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).

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.

Prostitution is largely gendered.

How can you protect and value women's human rights, while at the same time rubber stamping their sale to anyone who walks in off the street?

I'm also interested in hearing about where we disagree - is that where you think it is OK for men, pimps and johns to buy/sell/rape women for profit, and many posters here do not? Or are we disagreeing on something else?

Hi Jeremy

Could you clear up exactly how much money you were paid by Iran's Press TV over the years? The £20,000 figure seems very high.

Women die in countries with legalised prostitution. The police find it more difficult to differentiate between trafficked and mom trafficked women.

His mom answer shows he doesn't give a shit

Will you stand up to Israel and how so? Would you support a trade boycott?

I knew he would answer heleska's question

with a sigh of relief probably

I'm not entirely sure how Jeremy Corbyn can claim to have 'changed the debate' on immigration when we've just voted to come out of the EU, driven in no small part by public sentiment around immigration.

Non! Not mom

Can you use this as a question for PMQs?! Could you ask Theresa May why she didn't get brave and bin off Hinckley Point power station plans? What price diplomacy? Why not plough that money into renewables?

Very easy to say that women should be protected and supported - but what about the men that are doing the harm? What do you think should happen to them?

So a 10 about winning a general election but only 7 for winning the EU referendum.

Oh God, the "biscuit" question is being covered on BBC News 24 right now. Hard-hitting stuff.

Another non answer re Prostitution.

I'm not a Labour supporter, I'm still disappointed though, I expected more from you.

I thought you would give honest & heartfelt actual answers, not the usual political non answers.

Off to work, this isn't worth risking being late over. BIWI will be pleased to see she didn't miss anything.

Really political answers here, Jeremy is not any different than every other politician. Weak answers. And what is the BBC reporting on now? The fucking biscuit question.

If current labour thinking is about equality, I dread to think what inequality looks like

Shortbread answer just announced on BBC.

It's weird, all I hear is 'Me, me, me, me, me'. No policies, no ideas, no concrete plans. Nothing.

Raestory your Q was not ignored. Prostitutes shouldn't be criminalised. I'm fine with that.

@Kaija

Another one here who would like some clarity regarding your position on Brexit, and in particular our membership of Single Market.

The government is under increasing pressure from the right to go for a Hard Brexit option. There is near-consensus amongst experts that this would be catastrophic for the UK economy and even the one notable economist who supports a hard Brexit said that it would "mostly eliminate manufacturing".

What are you doing to counter this pressure from the right? And what arrangement would you see as the optimum outcome of negotiations with with the EU?

The economist who says that Hard Brexit would most eliminate manufacturing is right.

Our position is one of demanding market access to Europe for British industry, protection of workers' rights including maternity and paternity leave and working time directive, as well as environmental and consumer rights. Additionally we have to do everything possible to remain members of the European Investment Bank and ensure that we have a close relationship with the education sector of Europe, such as remaining a part of the ERASMUS programme. I have convened meetings with European socialists and trade unionists - Emily Thornberry our office lead on this is meeting the Norwegian model on this this week and we are working with like-minded colleagues across Europe.

We have to respect the result of the referendum, and ensure that we have a positive working relationship with the EU in future.

This whole thing smacks of us not being taken seriously. I wonder if Jeremy knows how many voters there are on MN. I don't mean people who shout and never vote either I mean actual people with political opinions who will make decisions based on this shambles.

Next time Jeremy check out your audience first. A glance at the referendum boards should have told you just how many politically minded people are on here. I think you've pissed off most of them. The rest will follow later when they read the transcript.

Do you think true consent can be bought then Jeremy? Or are you just happy to decriminalise rapists?

Do you swerve all the difficult important questions?
And how does this make you a good leader?

If you had to choose would you rather 10 years of Tory rule, or stepping down in favour of a more middle ground labour leader?

Will you commit to keeping women as a biological sex class, as currently recognised by the Equality Act 2010?

Hello Jeremy, best of luck in the leadership election and the days after that.

I have started to take a big interest in British politics, after you became leader of the labour party, despite the fact I'm a non British citizen who lives abroad.

2 quick questions if I may..

• What legislation would you pass in order to reign in the corruption in the financial sector. See Libor scandal, etc

• Since your campaign is bringing people together, would you combine forces with others who share the same vision as you? Example affordable housing, taxing the ultra rich, investing in renewable energy... in order words the Green Party?

No Jeremy, many of those do not have women's interests at heart and many of them are actually brothel owners. Added to this, the answer is extremely vague, not differentiating between decrim of brothel owners and businesses thus industry) and prostitutes themselves, and not differentiating between so called 'support services', which just deal out condoms and sandwiches and don't offer exit support, and those that want to offer serious, long term escape routes in the manner of women's refuges.

Also I note that you have ignored the points many have made about your support for a free market policy on prostitution.

Bitterly disappointed.