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).

LibrariesGaveUsP0wer well that is an EXCELLENT point. I'd love to hear an answer to that one.

Where do you see Labours stance on current Defence policies? And would you change the Army 2020 model?

Biscuits and books rather than actual policies and strategy about how to WIN AN ELECTION - I don't think he wants to win in 2020

How do you believe Labour can take votes from the Tories to win in marginal seats?

The prostitution question, was the second one asked.

Just sayin'

What's your favourite Brexit Jeremy?

Books and biscuits questions taking precedence over minor matters like how to win over enough of the electorate to win a general election, or about prostitution?

Really not good enough.

That biscuit answer will be a headline in the DM tomorrow

Waves at DM journalists reading this. Write your own stories rather than stalking MN for them

As you were.

Hi Jeremy,

I rejoined the Labour Party in the last year (kicked out by Tony Blair as a teenager for demanding the restoration of student grants to 1979 levels in a pamphlet).

Partly I did so because I heard you making noises about decriminalising prostitution and I thought I have to tackle this from within because I will never vote for a party that decrimilinalises the modern slave trade.

I would really like to see someone tackling the integrity of the recent commons select committee, headed by Keith Vaz, who turned out to be a john, making the somewhat unsurprising decision that they wouldn't recommend the Nordic model, which prosecutes johns. The range of witnesses was shocking and the result was a stitch up. Please act on this. How can anyone think that their report or recommendations can stand given that Vaz is a john deciding on whether being a john should be illegal. Please act on this.

Hi jeremy, what's your favourite term for transgender men? Is it transwomen or women?

Someone is having a fucking joke at our expense.

He is currently rereading a book called 'Things That Fall Apart'

Not enough things falling apart during your day job Jeremy?! ?!

As a serious and thoughtful politician we must assume his answers to be meaningful, even on seemingly trivial subjects.

Seems fairly obvious then that the biscuit he was forced reluctantly to accept represents his campaign for Remain

Oh let's all just ignore any actual questions & discuss our favourite biscuits & books. How lovely.

I feel for Labour voters over the Leadership election. You truly are stuck between a rock & a hard place. I hope you get a third option 'try again'.

As a careers advisor did your mother advise and young women in to prostitution?

It's just a job eh?

Gabriel here. Jeremy, I voted for you but I would really like to see you try and answer some questions from people who aren't your supporters - you're not building credibility here by addressing one small corner of a very diverse audience.

What time does this finish? How much longer do I have to drag my disappointment out for?

I second the brilliantly phrased "what's your favourite Brexit?"

Please can people stop asking questions about biscuits and such? I want to see some real thought out answers to genuine concerns people have, and the way this is going only the easy to answer/jovial questions are being picked up on Not impressed really. Funny questions are fine, but not when they are being used to avoid difficult topics that NEED to be spoken about

Can't wait to hear what his favourite colour is

Still I am glad you support a free market for women's bodies instead of nationalising them. That would be too much.

@SoloD

Do you acknowledge that the post war liberal consensus has actually served very well in bringing peace and prosperity to the countries which took part in that and globalisation was and still is a key aspect of this?

The postwar liberal consensus on both sides of the Atlantic during the Cold War brought us in Britain the National Health Service and the welfare state and some kind of equivalence across most of Europe. Whilst the US doesn't have a welfare state, its social provisions were much better back then. Globalisation which grew very fast in the late 70s and 80s had its whole purpose in reducing corporate and high level tax and rolling back the state on social issues. It's that form of globalisation which is now so damaging to services that we need and rely on. The political movements that are powerful in Europe and America today want to end the roll back of the state and ensure investment and protection rather than the race to the bottom, which is what neo-liberal globalisation gives us. I want us to have a high investment economy and promote a trade system which protects the environment and human rights and promotes job creation, particularly for young people.

Do you have a cat?

I'd love to know how these web chats work. Do MN HQ give web chatter a quick heads up on the kind of questions which have been asked again and again on the thread? i.e. there are a few themes here and answering these 4/5 questions first would cover a lot of the questions posted in advance?

I HATE the biscuit question. It makes look like we are bunch of silly women without a single political thought between us. If it was ever funny, and I fear it wasn't, it's well and truly jumped the shark.

Hi Jeremy,

I would very much like to know what ignited your interest in politics and who/what were your political inspirations! As you are one of mine 😊

Thank you