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.

Meant to finish that with - so lets tax the fu*k out of them.......what with their no aspirations and all that

6mins between posts btw. not good.

didn't you have some of these questions at least 6 hrs before hand? don't you have a PA for events like this?

Answer Riven, don't you know who she is?!

"..we will introduce a new pupil premium, so there is a real incentive for schools to take on those from disadvantaged backgrounds."

You've answered why private companies might - might - not cherrypick, and chuck the poorer children back on the reject pile

You haven't explained how schools being run by private companies will improve educational standards for these disadvantaged children.

What will you do about the 4 nappy rule David for doubly incontinent children?

I hope the delay is some of your people squirreling away to find the answer to Riven's question

Mr Cameron,
Thank you for addressing one part of education but you have not addressed the issue of home education. Home ed families are really feeling under siege by the government here and between writing to our MPs, petitioning the [deaf] PM, petitioning our MPs, all to no avail so far, there is a REAL danger that children could be forcibly returned to schools that they have left because of being bullied, and subjected to education systems vastly unsuited for them. As a home educating mum, this is of real concern to me.

My questions again.

1. Following the Badman report and the wholesale adoption of it by the government without any or adequate consultation, and despite strong opposition and research disputing the validity of Mr Badman's report and warning against the removing the parent's duty to educate children and placing it on the state, what does your party intend to do to safeguard the right of children to home education, and in particular to autonomous education?

Should I be permitted a further question, my second question is, would you agree that children should have a right to flexible education at schools as they are entitled to school placements anyway [and their parents still have to make tax payments even though the children are home schooled], and that the choice should not be 'either in school or out of school'; and how do you intend to ensure that children can access their schools.

Thank you

my real question david.
do you think that the H1N1 Vaccination program is a appropriate use of Health NHS funds. and why do you tink so many halth professionals are shunning it.

Mr Dave

Can anything be done to help those on relatively good incomes - I mean more than 50K who are living in cramped accomodation in London.

Councils build flats for those on low incomes so they can stay. what about the rest of us?

Should we try an easy one like what sort of biscuit he likes?

Please answer Riven's question, Mr Cameron. It is vital that you do.

I know of one newspaper who is - anyway to add to my earlier question - as with all the apathy in politics at the moment, I just wondered if there was a positive policy that Mr Cameron could reveal to us that would make us at least go to the polls. It just seems that everything the media is picking up is really negative and depressing - I just want something a little bit more happier and positive amongst all the doom and gloom.

What happened to the review of the Tax system that started a few yrs ago by the Tories? We need to get away from taxing people to give them their money back in the form of Tax credits etc.

A bold goverenment would abolish child benefit and do more to target spending on those in need.

Please get rid of the handout to pregnant mothers who attend a healthy eating talk - that is GB gone mad!

When are you coming to Bristol and meeting Riven?

I really REALLY want to ask David Cameron the same question that I asked Gordon Brown, in the hope that - unlike Mr Brown - he will give me a non-cheesy answer.

David, do you think that Gordon Brown has been an unlucky Prime Minister?

OK

Dear Mr Lovely Kind BigTech,

Could you NOW please knock up a nappy emoticon (or preferably 4. Or perhaps more than 4...?) since we're all sat here twiddling our thumbs?

I tried a gentle one, wondering about the toys his children leave on the carpet, which annoy him when he steps on them. But nothing..

answer the nappy question david. it'll be worth it.

thing is if he was answering ten to the dozen we'd accuse him of having minions doing it.

bit faster would be good though.

Yes, please answer Riven's question Mr Cameron.

Yes 4 nappies fgs. How hard is that?

Riven you should organise a protest after the xmas do, will save you finding a hotel haha.

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Inheritance tax will win the election for the Tories, £325k is nothing in London.

"People shouldn?t be punished for wanting to pass something on to their children," erm said people will be dead. they are not "punished". it's the beneficiaries who pay the tax. why (especially if you are genuinely interested in social mobility) should (some) adults be rewarded for the deeds of their parents? if you get £50k through hard work and production you pay tax on it. why should much larger sums of money, received through luck, be tax free?