Cheers...I thought that.

While I don't think what he's doimng is right, I don't think he's in that easy a situation. It takes a certain amopunt of bravert to say that the McCanns were wrong, when they have obviously suffered, and it would be seen as monstrous.  If you're a parent of a missing child I don't suppose you'd ever give up, and I cvan understand that.  For the rest of us though the attachment isn't there, and we can, as a nation, give up, while holding out some hope that we may be wrong.  We all know that years down the line it is so much more difficult, and if she is alive, she will be more difficult to spot.
All that aside the media is weilding political power and influence.  If Cameron thought this was the appropriate thing to do he should have done it a year ago, when it may have been slightly more use