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.

Riven, if you contact The Times, they will probably want to interview you and you may lose your anonymous status, but what about suggesting to MNHQ for you to meet with Mr Cameron about special needs or what about inviting him back for a special needs web chat? It may be an idea that in future web chats are specialized anyway?

Well I am deeply distressed that the only newspaper I managed to be quoted by was the Daily Mail.

Riven I suspect you may be tracked down by journos anyway. Certainly if DC decided to visit you he'd want to milk it for publicity / photoshoots. If you really don't want that go back over your posts now and get mumsnet to delete anything too identifying immediately.

I have been thinking about the chat and it is odd that he put himself in the position of doing it, when there was so much media hype, without even being briefed on the Mumsnet CAMPAIGNS thread. Maybe just someone could have spent half an hour scribbling one-side of A4 for him? It's bizarre and a bit insulting TBH.

I agree, MP. It comes across as if it were something that he has now been able to tick off on his 'to do' list.

Yes, SM, the word 'abuse' was used as well, which a little bit of an exaggeration, I think!

Yes it's silly isn't it - have they ever lsitened to PMQs?!

I think ilovemydog is certainly right that there needs to be mroe specialism- though what the general melange of questions seems to mean to me is not that we are all a group of non-incidive women, but that politc=ics ahs somehow failed in hearing people if this is the only way we can get our voices across- a one hour webchat.

PMSL at labour orchaestrated..... best resign my green party membership now

And why women shouldn't have the vote....

This is precisely why women should have the vote- our eagerness to get immersed and fight our corners. Instead os doing what the young men I know always seem to do- bleat endlessly about the price of beer / petrol / too many black people (OK IO know some dodgy idiots)

Not that its all women anyway, DH posted a Q, and SomeGuy was there to make his usual impassioned defence of Mr C.

Riv- go for it, nothing will change unless you get yourself out there, shite though it is.

As for anger and the way the chat went... I don't think there was any aggression whatsoever, and if you can't hack one hour of MN then you really should not be making life or death decisions for us all.

Nick Clegg and Nick Griffin next, please. I will make a MN Video of myself begging for the latter if needs be.

Peachy - I read the comment about women not getting the vote as heavily ironic! The poster did, after all, refer to the incisive questions posted. Therefore we are dangerous to the male species! (And not just fluffy, yummy mummies)

also it's strange at the difference in reporting on the Brown thread.

The tone on the thread was broadly similar I thought, yet the reporting was much more "women give Brown righteous thumping" - now suddenly when Cameron gets similar questioning it's all "ambushes" and "hostility".

I know the newspapers seem to think that middle England lays every woe in the world at Brown's feet, but in reality we're not actually that stupid.

Most people understand the complexity of the current situation and are looking for answers on policy, and we didn't get many from Cameron. How is that so hard to understand?

Peachy I think Alex may have been a little sarcastic with that statement not literal.

HopeHe'sBeingSarcasticTiggaxx

riven - if you specifically ask for anonymity I am sure they will respect that, but if you want to do anything about this, I'd do it today as it will be old news by Monday.

As [peachy?] said, you could always email as riven @ hotmail or something similar in the first instance.

It definitely smells like sexism. I have been quite shocked during all this to discover just how much mothers are still expected to fit this outdated stereotype of docile hausfrau whose only interest is the inside of her children's sandwiches.

Absolutely extraordinary that a journalist, on seeing mothers expressing strong political views, must assume that these cannot be "real" mothers and must instead be oustide activists posing as mothers.

Who knew it was still the fifties?

dawntigga there'smore than one no votes for women comment on the comments pages now

sadly

bet they don't mean Mrs T though LOL, just-

non Tory women, perhaps?

Well, that head teacher's speech to her girls about not expecting too much was the first indication that we seem to have gone back in time, Zeph ...

This nappy policy BTW- isn't it council run?

Sowe'reactually looking for more monitoring of SSD policies by opofficial bods- which may or may not tie in with my request for the removal of the ability for SSD to set their own service definitions?

Only asking as our LA (fortuantely we don't need any more- ds3 now continent) sets the wualification age as 7, so assuming they get input?Or is that a Welsh Assembly thing?

And IF you do it, do it for what you an get for your family

You have no overall responisibility to do it for SN aprents or anything like that, your call rests only with your DH, DD's and DS's