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

982 replies

JustineMumsnet · 15/09/2016 15:25

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).

Heads up - webchat with Jeremy Corbyn Monday 19th Sept @ 2pm.
VoyageOfDad · 19/09/2016 15:41

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brasty · 19/09/2016 15:42

I have been on web chats before where the questions were much more cutting than this time.
This was simply members wanting the answers to some questions. We didn't get them.

BeyondASpecialSnowflake · 19/09/2016 15:42

That was a bloody car crash.

misspetitpois · 19/09/2016 15:43

And all this expectation for him to answer a question on what a woman is... for pete's sake.. some days I don't even have a clue what I am and what it means.

So I've come on here for a political debate and suddenly have to start engaging in gender studies... I really couldn't care less and pleased he chose to ignore the question.

brasty · 19/09/2016 15:43

He didn't answer more serious questions. He gave politician type answers. His answer to the many questions about prostitution is a perfect example. His answer was totally meaningless.

brasty · 19/09/2016 15:44

Who is a woman is a political question.

bibliofile · 19/09/2016 15:44

APlaceOnTheCouch - I recognised the usernames of most of the posters who spoke most volubly today. Others, like me, will have been regular namechangers, but I don't think you have any reason to assume they were 'infiltrators' to MN. Though the idea of 'infiltrators' does seem to be a bit of a theme in the Labour Party at the moment, so maybe an honest mistake on your part.

KondosSecretJunkRoom · 19/09/2016 15:45

Well, that was depressing. What a lot of slippery bullshit.

LineyReborn · 19/09/2016 15:45

GF alert.

LineyReborn · 19/09/2016 15:47

I've been on here for years and so have lots of the other inquisitive , analytical posters who accepted Jeremy Corbyn's invitation to engage with him.

BeyondASpecialSnowflake · 19/09/2016 15:48

I've done the survey... Hmm

Heads up - webchat with Jeremy Corbyn Monday 19th Sept @ 2pm.
WankingMonkey · 19/09/2016 15:48

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3177326/I-m-actually-bit-embarrassed-Jeremy-Corbyn-blushes-status-Mumsnet-sex-symbol-Dumbledore-sea-dog-look.html

Laughing at this link posted in his other webchat. I didn't realise Corbyn was a sex symbol Grin

misspetitpois The 'what is a woman' question is actually very important at the moment as it appears anyone who wants to be a woman IS a woman. At first glance this seems progressive to most, however there are deeper implications of this. Womens statistics will be fucked, womens rights cease to exist as 'men are women' now. Sex segregated areas disappear though still being very needed as violence against women is still on the up. And so on. Given Jeremy himself spoke of woman only shortlists..I don't see the issue with asking him what a woman is, as currently it would be acceptable to add Jonathon to the women only shortlist because he likes being called Jane occasionally...wrong on so many levels.

LordRothermereBlackshirtCunt · 19/09/2016 15:49

What is a woman most certainly is a political question. Our government is currently considering whether men can self-identify as women and therefore be allowed access to women's changing rooms, refuges, prisons, scholarships, etc.

PigletWasPoohsFriend · 19/09/2016 15:49

The main abuse I read was people being very disaparaging about Momentum /Corbyn supporters, but didn't see it the other way, which speaks volumes.

Seriously.....

Welcome to mumsnet btw.

BeyondASpecialSnowflake · 19/09/2016 15:49

I certainly didn't see any obvious infiltration, lots of names I recognise. Hmm

MNHQ
RowanMumsnet · 19/09/2016 15:50

@TheFairyCaravan

Rowan - I have come back to ask this - it was not at all clear on the survey which name to use, and I have used my real name, not my MN nickname - will this be OK?

So did I!

Apologies - basically it doesn't hugely matter whether you use your user name or RL name - it's your email address that we'll use to do the prize draw, so if you want to be in that make sure you stick your email address in.

lionheart · 19/09/2016 15:51

Good for you misspetitpois but quite a few people did care about those questions and the non-answer.

AskBasil · 19/09/2016 15:51

Do you think the question "what is a cat?" requires you to engage in veterinary science?

What is a woman? is a really straightforward, basic question

BeyondASpecialSnowflake · 19/09/2016 15:51

"And all this expectation for him to answer a question on what a woman is... for pete's sake.. some days I don't even have a clue what I am and what it means."

Hope this helps - If you look down and see a cock, you're not a woman.

BeMorePanda · 19/09/2016 15:51

As a lifelong Labour voter, I really want to like and support JC.
But I can't and that has confused me. It's not like I'm for Owen Smith. I feel Labour is now irrelevant to me and to many women.

This webchat kind of sums it all up - he's like a man blinking quickly into a gentle breeze, and not communicating with anyone, while life, politics and opportunities to really communicate and connect pass him by.

Dear Labour - I'm OUT!

APlaceOnTheCouch · 19/09/2016 15:52

Beatrix have a look at Owen Smith's webchat or JC's webchat last year. They are both completely different from this one. This webchat is also completely at odds (in terms of balance) with the many threads on here about the Labour party.
(And I'm not a Labour party member and haven't voted for them since Blair so I have no personal agenda here).

Allalonenow · 19/09/2016 15:53

I thought he came across as incredibly patronising, I didn't feel that he really engaged with any of us.
His replies could have been written by any admin assistant in his office, and probably were.

WankingMonkey · 19/09/2016 15:53

Apologies - basically it doesn't hugely matter whether you use your user name or RL name - it's your email address that we'll use to do the prize draw, so if you want to be in that make sure you stick your email address in.

I used an email address that is not my registered one on here too. Will this matter? I fail at everything today. I never have any luck so not even sure why I am bothered though Blush

WinchesterWoman · 19/09/2016 15:55

And all this expectation for him to answer a question on what a woman is… for pete's sake.. some days I don't even have a clue what I am and what it means.

A. Do you have a Y chromosome and a penis?

B. Do you have an XX chromosome and a vagina?

If the answer is B, you are a woman. You will never again 'need a clue' about this.

brasty · 19/09/2016 15:56

This idea of infiltration just makes me sigh. Read threads on here about the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. This was gentler than those.
And I post mainly in general threads, not an "infiltrator". Maybe you just have to accept that women can be more politically aware than you thought possible?