Prime Minister Denies His Wife Pushes Him To Take Action In Syria.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372889/David-Cameron-denies-policies-Syria-influenced-wife.html

/// During her visit, Samantha Cameron met a ten-year-old girl whose mother was killed when a shell destroyed the family home, and a mother of six whose son was shot by a sniper. ///

/// She said at the time: ‘No child should experience what they have. ///

Perhaps Mrs Cameron would be better employed influencing her husband not to get involved in other country's problems, which are still causing some of our own children to lose their daddies?

[factor-fiction]

Seems a non-story to me. Fortunately the Mail will have a real story for tomorrow

[anotheoldgit]

factor-fiction

Why bother posting when you have nothing constructive to contribute?

[woofgang]

ask yourself the same question AOG

[anotheoldgit]

woofgang

That must have took some very hard thinking on your part to come up with a reply such as that.

[factor-fiction]

Would it have been better if Samantha Cameron had said "every child should experience what they have?" Of course not.

[douglas9401]

The comment from Mr Git seems perfectly valid.

[woofgang]

nah, AOG when i read your post and your reply to factor, it just leaped onto the screen :-)

[naomi24]

//Perhaps Mrs Cameron would be better employed influencing her husband not to get involved in other country's problems, //

So you're assuming she does influence his decisions?

//No child should experience what they have. //

She's right - but doesn't everyone say that?

What nonsense!

[andy-hughes]

I am sure Mrs Cameron has opinions, and voices them to Mr Cameron, but that is a seriously long way from imagining that she influeces policy.

BTW - what's with the 'First Lady' caption on the photo, i thought that tag went to Mrs Obama only - saince when has a PM's wife been a 'First Lady'?

[LazyGun]

I think our politicos - especially those occupying the PM role are all jealous of the respect afforded both incumbent and previous Presidents over in the US by americans. Any opportunity to adopt some of their practices, it seems to me :)

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah a o g - can you imagine Denis Thatcher saying to Margaret,

my dear bomb Ruritania back to the stone age - but make sure you leave the Gin Palaces, so I have somewhere to take on water when we go there.....

[Peter Pedant]

aog // Why bother posting when you have nothing constructive to contribute? //

um yeah, ao g why Do you bother .....?

[andy-hughes]

Peter Pedant - I must speak up in defence of my sparring partner here -

AOG has been in the practice of posting a subject for debate and then sitting back and letting the debate unfold for as long as he has been a contributor to the AB.

I don't think it is fair to assume that his lack of partcipation equates with an absence of valid input.

If something piques his interest, or he is personally engaged in the debate, he will return and put forward his views - as indeed he may do in response to your post.

[LazyGun]

Anyway, question is moot, because surely SamCam is too posh to push? :)

[Philoctetes]

Is there anything wrong with a politician, even the PM, being influenced by their partner? Whoever votes for them votes for the person they are, and if that includes being part of a partnership where they both discuss things, that is who they are. They will have been doing that long before he was elected

[naomi24]

Andy has a point. What's with the 'First Lady' tag the Mail has endowed upon Sam? I wouldn't have thought that would sit well with a royalist like you, AOG.

[sandyRoe]

I'd thought 'kitchen cabinets' went out of fashion after Harold and Marcia. Or is it Samantha's pillow talk that influences foreign policy?

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Thank you Andy, but I think you are wasting your time with a person such as Peter Pedant, a person who does not fully understand how to conduct debate.

If he did he would not have failed to notice that I had already made my views know in my initial post:

/// Perhaps Mrs Cameron would be better employed influencing her husband not to get involved in other country's problems, which are still causing some of our own children to lose their daddies? ///

Then in true debating fashion one waits to read what other points of view are put forward before reacting further.

Perhaps this poster should change his username, because it doesn't suit him whatsoever.

*** A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning. ***

[ichkeria]

I doubt if Mrs C is actually trying to persuade her husband to invade Syria.

Anyway I suspect this is another fuss about nothing