Cameron.

[BayBoy1]

MR Cameron and wife in charge of eight year old daughter.???? Mr cameron in charge of the UK ????? Help,

[ladybirder]

Link?

[Kiki-frog]

I'm no fan of Cameron, but I can see how this could easily happen. Nancy was on her own in a pub at lunchtime for 15 minutes max, and nothing happened to her (apart from the fact that the poor kid will be hassled by journalists for a bit). I'm sure many parents have known that sickening moment when they've lost sight of their child. Storm in a teacup?

[bazwillrun]

2 months old.
There were three other families.
It was a pub right by Chequers.
DC got into one of the security vehicles and thought the family and kids were in the other vehicles.

The pub would have been well aware of whose kid it was and that they would have been back PDQ, as was the case.

when they did go back the child was helping staff, so no harm done , lets see the mountain out of the molehill emerge.

slow news day obviously

[Davethedog]

Mountain out of molehill? Imagine how it had been reported if it had been Ed Miliband?

I agree with BayBoy doesn't reflect any form of responsibility. According to the mail the Camerons were "distraught" so distraught they didn't even check she was safe.

[pdq1]

Its taking chillaxin a bit too far!

[jno]

typical - in Tory Britain, the little people are always left behind...

[emmie]

it was an error, oversight, one party thought the child had been driven home by the other party. Namely Mr and Mrs David Cameron.
Not quite like leaving the child in the middle of the park and forgetting where you left them, which happened to me, my brother got a right royal telling off, thank heavens i was allright.

[emmie]

jno, really, how do you make that out.

[anotheoldgit]

Yes incidents like this can happen to ordinary parents I suppose, but even that would be considered lax in my opinion.

But for it to happen to a family member of the Prime Minister of the UK, (independent of what political party, that is irrelevant), needs questioning.

If the Camerons could not be bothered to check their family before they set off, what about the security personnel, who must accompany them no matter where they go?

The child could have easily been kidnapped, what then?

[emmie]

in a pub full of people, not really.

[Ellipsis]

I'm kind of surprised this was made public, as it reveals something of the level of security around the PM and his family. But, given that it was, this is the most reasoned discussion I've seen on it ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18394690

Justine Roberts, of the Mumsnet website, says that this is a familiar scenario for many parents. "Many people will have some understanding of how this happened to the prime minister and his wife. Particularly if you are a family with two cars, there is the assumption by one parent that the other parent has a particular child. Everyone can see how it happens - particularly the more children you have - when you become outnumbered." She says that any inference that the Camerons are not good parents or that the prime minister is unfit to run the country is "cynical". "It's a case of but for the grace of God go I," she says. "Kids are good at rushing off at the last minute - going off to the toilet without telling anyone - sneaking into the cars of other people in the group. I have four children and I've probably lost all of them at some time or another."

[jno]

er, it was a joke, em...

[emmie]

umm really..

[jno]

in real life I think it's a non-story; most parents will sympathise. Not all will leave their kids behind in the pub, but most will at one stage or another have had little flashbacks to a time when they were child-free. I'm the opposite: I'm an empty-nester but still sometimes think I hear jno jnr around the house.

[anotheoldgit]

em10

/// in a pub full of people, not really. ///

How do you make that out, wouldn't the fact that the pub was crowded present a better opportunity to kidnap someone?

/// A mother has spoken of her horror at the moment her three-year-old daughter was abducted during a family shopping trip.
The girl was snatched from under her parents' noses as they shopped at a mobile phone store in a city centre last year. /// June 2011

/// Two young boys apparently tried to lure a young girl away from her mother in a supermarket, in a chilling echo of the James Bulger abduction. /// Nov 2011

Wasn't young James Bulger abducted in a shopping mall also?

[emmie]

not when the people that had recently been in, in fact moments before, were the PM and his wife, so someone would have to have very sharp eyes all the time. Security seems to somewhat failed this time though. Unless there weren't any, which would be quite surprising.

[emmie]

as an aside, i have it on good authority, my mum actually, that when we were quite young, we were left any number of times, with the good neighbour looking in on us from time to time. You wouldn't do it now, at least i wouldn't.

[DTCwordfan]

It can be easily done, especially in groups.....friends of mine took 14 kids to the Happy Throw-Up on the Hog's Back, between Guildford and Farnham and managed to come back with 13.....and felt awful.

I agree with the security issue risk.......

It is a bit of a mountain being made out of a mole-hill though.

At least the Cameron's didn't leave their children unattended whilst they got plastered on a neighbour's terrace.....Now whom could I be referring to?

[emmie]

DT, not sure who you are referring to, who left their children?