Here's the final line up for Riddoch Questions this week: Eric Joyce, Labour MP for Falkirk, Jo Swinson, Lib Dem MP for East Dunbartonshire and Mary Scanlon, Highlands and Islands MSP and the Scottish Conservatives’ spokesperson on health.
They'll be talking to Lesley about:
• SWINE FLU – another animal related flu scare has got the tabloids in a frenzy, but is the public just as alarmed? Or are we becoming too blasé to panic about yet more rumours of a flu epidemic?
• GURKHAS – Joanna Lumley’s tears melted the hearts of the Labour backbenchers and the government’s suffered an embarrassing Commons defeat. Why does anyone seem surprised when the public’s sympathy clearly lies with the Nepalese soldiers?
• MPs EXPENSES – another day, another vote – will this one cap what’s been a ‘bit of a week’ for the Prime Minister?
• EQUALITY BILL – the British government’s new legislation will encourage firms to carry out ‘gender pay audits’ and allow ‘positive discrimination’ – but how do Britain’s businesses feel about the new measures?
Email your questions on these stories now to riddoch@bbc.co.uk. Add your phone number if you want to put the question in person. On Friday text your views to 80295 and call 0500 92 95 00.
Its good to hear some commonsense on this issue from Eric Joyce where the facts have finally being laid out and some of the humbug dispelled.
Army cuts will have to be made. Begin with foreign mercenary recruitment namely the Gurkhas and spend any extra money on recruiting the people's militia - the Territorial Army.
Posted by: Rob Melville | May 01, 2009 at 01:48 PM