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 have every sympathy with DC for the loss of his child and agree that we should try to avoid making comparisons of distress.

What bothers me about the nappy question is that anyone whose staff had bothered to do a little research before visiting would have realised it was a topical issue and would have had an answer ready.

So despite saying that women are a key group for the next election we aren't actually important enough to spend an hour or so finding on what is currently active on the website. Poor preparation and/or contemopt for the voters.

Fair point SWC, although clearly this was discussed elsewhere, any problems he had with accessing the right type of support. It isn't fair to suggest that people here should be aware of all of the circumstances of the Cameron's.

Mumsnetters win again

smallwhitecat, of course money makes no difference to the distress of discovering that your child is disabled, or to the terrible grief of losing a child. But in terms of the day to day care of a disabled child, money makes an enormous difference to the quality of life of the child and their family, not least because money allows you to purchase help with the care of your child, but also to buy specialist equipment and modifications to your home. It would be absurd to think otherwise.

"The Camerons recently moved to a new £1.1million home in Notting Hill, West London, partly to help Ivan, who suffers from a severe form of epilepsy and cerebral palsy. He requires 24-hour care.

They have built a large basement extension to create a bedroom for him. A lift links the basement to the ground floor where a kitchen and dining room are being created, and a pulley system has also been installed to help Ivan move around.

It is thought unlikely that such facilities could be provided in the cramped living conditions at Downing Street. In addition, it is a long way from the Number 10 garden"

So, Riven, do you have a garden, a lift, a purpose built basement room? If I'm not very much mistaken, your DD requires 24 hour care as well, but hey, when you can afford to put in a pulley system and a lift what difference id the cost of a few more nappies going to make?

SWC, Are you reading the same posts as everyone else?

To be fair, everything everything is more difficult when you have little money. And everything everything is easier when you have lots of money, from school run to nights out, respite to relaxing, money makes a difference if it didn't we could claim compensation for injuries and damages caused by the medical profession.

DC is an Etonian (methinks that place is not for the poor) and his wife is part of a titled family. Noone would assert that they did not suffer the same aching heart about their son's condition but this was not compounded by worrying about whether their house was equipped, wondering if they should give up the mobility car as they couldn't quite manage the fuel and heat their own own home.

'people opposed to David Cameron's politics on this site and elsewhere have used his wealth as a reason to minimise the suffering of his family from his child's condition.'

No one on this thread has done that.

If they have please do tell where.