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).

Well at least he didn't say we were vicious...

You've already gone! Absolutely no idea how you're planning to appeal to a wider range of voters having read the web chat. Honestly you must live on another planet

MNHQ, when we are having a webchat with, e.g. a politician, please delete stupid questions about biscuits, it makes us look vacuous and stupid, witness BBC News24 only commenting on that question.

As for this webchat, how anyone votes for this man is a complete and utter mystery to me. I know i'm a Conservative supporter so will disagree with Labour policies but really he failed to answer any of the main issues put forward as questions multiple times. Are his supporters happy with his answers? really??

Hey, Daily Fail reporter (we know you're reading), how about reporting on Jeremy's ducking the most commonly asked questions, ignoring anything on anti-semitism, and providing very pat, canned, meaningless answers? Fuck the biscuit question/answer.

His silence on the definition of "woman" is very telling. This is a major issue for me, and I won't be voting for any party that thinks that the rights of a man who self-identifies as a woman trump those of actual women. I have usually voted Labour in the past.

Ask Basil: 'He thinks the Today programme is too difficult to go on so he avoids it, but he thinks he can swagger in here and politician the answers to fucking biscuit questions and ignore the stuff it's so obvious is a concern to us.'

This x 1000. More proof you think women are just not worth it, Mr Corbyn.

The questions about trans, identity and what is a woman, were asked over and over by different posters.

As we're Brexit questions and those on anti-Semitism which he failed to answer.

Too easy to cherry pick abd waste time the 'easy' questions.

I seriously don't care what biscuit he likes nor do 99.9% of the voting public.

That was awful. He evaded anything sticky and just sounds like a politics lecturer talking theories to students - nothing clear or concise at all. My mind is made up.

I was brought up by old style socialists. I am a left-of-centre voter, who really believes in many socialist policies - but I am also a pragmatist who knows that we will not get Laour/socialist policies without a Labour/socialist government majority.

My fear is that, as it exists at the moment, the Labour Party under Jeremy's leadership will not win over enough of the centre ground voters to defeat the Conservatives.

Sadly nothing in the webchat has given me any confidence that Jeremy recognises this problem or has any plans to solve it.

Disappointing. :(

Do we use our chat name or real name MNHQ?

When a group of intelligent women ask some pressing but important questions, when they repeatedly let you know what issues matter to them, ignore them. Again. Brilliant

MNHQ - I was going to fill in your survey but the bit about biscuits in it pissed me off so I won't.

I asked a question about our nuclear deterrent but of course that wasn't important enough to be answered, certainly in comparison to ones about biscuits!

MNHQ will never do away with the biscuit question given their own survey on this chat specifically asks about your fave kind of biscuit, so they obviously agree that it is 'funny'...Didn't see the BBC thing but if only shortbread was mentioned thats a total pisstake.

BREXIT !!! where is your answer to any of these questions?

Fucking hell that survey by MNHQ asks what your favourite biscuit is!

@slug

Do we use our chat name or real name MNHQ?

Pretty sure it's user/chat name if you want to be in the prize draw please slug (will come back and correct myself if this is wrong!)

The biscuit question always gets MN into the press - no way they will get rid of it.

Parents and villagers in Llangennech in Llanelli are fighting the local council regarding a language change in our village school, our school currently teaches in english and welsh and the county council want to change this and many other schools to welsh language only, leaving no option but for parents wishing an english education to go out of our own village as there is no nearby english stream school, this was started by the Welsh Labour Party, are you aware of what is happening in Wales and are you willing to defend the right of choice of language for our children as our voices are being ignored by most councillors.

yes the biscuit question was stupid and annoying

That was dreadful. I couldn't give crap about his choice of biscuit.
I am Labour member and from a Labour voting family.
He doesn't appeal to me at all.
I honestly can't see how the divide in the Labour party will fix it's self now.

The survey asks for name not nn or user name, please fix it.

So much for the new kind of politics. Just another slippery politician avoiding answering the questions that people most want answered.