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

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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).

Wtf do you care what soap he watches?

We're (mostly) only women though Beatrix so maybe it doesn't matter.

@missmodular2

On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is it to you that Labour win the next election?

So the only questions that appear to be answered are biscuit eating/book reading, one from Corbynites and stuff on history.

Nothing so far on the questions repeatedly raised.

Slightly patronising really.

You're not getting my vote with this.

@heleska71

I would like to ask Jeremy what inspired him to become a socialist, what/who were his greatest political influences? I would also like him to know that I admire his integrity.

Socialism is a natural instinct to me, one that shares wealth and resources, gives opportunities to all and recognises the limits of exploitation of our natural environment. I have many political influences, from my mother and father and also as a late teenager living and working in Jamaica and travelling throughout Latin America, I could see the dreadful levels of inequality there. Later as a trade union organiser seeing the way in which we can challenge injustice at the workplace and inequality through trade union membership. Socialism is about including all people and trying to create a world of peace.

Hi Jetemy
How do you feel about being a bit of a sex symbol to millions of women?

I have been sat here constantly refreshing the thread since 2 pm whilst simultaneously trying to entertain a nearly 3 year old. I don't know whether there are technical issues going on but I am a bit disappointed so far. I am a labour voter but I only joined the party to support jeremy. Could we please speed things up a bit if possible?

Well said PenguinsAreAce

Hang on now, I think it's important that we know what his favourite type of hot drink is

@ItsAllGoingToBeFine

I think a political party sticking to its principles is more important than being in power. DP disagrees and things a party should ditch its principles to gain power.

What do you think?

It's not an either or, it's the principles of a party of justice and equality that have to be centre stage in order to develop policies that gain popular support to put it into office.

Hey Jeremy the uber cool teenagers who want you to win and talk about you at uni.

They don't vote.

We do. That's why you are here.
Listen to what we are saying.

Now you are in a role where you need to think of PR more, how do you reconcile your more hardline views and historical opinions such as IRA sympathy?

It's when someone calling themselves "wanking monkey" apologises profusely for the small faux pas of asking two questions in a web chat that I realise just how great mumsnet is

Thank you so much for that honest, insightful post raestory. I volunteer with a local charity that supports female sex workers and helps them to find a way out of sex work if that's what they want. While I've never had your first-hand experiences I've seen the horrendous explotation and damage inflicted on women by the sex trade second-hand. I'm so sorry to hear that your experiences have left you with lasting MH difficulties and I also oppose Jeremy's thoughtless/lacking in insight stance on sex work. I wish you all the best xx

Hi there
Have you gone onto the Owen Smith 2016 website and looked through the "News" section? You'll see all the detailed, costed policies that Neale Coleman has helped draft just over the last two months. Neale worked for Jeremy but was constantly undermined and discovered policies were being developed behind his back that ran completely contrary to the work the policy officers were working on, so he resigned.

If you check out the range of policies, the depth of thinking, the way it reaches out to al types of employee, business, community, etc, you will see how Jeremy's leadership has really been all about locking out talent, so that control is held by just a little group of people.

I don't think that is healthy.

I also don't think Mr Corbyn is going to respond to your questions that go to the heart of capability, inclusiveness and having the self confidence to listen wisely to constructive criticism.
Good luck with your deliberations. See you on the other side of the vote!

Kind regards

So you'll decriminalise pimps and traffikers, Jeremy, for the benefit of women? I see.

For someone who hawks themself as a real everyday person, that sure looked like a politicians answer...

Brexit is not an issue that the dear leader is troubled with. Thus, neither should you be

One thing that prompted people to vote for Brexit was concern over immigration. What will labours policy be on this issue and that of free movement in Europe?

Jeremy lots of people asked related questions about prostitution, specifically around the Nordic model and also the philosophical angle, (IE how come leftyboys suddenly go all free-market libertarian when it comes to the commodification of women's bodies).

You haven't addressed the substance of this. Everyone is in favour of women not being criminalised. It is meaningless to declare that that's your viewpoint. We want to know if by decriminalisation, you mean Nordic model, or decriminalising the rapists who think that women's bodies are there for exploitation either sexual or financial.

Please ignore surferjet's ridiculous question and concentrate on the ones that are important, Jeremy.

BeatrixBurgund

And 5. Anti-semitism in the Labour Party.

This has also been raised by a large number of different posters.

Unsurprisingly - given the farcical whitewash that was Shami Chakrabarti's report - Jeremy hasn't chosen to comment on the topic again today.

Why do you support decriminalisation instead of the Nordic model?

Jeremy, please can you answer one of the brexit questions? It is the most important issue for the country at present and your position on it and the best way forward, as leader of the opposition, needs to be explained. You cannot continue to dodge this issue with your credibility intact.

Jeremy, can you tell us a Knock Knock joke?