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Camerons leave daughter in pub

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JessM Mon 11-Jun-12 07:30:44

How funny! They left their 8 year old in the pub! Bet he was de-smugged for at least an hour. Poor child (unless she is a very self possessed child, or one who was busy on the climbing frame or something)
These problem families, I really don't know what the world is coming to.

j04 Fri 15-Jun-12 10:41:13

grin I would never have thought of that example!

jeni Fri 15-Jun-12 10:40:27

Don't know til I try?

j04 Fri 15-Jun-12 10:36:15

Can't do better than that really, can you. grin

j04 Fri 15-Jun-12 10:35:43

Yes. Cameron's daughter is in good company. smile

Good thinking jeni! smile

jeni Fri 15-Jun-12 10:32:56

Jing! Yes!

Annobel Fri 15-Jun-12 10:23:25

Wonder what Sam 'n' Dave said to each other when they got home. grin

nanaej Fri 15-Jun-12 10:01:11

POGS don't think it has been politically biased..the press would have had equal 'fun' with members of previous government! Think a lot was made of Blair's son when he got 'tired & emotional' at an end of 6th form party and ended up being photographed sitting on the pavement looking worse for wear!!

Mumble67 Thu 14-Jun-12 21:08:50

I was left in my pram (1945) outside a shop whilst my mother took my twin brothers and sister home from school. She only remembered me when she felt uncomfortably full of milk!! Went back to find me still outside the shop. I am not scarred emotionally, but it has been a good tale to tell over the years. Then there was the kid who stayed over in Jerusalem. His parents didn't miss him for a whole day!!

POGS Thu 14-Jun-12 15:29:40

Well said Gadabout.

The Camerons left in two seperate cars with a group of other adaults and children in each. They would have been mortified.

I think a lot of all this is the terrible politics of spin and bias against a politcal party you don't like. Who would want to be in the media spotlight?

GadaboutGran Thu 14-Jun-12 15:21:59

We had a Cameron moment on Sunday with our grandson aged 2 at the Open Gaden Saquares event in London (Cadogan Place my dears!). Husband walked off from the food tent pushing the buggy, not realising I'd let grandson out. I assumed he'd strapped him back in. When we got to our picnic spot, no child in buggy. Help! We re-traced our steps and found him in deep conversation with the bar man pointing at the Pymm's.

The Cameron's daughter is 8 in a pub she knew and was known, not 2. All the fuss made me think how times have changed - when I was 8 I was running around the village playing hare and hounds & parents had no idea where we were.

j04 Thu 14-Jun-12 13:28:16

confused

j04 Thu 14-Jun-12 13:27:44

Whew! Thought for a minute there, jeni you meant he left a daughter in the lavs! grin

You mean when he was little? In the temple, talking to the priests?

Anagram Thu 14-Jun-12 12:42:31

Probably not the result R. Murdoch was hoping for, if indeed 'twas he! grin

jeni Thu 14-Jun-12 12:41:39

Didn't this happen in the bible to Jesus? He was found debating theology?

goldengirl Thu 14-Jun-12 12:15:28

Well, you could say it makes DC and SC human - a bit like the rest of us - which makes it newsworthy smile

Anagram Thu 14-Jun-12 12:00:11

Certainly not newsworthy!

absentgrana Thu 14-Jun-12 11:40:17

Probably my memory is playing tricks – perhaps it was a couple of months not a couple of years. Either way, it isn't news.

Lilygran Thu 14-Jun-12 11:38:14

'Someone' was The Sun, prop. R Murdoch

Anagram Thu 14-Jun-12 11:03:24

It happened two months ago, according to the Huffington Post. Someone saw fit to bring it to the public's notice....confused

j04 Thu 14-Jun-12 10:40:23

Goldengran. grin Yep! I bet.

Lilygran Thu 14-Jun-12 10:38:32

I left my new baby in his pram outside a shop and only remembered him when I was halfway home. In my defence, 40 years ago you weren't allowed to take prams or pushchairs into shops so you had the choice of carrying (possibly waking) the baby into the shop or leaving him in the street. I don't think we worried about stranger danger and the only bad experience I ever heard of was when a friend's unweaned baby was given a sweet by a misguided shopper. The baby was perfectly fine, luckily. Thinking of the other restrictions on activity then, do you remember the nightmare of folding the pushchair - buggies only just invented - then getting it one-handed onto the bus or train while carrying the baby and shepherding the toddler? Then heaving it onto the luggage rack or getting it into the luggage bay. No reserved areas for people with pushchairs and children. And children were regularly left outside pubs, sometimes for hours, with a packet of crisps and a drink! But I can perfectly understand how the Camerons came to leave their daughter behind; she went to the loo, there were a lot of adults and children in the party. Not very traumatic or a big deal.

GoldenGran Thu 14-Jun-12 10:25:44

I thought it happened quite recently and it was a case of each one thought the other had her. I bet there were a few accusations and a bit of a "domestic" behind closed doors.

Ella46 Thu 14-Jun-12 10:17:18

According to the Independent it happened in the last three months.

j04 Thu 14-Jun-12 10:01:57

No. I got the idea that it had been 'dug up'. Didn't realise it was that old though!

Ella46 Thu 14-Jun-12 09:54:05

absent where did you see that it happened 2 years ago? I thought it was last weekend.