Congratulations to the Camerons

TomTom

If it's a boy they could call him Gordon Nicholas David

Alex

Congratulations to the Camerons!

Irene

So pleased for them.

Liz Brown

what happy news - congratulations to David and Samantha

Verity

If it's a girl, they can call her Cherie.

Sacre Bleu

Why did we need to know this now? It would have become evident well after the election and just smacks of the Blairs and Leo or whatever they called him. It might have at least kept the election clear of the inevitable sideswipes from some of the posters on this site.

John David Barnett

Frank P - Sacre Bleu

What repulsive comments. Shame on you both.

ajs

FrankP
You are either a Labour phantoposter or a seriously nasty piece of work - or perhaps both. Go wash your mouth out with strong soapy water.

toco

Brilliant!It is so nice to have some good news for a change.

Andre

At least he hasn't been entirely wasting his time in opposition

Sir Graphus

Congratulations. I look forward to hearing all about the details of her contraceptive equipment in a tacky money grabbing biography ten years from now.

Stevie

Well done to them, and shame on Frank and his potty mouth.

General Zod

Good for the Camerons.

Predictable bile from the hag.

Andy Carpark

That's a bit harsh, Verity.

'Wha' abah' ve cheeeeeeeldren?'

Tiberius

It's hard not to bite, but I'll just echo the headline.

Archie

Hang on, haven't we been here before? Truly the Heir to Blair!

Percy

Oh look Frank P's gone mental again.

Rosie

Excellent news! Delighted. Now win the election, David.

CF

... but if it is only wind, they should name it NuLabour.

Blofeld's Cat

Verity, Frank, Sacre Bleu (who would be better named Sacre Rouge, methinks) - predictable, nasty bilge.

David and Samantha Cameron - Congratulations! May God smile on you.

AdamR

Congratulations to the Camerons. I hope all goes well.

I also hope the usual bile spat by posters such as Verity and Frank P will be duly ignored.

Dorothy Wilson

Why did we need to know? Because the press would have picked the news up anyway.

And there are some people on here who are totally mean-spirited. For goodness sake they should get a life!

Congrats to the Camerons.

Holly ......

This site needs a moderator.
I stopped coming on here because it got ridiculous.I have not missed this site and comments like some posted on this topic,
convince me I do not have to come on here.
Today is the first time for a while.It may be a long time before I come here again.
Is it all pregnancies they hate or just Conservative pregnancies?
Sick.

Naomi Muse

Happy and safe pregnancy for Samantha Cameron indeed.

The Queen of Mean

Why did they take Frank P's comment off before I'd had a chance to have a laugh?

To be candid, I am suprised no one predicted this, being, as we are, all keen students of Blair.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Please G-d a healthy baby for them to love and cherish. A piece of bright news amid all the sordid scandals.

THX1138

CONGRATULATIONS ! I'm so happy for them, especially after their terrible loss.

paul holdstock

my warmest wishes to them at this happy news.
do you think they know what's causing these children yet?

TGF UKIP

Lttle Leo will be delighted that he too might have an Heir.

Sacre Bleu

Bloefelds Cat - Definitely NOT rouge. I am delighted for them as are most on this post.Like many would be mothers, time can run out for professional women to enjoy motherhood. My concern is 'why publicise this so close to an election' when as many here have observed, this is about to be one of the dirtiest elections we will have seen and I have seen a few in my time. I hope the worst of the media do not cause unnecessary intrusion in the next couple of months when the pregnancy is at it's most fragile time. Nobody deserves that but be sure it will appear.I am sorry if my comments were misunderstood but offence was not my intent. I have seen more than my 3 score and 10 years and I am so very disillusioned by what is happening to my homeland which is why I expect the worst. I would be delighted to see a new addition to the Cameron family in N°10

HJ

Call me a cynic, but if Cameron gets a poll boost from this, what are the odds on Nick and Gordon getting busy with their respective wives in the lead up to the election.

Richard Manns

@ HJ

None at all, since this was announced 3 months into pregnancy, the traditional time for announcing pregnancies (i.e. when you're pretty sure it'll go to term.)

