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Nick Clegg on Mumsnet this Thursday (16th Sept) evening between 8 and 9 pm

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JustineMumsnet · 13/09/2010 12:41

We're delighted that the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will be joining us for a webchat this Thursday evening 8 and 9pm.

Next week the Deputy PM will be joining other world leaders, celebrities and business leaders who are gathering in New York for the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Summit. He will be aiming for global action to reduce the shocking number of women who die during pregnancy and childbirth in the world's poorest countries.

Nick is happy to answer your questions on the UN summit as well as on his role as Deputy Prime Minster. Join us on Thursday evening or if you can't make it along then post your question (one each only please) here.

Thanks.

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SanctiMoanyArse · 14/09/2010 18:36

You're NOT a lone voice Woody

Vesela said it, I said I had no issues with the colaition formation only with how it evolved.

WoodyAllen · 14/09/2010 18:38

Sorry - just couldn't read all 4 pages.

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 18:51

SanctiMoanyArse

I am at the CAB tomorrow with my sure start worker, we are going to see about getting a Debt Relief order put in place. I am also going to find out if we are claiming everything we are entitled too.I think we are, but im hoping she says there something else

SanctiMoanyArse · 14/09/2010 18:59

Entitled to will tell yu what you can get as an idea.

if your DH is out of work though have you thought about going back? (and no I am not nagging LOL.... DH was amde redudnant a year ago and I am a carer, he's back studying and working now but I can't work for childcare either, albeit diffeent reasons). Mind, becuase I can't work ATM i do rather over-glamourise working I suspect: I know it's a complex thing.

ThatVikRinA22 · 14/09/2010 19:13

ok im gonna ask, sod it.

what about the 40,000 front line police jobs that are being threatened. why cut front line services when in all likelihood the way things are going we are heading for some civil unrest? (some are saying a winter of discontent) resources are stretched to breaking point as it is. please listen to the federation, and please answer why emergency services are not being protected.

that will be my one and only question.

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 19:47

I left my last job in march because of my depression , i suffered from PND badly in 2008 and 2009. i started a full time job in june last year then went down to part time in november last year tehn i quit in march because i was getting worse and if i'd have carried on in that employment i would have being taken away in a straight jacket.

I am looking for work, anything up to 16 hours so we get WTC back but theres sod all out there i mean you even have to have experience for bar work and i dont have that. i have office and supermarket experience, i got refused a job at a new morrisons store that opened in my town in august and now they have staff leaving but yet if you ring up like i did todayy they say they are not recruiting at the minute - we are just hitting brick walls all the time and the governemtn dont know what its like to be in that situation, so thats what i asked him those questions. i just hope i get a response nick clegg are you reading this Wink

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 19:48

i got refused at morrisons because they preferred to take on people who didnt have experience in that area of work. iykwim?

SanctiMoanyArse · 14/09/2010 20:05

Cheeky it needs to be over 16 hours for WTC. DH works self employed and we get them as long as he does over 16 (though in fact whilst we only claim 16 hour rate as we think it ould be unfair to claim enhanced rate of £30 due to current low profit marhgin, he works more llike 40 on top of full time study)

I hope you find something soon and that your surestart worker can help. Depression is horrid, have witnessed it close up, and I wish you well. X

Aitch · 14/09/2010 22:09

another one who wants an answer re the fawcett soc.

mellifluouscauliflower · 14/09/2010 22:16

Dear Mr Clegg,

All I can see is the prioritising wars and nuclear weapons over schools and playgrounds. Have you any positive messages for us Mothers?

Thank you

MelliC.

edam · 14/09/2010 22:21

Nick, can I ask you why someone who cares about women and babies would be privatising the NHS?

(Don't be tempted to tell any porkies here, you ARE ordering all hospitals to become foundation trusts and then go off into the private sector - calling it social enterprise so it doesn't sound too commercial doesn't alter the essential point which is that they won't be owned and run by the NHS any more.)

