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.

Dear Mr Cameron

Which type of biscuit do you like best?

hello there David have you watched when Boris met David yet? its so funny

Dear Mr Cameron,

How will you address the growing "popularity" of the BNP with your policies?

And

Do you think you'll be able to take care of your country better than your bike?

To continue with Mackeral's question earlier - the number one issue that would stop me from ever voting Conservative are your dubious European "friends", coupled with your attitude towards European sovereignty. Your desire to amend the European Communities Act 1972 to prohibit the transfer of power to the EU without a referendum worries me - the UK needs to be (and to be seen to be) part of a strong, cohesive, united Europe. How can you win the votes of pro-Europe voters?

Hello David,

what will your party do about reversing the long term trend of the gap between the richest and poorest in Britain widening since the 1970s?
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God, yes, the dubious European friends!
Voters who live in Europe are watching you carefully (and there are a lot of us).

All credit to you for being so brave!

Could you highlight the similarities and differences between yourself, and Tony Blair, in terms of PR representation, mass appeal, media perceived image, and finally politics.

Thank you.

sadly I'm working so I can't tease you this time. Just one question for you not to answer then -

Grammar schools were a powerful engine for social mobility - is that why your party doesn't support them? And please don't try to fob me off with talking about improving all schools when you know that many of your supporters would never use state schools.

Supplementary - will your children go to state secondary schools?

Could an incoming Conservative government look at extending the excellent behavioural methods of teaching which we've used with my autistic son, to all our "normal" schools too? It's basically about saying "no" to kids as well as yes. I think our education ethos nowadays has gone a bit doolally, with kids praised when they're "not doing wrong" rather than told off for actually doing wrong. We're too scared to say no or to criticise, because we mistake criticism for disapproval. It's time to reverse back the power balance in favour of teachers and parents! We are breeding a generation of narcissists who have never been told "no".

David

Why, when every respected economist is warning against reducing public expenditure to repay national debt before the economy is back on its feet, are you proposing to prioritise repayment of debt at the expense of public services? Our debt is comparable to other developed nations and your economic proposals will hit the poor and condemn Britain to years of economic stagnation comparable to the 1980s.

Mr Cameron

Where do you stand on the current government's scheme of moving single parents of children over the age of 10 from Income Support onto Jobseeker's Allowance? How do you feel such a scheme fits in with the need to provide stable and secure home lives for the most disadvantaged children in society - children whose lives are most likely to be affected by long days in breakfast clubs and after-school clubs?

In other words, do you support these reforms or do you have another 'solution'?

Also, LOL cornsilk

Gabrielle wouldn't ignore you, Hoochie...

Oops -- not the Politics of Breastfeeding thread?

Dear David
How do you cope in taming your calf's lick? And do you think it makes you look more tory?

I'm a p/t teacher and childcare vouchers, make it economic for me to work.

Are the Conservatives keeping them and are you going to stick to the cap Brown has put on them, in his recent climbdown on this issue?

I have lots of sensible questions, but they have already been asked ... so ...

Do you watch The Thick of It? What do you think of it? Do the opposition bits accurately represent the Conservative publicity machine?!?

Dave,

Would you clear up the issues around you, George Osbourne and many of your cabinet, being toffs - Etonians, Bullingdon Club and enormous personal wealth etc.

It is easy to say that you are 'in touch' with real people but in all seriousness and in all realities, empathy is not a psychological process that comes naturally to human beings, despite protestations to the contrary. Indeed research suggests that people are more able and willing to empathise with those most similar to themselves - especially similarities in culture and living conditions. Research highlights that the empathiser's own emotional background may affect or distort what emotions they perceive in others (e.g. Goleman 1996).

It is therefore a very problematic claim that the Conservatives in their current state are able to empathise and service (?) all segments of society when they themselves are not represented by all segments of society.....................and indeed they are represented in the main by privileged and rich individuals, and thus, according to research on the psychological condition of empathy, they are actually UNABLE to empathise with poor and unprivileged members of society.

What would you say to this, Dave?

You say in The Times today that you will give power back to Local Government. How will you do this and will you be backing this up with fairer funding?

For example, I live in an area where 50% of council tenants' rents are redistributed to less affluent areas - mainly in Labour heartlands. Will you put a stop to these kinds of practices - and not simply switch them in the other direction?

Mr Cameron, What do you have for your breakfast?

Do you think the government should insist cereal companies reduce the amount of salt and sugar added to their so-called healthy cereals?

Thanks.

PS I did want to ask about child tax credits but everyone else has beaten me to it!