Cameron family to be admired

LET’S get it straight, we don’t agree on anything. Not one thing.

I have to say that if we were in a room together I would be standing in one corner and he the other.

If we had to eat together I would be sitting at one end of the table and he the other.

I would not be laughing at his hilarious public schoolboy japes and I would certainly not be nodding my head at his policies.

But when David Cameron’s son Ivan died, I didn’t feel any of my normal annoyance towards him, I just felt utter and total desperation for a set of loving parents who had lost their child.

The pictures of them, hours after his death had been announced, spoke a thousand words.

I had no idea, before I had my boy, what it would feel like to have a child. I was completely in the dark when it came to the overwhelming need to love, care and protect ones offspring.

Having a child is such an emotional process, fraught with worry and anxiety and the majority of us are lucky enough to have healthy children. I cannot imagine what it must be like, a few weeks after your child’s birth, to watch your tiny baby start to fit and have to rush him into hospital for the first of many times as the Cameron’s did.

I’m sure I would want to hide away and grieve quietly. So the Cameron’s honesty with us, the general public, about Ivan, who had Cerebral Palsy and who they knew would probably die young whilst enduring a very difficult life made me swell with admiration.

They and it seems Jordan, appear to be the only celebrities who open their “fabulous” lives and admit to not being as perfect as “OK” pays them to be.

I do hope that the fact they have celebrated Ivan’s life rather than hidden it away puts paid to the ignoramus’s who contacted the BBC when they decided to hire a young woman, who has lost half of one arm, to be their anchorwoman on Cbeebies.

Apparently she “freaked out” their children. No, Madam she’s not the freak, you are.

So, Mr Cameron, I still may not vote for you but for your honesty and openness in the face of terrible adversity I admire you greatly.