Heads up - webchat with Jeremy Corbyn Monday 19th Sept @ 2pm.

[JustineMumsnet]

Hello,

We’re pleased to announce a webchat with the leader of the Labour Party (and candidate in the current leadership election) Jeremy Corbyn MP on Monday 19 September at 2pm.

Jeremy has been MP for Islington North since 1983, and before 2015 was best known as a rebellious backbencher and chair of the Stop the War coalition. His leadership of Labour over the past year has inspired enthusiastic support as well as attracting sustained criticism. Among other things, he’s taken a new crowd-sourced approach to Prime Minister’s Questions, opposed military intervention in Syria and proposed the renationalisation of the railways.

His last webchat on Mumsnet (alongside fellow leadership candidate in 2015, Liz Kendall) featured lively discussions about socialism, electability and the provenance of Jeremy’s vests (Holloway Road market, since you ask).

Please do join the chat on Monday at 2, or if you can’t make it, leave a question here in advance. If you know people who you think would like to ask Jeremy a question, do please share the link around on social media too.

(If you’re interested in our webchat with the other Labour leadership candidate Owen Smith, take a look here .)

As always, please do keep in mind our webchat guidelines - one question each, follow-ups if there’s time and above all, keep it civil [taps nose like that geezer Shaw Taylor in Police 5] (Horribly showing my age there).

Hi Jeremy. First off, you have my vote already should you still be leader come the general election. I am not a Labour party member however so I cannot help before then.

The main concern of mine right now is the erosion of hard fought for womens rights in favour of 'transwomen'. I would like to know where you stand on this matter? A bit more specifically, the likes of sex segregated areas. Also if you think it is acceptabler to allow 'self-identifying' transwomen into sex segregated areas, do you also believe there is no longer a need to separate based on sex? Meaning, do you think the time when men posed a genuine threat to women has now passed and we can do away with sex segregation completely? If not, how does the view that a transwoman (who is a man) should be able to use these sex segregated facilities make any sense?

Note. I am speaking of 'self-identifying' transwomen, NOT those who have transitioned and taken hormones and whatever necessary surgical procedures. The people I speak about are men , who are men in all aspects of their lives, have penises but simply say 'I am a woman'. It seems crazy to me that we are erasing the very meaning of the word woman, but this seems to be what is happening. See the first 'woman' on the army frontline, for example.

Hi Jeremy. I've voted for you.

I'd like to know what you will do to protect children's social care services from privatisation? I don't think I can even work in the sector despite qualifying two years ago. It's too hard with all the cuts. I can't do my job properly and I won't settle for a bodge job.

"I'm so sick of supposedly left wing men shitting all over women's rights."

"Amen"

And another amen here.

Will you be watching Dispatches and Panorama tonight?

I am a floating voter. You and your party needs to appeal to people like me to have any chance of winning the next election. You don't. How will you persuade the millions of people like me to vote for you (not your left wing momentum type supporters who you talk to in your echo chamber?)

If elected, what practical and tangible changes would you make to Britain's position regarding Israel? Would you boycott parliamentary visits to Israel or cease trade until the siege on Gaza is lifted, or would you stick to rhetorical condemnation?

Does your family worry about you? Do they ever beg you to give it all up and have a happy life away from all the insanity, doing all the other things you enjoy?

Hello Mumsnet, thank you for having me on. This is the last couple of days of the Labour Leadership election and after that comes conference, and hopefully after that a party united to challenge inequality and austerity in Britain.

The Conservatives have now proposed a consultation of the return of the 11+ and more grammar schools. I am opposed to this as I want education for all and equally invested in for all, and there are also reports from Oxfam and the Rowntree Trust indicating how deep inequality has become in Britain, and the horrible levels of poverty that some people are experiencing. These are crucial issues and I look forward to your questions.

Hi Jeremy, thanks for coming. How do you plan to reunite the party if you win the leadership election?

MNHQ - where is he? Please update when the webchat will start. Thanks.

Ignore previous post!

Very much looking forward to seeing how Corbyn's highly-skilled team of top communications professionals handle this web-chat.

If the boundary changes go ahead and you're successfully re-selected after mandatory reselection you may find yourself in a constituency that's 40% Jewish. Does his mean you might change your mind about not having enough time to visit Yad Vashem?

TheBigDog he won't stand up to them. he's instructing them.
this is the plan, the complete restructuring of the party to remove soft and centre left and turn us into a hard leftist cult.
He should be ashamed of destroying a proud movement with a strong history of government and turning it into an irrelevant protest group.

Hello Jeremy, I do hope you will give a comprehensive answer to at least one of the Brexit-related questions posted above.

As you can see, they're already on it like a car bonnet.

Hi Jeremy!

I am a member of my local Momentum group and we recently raised a lot of money for 'Jeremy For Leader' by doing a dance for you and bake sale (hardly the re-birth of Militant!). We volunteer A LOT in our community and work alongside our regional representatives of unions such as the RMT who we are supporting in their bid to Keep The Guard On The Train, we also helped with War On Want and Unite's fight against Sports Direct.

We are doing so much and hate the way we are being maligned by the media, I believe there is to be a programme about Momentum this evening and it's not encouraging going by the trailer.

What can we do to show that we are ordinary people committed to working hard to better our communities for all? We are just everyday people with socialist beliefs! I hate the way we are being portrayed by the media and wondered if you had any ideas how we can show who we really are.

I am nervous about Saturday but I trust you will succeed in becoming leader of our Labour Party and then the hard work really does begin.

In solidarity,

Cunk

Pretty sure the Conservatives have proposed new grammar schools to distract everyone from Brexit - don't fall for it.

Could you answer my and/or other questions here on the neoliberal, free market policy of prostitution industry decriminalisation? As a former prostitute with resultant PTSD I would really appreciate the answer or clarification on your position. with thanks

Listening to Today this morning - a supporter said that winning the next election wasn't important - it was changing the face of politics for the next generation and creating a sea change.

Would it be acceptable to you to have the Conservatives win the next few elections if that gave you and your party the time to build up a new Labour party that is attractive to people and would win? Is that a sacrifice to make for future generations?

@drollandoriginalusername

What is more important to you; to win the next General Election or to 'build a movement'? A simple, polar question, and I'd like a simple answer. One or the other, no fudging or circumlocution.

Winning a General election is crucial and we will win it by building a strong movement for change all across Britain. The inequality in Britain is not just social between classes, it's also regional. And Labour will be campaigning for fair levels of investment across the whole of the UK to improve wages and job prospects in every part of Britain. It's the spirit for communities wanting something better that will challenge the inequalities in Britain and win us a General Election.

Jeremy, the PLP has no confidence in you, the traditional membership and voters have no confidence in you. For the sake of the party and the country GO

How would you solve the gentrification of certain London areas?
I live in the second poorest ward in London 'Golbourne Ward', but in one of the richest boroughs in Europe. The concil send every homeless family out of the area and sometimes out of London then they have to bid their way back in.
There has been 3 luxury builds in the area in the past 2 years yet the council say that there is no land to build on and no homes.

Are you worried that the party will split?

Are you worried about the Despatched and Panorama shows tonight?

Why do you support decriminalising prostitution instead of the Nordic model? Where full decriminalisation has happened, there has been an increase in demand, an increase in trafficking and an increase in violence.

Just repeating youaremyrain's post.