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Avs1's pasta with creamy green sauce: fox veg-hating toddlers (or teens) and cunningly whizz a nice wodge of peas and leeks in this super-quick cheese sauce. Pour over penne and bask in a good-parent glow.

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Oh hurrah! I just posted asking you about this grin I am excited!

Just re-reading your plan for social reform and will be back with a specific question.
Further to Keir Starmer's speech about the Human Rights Act being misinterpreted, why is a Tory government so insistent on revoking it as the rights are enshrined in the ECHR and merely means that that a British court can apply the law directly?
Mr Cameron.
Please can you outline your plans for increasing school places in areas where population is rising fast? County councils struggle to find the funding to increase school sizes or build new schools.

In many areas there are not enough school places for children in the towns they live. Consequently, they are being sent out to fill up places in less popular schools in other towns. This creates uncertainty for families, splits local communities and increases car travel.

Thank you.
Can you ask him if he intends to introduce the passport to disability system they have in Denmark and which he spoke about on the disabled child programme presented by Rosa Monckton. I don't have a disabled child but it was truly shocking to see the how the level of bureaucracy just made everything so much harder for parents caring for their disabled children.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 17-Nov-09 10:16:52
Mr Cameron, you've been very vague about your plans for tax credits should you win the next election. As many of us here receive working families tax credit and childcare credit to help us get back to work, we'd like a straight answer about whether you plan to cut these or not.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 17-Nov-09 10:17:45
And I emailed him a very heartfelt letter a few weeks ago to which he never replied.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 17-Nov-09 10:24:23
I would like to know if you are fully committed to marriage and mums staying at home and making it financially viable for them to do so. My choice to stay at home but I don't see why my hubby can't pay less tax as it seems you have to very rich or very poor in this country. Tax relief for my husband would be great.
Add message | Report | Contact poster By Tue 17-Nov-09 10:40:41
Mr Cameron, My DH is in the RAF. He is very overstretched thanks to this Government's contempt for the Armed Forces in general.

What are your plans for the Armed Forces?

I know we can't pull out of Afghanistan, but something needs to be done about manpower. There aren't enough men and women out there and there are barely enough left in this country to keep the equipment, aircraft and ships servicable. DH regularly works 60+ hours a week. He has just been on a course, which had to be condensed from 3 weeks in to 2 because of this Government and their cutbacks, where he worked from 7am until 1 am every day (including the weekend). That is not fair.

I asked Gordon Brown a similar question, but all I got back was "we are proud of the Armed Forces"hmm , so please if you do take the time to answer can it be a real one, with real information?

Our Government commits the Forces to wars and duties around the world, but doesn't have the good grace to equip them properly or provide enough man power. It would, also, be nice for the Forces to have a proper pay rise once in a while. What will your Government (when you get in wink) pledge to do for the Forces?

PS I have had major troubles regarding my disability adaptations in my married quarter. I have repeatedly 'phoned Alan Duncan's office (my local MP) and written to him - yet he has never got back to me. Can you give him a telling off please?
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