They have to announce it, since the bump will announce itself by May. So why not do it when everyone else does? And since you're announcing it, you can either let it seep out through the rumour mill, like half HMG's policies for the last 13 years, or you can have a formal statement and get it over with.

When you think about the alternatives, the Camerons have no great choice, so they've gone for the best.

Frank P

So now we not allowed to have an opinion about a politician using his wife's pregnancy as an election gimmick. Perhaps if the happy couple had waited until things were - er - visible, we could have all shared in their joy as is natural in these things. But by then the election would have been over, of course. Why is it the business of the blogosphere, anyway?

As for the the credulous who prefer sentimentality to scepticism: well, that's why we are in the state we are in, politically.

And if it's political strategy you're interested in, then he would probably have picked up more kudos after the election had he kept it quiet. This way he appears to be clutching at straws and showing the whites of his eyes. The votes he might pick up from the dewey-eyed "Ahhhhhh" contingent are likely to be outweighed by those who think that a putative Prime Minister should have tried to avoid having a bawling bairn upstairs in No.10 when he starts to grapple with the worst State of the Nation since 1939. But whatever turns you on girls.

Verity

TGF UKIP - I have a cat who could take lessons from you. That was very funny.

CS

Richard Manns has got it right. For all the pro-family people on Coffee House, it's surprising how many of you aren't aware that, when a woman is pregnant, it eventually starts to show.

Why should the Camerons put up with the inevitable media photo frenzy of is-she-isn't-she when the bump starts to show?

Of course, the shorter argument in favour is that anything Verity hates can't be all wrong.

Dirty Euro

I just heard she will be the 3rd women to giver birth to a prime ministers child.
Dear lord.
Mrs Cameron did not Mr Brown have enough to already without you stealing him away from his busy work schedule?

paulg

we may as well say good bye, because no doubt Frank P will be choking on his own bile tonight.

In truth though we can't say you will be missed.

Chuck Unsworth

@ Frank P

Where's your evidence for this claptrap?

Paul B

With apologies to Paul Simon, but with the current news about plant food and if the child is a boy,they could call him Me-oow, call Me-oow. Na Na Na Na. A man walks down the street, oh forget it.

stephen

How refrshing to read a story like this. Sam appears a thoroughly decent person -good luck to her and Dave. Sads it's next to the sickening story about the MPs and Lords up for hire! How deeply unpleasent and venal they are. Dave I think you really have a secret weapon its called decency!

AdamR

No Frank P, this has sod all to do with 'not being allowed to have an opinion' - and you know it. It has more to do with the fact that you, and posters like you, are simply finding any excuse possible to mount personal attacks on DC et al, for no real reason. This announcement was made at the normal time for announcing such things, and as another poster has pointed out, it avoids the 'is she, isnt she?' tabloid speculation which is bound to occur pre-election.

So try being a little bit more grown up and actually recognising the fact that Samantha Cameron is pregnant is a fact for her to be congratulated on, not attacked.

Still, as CS points out, anything that you, Verity or your ilk hates can't be all bad.

2trueblue

Amazingly good news, congratulations to them.

Frank P

I wonder how many other ladies in Britain discovered they were pregnant this week? Perhaps they should all be listed here, or are we only to congratulate the wife of the Prime Minister manqué? Spare me the outrage and sanctimonious twaddle FFS, the announcement hereupon was a cheap election gimmick a la Blair's babe Leo and Brown's marriage. It's good for the UK demographics, I allow, but hardly a vote winner.

And Chuck Unsworth - evidence? From the horses mouth, so to speak. Cameron was reported to have said that Samantha would be playing a much bigger role in the election campaign. Literally, it seems.

pharbitis

Wonderful news.
Warmest congratulations and wishes for an uneventful pregnancy and a healthy baby.

Richard Manns

@ Frank P

"Perhaps if the happy couple had waited until things were - er - visible"

The bulge typically shows at 3-4 months. It will be there before the election, especially since Mrs Cameron is quite slim. Have you never seen a pregnancy?

