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And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:05 am
by Gob
British Prime Minister David Cameron left his eight-year-old daughter at a pub after a mix-up with his wife, Samantha, according to a newspaper report.
The couple's daughter Nancy wandered off while they were arranging lifts. They realised she was not with them when they got home after a Sunday lunch, The Sun reported on Monday.
A Downing Street spokesman said the incident happened a "a couple of months ago".
Cameron drove back to the pub and found Nancy helping staff. She was away from her parents for about 15 minutes.
The 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 Camerons were at the Plough Inn - near the Prime Minister's country retreat, Chequers - with Nancy and their other children Arthur, 6, and 22-month-old Florence, as well as two other families.
When Cameron left the pub he went home in one car with his bodyguards and thought Nancy was with his wife and their other children in another car.
Mrs Cameron had assumed her eldest daughter was with her father.
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Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:43 pm
by Scooter
I was wondering how until I saw they were in separate cars. At least they realized it as soon as they got home, unlike the parents we talked about who left their kid at Chuck E. Cheese and didn't realize it until the next day.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:45 pm
by Lord Jim
Where the hell were the security people?
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:56 pm
by Crackpot
Scooter wrote:I was wondering how until I saw they were in separate cars. At least they realized it as soon as they got home, unlike the parents we talked about who left their kid at Chuck E. Cheese and didn't realize it until the next day.
they weren't living together
Scoot
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:15 pm
by Scooter
And see my comments at the time. No way parents sharing custody don't know which nights the kid was supposed to be sleeping at whose house.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:31 pm
by Crackpot
Not in any way justifying actions (no one should have left without being sure other caretaker was around) but schedues get muddied very easily.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:30 pm
by Lord Jim
No way parents sharing custody don't know which nights the kid was supposed to be sleeping at whose house.
If the parents still have a good relationship, they live near each other and it's a weekend, it could very easily be the kid's choice to decide where they're going to spend the night.
I know divorced people who have had this kind of a relationship regarding their kids. Not all divorced parents are at each others throats and have to have every detail of their shared custody spelled out and enforced to the letter.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:33 pm
by Scooter
It's not a question of being at each other's throats or not. It's about having a schedule and knowing where your kid is going to be sleeping. You're telling me that your friends let their kids decide where they are going to be staying without informing the other parent of where they are going to be?
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:30 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Crackpot wrote: they weren't living together Scoot
I'm sorry CP are you saying that David Cameron and his wife Samantha do not live together?
(or were you saying they did not 'leave' togther?)
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:47 pm
by Crackpot
I was refering to another thread which scooter had elided too.
If you can't keep track of the tread were not talking about you could at least have the decency to stay out of it.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:04 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
Can I stay out of both of them?
Please
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:08 am
by rubato
15 minutes of PURE TERROR!
15 minutes before she was swept up into the bosom of her family and safety!
15 minutes when she could have been kidnapped by white slavers and shipped to a whore house in Shanghai!
Oy fucking vey. This is a real non-story.
yrs,
rubato
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:11 am
by rubato
Hmmmm DC's wife does have an unnaturally small cranium doesn't she?
Beady eyes, set close together. Kind of ferrety isn't she?
yrs,
rubato
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:09 am
by Lord Jim
A Cameron spokeswoman said, “The prime minister and Samantha were distraught when they realized Nancy wasn’t with them. Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well.” She also said that no member of Cameron’s security team was determined to have made any mistakes during the incident.
Say what?
This little girl was allowed to wander around in a public restaurant by herself, with apparently no security person detailed specifically to keep an eye on her...
The Prime Minister's party left the building with no security person responsible for making sure that all of the members of his family were accounted for....
And it was determined that no one on the security team had "made any mistakes" ?
They're kidding right?
If that happened with one of Obama's kids, heads would be
rolling....
It would be seen as a
major security blunder.....
If in fact this could happen with nobody on the security detail "making any mistakes" than there are some serious issues that need addressing regarding what are considered acceptable security procedures....
Kidnapping the Prime Minister of Great Britain's daughter would be a
huge coup for any terrorist organization....think of all the ransom potential...it would create a major national crisis and even an international one, given the UK's prominent role in the WOT...
Cameron would have to resign of course, because he certainly couldn't be expected to handle the situation objectively...
It's amazing to me that as security conscious as the Brits have become (and rightly so) since 9/11 , that there doesn't appear to be any sort of public reaction to the security failure involved in this.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:54 pm
by Sue U
Cameron drove back to the pub and found Nancy helping staff.
At least they had the good sense to apprentice her to a trade.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:51 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
They are now helping police with their enquiries into the willful contravention of child labour law.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:07 pm
by dgs49
It has long been axiomatic that Mary and Joseph were the perfect parents.
And yet I recall they had a similar episode with Joe, Jr.
Worked out OK, as I recall, despite some short-term fretting and concern.
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:59 pm
by Lord Jim
Sue U wrote:Cameron drove back to the pub and found Nancy helping staff.
At least they had the good sense to apprentice her to a trade.
Or maybe they pulled a "dine and dash" and she got stuck working off the tab....
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:52 pm
by Gob
' I hope Cameron collects her soon. She's been droning on about the eurozone crisis for half an hour now.'
Re: And we trust him to run a country?
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:06 am
by Gob
A double-glazing salesmen phones up a house and a small child answers in a whisper: "hello"
"Hello little girl; is your mummy there? Can I speak to her?"
"No, mister", the child whispers...
"is your daddy there? Can I speak to him?"
"No, mister"
"is there anyone else there? Can I speak to them?"
"There's a policeman, mister. But you can't speak to them"
"Anyone else?"
"There are some firemen. And my sister & brother. And some neighbours"
"Wow" What are they all doing there, little girl"
Kids whispers back.....
"Looking for me...."