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.

nickelbabe On residential care. One change that we would make which is clear and costed, is this: today it is really unfair that people who have saved all their lives and then go into care have to sell their homes and pay for care. Those who haven't saved get it paid for. A solution would be to make available a system whereby people can opt to pay 8k aged 65 to totally protect their home if they go into care.

Mr Cameron,

I will be financially worse off returning to work after my maternity leave than giving up work and living on the benefits I would receive.
How can this be right?

In light of this what would your party do facilitate mothers returning to work?

OMG!! I'm in the Guardian.

Can you please ban any reference to 'hard working famillies' that really means employed families and makes us Carers / the recently redundant / retired people who claim because their pensions collapsed / the sick and disabled seem as if we sit on our bum all day watching This Morning on our 50 inch TV screens

and simultaneously

promise never to use benefits claimants as a catch all when you really mean 'People who choose to claim benefits as a lifestyle despite there being appropropriate work and childcare available to them'

Thanks again

I actually like that plan for residential care.

'Simon', commenting on Sparrow's blog: Some of those mums are quite funny actually. More interesting than the answers...

has the Guardian's senior political correspondent really got nothing better to do? him live blogging about a live web chat is just bizarre. the interweb will surely eat itself.

I think all journos using this should make a contribution to children in need...waves to Andrew Sparrow

Compare BBC with the rest of Europe. Believe me, the Brits are envied by mainland Europeans for the BBC.

Not so much for Eastenders.

Hear hear Peachy!

Mr Cameron,

I would rather pay the BBCs licence fee than be subject to Rupert Murdoch's brand of drivel.

In what way exactly is the BBC overextended? As far as I can see it is an institution that is far and away better than anythin of its kind in the world. I cannot believe you are even thinking of curbing it.

The BBC is the one of the best things that Britain has ever produced!

I'd like to repost this, because it's important:

Please would you give us an undertaking that, should you get into power and as part of your 'review of the welfare system', you will not seek to dismantle the funding and provisions put into place by the 1997 government to help victims of domestic abuse? Specifically the funding to refuges and out-reach workers, and the requirement on local councils to provide accommodation for those fleeing abuse.

Because it's hard not to suspect the conservative party as seeing this sort of provision as encouraging family breakdown...

OMG I'm in the Guardian

Has Gordon Brown been unlucky? It is a huge privilege to be PM. As he was Chancellor for ten years before being PM he can't exactly say, what a mess I've inherited....

Yes, agree licence fee not too high.

if Sparrow thinks this is too fast to keep up then he hasn't done his homework.

get to the back of the queue, sunshine.

I'm late joining and don't have time to read the thread before I post... has DC said what he will do about childcare vouchers? And how on earth mums of more than one under 3 can afford to go back to work?

You know what? Bugger this for a game of soldiers. I vote we kidnap Barak Obama and make him head of all British political parties, that way we at least get someone with some kind of vision.

David - we all assume that our children will be better off than ourselves, the economy always grows...

Given you will inherit (on their behalf) approaching £1 trillion of national debt, more than that in unfunded pension liabilities and a budget with cyclical and structural deficits, can we really continue to think that our children will be "better off than us"?

On top of paying off the debts, the UK is falling in international cometitiveness leagues, has huge social problems and will need to face enormous bills associated with energy / climate change and an ageing population.

Is it time to say we might have reached a natural limit in material wealth and need to focus on rebuilding values/a cohesive society rather than just getting more "stuff"? Even if they want more "stuff", will our chldren have it or will they still be paying our bills?

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 can you answer my very small question about the new safeguarding regime? (ie are you going to abolish it if you come into power?)

What do the Tories plan to do with Surestart/Children's Centres? Are you still planning to scrap or close the schemes?

Mr Cameron,

Thank you for your comment on the childcare voucher scheme. Do you have anything further to add on this issue and the general support that is available to working parents?

Many thanks