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.

What will the Conservatives do to address the issue of welfare dependency?

Good Q Sophable.

Have you all seen this thread by the way?

I appreciate that we can't blame the press for the recession, but do you not agree that they perhaps have undue influence?

(thanks for answering my question, btw)

"u turn"

Dear Mr Cameron, I second sophabe's question - are you committed to a more bi-partisan form of politics which recognises the limitations of party political interests in areas such as the global economy, climate change etc?

It seems a long overdue development in politics for some grown up attitudes to prevail - less credit stealing for things you have no hand in, such as global economic upturns, and more responsibility taken for the bigger issues that affect both this country and the entire world?

The schoolboy ethos that prevails at Westminster does not instill confidence in a world facing such serious challenges. Are you willing to grow into being a proper statesman who is prepared to do the right thing for all of us, rather than just for his party?

Dear David,

With many problems currently obvious within the social care system - caused by an over-controlling government. How does the Conservative Party plan to address these issues in order to offer a solution within which parents are truly supported rather than live in fear of a department that is surely there to protect?

Thank you

Oh dear I just don't know what to ask...

If you were not a politician would you send your children to private schools?

Also did you visit the shed at Eton ;-)?

I'd like to second Madame Defarge and Sophabe's question:

Are you committed to a more bi-partisan form of politics which recognises the limitations of party political interests in areas such as the global economy, climate change etc? The schoolboy ethos that prevails at Westminster does not instill confidence in a world facing such serious challenges.

course he did flum! would be v disappointing if he didn't!

I would also like to know if you are going to continue to fund Childrens' Centres, if you get into power?

To all those posting on special needs. My view is that inclusion is great for those who want it, but there are signs that the pendulum has swung too far and we are now pushing too many children with very special needs into mainstream schools. That's why we've said there should be a stop to the closure of special schools and a proper balance in the law that gives parents a real choice.

Mr Cameron,

My father was the son of a miner, in Wigan.
My father-in-law was the sopn of a London bus driver.

For both of them, a grammar school education provided a route out of poverty, and the benefits of that education is still being felt decades later.

Why is the Conservative party against the idea of bringing back grammar schools?

Thanks.

What do you think of Jedward's chances on the X Factor?

Leave your hair alone and answer the damn questions

Lady Blah Blah
Don't be rude. U turn is a perfectly polite and accurate way to describe it. How would you describe it?

Re the recession - what are the chances that, had the govt put more strictures in place on bankers' bonuses, lending criteria etc, your party (and the press) would have been shouting about 'unfair' legislation compromising businesses ability to grow? Can you hand on heart tell me that you would have supported them in this?

How do you propose to support working parents with very high childcare costs.

pauldacre do you think your name got a laugh?

"To all those posting on special needs. My view is that inclusion is great for those who want it, but there are signs that the pendulum has swung too far and we are now pushing too many children with very special needs into mainstream schools. That's why we've said there should be a stop to the closure of special schools and a proper balance in the law that gives parents a real choice."

But what will you actually do?? You say stop the closure of schools, but then what?

Hallo David

What do you really think of bankers' bonuses? Do you agree with the government that regulators should be able to "tear up" bankers' contracts?