Look, I think I've made it clear I'm no Cameron fan but this whole story is utterly trivial and irrelevant. I don't care if he tips waitresses or not. I don't give a damn what sort of coffee he drinks. It. Doesn't. Matter. Nor, in fact, does it matter whether he's back in the country or not. What's he, realistically, going to do? Is he going to don riot gear and hand out some prime ministerial justice on the streets of London? No. He's going to make a public statement and go to a few meetings. Well, excuse me, but I don't think that's going to make a massive and immediate difference to the situation, do you?

If there's one thing I can abide less than politicians showing up in an extreme situation and making no actual contribution beyond 'being seen to do something', it's people complaining that politicians aren't showing up in an extreme situation and making no actual contribution beyond 'being seen to do something'.

He's got a sodding phone. If someone needs to speak to him, or he needs to speak to someone, it can still happen. What difference has him being in the country actually made?

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He's got a sodding phone. If someone needs to speak to him, or he needs to speak to someone, it can still happen. What difference has him being in the country actually made?

He should be back. What he can do is go and speak to those affected.

I know that really makes not much practical difference but when there is trouble in a country many of those affected would appreciate feeling as though the leader of that country actually gives a crap.

Which he doesn't. Patently.

How do you know? Has he told you? He might give a crap ( I'd doubt it beyond will I lose votes but he just might)