[Closed] Feckless parents. What to do about them?

I wonder if Oxfordshire is one of the county councils that will be taking part in the governements new 'problem families' scheme 🙂

TBF, my (at the time, new with first baby and therefore knackered) mum once left my sister in her pram outside a shop. She got all the way home before realising there was something missing...

it makes me so maddy

bit of a nothing story really. Mix up between 2 cars and security people.

Rather be left in a nice pub in Oxfordshire than a lot of other places

Wonder if he drove back over the limit?

There's a team of people that are responsible for the safety of the whole family, it's not so much the Cameroons that I'm worried about here, it's the efficiency and competency of our security services!

My kids have often left me unattended.

"****less Parents" - is an oxymoron surely?

Fabulous story

Security detail need a good kicking for that

I'm with scaled - probably the most protected family in the UK and their security people don't actually keep tabs on all the members of it when in a public place.

Does give Cameron an excuse not to remember stuff when at Levenson later in the week, though.

[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/821720.stm ]Balance Article[/url]

[i]it makes me so maddy [/i]

Ooh, you'll go to hell for that 🙂

Yeah, I would imagine that his Close Protection squad recieved a few stern words from the powers that be.

Its not a balance article at all - 16 yr old gets drunl adults looose child

Who knows who is to blame but I bet it does not happen again and I bet a high percentage of parents have "lost" a kid at some point...not me but it scares you enough when they are just out of sight.

No political mileage in this IMHO shit happens

Apparently :

[b][i]"Thankfully when they phoned the pub she was there safe and well. The prime minister went down straight away to get her."[/i][/b]

I think it's important to emphasis that he went back "straight away to get her". It is a relief to know that he's so caring.

mikewsmith - Member

Balance Article

How is that a balance article ? That is a completely unrelated story, dealing with a completely unrelated issue, and affecting completely unrelated people.

Junkyard - Member
Its not a balance article at all - 16 yr old gets drunl adults looose child

It is, they are both pointless stories that only makes the news due to the people involved.

Having wandered off as a kid and being left behind it's just something you can blackmail parents about later in life....

they are both pointless stories that only makes the news due to the people involved.

Don't most stories make the news due to the people involved then ?

😕

He was away for what, 15 minutes?

Don't like the guy but +1 on the complete non-story angle.

Plenty of families have similar tales to tell (as evidenced by the folk telling their own stories of misplacing children this morning).

You do have to wonder about the security detail though...

bit home alone for my liking.

oh my god... KEVIN!

+1 on the complete non-story angle.

The sub-editors of all the national papers appear to disagree with you and consider it a story worth reporting which their readers will be interested in. What I suspect you mean is that it's not a story which interests you.

Apparently my mum left me in my pram outside the local shop and only realised something was missing when she got home and my big sister asked where the baby was. I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't for the fact that she remembered the dog, and the dog had been tied up to the pram!

Luckily I'm the strong sort who can easily get over that type of thing. 40 odd years ago, all in the past, easy mistake to make....sniff.....sniff,

B.

In the public interest
or
Interesting to the Public

Up there with footballers infidelity and celebrity falling out of night clubs.

So they hold on to a story for a couple of months and just happen to release it on the day the Gov't launch their 'troubled families' programme. Shameless media point scoring.

I can't stand the eejit but can understand why he might think the entourage employed to keep him & his family safe had things (and family members) under control.

Well interesting to the public I would have thought. You don't think newspapers should publish stories which their readers find interesting ?

I tend to read stuff which I find interesting, not because I feel I can do anything about it.

It really doesn't make him seem any more of a ****t than he already is.

[i]just happen to release it on the day the Gov't launch their 'troubled families' programme.[/i]

and the chancellor is at Leveson later too...

So they hold on to a story for a couple of months and just happen to release it on the day the Gov't launch their 'troubled families' programme. Shameless media point scoring.

By the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, and Daily Express ? Things sound more complicated than I thought.

I can't see Cameron lasting much longer.

The sub-editors of all the national papers appear to disagree with you and consider it a story worth reporting which their readers will be interested in. What I suspect you mean is that it's not a story which interests you.

