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).

Hi Jeremy,

Are Tim Farron & Sadiq Khan mocked for being laughing stocks, amongst MPs in Westminster, as they are both mocked by the general public in the wider world?

I think his aides are voting on a motion that Jeremy had the right to want to answer the biscuit question.

What is the point of any measures for all-women short lists if you don't agree that women are a biological sex class? If any man can say he is a woman based on self-identification?

I really hope that the PLP that were so against your leadership come to realise that your style of politics and policies are what the public are desperate for. They must come round to the idea that politics is for everyone and not just the property of those in Westminster.

Hmmm, he's not quite got the hang of "straight answers to straight questions" has he ?

And why on earth is it taking him so long to do each one
has he not heard of "PPPPP" ( or reading the thread in advance)
and copy and paste to make answers quicker

Theresa May must be picking her 2021 Downing Street carpets already.

Mumsnet I think you should just ban the biscuit question

No one gives a flying fuck what biscuits people like.

And the wider media jumps on it as proof that women (XX women, natch) are stupid.

Just ban it. Please.

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

No intention of taking Boris & Co to task on the monumental lies they told then (especially the £350M/NHS one)? Oh Brave New World... politicians with no mandate now free to promise absolutely anything without any negative repercussions - can we look forward to general elections being conducted in the same way in future?
How do you think we can respect the referendum AND have a positive relationship with the EU?

Women's Manisfesto? That only means something if you define the word women.

Absolutely Basil.

Jeremy please say your view of what a woman is. Nothing you say about 'women's rights' means a pea pod if you can't define this.

Yes - but what are you going to do?

Yy Winchester!

You've used that word: 'gender' so can you reassure us that we won't have Male to Trans people on 'All Women shortlists' please?

No EnthusiasmDisturbed, no response on the questions about anti-Semitism.

Well, there's a surprise. Such a volte -face from the man who chose to suppress the Royall Report on anti-Semitism at the OULC, and who rewarded the author of the whitewash report on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party with a peerage for getting him out of a tricky spot.

@morecoffee12

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?)

Thanks, I honestly do not live in an echo chamber!

But I do recognise the point you're making. We live in a country where the government is rolling back the role of the state in all areas of public service, thus students pay more and get into deeper debt for going to college, and underfunding of hospitals means people wait longer or if they can afford it take private treatment. The lack of council house building means that a whole generation spends more on private rent and thus cannot save to buy or in many cases leave their parental home. The fundamentals of our proposals are investment in a productive manufacturing economy equally across the whole of the UK, and to provide the best opportunities for young people through a living wage that they can survive on, apprenticeships that are of good quality, and degree courses that don't leave them in debt for decades.

A society that provides for its young people and supports those in need, be they dependent elderly or those with disabilities is a kind of world that most of us want to live in, and I do believe the majority of people in Britain are prepared to support that kind of programme.

What is the point of any measures for all-women short lists if you don't agree that women are a biological sex class? If any man can say he is a woman based on self-identification?

That is a fantastic question that I really hope gets an answer.

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Hi Jeremy,

Do you think Michael Deacon from the Telegraph attempting to look like George Michael from his Wham days is funny?

Will the "all women" shortlists have women with penises, XY chromosomes, beards and male socialisation in them?

Because if so, you can fill them full of men, tell the men to put some lippy on and identify as women and you'll have solved the problem of sexism, won't you?

Meanwhile comrades with XX chromosomes will still be making the tea.

What is the point of any measures for all-women short lists if you don't agree that women are a biological sex class? If any man can say he is a woman based on self-identification?

Already happening in the Greens innit - men and men who self identify as women are all you need to ensure gender equality

All very laudable goals, Jeremy - but unless you can win a parliamentary majority at a General Election, how will you implement any of them?

Which brings me back to my question - how are you going to win over the middle ground voters, who currently do not trust you?

Thanks for answering - more guff though. Where are the policies - how will you PAY for your aspirations? What will tax rates look like if you are in charge?

Well quite!

Another vote for banning the biscuit question. It isn't funny, it was never even slightly amusing, and they all, invariably latch onto it and waste some of their limited time answering it rather than anything relevant, incisive or difficult. If they type as slowly as Jeremy seems to and get as many questions, it's just conniving in making the webchat as pointless as possible.