David Cameron will be making an appearance at this blog tomorrow. The opposition leader has agreed to an hour-long grilling by M.E.N. readers on the subject of the economy – see here for further details.
And I’ll be there too, bringing you live updates from the event. If you want to follow the debate, or submit a question, you can participate using the Twitter stream @Sarah_Hartley from about 11.30am or via this blog comments section below.
Political blogger David Ottewell will also be on hand to bring his razor-sharp analysis to the event at his blog here.
Hosted by Andy Crane, the debate will be screened live between 12pm and 1pm on Channel M television.
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Dim Sum Digital 
We know that the current government is spending its way out of the current crisis; a higher debt is seen as a necessary evil, and will likely be inherited by whoever shall win the next general election. Bar miracles, the new government will then face some hard choices to try and reduce this deficit. You reduce debt by either a) cutting expenses, or b) increasing income.
Given these assumptions (which I believe everyone shares, on all sides of the political debate), my questions are:
1) can you identify which sectors are considered to be, in your opinion, wasting the most money, and would be most likely asked to reduce expenses?
2) should you be forced to increase income, would you rather proceed by introducing smaller and more targeted efforts (e.g. carbon tax, fuel tax etc) or simply introduce more progressive elements in existing scales (e.g. higher bands on income tax, capital gains etc)?
As an aside, do you see the economic gap between middle-lower and working classes as part of your “broken society” vision? if yes, what would you do to reduce it?
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