Ivan Cameron: I Spy Disabled People, MPs Yellow Ribbons And The Public Spectacle
TORY leader David Cameron’s young son Ivan has died.
Says the sun:
Brave Ivan, six, who Cameron has described as ‘wonderful’ suffered from cerebral palsy and had been in and out of hospital all of his life. He died at 6.30 this morning in St Mary’s hospital, west London.
A Conservative Party spokesman tells us:
“It is with great sadness that David and Samantha Cameron must confirm the death of their six-year-old son Ivan.
“Ivan, who suffered from cerebral palsy and severe epilepsy, was taken ill overnight and died at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, early this morning.
“David and Samantha would ask that their privacy is respected at this terribly difficult time.”
Grim news.
Let the tabloid frenzy begin…
Posted: 27th, February 2009 | In: Key Posts, Politicians Comments (37) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 27th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I’m rather glad to see the human side of Parliament, and its possible PMQ was dropped as the leader of the Opposition wasn’t available. He may have submitted a question.
So family funerals only then? for all or just politicians?
Gordo spoke out to admire JG the other day, should he have?
People like to pay their respects, but I feel it should be dignified and as they used to say’ proper and fitting’ but all this celeb death and the worship of the dying and the shenanigans of Dianas demise, which did almost bring the country to its knees, in worship and time off work to weep,has left this legacy.
And some very handsome profits for florists
However on the day of her funeral our dog charity held an Exemption show, and we were well attended by several hundred dry eyed entries and made a stonking amount of money
February 27th, 2009 at 11:45 am
there may be 646 MPs but only 1 PM and only 1 leader of the opposition - as such, he is a public figure and matter of interest to some, who may wish to sympathise.
others do not and that is their choice.
surely it is the media who should be questioned over this as it is they who are highlighting the situation - the Cameron family themselves, I am sure, would rather that was not the case…
February 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
There are 646 Members of Parliament. Most have spouses or partners. Many still have parents, and many have children.
The Parliamentary ‘family’ must therefore number many thousands, of whom some will fall off the perch each week.
Is there a protocol about which are allowed to interfere with the governance of the country, or are we still in this ridiculous stage where each Member called to speak has to outdo the previous one in their expressions of sympathy for someone killed or injured or missing.
To me this particular loss was a totally private matter, and should have been of no interest to anyone outside the immediate family.
February 27th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Innocent Tragedy
Dignity, Heroism, Beauty
Ending, Beginning, Returning
Existing, Eternally, Spiritually
Inspiring, Imagining
Peaceful Poetry
Ivan’s story truly touched me
Peace & Light
Percy
February 27th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Anorka
Had the dead serviceman been Cameron’s son they would probably also have suspended it, since it would be remarkably unusual for any five year old to be fighting in Afghanistan. On our side, at any rate…
February 26th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Goody leaves me cold; Richards made me laugh (RU Being served and the Likely Lads) some politicians are ok most are crap and the moronic f*ckwit who agreed to the Iraqi invasion should be strung up along with his US mate. I did protest a lot
Would you want to be treated by someone in the grip of grief? It was only PMQ which is a fairly recent invention and it was delayed only by 30 mins, and is hardly urgent business. Your comparison with a hospital is interesting, don’t you think much of them ? Schools stop work if a pupil dies, should they ignore it?
February 26th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
[...] reader writes on Ivan Cameron: Many mums and dads are seeing their children come home in boxes from Afghanistan and Iraq, before [...]
February 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Goody = heroic, Richards = heroic, politicians = heroic, squaddies = cannon fodder?
You wouldn’t expect a hospital to shut for a few hours coz one of the doctors had a bereavement, would you?
February 26th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Doesn’t everyone get compassionate leave from work on the death of a close family member, and condolences from colleagues?
February 26th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
oh no, that would be terrible.
February 26th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Our Ivan?
February 26th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
It is true what has already been said, this is a very private matter which should not have halted the governance of this country.
Many mums and dads are seeing their children come home in boxes from Afghanistan and Iraq, before then it was Ireland. The governance of the country doesn’t stop then. Children have died, not because their illness dictated it at that point, but because of lack of government funding necessitating them being hauled in ambulances from one hospital to another at a time when they really didn’t need it. The governance of the country didn’t stop then either. No one cared and no one does, except those directly involved.
This was and is a private matter for the Cameron’s.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Suspend PMs Q for one man’s loss? Do they do that for dead servicemen, too?
February 26th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Lets put that in its right order: NuLab first and foremost.
And Mrs Cameron, is she guilty of manslaughter by association? her other children?
Perhaps a thought provoking conscription might be the answer, I just wonder had Teflon been quite so keen if his own son was signed up? Might have tempered the abject grovelling that went on ? explaining to his wife why he was risking her son’s life?
February 26th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
The liblabcons have experience of sending young British folk to their deaths over in foreign dustbins like Iraq and Afghanistan, why should we afford them our sympathy when they have their own personal grief?
They’re all guilty of manslaughter!
February 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Peter Mac
Possibly because all we wish for our children is a healthy and happy life, and things can and do go wrong for any child , no matter their parents social status or political view, and the heartstrings feel a strong pull for the affected family
February 26th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/david-cameron/4808611/David-Camerons-son-Ivan-dies-A-doctor-writes.html
February 26th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
The death of a severely disabled child makes me uneasy. I want to be rational and to argue about natural selection, survival of the fittest to survive, and so on, but I also find that I am saddened.
I don’t know why I should be. Particularly when it is a person I have never met, did not know, and had no interest in.
Perhaps under those circumstances it was truly a private and family matter, and should always have been left as such.
February 26th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Black Bob
With reference to the soldiers killed yesterday
http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=2917
February 26th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Had a look at the Beeb’s website , it seems the PM dropping PMQT was the problem and upset some posters
February 25th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
More British soldiers killed in Afghanistan, more grieving families.
February 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
be my guest
February 25th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I don’t know I just read the comments made by the posters whilst they were there and they were saying that. I didn’t see the actual comment itself but they all said that’s what happened. Wish I’d managed to see the comment or whatever it was.
I do think the BBC are politically bias towards Labour though in lots of ways. Strange and clever little ways at that too…
Moderator - Please stick to reporting what you do see, I shall edit your earlier post
February 25th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I can see a lot of comments have been pulled, but do you really believe that anything in Nick Robinson’s comments on Ivan’s death is political point scoring?
Or are you claiming that Nick Robinson wrote something which has now been pulled?
It is a very unpleasant accusation to make…
February 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
He has just made a statement about the posts being pulled because they were untrue but i think there must have been somethign in it. Typical of the BBC to pukll anything that THEY deem isn’t right and we bloody pay for the service. I got pulled loads just for telling it like it is on Robert Pestons blog (no swear words or anything) and became famous overnight!!! Post 62 was all over the BBC and people were begging for it to be reinstated!
Moderator- We do all pay a licence fee to view tv ,not the BBC’s website
February 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
There’s comments about it in the comments section on the previous blog but it’s been taken down apparently, posts being pulled and mederated all over the place!
February 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Well, I’ve just read Nick Robinson’s blog and I cannot find any point-scoring for Labour in it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/
Where did you read the claim, FSBFP?
February 25th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
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February 25th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
well thats down and dirty and foolish if true
February 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
I’ve just read some hearsay that Nick Robinson was reported as trying to score political points for labour on his blog over Ivan’s death!!! How low can you get?!
February 25th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Cheryl
I imagine they do have security people who will keep the media at bay, he’s the leader of the Opposition, not a private individual or ‘celeb’