MNHQ here: got a question for the Prime Minister?

[RhiannonEMumsnet]

Hi all,

We’re pleased to tell you that next week Justine will be sitting down with Prime Minister Boris Johnson to ask him Mumsnet users’ questions.

If you have a question you'd like answering, you can post it below. Please stick to the usual guidelines - one question per user, keep it civil, and if one topic is dominating, please don't continue to post what's effectively the same question or point. We'll be limited for time so do keep questions as short as possible so that we’re able to ask more of them - as always, we'll try to make sure we cover the topics that we know are important to Mumsnet users.

We'll be closing this thread at noon on Monday, so please do get your questions in before that - and watch this space to hear how the Prime Minister responds.

Thanks,
MNHQ

I don't think he would be brave enough!

Why are you attempting to engage with Mumsnetters in this way? Are you about to announce a General Election?

How much is your weekly food shop?

Are you aware that you come across as arrogant and out of touch?

Why did your govt decide to change the widows allowance and have it stop after 18 months and not when you youngest child has left school?

Our electricity is owned by British, French, German and Dutch companies. Given that utilities are 60% less in France, it would seem to me that governments are able to control the price. Instead of handing out billions of tax payer pounds to all and sundry, why doesn't the government control the price so that it is affordable for most? That would be a good levelling up thing to do.

What are your plans for the woefully inadequate mental health provision? Therapy can take years to access both for children and adults, and that's just basic cbt, never mind specialist therapy. It's great that the profile has been raised, but without adequate resources, it's just lip service.

How did someone decide that a single person can live on £85 a week? It doesn't even cover my utilities. I'm not expecting luxuries like meat to eat, but surely it should cover my basic needs whilst I am no longer able to work due to chronic ill-health deteriorating?

This whole thing is so pointless. He doesn't even tell the truth in parliament so no meaningful questions will be answered.
He will come on and waffle about whiffwhaff or something and answer what his favourite biscuit is.

My question that won't get answered is, the UK military and government has talked a lot about fake news around the world, even more so since the Ukraine crisis and how it is terrible for the world as a whole as lies get spread easily, truths get lost in misinformation and the terrible harm that can do (Jan 6th USA)
At what point in your life did you think that's a great strategy to lie and constantly muddy the water rather than something a journalist, MP and now pm should combat?

Are you really surprised and appalled about how shamefully your staff treated the cleaners and security guards of 10 Downing Street? Aren't they just imitating the way you treat the peasants of Great Britain?

What are you going to do to improve provision for children with SEND?

Currently it takes years of fighting to get a diagnosis for ASD/ADHD etc and when you get one there is no actual help available.

EHCPs are regularly taking far longer than the legal 20 week timescale as there are no Educational Psychologists available, Local Authority or private.

Schools do not have the funding to provide the support that these children need to fulfil their potential and there are not enough special school places for children who desperately need them.

I’m not sure I can summon up a question given the puff piece from earlier

No I don’t have a question for the PM. Two of the occasions he was attending social events were the two dates (among many other dates) that I was prevented from being with my dying father who eventually died a horrific lonely death without seeing the people he wanted to see and without a funeral. I am just so angry and heartbroken that people like Boris were laughing at people like me; clinking champagne glasses while many of us couldn’t even comfort our loved ones in their final hours.

Why is he still the PM? It’s the only question to ask.

Why and who made assumptions that our young people could return to school as normal with no consequences to their mental health and general wellbeing?

Why and who allowed our young people to be expected to return to school without additional services being available to support them?

Why and who allowed our young people to return to school without appropriate after care for teachers, staff and students?

Why and who allowed our young people to return to school expecting them to pick up where they left off?

Why and who allowed our young people to return to school without training and supporting school staff to understand some of these young people would of experienced neglect, abuse, bereavement, financial hardship and a wide range of other situations they have never been exposed too before?

Why do you think it’s acceptable to allow the government to race to the bottom morally and ethically?

For the record partying while people died alone is not a minor breach of the ministerial code, I do not want you to get on and do the job I want you to resign and never show your face again.

What are you doing to retain qualified teachers to ensure our children get access to a decent education, given that ITT places are missing targets, there's an increase in mental health issues amongst teachers leading to more going off on long term sick or quitting completely, and fewer schools are hiring new teachers because the new ECT programme is too much work for the mentor so no one wants to do it?

How do you feel about having reduced the stature of Prime Minister during your time in Office?

On all of the dates you had a lovely knees you was caring for very sick patients on icu. How do you feel about the fact that relatives weren't allowed to be with them when they died and my colleagues and I had to hold up iPads so theor families could say goodbye but the families couldn't hear us because of ppe.

As prime minister you disgust me.

How can you effectively run the country when according to yougov polling the majority of the population think you are untrustworthy and want you to resign?

I'm really worried about my family's small business. Each month our earnings are going down and down as people have less disposable income, what will the government do to support small businesses, as I doubt we will be able to keep going at this rate.

And what is the government doing to support children with special needs? Waiting lists for autism assessments are incredibly long, support is minimal, it's so isolating and scary wondering if the support will be there for my child.

I hope to god Mumsnet asks some of the actual questions MNetters put forward, even though he won't answer them. I'll be very disappointed if he's spoon fed conservative approve questions and fluff ones about his favourite biscuits.

So many questions around the general lack of morals, capability and behaviour of both him and his government but let's go for this:
Will you be following your father's example in obtaining citizenshipship of another country in the future despite actively reducing the ability of so many British people to work or live abroad?

Boris - what are you going to do to help people/families who are just above the level at which they qualify for state help - those who by virtue of earning a few £ 'too much' are in real terms £1000s worse off because they miss the threshold for help?

Do you agree that with an ageing population, additional funds need to be allocated to address the changing profile of needs this brings, including palliative care?

Is it acceptable that in the entire county where my parents live, for four nights a week just one single team of two district nurses covers the entire area, due to inadequate funding? This means that elderly people in their dying days are left for longer than they should be in pain and discomfort. Do you agree that poor treatment of the most vulnerable members of society reflects badly on society as a whole, and its leadership specifically?

Boris - who do you think your successor will be?