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).

@Lemoncakeuk

With the current debacle that is Concentrix still not being solved, will you be tackling the use of private companies within the public sector such as Atos, Capita, Maximus etc and get those services brought back in house following their assessment failures? People are REALLY struggling; there are HUGE issues with the tactics these companies use. People need support and they need it now! Will they have it from you?

The inefficiency and high profits made by a number of contractors within the public sector has to be tackled. I am not in favour of the contracting of public services, but want them to be delivered by staff employed to do so and accountable for what they do. Even as a constituency MP I've had numerous complaints about the companies you mention, such as Atos, Capita and Maximus. And Rebecca Long-Bailey raised the issue of Concentrix in parliament last week. Can't we just be proud of public service and deliver it by public employees?

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.

We're you conscious of Ché Guevara when you did this?

Yes, please clarify that All-Women shortlists will be exclusively for female (XX sex class) women!

They don't even need the lippy! All they need to do is say they are a woman.

People genrtally don't understand the difficulties that those old and young and their carers face in today's society. There is an acceptability of inequality and discrimination. How will you change this?

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Apols for my duff autocorrect

From Twitter (@MJowen174):

'Jeremy Corbyn should've saved the Mumsnet questions and read them out at the next #PMQs.;

twitter.com/MJowen174/status/777865538185887744

TheCunkOfPhilomena Yep the public are so desperate for Jeremy's style of leadership that the Tories are 15% ahead in the polls...

It's not the westminster bubble we need to worry about, its the momentum bubble

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[quote FinnMumsnet]From Twitter (@MJowen174):

'Jeremy Corbyn should've saved the Mumsnet questions and read them out at the next #PMQs.;

twitter.com/MJowen174/status/777865538185887744[/quote]

PMQs is too much of a theatre and too much of an in-house repartee - I've asked a lot of questions sent in from the public, and look forward to receiving them from Mumsnet. Politicians should be accountable to the public as well as each other.

Lol depends which polls.

Thanks Mumsnet for having me back, really enjoyed that - can I come again?

Jeremy please - you have been asked so many questions on the Trans issue. It's not an oversight. You are actively ignoring.

I no longer know a single person who hasn't been suspended from voting after voicing their support for you on social media. Whether or not you remain leader, will there be an inquiry into this clear violation?

Hi jeremy,
Thanks for being the labour leader and continuing despite such a hostile environment from pretty much everywhere!

I believe that the most important policy for labour should be the introduction of a guaranteed citizens income. This would solve multiple problems such as housing, benefits, discrimination of various kinds and the fact that we are heading towards a more automated/computerised workplace economy.
Do you agree?

Maybe they can introduce themselves with the biscuit answer. And then never speak of it again

Only if you answer the fucking questions Jeremy. I say that as a supporter

Follow up question

Mr Corbyn, you talk a lot about investment and areas where the state needs to spend money. The Shadow Chancellor has talked about spending £500 billion on investment (which is about a third of current national debt).

The Tories talk about your believing in a Magic Money Tree, but I can see their point that there is a lack of clarity concerning the intentions for the future budgets, given that many of your policies will work against each others (such as tax rises and growth). Can you explain in a bit more detail where the money is going to come from.

I really want to be able to support the Labour Party, and for them to be electable. However, in your answer to morecoffee12 I just lost interest at about 'investment in a productive manufacturing... '. You will not persuade people if your rhetoric is boring and reads like an essay. Too many long words, not snappy enough and actually lacking in believable substance. The question was how will you persuade people. Persuasion is about much much more than policy.

Lol depends which polls.

Vast majority....

You have time to answer this question that so many have answered. Be brave.

Thank you Jezza! Can we email them?

yes, if you type faster and answer questions about the erosion of womens biology.

MNHQ Respect goes both ways, it is disrespectful to ignore the most common questions. Politicians are being given a real chance to engage with your users and I find it has been wasted.

Nothing on anti-Semitism. How surprising....