Verity

Someone wrote, I think addressed to me - there is no facility to go back and forth on this Heath Robinson blogsite (Heath Robinson would have the intricacies!) "posters like you, are simply finding any excuse possible to mount personal attacks on DC et al, for no real reason."

That is incorrect.

Cameron is a failure. He should have been furlongs out front for the past 10 months, yet can barely get neck to neck with the thought-control Stazi. Why is that?

Do people sense that he's false?

echo34

Verity,

No people do not think he is false. You are in a minority and it's time you took his photo off your dartboard before you really start to crack up.

Your problem is you protest too much and it comes across to readers as an obsessive fixation with the man. Because of this, readers have and will continue to take any comment you make, regardless of subject, with a pinch of salt.

Moriarty

FrankP

Of course you are allowed to have your opinion. It's not only the intelligent who are allowed an opinion.

Unfortunately you seem to think we're "allowed" to have your opinion too.

Richard Manns

@ Frank P

Many ladies have confirmed their pregnancy this week. Only one is considered newsworthy enough to get onto every major newspaper.

And how was it a "cheap election gimmick" when you then describe it has "hardly a vote winner"?

I repeat: the bulge would have shown by May, so the Camerons can only decide when and how to announce, not whether. Go and ask a mother whether the bulge is invisible at 5 months in, why don't you? Since you clearly don't know.

EC

This is really bad news for George Osborne who will be forced to sleep under the stairs as the Camerons commandeer the top floor of No.11 for the nursery and the nanny's quarters.

Frank P

Moriaty.

You are indeed entitled to have an opinion, but I don't have to be 'intelligent' to know that mine is 'not allowed' when it is removed from the comments! That was my point.

I have never asked for any of your (or anyone else's) comments to be removed; this is an open forum and that would not only unintelligent, but downright stupid. It would also be a call for censorship - even worse. Moreover this is a political forum not the 'hatches, matches and dispatches' personal column of the Women's Institute Gazette.

David Cameron started this nonsense when he threw his pregnant wife into the political scrum. So don't attempt to inculcate guilt into my leathery old ticker for calling him a bounder (albeit using instead the more colourful synonyms from my own colloquial lexicon).

Richard Manns

Thank you for that lesson on the birds and and the bees, obviously you are having sex instruction at school and have cut and paste one of the projects. Perhaps if I note that I engendered several 'bumps' myself in my time and those bumps have in their turn have produced even more fully mature and delightful bumps, you will appreciate that the instruction was unnecessary - even though it somewhat makes my point.

As for my 'cheap election gimmick' remarks, they were not in the least contradictory; many election gimmicks are doomed to failure; but that doesn't stop politicians from thinking that the electorate will swallow them. Most politicians I have encountered would sell their grandmothers' amalgam tooth fillings for scrap in their quest for power, celebrity and the greater gold.

Unfortunately it now seems that they may sometimes be right in the assessment of the gullibility of the electorate, judging by the hypocritical miffery on this thread.

And for those who have accused me of being a covert labour supporter, obviously you did not read my remarks about Blair and Brown when they also used their families as props (or perhaps you did and didn't object then because it suited your particular proclivities on those occasions).

As I have mentioned before on these pages, I shall indeed vote for Cameron's hi-jacked 'Conservative' Party in the general election, even though its campaign has been puerile and suspect - and the fact that they chose the wrong leader. My reason for so doing is the imperative to remove the current and manifestly Marxist and deeply corrupt administration from power. But I fear that the Ship of State may continue to list to the left and eventually land us all on the rocks of the EUSSR with Cameron at the helm.

However, we have five years to attempt to correct that appalling prospect and try to trim his sails if I'm right. Any port in the sort of storm we are currently experiencing,
with Captain Queeg at the Helm.

Incidentally I also hope that Mrs Cameron has a successful and happy outcome to her pregnancy. It's not her fault that her husband is a -er- Bullingdon bounder, I suppose. It was not my intention to offend her, but rather castigate her husband's agents at OQS. She's probably too intelligent to waste her time reading this rag anyway, since it too was hi-jacked by the usual suspects.

