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.

Please please tell us the figures on tax credits - otherwise known as will I still be able to pay the bills under a conservative government?

thanks

Wonder if his group of college boys were ever out drinking on Eton bridge? (Ah, memories of 6th form...)

To Jjones

Thanks for your question. The thing I found with Ivan ? and maybe you find it too ? is that once you get over the shock and the worry and the upset about what is wrong with your child, most of all you are just incredibly confused about where to get the help and support you need. Before you know it, you are lost in a world of paperwork, bureaucracy, form-filling and phone calls - so there?s a strong case for simplifying all of this and making things easier for parents and carers.

That?s why I think we need to look at something they do in Austria, where a crack team of medical experts is on hand to act as a sort of one-stop-shop to assess families and get them the help they need. I also want personal budgets, where parents can take a look at the total budget for their child and can choose what they want to spend the money on. That means making the direct payments system ? I don?t know whether you use it ? a lot simpler and less bureaucratic. I think giving parents more control over the situation would be a massive help.

How can I vote for the Tory party when you don't represent me? Overwhelmingly (in all senses) white upper-class males. Where are your women MPs? I think you personally are great but your party is terrifyingly last century.

GB has encouraged low skill, low pay jobs that then get topped up by the state, he has encouraged hundreds of thousands of eastern europeans into the country to strain social, health and education services - people's lives are blighted by a lack of quality of life due to a multitude of factors.

This govt have made some disastorous decisions (removing credit on company pension funds) and have presided over a bloated public sector with guaranteed pensions, pay and conditions.

Grauniad blogging this as we speak

I just want to send my apologies personally for your loss. I too have a disabled child and each day brings me the worry of loosing him too. Not to mention the constant battle for help. Take care x

on grow up consensual politics?

on david butt and the misuse of drugs act?

on the fallacy of a punitive/retributive prison based system?

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Bit late but worth a try....

David what do you think is Gordon Brown's biggest success?

Agree license fee is not too high - look at the amount people pay for substandard programming with commercial breaks on Sky...

Seriously, give the man a chance - he is a national politician who has taken time to come and talk to us and is having what sounds like a bl**dy frustrating experience with his laptop. I just think enough with the moaning and sniping. Surely, however much people think they don't like him, you can have a bit of patience??? Not political, thought the same about Brown.

Real information on tax credits please

Would you support the notion of replacing current royalty with democratically elected Mumsnet royalty?

tabouleh:
"Those of you who are self employed:

Do you realise that you could set up a Ltd company and then if you were employees of the company you could use childcare vouchers that way?"

you need a secretary and a director though: fine if you have someone else to be secretary- what about people on their own who are a one-man band and therefore have to pay higher tax for the privilege and everythign else that comes out of their own pocket?

Thank you for answering the question about the BBC - the licence fee is nothing compared to the amount Sky charges though is it? And how many people actually begrudge it - less than you think I believe.

And overextended is a euphemism for successful is it not? Do we not like that then? Being British I suppose not - after all we have so many other sources of pride these days

dorasbackpack are you serious? this is kid gloves loveliness. clearly he is WELL LIKED.

poor ms goldsmith didn't even get as far as coming on here!

How is the current Tory party different to the Tories under Thatcher?

I would never want to go back to the cash-starved public services we had back then.

The NHS has improved immeasurably, but do you feel there is too much waste, if so what would you do to change that?

I think the BBC provide great drama and documentary progs, plus the best kids' programming. Be careful about cutting back on that or we'll be in for floods of awful Japanese/American cartoons.

Please will you commit to looking at the rules on free prescriptions if you do form the next government?

The rules are currently outdated and arbitrary in respect of the conditions covered. For example, those with cystic fibrosis do not have free prescriptions for the very many vital drugs they take.

A relative of mine spent years having to pay for his cf prescriptions-a very significant amount of money. As soon as he also developed diabetes, he got his insulin and his cf drugs free. Please will you add cf to the list of conditions qualifying for free prescriptions, and update them generally so they are fair and coherent?

Sparrow in the Guardian blog:

'Up to 550 posts now. It's hard to keep up'

'Would you support the notion of replacing current royalty with democratically elected Mumsnet royalty?'

As long as we didn't have to pay a penny for them!

How do you ensure your own wealth and fortune does not keep you distant from the electorate?

license fee def not too high.