly or they can be sorted within about 20 minutes.
