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  2. What results would you like to see from the summit?
    The London Summit on 2nd April will be a chance for world leaders to get together and make real change to help bring the world out of our current global financial crisis. No doubt many agreements will... Show more»
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Brendan Barber
  1. TUC ON RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LABOUR PARTY.
  2. PatNInterupt asked Brendan Barber: "Can you explain why the trades union movement has continued to support a government whose policies have actively and deliberately caused the expropriation and transfer of relative wealth and purcahsing..." Show more »"Can you explain why the trades union movement has continued to support a government whose policies have actively and deliberately caused the expropriation and transfer of relative wealth and purcahsing power from the non-property-owning class to the speculative property-owning-class, to an extent that would make Margaret Thatcher blush with shame?" Show less »
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Hazel Blears
  1. DCLG WELCOME SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO RE-USE EMPTY SHOPS.
  2. anaylo asked Hazel Blears: "Does the Secretary of State agree that redundant town centre assets should be transferred on a temporary basis into local authority and community ownership to facilitate the development of community enterprise..." Show more »"Does the Secretary of State agree that redundant town centre assets should be transferred on a temporary basis into local authority and community ownership to facilitate the development of community enterprise during the recession - thereby reinvigorating 'ghost towns' and supporting young unemployed graduates into self-employment within the third sector where the private sector is withdrawing?" Show less »
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Matthew Taylor
  1. NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT UNDERLYING PROBLEMS OF THE RECESSION.
  2. LondonTowner asked Matthew Taylor: "Do you get any sense at all that senior ministers see the recession as a golden opportunity to transform the UK's way of life, reducing inequality, cutting working hours and making us less materialist..." Show more »"Do you get any sense at all that senior ministers see the recession as a golden opportunity to transform the UK's way of life, reducing inequality, cutting working hours and making us less materialistic?" Show less »
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Theo Paphitis
  1. JOB SHARING AND PAY CUTS BETTER THAN LOSING JOBS.
  2. erinrose asked Theo Paphitis: "Are you a believer in job-sharing to avoid redundancies, like they have introduced in Japan? Or even three days weeks? Isn't it better to do this, rather than lose skilled staff forever?"
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David Miliband
  1. GLOBAL INEQUALITY IS A GREAT THREAT TO STABILITY.
  2. rotherblog asked David Miliband: "Do you think that capitalism has lost its way morally in causing the current crisis? If so, what can the London summit do about that?"
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Lord Mandelson Interview
  1. COMPLETE THEO PAPHITIS/LORD MANDELSON INTERVIEW.
  2. keithwhu on Lord Mandelson Interview: "This is the complete interview conducted by Theo Paphitis on behalf of Yoosk."
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  1. shazz999 is asking Gordon Brown: "I would like to know WHY I have to pay for people coming into My Country and NOT WORKING....  Benefits,..." Show more »"

    I would like to know WHY I have to pay for people coming into My Country and NOT WORKING....  Benefits, Housing, oh and help towards a car because they need one to look for a job\\....... free NHS we all know whats going on and Its not right  is it not about time people woke up especially you and the rest of the fat cats getting all the BIG money and smelt the coffee,,,  We are getting the total mik taken out of us...  I wonder what would happen if people refused to pay there council tax to pay YOUR salaries ehhh  oh we'd get put in prison.  I mean when it gets to the stage you cant have Christmas music playing in shopping centres and christmas trees being banned, well personally this is taking the biscuit.  IM not affraid like alot of people to stand up and open my mouth about things just remember this is the UK we have out traditions and sorry but having us stop our own traditional things is just not on ........  if we were in another country we would have to abide by there laws and traditions...... get hard and not soft like they think we all are we need rules like Austrailia  SORT IT OUT ohh and get rid of tose fat cats cashing it in,,,,, Half of them never seem to do anything anyway  ohh and Im not going to vote for any of you bacause I dont believe a word that comes out of any of your mouths........  all lies

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  1. shazz999 is asking Gordon Brown: "I would like to know what you are going to do for the people who have ploughed as much money as they..." Show more »"

    I would like to know what you are going to do for the people who have ploughed as much money as they can afford into private pensions to make sure there lives are secure later in life and due to you changing the pension rules etc they are worth nothing....  How are you going to help them ??????????

