Baby Wilfred at G7 - what do you think?

Is it "spite" to wonder why wive/husbands /children need to attend political meetings?, well I know they don't attend the meetings, but what do they do? just wander around having their photos taken? Does not liking this make me a sad or spiteful person? Or is gushing over a child who you don't know and haven't seen a bit sad?

GrannyGravy13

MawBe if it had been any other politicians baby I guess it would be acceptable.

No, it wouldn't have been acceptable.

But, as I said before, most other politicians wouldn't be trotting out their children for photo ops at a summit meeting. Most other politicians keep their children well away from the limelight.

I have absolutely no objection to Carrie taking him along; fine if she doesn't want to be parted from him. I don't care what he wears on the beach; mine wouldn't have been wearing anything but sunscreen. But no need to put him in front of the cameras.

Chestnut

Foxie48 I just posted on the other Wilfred thread, these threads are just an excuse for a bitching session. Boris haters just keep pouring out their venom (yes varian, venom is the correct word) and criticise every single thing Boris or Carrie do. Such nastiness. They must be very unhappy people.

Reminds me of other threads….

I have nothing negative to say about the baby and i think the comments about no shorts are completely ridiculous.

I do however have plenty of negative thoughts towards the current PM.

That’s not a bitchfest about a baby is it ?

God knows I’m no great Boris fan, but I see no need for the usual Boris bitch-fest. Who wouldn’t want to take their baby on the beach? And I can’t see the harm in letting him toddle around elsewhere, either.
As for comments about him being in just a nappy, they are beyond ludicrous.

well i think it looks undignified to appear in public without shorts on.

esp knowing that scene at the water's edge is going to be much photographed.
it may embarrass him later to see himself paraded like that.
i wouldn't like it if it was i.

Not many one-year olds aspire to looking “dignified”

No one cares about him being on a beach having a nice time it’s the photo op PR stunt people don’t like. Well imagine if it were Harry and Megan with the press taking arty back shots of their child. Bitchfest wouldn’t be the word.

It was disposable nappy as well....<slinks off quietly> at the lets save the planet-all Sclub7 touching elbows pretending we aren't middle aged

Lighten up! Don’t we all love a baby when we get to a certain age? He looks rather cute. I see Jill Biden gave him a book called ‘Joey’ all about the antics Joe got up to as a lad - a best seller in US at one time apparently. All friendly.

welbeck

well i think it looks undignified to appear in public without shorts on.

I assume you’re joking? He’s a baby!

welbeck

well i think it looks undignified to appear in public without shorts on.

Even if you’re just one year old?

I don’t blame Carrie for using a disposable nappy on the baby when away from home. Seems practical.

As for the spouses at the G7, they hold soft power - look at what Michelle Obama achieved as FLOTUS.

BTW Some disposable nappies are bio degradable

Not only a baby but a baby on the beach! In my young day my two would only have worn a T.shirt for sun protection , but obviously times have changed. I think Wilfreds nappy/knickers were perfectly respectable for the beach, even a toddle to buy an ice cream would have been ok.

I really think some posters are taking this out of context. I have been on the beach most of the day today alongside hundreds of children and babies in various attire and states of undress. Nobody even notices.

Wilfred was the only baby on an empty beach which had been cleared of people for security reasons. You have no other children there to compare him with, so of course your eyes are just seeing a single snapshot. Yes, it was staged, but I can't see a big problem.

It’s come to mind that there’s a family photo floating around of me, aged 11mths, sitting in just a nappy (towelling, of course!) and sun hat in the sea at Hastings. I’m not embarrassed by it, I look rather cute, even if I say so myself.

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Some nasty comments on here from the Boris Johnson Fan club just because some of us aren't gushing at the sight of the back of a baby's head.

My OP was pointing out that I don't think it's a good idea to cynically use the baby for a photo opportunity, Boris will do anything if he thinks it will make a good photo - even him hanging from a zip wire waving a flag was staged.

No one objects to Wilfred's mother taking him with her and I wasn't criticising him showing a nappy but I was surprised as I know most mothers would dress their baby up to meet lots of important people. All you people saying your own children played on the beach in nappies - I bet they weren't meeting the 1st lady of the USA

but I was surprised as I know most mothers would dress their baby up to meet lots of important people

I really don’t think so!
Carrie is very much of her generation and there would be no question of Sunday best simply to meet other HOS wives. In addition, if she had dressed him in the sweet traditional knickerbocker /smocked romper type outfits the Cambridges favour, no doubt somebody would have criticised that as Little Lord Fauntleroy , extravagant , showy and certainly overpriced.
Come off it - it’s all another opportunity to take a pop at the Johnsons, principally Boris but also Carrie by association and as such entirely irrelevant.

MawBe abso-bloody-lutely!!!!

MawBe

Are you seriously suggesting the only choice is either nappy and T shirt or knickerbockers? I

I agree, I don't think even years ago anyone would dress a toddler in Sunday best for the beach whoever they might be meeting., Queens garden party maybe but not in an informal setting. I have photos of me on a Cornish beach circa 1950 with my dress tucked into my knickers to keep it dry while paddling. These days things are more informal and casual including the two ladies, that has to bed a good thing.

Just can't get het up about this baby on the beach in his nappy.

His father sadly is a true embarrassment and a terrible, lying, dishonest, can't be trusted PM, probably the worst ever- so the above, even if totally staged, is of no true significance.

Perhaps baby is still being breast fed so needs to be with mummy.........come to think of it that is unlikely.
Photo ops are unnecessary and do we really need to know how much has been spent renting clothes, handbags and even shoes?

SueDonim

It’s come to mind that there’s a family photo floating around of me, aged 11mths, sitting in just a nappy (towelling, of course!) and sun hat in the sea at Hastings. I’m not embarrassed by it, I look rather cute, even if I say so myself.

but presumably that picture has not been published on front pages across the world, and internet equivalents in perpetuity.