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.

I just want to know why the tax payer should pay for Beatrice and Euginie to have Police Protection! It's a scandal that we should pay for them to back pack round India and fall out of clubs

@ ladyblahblah.

Tax credits ! Figures please

TBH Dave, it never did cross my mind that financial services was just the city. In fact, quite the opposite.

Slug's question now please

and when you respond to slug can you please say something that means something, not just the idea, what you will do in practical terms

RTkangamum

Of course we should help people stay in their own homes. Good OT is particularly important and the system is not nearly flexible enough. The problem with the government's plans is that they seem to be suggesting that attendance allowance and DLA for pensioners would be scrapped. That would hit alot of people. I just don't think they have thought it through.

What we need is better regulation and we would put the Bank of England back in charge. they should also be able to regulate the level of debt in the economy.

Why should I vote for you Mr Cameron?

I am an immigrant and you don't like us.
I love the BBC and you don't.
You are as far removed from my life as the moon.

So, why exactly should I vote for you?

I got all the breastfeeding support I needed. I stayed in hospital for 5 days after DS and was given amazing help..... IN GERMANY!

HV don't see new mums until Day 10. A mum will have given up by then if its not going well. You need to look at more midwife support, not Health Visitors please!!!!!!

Agreed, but there's not a lot of ex-Eton boys in the Labour and Liberal font benches, nor members of the Bullingdon and there are, proportionally, far mowre women.

Still voting BNP daftpunk?

Foxy, no I love Alan Johnson too. I think it was possibly the same thread in which I confessed a bit of a hot flush for Michael Howard too (in his younger Robert Lindsay-ish days)

I think Johnson is the one the Tories are most scared of. Milibands too Norf London privileged even if scarily competent and intelligent. Johnson has the geniality and connection people want. Even if Swedes thinks he doesn't have the brains. Clearly, brains are not a requirement in politics.

"We will introduce universal support from sure start Health Visitors to help give mums the encouragement and practical support they need, which is particularly critical when new parents don?t have other members of their family close by for help.

I think Health Visitors can also have a role in linking new mothers with more experienced mums."

with due respect but, before I fall about laughing, tell me, how!

Do you actually know of what you speak here?

We would stop the payment of tested tax credits to families of incomes of more than £50,000

This is a drop from the current situation:

"Families on incomes of up to £58,000 a year (or £66,000 a year if there is at least one child who is less than a year old) can benefit from the new CTC whether or not they are working." (from gov CTC website)

I knew it. Many working parents worse off under a tory government. Can only assume so if you tell us otherwise.

David, re paying for Residential care homes. I think you're being rather judgemental of those who get their places paid for (and as we all know judginess is a MN crime). Rather that they haven't saved for old age, it's usually the case that they have never had the money to save. For example those who worked in the mining and steel industries which were decimated under the last conservative government.

To Housemum

I do tour the country. In particular I do "Cameron Direct" public meetings which are just q and a and no speeches. I've done 52 of these and have more planned. Perhaps we could do one in association with mumsnet. Talking to the team about it now....

"We will introduce universal support from sure start Health Visitors to help give mums the encouragement and practical support they need, which is particularly critical when new parents don?t have other members of their family close by for help."

...and aren't you going to get rid of, or at least substantially limit, SureStart? You haven't answered that question.

When we, the public, stop treating young women who are barely out of their teens like complete celebrities and when we, the public, stop wanting to know every detail of their lives... the the police can stop protecting them. Minor royals in particular are not the same as regular celebs - who make choices, earn their own money, and don't represent a "nation" or even the "A Team" of the royal family - who have responsibilities and duties that can justify public spending. I have a great deal of sympathy for younger, "minor" royals and have absolutely no problem paying for their protection.

All the cyber blogging along side this is bizarre

kisses Wilf in a totally straight kinda way.