Frank P

EC

Georgie Boy sleeping under the stairs?

After the election Nessun Dorma, I hope.

Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma!
Tu pure, o, Principessa,
nella tua fredda stanza,
guardi le stelle
che tremano d'amore
e di speranza.
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
il nome mio nessun saprà!

Btw if the Cameron's dog has pups before the election I shall emigrate to Mexico and seek out Verity for cogent conversation and comfort.

Chuck Unsworth

@ Frank P

Best pack your bags now. It'll probably take you some time to find an airport, and even longer if you want to fly British Airways.

As to your choice of companion, well, each to his own. There's no accounting for tastes.

AdamR

Verity - It was I who wrote that you only seek to attack DC - and I stand by it.

Cameron is not a failure. It is largely thanks to his leadership, as well as the efforts of others in CCHQ and Parliament, that we have a cogent programme and are electable again. Cameron could be further ahead, but that has more to do with the fact that whilst Labour have been playing hardball politics, we have seemed to adopt Queensbury rules and were less keen to on the attack. That has now changed.

On a side note, if you actually look at the unweighted polls, as well as those in the marginals, we are much further ahead than yougov etc would have you believe.

On your main point, about Cameron being a failure, I have not seen you offer any realistic solutions to the problem you are so ready to attack. In a post a couple of days ago, you proposed scrapping the BBC and deporting/stopping any and all immigration. These kinds of proposals are mad fantasy and do not reflect anything like the majority view of Britain.

You are to us what people like Linda Bellos and the 'Loony Left' were to Labour in the 80s. A noisy and crazy minority.

Verity

That silly, sentimental twaddle above is ghastly. None of you knows anything about the Leader of the Opposition's wife. Why would you care one way or another that she is pregnant? I hate the false, shallow sentimentality of the English.

This mawkisness began when the BBC news announced that Cherie Blair was pregnant. As though she was a figure of even miniscule national importance. The same goes for Samantha Cameron, who may be a perfectly nice, intelligent woman among millions of such.

I'm not interested in any politician's families ... even the families of the ones I like.

TGF UKIP

Frank P, congratulations to you for two very enjoyable posts at 12.12 and 12.23.

However, I seriously doubt that a prissy bugger like Calamity would ever have dogs in the house and if he did I'm certain the poor animals would have had to submit to being many times used as props in photo ops.

And as for Nessun Dorma, I doubt Dave will have ever heard of Aida, much more likely that modern tinsel man will have a taste for modern tinsel music.

Frank P

Chuck U (as they say)(1.03pm)

It's true then, I feared as much? Where did you read that? I missed it. Dandie Dinmont Terriers, I presume?

As for V: can't understand the antipathy hereupon. So she doesn't like DC? An indicator of 'good taste' if ever I discerned one. He's just plain slippery and we really do need a dry, firm hand on the tiller after Captain Queeg.

But as Dave's the only one available with a chance of success in the polls, he'll have to do until ... well, one step at a time! If he's using the same charts as Obambi, though (and I fear he might be), better check the lifeboats.

What with all that and the prospect of pressure building up, first (as you point out) within BA, now within the workforce of Rail network - and also today the Gas industry, my rubber dinghy is already inflated. I could always turn it into a slow boat to China, I suppose. May as well cosy up to our creditors before the SHTF.

Chuck Unsworth

@ Frank P

Well you may want a dry firm hand on your tiller, but I am not volunteering...

Frank P

Chuck U

Bwaaahahahaha. I was about to say, "Touché" but realised where that would have led, so I'll eschew the last word.

Bouchard

this is why women should never have been given the vote , doesnt matter about the state of the country , that we are losing all our freedoms in a sea of intrusive and petty laws, the are culture is being destroyed in favour of every foreign culture our goverments have imported without our consent, just make a statement about having another "Lickle Baba" and all the girls say ahhhhhh on their voting cards.