Live webchat with David Cameron - this Thursday 19th, 1.45 pm

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Hello all - David Cameron is coming on to Mumsnet to answer your questions this Thursday at 1.45-2.45. Please post advance questions here if you can't make it on Thursday. (And please read our Webchat guidelines above before posting ie only one question each). Many thanks.

How are you going to instigate a more consensual/less combative style of government? The issues we face dwarf party politics (climate change, the failure of unregulated capitalism..), is it time for the political parties to grow up and how are you going to contribute to this developmental growth spurt? Isn't it time for you, and all politicians to treat the electorate as grown ups on issues ranging as widely as crime, immigration and the misuse of drugs act: to base your policies on evidence rather than what you think we want to hear? so for example are you going to use the evidence that alcohol and tobacco are by far the most harmful mood altering substances, that punitive/retributive sentencing is wildly counterproductive, that we need economic migrants to fill the demand in the job market to define your policy?

honesty and maturity in the political debate: are you up to the task?

and if you only answer one question make it this one: would you have sacked David Butt and if not, what will a conservative govt do to change the (entirely non-evidence based) misuse of drugs act as it stands?

During the "Expenses" fiasco it became clear that the Conservative Party have lost touch with the financial realities of raising a family on a limited income; how will you ensure that you understand and meet the financial needs of the the average parent?

Dear Mr Cameron

Your daughter attends a faith school which is some distance from your home. It's hard to believe that an old Etonian would genuinely chose a state primary for their children unless it was for political expediency.It seems to many of the electorate that sending children to such schools gives politicians like yourself and Tony Blair a handy get-out clause, allowing you to say your children are state educated while ensuring they still attend the school of your choice.

If you genuinely believed in the state system would your daughter not have been educated at a school nearer to your home? And what about the majority of parents who either are not religious or do not want to pretend to be religious to ensure their children education at a "good" state school?

Thank you

Good question Ladybablah. Do you have any friends who work for normal wages in the public sector for example? Not talking about 'contacts'.

Hello we're here in central office and we're off

Hello David

If your party is successful in the next election will you continue supporting the work by The Communications Trust following THE BERCOW REPORT for children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs and still support the year 2011/2012 as being the year of Speech, Language and Communication?

Many thanks if you manage to find a minute to answer this question.

Welcome to Mumsnet, Mr Cameron.

Mr Cameron

I voted for Margaret Thatcher. This was not a good decision. I was a teenager, idealistic and voting in my first election. I did not really know a lot about politics.

Would young people today be making the same mistake, if they vote for you?

If not, why not?

Ok so we're here in Central Office and we're ready to gave. David will be with you shortly

Dear David

You seem like a nice bloke. Why on earth are you a Tory?! Or is all this posturing about supporting families and championing the cause of the low-paid etc actually a front and as soon as you win the election we will be back to rewarding the rich, oppressing the working poor and those living on benefits and demonising single parents?

Nah Riven, he'll be picking the easy ones.

Hello, this is David Cameron signing in.

To BecauseImworthit The media is powerful but I don't think we can blame them for the recession. The fact is that we borrowed too much as a country, the government borrowed too much and we now have to deal with a difficult situation. A free press in a free country shouldn't have state controlled regulation, but we do need a sense of social responsibility and good, tough self regulation.

Is it true that the Conservatives intend abolishing the Child Trust Fund for families earning over £16,070 a year, and removing tax credits from middle income earning families, and if so, what is the reasoning behind this?

Hello David

If your party is successful in the next election will you continue supporting the work by The Communications Trust following THE BERCOW REPORT for children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs and still support the year 2011/2012 as being the year of Speech, Language and Communication?

Many thanks if you manage to find a minute to answer this question.

please tell us your plans for employment law reform. If you are going to limit maternity pay or equal pay laws, come clean? The anti-European rhetoric from your party makes me scared.

My son needs a secondary school place in a suitable school. I have been forced to home educate him for nearly a year as there are no suitable schools available for him to go to. He is very unhappy about this and so am I. All I keep being told is the local authority only have to provide a place at a school and not a suitable school. How can you help me ensure my son gets a decent education? He has a legal right to this surely?

Mr Cameron,
How will you address the inequity in the delivery of services for children with type one diabetes in the uk?
Currently access to insulin pumps and support is a postcode lottery and support in schools for children who have this life-threatening disease is down to individual schools having the will and means within their staffing to support children.
Children with diabetes need to test their blood glucose at least every two hours, often more often and are frequently at great risk when hypoglycaemic. They cannot be left, as this would risk coma. Children also need help with injecting insulin - something which means that parents have to give up their jobs to come into school to do as schools will not or cannot support.
Diabetes is recognised as a disability under the DDA but there is no governmental mechanism or funding to help these children whose future health depends on good glycaemic control in school.
Poor control will lead to (in the worst cases, death) shortening of life expectancy, kidney problems, amputations, blindness and impacts extremely negatively on their learning and outcomes as a member of a productive future workforce.
Thank you.

Hello Mr Cameron,

Does it concern you that despite a looming election, someone like me [Labour by birth and upbringing but newly able to imagine voting Conservative due to the general mayhem of the last few years] is unable to name a single Conservative aim, promise or point of view on the things that matter to me?

I hear a lot about how much better than the other guy you would be, but no actual concrete policies. When will the numbers, action plans and promises arrive?

On child care vouchers. We think the government is wrong to scrap them and we have been urging them to make a u turn. It looks like this is now happening and we will keep up the pressure to make sure they do.