There's the thing though - it's an "interesting" [u]headline[/u]. One that catches eyes and makes people buy newspapers, click links etc, but the actual body of the story is thoroughly undeserving of the attention it is receiving, especially as it appears to have happened some time ago and been released when certain news corporations may want to put a boot in.

While the Government has never engaged in 'shameless point scoring' or 'wanting to put the boot in'

*cough*petrolcrisis*cough*

So either every parent who misplaces a child (guessing this isn't a small number) id ****less and should be locked up [i]or[/i] this is just there to have a dig at the PM

Either way I'd rather hear how the government is dealing with whats going on than this.

Has Millibland released any policies yet?

The story [b]could prove embarrassing[/b] for the prime minister, coming on the [b]same day as the government relaunches[/b] its £450m troubled families programme.

The context says it all.

A great media non-story, so nothing new in that. Makes no difference to his ability/inability (your choice) to run the country but probably adds a few to the circulation figures, gives 24 hour news some padding and R5Live an easy topic to discuss.

And I thought there was a call for politicians to be more normal - God forbid, they ever err in their private lives!! 😉 And the balance (sic) Blair's son has a few after exams - wow, what a shocker!

[edit: meanwhile the real news across the channel and in Spain is....not in the public's interest?!!? 😉 ]

the we were "distraught" doesn't bode well for when the country ends up in a real crisis.

the plough is in buckinghamshire as is chequers

but for those of you who dont know it, both cars had to drive past the front door of the pub to get to the road... so little cameron was either in the loo or waved as they went past.

so little cameron was either in the loo or waved as they went past.

Top marks.

From The Guardian article: [i]"The couple's daughter Nancy [u]wandered off to the toilets[/u] while they were arranging lifts and they only realised she was not with them when they got home"[/i]

Either way I'd rather hear how the government is dealing with whats going on than this.
Has Millibland released any policies yet?

A little premature. He's not in the government yet. 😯

[i]waved as they went past.[/i]

He probably waved back, "ooh look at that sweet little girl!"

Love the drivel from the usual tories on here.

Laughable

0k, so an article also guesses she was in the loo.

its just as likely she was playing on the rope swing, a bit of light relief after having to sit through an overpriced sunday lunch with a load of boring grown-ups.

TandemJeremy - Member
Love the drivel from the usual [s]tories[/s]lefties on here.

Laughable

🙄

My point made Mike.

You attempts to show this is anything but a frothy story allowing us to laugh at Cameron are laughable

Does someone need a little perspective (the adult version) or get a life (the F'book version)?

😉

Its sensationalist & thats it.

Nothing more than political grist for the mill.

If you cant see that, then I pity you.

But the hand wringing lefties will use it as a rod to bash DC with.

When it comes to another politician that perhaps they are more favourable to I wonder if there attitude will be quite the same?

I DOUBT IT..

Try to separate an unfortunate incident from that which really needs worrying about.

Like, when is Summer ACTUALLY going to arrive??? (Surely thats more important - Im losing my razor sharp cycling tan lines for gawds sake!)

I think that clearly, anyone without children will possibly be shocked by this little mishap...I mean, how could you forget your child like that...I'd be miffed if I forgot my sunglasses in the pub...but another human??!!??

Whereas, anyone with children understands that the sheer hell of it all means that some days, you're all just lucky to make it through the day alive, let alone with the slight oversight of forgetting one's precious in the pub for an hour or so.

So - lefties have a little chuckle at CMD for being in an embarrassing situation. Tory apologists start foaming at the mouth and attempting to divert the conversation away from laughing at Cameron with a series of snide attacks on politicians not involved in this and anyone who dares laugh at their hero.

Lost your sense of humour guys? The rest of us haven't.

Methinks the gentlemen protest to much. Whats wrong with laughing at a politician who does something embarrassing?

So - lefties have a little chuckle at CMD for being in an embarrassing situation. Tory apologists start foaming at the mouth and attempting to divert the conversation away from laughing at Cameron with a series of snide attacks on politicians not involved in this and anyone who dares laugh at their hero.

Hes hardly my hero & I agree not knowing where your child is terribly horrific (& it does sadly cast doubts on the parents whether its deserved or not).

BUT if some of you cant see how you are using this as nothing else than a chance to bash DC..

Well, Ill walk away from this conversation now...