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  1. chaaps is asking Gordon Brown: "What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually..." Show more »"What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually moving them away to their own country and losing our tradesmenship as in Cadbury's, Jaguar and my company Simon Carves. People in England are still quite happy to buy from China and help china grow and India Grow but what about buying from England Plc. Also with the invasion of all the polish and other eu countries whos living costs are low how are we going to compansate for our pay going down and our cost of living still rising . Im telling you Gordion Brown your people can't take much more our cost of living has not gone down year after year poll tax, heating , TV and other neccesity's go up but our pay is going down brought on by companies taking on cheaper labour here in our contry through the likes of polish etc and also by taking administration abroad to India and China where we then have to put up with foriegn speaking people when we ask about our bills and others things on the phone your people are just so frustrated. Also people have worked all their life to pay into the NI and hospitals when the time comes and they need care anybody can use it and we are not getting the benefits of good hospital service." Show less »
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Read, comment and vote on the most popular questions yet to be answered.
  1. Lennin is asking Gordon Brown: "Hi Mr Brown I just wanted to ask for the prupose of all these high taxes we have to pay. I am finding..." Show more »"Hi Mr Brown
    I just wanted to ask for the prupose of all these high taxes we have to pay.
    I am finding that everyday is a struggle to get to work as the fuel proces are so high, then my wage packet has a ridiculous amount of tax that I need to pay. My aunty died she paid tax all her life I had to pay inheritance tax???
    Where does this money all go, the reason I ask is because recently 3 members of my family were out of work and I was the only one paying the mortage and bills. There were not given any help what so ever. Recently I learned that a lady who emigrated here to the UK had a child, which is now a british citizen, adn is staying at home rather than working as the benfits are the same as if she was in work.
    I am in my 20's and there is lots of things I want to do, my dad ran off when I was young and we did not get any money from him to help out. Yet the things I want to do I need to make sure that I have enough money to do it. Why does Britian have a huge amount of tax to pay on anything we do, yet other countries do not seem to have these taxes.
    I know you had a better brining up than I did, I could not afford to go to Uni and there was not the help that there is now, we never had money growing up and I find that depending on the conditions that you are brought up in decides the future you hold.

    Apologies you probably get these questions all the time, some days there is no point carrying on, I am doing nothing for myself and I have nothing to show for what I earn.
    " Show less »
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  1. link52 is asking Gordon Brown: "on pmq on wednesday 17th february you talked about pension credits for the elderly. my problem is that..." Show more »"on pmq on wednesday 17th february you talked about pension credits for the elderly.
    my problem is that i retire in a few years time, but my husband is 12 years younger than me and even though i have worked all my life i will NOT be entitled to pension credits because my husband will still be working, meaning that i will be left with £60+ per week to get by on.

    do you think this is a fare deal, not just for me, there must be thousands of us in this same situation????????????" Show less »
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  1. rapaul is asking Gordon Brown: "2 part question. Dear Mr Brown part 1/ we understand that crime is a serious and increasing problem,..." Show more »"2 part question.
    Dear Mr Brown
    part 1/ we understand that crime is a serious and increasing problem, and one which you take very seriously, knife crime bullying, car theft and violence are just a few hitting the headlines all the time. if there were a programe that would significantly improve the situation and change the behaviour of these people would you impliment it.
    part 2/  a programe was developed and is currently on hold because of finance. From november 2008 until jan 2010 a project called NLP days has been run with Tfl and others, the strtagies of behavior change and new behaviour habituation were demonstrated and experienced 1st hand and the outcome and reports 
    (which is available) have been extremely positive.
    everyone who was involved said it should be followed up and implimented as significant benifitS to the comunity would be achieved, even the Metropoltan police have made enquireys about the behaviour change stratagies.  IF CRIME PREVENTION AND THE SAFETY AND PEICE OF MIND TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE IS SO IMPORTANT THEN WHY IS IT THAT FUNDS ARE NOT AVAILBLE OR BEING WITHDRAWN. AND WHY WAISTE PEOPLES VALUBLE TIME AND EFFORT DEVELOPING SUCH BENIFICIAL PROGRAMS" Show less »
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  1. rapaul is asking Gordon Brown: "as a follow up my 2 Part question. Would Mr Brown be Kind enough to put aside some time so that i could..." Show more »"as a follow up my 2 Part question.
    Would Mr Brown be Kind enough to put aside some time so that i could explain and demonstrate exactly how the Program works.
    he would then have the oportunity of having all the information and results to hand to see for himself. somethings get lost in all the red tape.
    Crime will only get worse if something is not done. " Show less »
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  1. chaaps is asking Gordon Brown: "What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually..." Show more »"What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually moving them away to their own country and losing our tradesmenship as in Cadbury's, Jaguar and my company Simon Carves. People in England are still quite happy to buy from China and help china grow and India Grow but what about buying from England Plc. Also with the invasion of all the polish and other eu countries whos living costs are low how are we going to compansate for our pay going down and our cost of living still rising . Im telling you Gordion Brown your people can't take much more our cost of living has not gone down year after year poll tax, heating , TV and other neccesity's go up but our pay is going down brought on by companies taking on cheaper labour here in our contry through the likes of polish etc and also by taking administration abroad to India and China where we then have to put up with foriegn speaking people when we ask about our bills and others things on the phone your people are just so frustrated. Also people have worked all their life to pay into the NI and hospitals when the time comes and they need care anybody can use it and we are not getting the benefits of good hospital service." Show less »
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Read, comment and vote on this week’s highest climbing questions.
  1. Lennin is asking Gordon Brown: "Hi Mr Brown I just wanted to ask for the prupose of all these high taxes we have to pay. I am finding..." Show more »"Hi Mr Brown
    I just wanted to ask for the prupose of all these high taxes we have to pay.
    I am finding that everyday is a struggle to get to work as the fuel proces are so high, then my wage packet has a ridiculous amount of tax that I need to pay. My aunty died she paid tax all her life I had to pay inheritance tax???
    Where does this money all go, the reason I ask is because recently 3 members of my family were out of work and I was the only one paying the mortage and bills. There were not given any help what so ever. Recently I learned that a lady who emigrated here to the UK had a child, which is now a british citizen, adn is staying at home rather than working as the benfits are the same as if she was in work.
    I am in my 20's and there is lots of things I want to do, my dad ran off when I was young and we did not get any money from him to help out. Yet the things I want to do I need to make sure that I have enough money to do it. Why does Britian have a huge amount of tax to pay on anything we do, yet other countries do not seem to have these taxes.
    I know you had a better brining up than I did, I could not afford to go to Uni and there was not the help that there is now, we never had money growing up and I find that depending on the conditions that you are brought up in decides the future you hold.

