Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, on Mumsnet for a webchat

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And all true, fenouille

Dear Mr.Brwon,
We must screen our blood for vCJD like in France where all donor blood is individually screened. Why can't we do this in the UK we are a high risk nation and people are being exposed to infectious blood. What are your proposals to safeguard everyone from vCJD through medical procedures?
Thankyou

Well said SGM!

Have got everything crossed for Thursday. Think you are doing a good job.

BuckMcfate - National Insurance pays for public services but please speak up for tax credits because the Liberals and the Conservatives want to cut them for middle income families. Child tax credits are there to support children in families of all shapes and sizes including single parents - visit here if you believe in backing families in all their diversity - www.dontjudgemyfamily.com.

I am another one who is supporting rivens cause , as I said I work in home care and I see the hundreds of pads that go to waste in peoples houses because once you have ordered then it seems impossible to cancel . But we are unble to pass any spare over to anybody else who actually needs them because of cross infection .

woosam - what do you call middle income? I don't consider our family poor, we don't claim tax credits, yet we are unable to save the Child benefit. Our family income is £52K in the south east

Because if you were you would know how it feels to saw hello to someone in the street and they ignore you.

Ask someone ' have you seen my cat' and they say 'fu*ck off, no English'

Its not about who is here, There is just no effort to intergrate in this area.

Sancti m. - quite right .
How could we find ,employ ,cover for holidays and sickness the 70 visits a week that are currently supplied to someone I know .( 5 visits a day ,2 people each visit )

And FEDERATIONS - will all the staff at the the school who are helping the weaker school be adequately supported and financially rewarded for their ,extra ,efforts ?

Neenz - excellent point. Sorry GB!

why do we need 40-50% of people to be graduates?

My son has an MSc in economics and cannot get a permanent graduate level job- unemployed for 2 years almost and degrees from top 10 university.

Is this really sensible to saddle our young withhuge debts incurred at uni when the jobs are not there when they come out?

Hi,

If Labour stay in power, will you leave home educators alone? Or will Labour, as Ed Balls has written, bring back the awful CSF Bill legislation that was fought by the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats?

Could you please answer as to why you gave away the gold reserves?

Have learned to copy and paste question now!

How worried were you when at the last Scottish parliment elections the SNP took the constituency next to yours?

How much comunication do you have with marilyn livingston who is he msp covering your constituency, do you work together for the area?

I am almost considering voting for you Mr Brown [I would never again have voted for Tony Blair] but I wish you would show more commitment to environmental issues and renewable energies [apart from sodding nuclear power which is just storing up different problems for future generations and which the Sustainable Development Commission concluded against] And very depressed at the £100 billion pledged to renew Trident, especially when America and Russia have agreed to cut their nuclear arsenal by 30%. How do you justify this enormous expenditure when you are talking about making difficult cuts elsewhere?

Pixieonalead - Jobs, education... more young people at University than ever before, a million new skilled jobs, the highest numbers of apprenticeship - my whole aim in life is to create opportunities which give you choice about what you want to do.

Riven please belt up, you've had your question answered, he's explained it is a local decision.
'Dave' didn't fix it did he?

What will happen to practice based commissioning if you stay in power?

Hi Gordon- The press gave you a rough time over Bigotgate but I didn't hear them give DC a rough time over his "I met a black man" immigration anecdote. Clearly you are up against Uncle Rupert but we don't all rely on Murdoch for our political analysis. Good luck later this week and thanks for all of your hardwork to date.

Ok Random Question, but how much evolvement in polatics does Sarah have? I know if my husband was PM he'd talk things through with him and he'd listen to my opinion and advice. I follow Sarah on Twitter and she's convinced me to vote labour!