LilyBolero · 14/09/2010 22:25

Not to mention handing the budgets over to the GPs who are NOT EMPLOYED BY THE NHS, they are self-employed.

edam · 14/09/2010 22:27

cheeky re. cervical cancer - you may be too younger for the screening programme but any worrying symptoms should be properly and thoroughly investigated.

Screening programmes monitor a whole population for early signs of a disease. It doesn't mean people who are actually showing symptoms should be ignored.

Do go to your doctor, please. And contact Cancer Research UK for advice. Or you could try the Eve Appeal website. They focus on raising money for research but have links to the charities that support patients with cervical and womb cancer, where you may be able to get some guidance on what action doctors should take for someone with your symptoms.

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 22:30

If the NHS is privatised doed that mean we will have to paay for doctors appointments and hospital appointments because if that's the case then I'm fucked, I'm asthmatic and go to docs over 4 times a month. I can't afford drs fees everytime I need to see a Dr. That's bloody stupid!

Please Nick Clegg say this move is bleeding ridiculous! :( :(

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 22:30

If the NHS is privatised doed that mean we will have to paay for doctors appointments and hospital appointments because if that's the case then I'm fucked, I'm asthmatic and go to docs over 4 times a month. I can't afford drs fees everytime I need to see a Dr. That's bloody stupid!

Please Nick Clegg say this move is bleeding ridiculous! :( :(

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 22:32

Thank you sanctimoanyarse. I am getting better but money worries and wondering when we'll be on top again makes me sink again :(

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 22:35

edam
IV being to a gynae and she took more bloody swabs as she said I was too young. I went to my local FPC and she said that a colopscopy would be what I need But the gynae refused to do me one along with a smear. I'm at a dead end. IV put in a complaint to the PCT of east riding.

I'll look into them that ytou have supplied thank you :)

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 22:35

edam
IV being to a gynae and she took more bloody swabs as she said I was too young. I went to my local FPC and she said that a colopscopy would be what I need But the gynae refused to do me one along with a smear. I'm at a dead end. IV put in a complaint to the PCT of east riding.

I'll look into them that ytou have supplied thank you :)

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 23:04

bloody phone posting twice.

edam · 14/09/2010 23:13

Hope Cancer Research UK or the charities you'll find linked to the Eve Appeal will be able to help. If a gynae says you don't need a colposcopy, that could be a good thing i.e. in her honest professional opinion there's no indication for one. But it's worth finding out more.

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 23:15

edam
i have sent the cancer research an email detailing my problems. Thank you

edam · 14/09/2010 23:18

(Oh, and it's the hospitals they are floating off, not the GP surgeries. I'm sure hospitals will have to carry on seeing NHS patients, but the government is abandoning the waiting list targets while lifting any restriction on how much money hospitals can make out of private patients. So a cynical person might conclude a hospital chief executive's business plan would be to make NHS waiting lists as long as possible so people go private in order to be seen. But I'm sure Nick will tell us he wouldn't dream of allowing anything like that to happen.)

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 23:45

we want to hope so edam

CheekyLittleSox · 14/09/2010 23:46

edam she gave me some anti biotics, told me i could have an infection then she said that it was my contraception that was causing it but the injection makes your periods irregular the first few sessions you have of the injection not 18 month later.

Il just have to maybe wait till november.

Sakura · 15/09/2010 07:29

I am very concerned about maternal death rate in the USA, which ranks 41st in the world after some African countries, according to Amnesty INternational:

"The USA spends more than any other country on health care, and more on maternal health than any other type of hospital care. Despite this, women in the USA have a higher risk of dying of pregnancy-related complications than those in 40 other countries, [including nearly all the industrialized countries]. " Amnesty

The US also has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the world.

Q: Will you be tackling Mr. Obama about the appalling maternal and infant mortality rate in the US?
And if not, don't you worry about coming accross as imperialistic for focusing on "poor" countries, whose main cause of maternal death is poverty, often inflicted upon them by western international free trade policies?