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).

Main questions seemed to be related to (in no particular order):
Brexit
Prostitution
Transgender issues

Please focus on these Jeremy as several people have asked questions around these.

Message from a user called "Wanking monkey" there.

Phew, I was concerned for a moment that JC was going to waste his time on here talking about insignificant issues like women's rights and associated subjects. Thank goodness he's gone for the hard hitting, important issues of biscuits and books. WTF

The second one and about every other one since basil.

WankingMonkey - JC could choose to ignore the "easy to answer/jovial" questions...but he hasn't - he's decided it's best to only answer those - wonder why. NO policies??

Hi Jeremy - which cat is your favourite - Larry the Number 10 cat, Palmerston the Foreign Office cat or Gladstone the Treasury cat? If you became Prime Minister, would you bring El Gato to Number 10? Or would you be worried he would fight with Palmerston and Larry?

Greyinglady, haven't you heard of Corbyn's famous cat? 'El Gato'.

No no Heleska no!

I like his ideas on globalism.

Were you only prepped for questions about biscuits?

So the wizard is really a man hiding behind a curtain made out of questions about biscuits and books

Agreed Make. And it's the same person each time.

'Things fall apart'? Seriously? This is going well.....

@Apulina

Will you reconsider your views on decriminalisation of prostitution? I am a big supporter of you, but find it hard to reconcile this with being a woman and a feminist. The majority of women wish to leave the industry, please don't listen to the pimp lobby / minority of high end workers and validate the abuse of women. Decriminalisation would send a message for all of society that sex and women's bodies are something to be sold. Women in prostitution have PTSD comparable to former combat soldiers and torture victims. Enthusiastic consent is the bar we set for consensual sex. If one party has to suspend their sexuality for the sexual pleasure of another that is not true consent. Navigating society as it is for women and girls is already traumatic. Do not make it worse. We need you on board.

Thank you to Apulina and Raestory for your questions. I have voiced my support for decriminalisation in the past, motivated by not wanting those engaged in prostitution to become criminals, but I recognise there are a range of passionately-held views by those currently in sex work, and those such as Raestory, who identify themselves as survivors, by campaigners, and women's rights activists. All these people have women's interests and equality at heart. Where we can agree is that women in prostitution and sex work should not be criminalised or stigmatised, and have their human and citizen rights protected, and have access to the support of social, health, public services and justice. This is no less than all women deserve.

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'.

Definately this. I am absolutely astonished at the crap being peddled out here.

From above

I a female do not want my daughters to grow up in a country that says women are available for purchase.

I find your stance disgusting. You don't want to 'criminalize' people. It is men you would be criminalizing under the Nordic model. Only men. The sort who sees women as available for purchase.

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

A man getting caught in his wife's underwear used to be fetishist, but now under the 'trans umbrella' he can the first 'female' on the front line. Before actual women are legally allowed to do so.

We're available for sex, womb rental and general abuse.

Well done.

Do you agree with the changes coming into the tax credit system next April? I do not know where I stand on it as to me, it is going to create more poor kids...or push people towards having abortions. I understand there is a problem with a tiny minority having kids for benefits but the benefit cap put stop to that anyway. Children today are the taxpayers of the future and as such I do think they deserve to be supported if their parents happen to lose their jobs or become disabled. Again I don't think it has been thought through properly (much like the bedroom tax). People who become jobless and need to rely on benefits for a short while...cannot simply give up one or more of their children in order to do so, nor should they be expected to...but this seems to be the latest Tory rhetoric...

On the theme of Biscuits and Books, do you prefer 'Neighbors' or 'Home and Away'?

Please ignore ponsy Qs with phrases like 'post war liberal concensus' and answer questions in a way that the majority of the general public (electorate) will understand. Real questions, not the ones about biscuits and books,

No

Still nothing about Brexits?

So you still support decriminalisation? What do you mean?

To be honest, these webchats are a waste of time, if the politician won't answer the most asked questions. From a quick scan of this thread I'd say

1. Prostitution / Nordic Model
2. Transwomen are women
3. Electability
4. Brexit

If you can't answer these difficult questions then it doesn't really matter what biscuits or books you prefer.

Yea it looks like that is what is going to happen, the most repeated questions ignored.

I really want to be able to vote for Jeremy but the cavalier approach to serious issues relating to women - such as prostitution, just seem to get ignored.

Sigh.

Also, apologies. I have only just read the guidelines for webchats as I have never been part of one before. Sorry for asking more than one question

Hi, I don't want to add another question to the long list, but I would just like to commend you on being an honest politician. Myself and friends are not buying into the negative media portrayal about you. Keep up the good work. Even though you may not be the next elected leader in the next leadership campaign, you have illustrated to the world that there is a place in British politics for honest ethical leaders - and this is a good place to start. Change will come, but it will probably take longer than most of us envisage.