    Apologies you probably get these questions all the time, some days there is no point carrying on, I am doing nothing for myself and I have nothing to show for what I earn.
    " Show less »
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  1. link52 is asking Gordon Brown: "on pmq on wednesday 17th february you talked about pension credits for the elderly. my problem is that..." Show more »"on pmq on wednesday 17th february you talked about pension credits for the elderly.
    my problem is that i retire in a few years time, but my husband is 12 years younger than me and even though i have worked all my life i will NOT be entitled to pension credits because my husband will still be working, meaning that i will be left with £60+ per week to get by on.

    do you think this is a fare deal, not just for me, there must be thousands of us in this same situation????????????" Show less »
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  3. 0 comment   |  Topic: Retirement   |
  1. rapaul is asking Gordon Brown: "2 part question. Dear Mr Brown part 1/ we understand that crime is a serious and increasing problem,..." Show more »"2 part question.
    Dear Mr Brown
    part 1/ we understand that crime is a serious and increasing problem, and one which you take very seriously, knife crime bullying, car theft and violence are just a few hitting the headlines all the time. if there were a programe that would significantly improve the situation and change the behaviour of these people would you impliment it.
    part 2/  a programe was developed and is currently on hold because of finance. From november 2008 until jan 2010 a project called NLP days has been run with Tfl and others, the strtagies of behavior change and new behaviour habituation were demonstrated and experienced 1st hand and the outcome and reports 
    (which is available) have been extremely positive.
    everyone who was involved said it should be followed up and implimented as significant benifitS to the comunity would be achieved, even the Metropoltan police have made enquireys about the behaviour change stratagies.  IF CRIME PREVENTION AND THE SAFETY AND PEICE OF MIND TO THE BRITISH PEOPLE IS SO IMPORTANT THEN WHY IS IT THAT FUNDS ARE NOT AVAILBLE OR BEING WITHDRAWN. AND WHY WAISTE PEOPLES VALUBLE TIME AND EFFORT DEVELOPING SUCH BENIFICIAL PROGRAMS" Show less »
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  1. rapaul is asking Gordon Brown: "as a follow up my 2 Part question. Would Mr Brown be Kind enough to put aside some time so that i could..." Show more »"as a follow up my 2 Part question.
    Would Mr Brown be Kind enough to put aside some time so that i could explain and demonstrate exactly how the Program works.
    he would then have the oportunity of having all the information and results to hand to see for himself. somethings get lost in all the red tape.
    Crime will only get worse if something is not done. " Show less »
  2. 1
  3. 0 comment   |  Topic: Local Issues   |
  1. chaaps is asking Gordon Brown: "What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually..." Show more »"What can we do as a country to stop all our businesses being bought by foriegn countries and evetually moving them away to their own country and losing our tradesmenship as in Cadbury's, Jaguar and my company Simon Carves. People in England are still quite happy to buy from China and help china grow and India Grow but what about buying from England Plc. Also with the invasion of all the polish and other eu countries whos living costs are low how are we going to compansate for our pay going down and our cost of living still rising . Im telling you Gordion Brown your people can't take much more our cost of living has not gone down year after year poll tax, heating , TV and other neccesity's go up but our pay is going down brought on by companies taking on cheaper labour here in our contry through the likes of polish etc and also by taking administration abroad to India and China where we then have to put up with foriegn speaking people when we ask about our bills and others things on the phone your people are just so frustrated. Also people have worked all their life to pay into the NI and hospitals when the time comes and they need care anybody can use it and we are not getting the benefits of good hospital service." Show less »
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