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).

Bloody hell.

Having just waded through that farce of a webchat, I am never ever voting Labour with him in charge. Way to engage with serious issues there! It is impressive that he managed to say nothing at all of significance and remain completely humourless throughout.

The only explanation I can find is that JC is a Tory stooge.

A tory stooge who has been fighting them for 40 years? If so, then we have gone beyond "Game of Thrones" into "Marvel comics" territory with our politics.

Hail hydra.

Has anybody who is automatically dismissing her views based on the chauvinistic 'bitter ex' trope actually read any of the news reports, listened to the interview or seen a transcript of what she said?

Fighting them very quietly and safely from the back benches, where nobody knows your name. It's great - time for your allotment, special appearances on Iranian and Russian state TV.

And then finally there's nobody else left and you have no choice but to stand as the token left wing candidate and you have to campaign to stay in Europe when that isn't your thing at all.

If it weren't for the fun rallies you'd have to feel sorry for him.

Interesting that David Milliband has written an article about Corbyn

And has been in the news this week

A slow return to British politics maybe

That is interesting Enthusiasm. Do you have a link to the article at all?

This sums it up.

www.huffingtonpost.com/benedict-cooper/lets-drop-the-myth-that-c_b_12081848.html

Scratch that, I found it (thanks to the magic of Google ). Link below for anyone who's interested:

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/09/new-times-david-miliband-why-left-needs-move-forward-not-back

It's also reported on the guardian corbyns followers making the usual comments he is a Torylite etc yawn yawn

Interesting huffington post. He has certainly gained confidence to the point of arrogance when challanged by a reporter

I swing from feeling despair that the Labour Party is over to seeing the cracks are starting to show and the party can pull together and be saved from Corbyn and co but not for a few years

Hail hydra made me smirk

I had to look up the Hail Hydra thing :)

Interesting perspective from that HuffPo article. Predictably, there's a comment from an affronted Corbynista which also manages to reference Tony Blair.

I'm not a fan of Tony Blair myself but I do get a bit tired of his name being trotted out endlessly as some of multi-purpose left wing (sorry 'red tory') boogeyman.

I must apologise flippinada - it really wasn't worth looking up

Ha, don't apologise, I'm a nosey bugger and I like looking things up :)

Thanks for this interview. It's wonderful to finally hear what Jeremy Corbyn thinks, without daft interviewers manipulating the questions and answers to turn the whole process into nonsense.

More such great interviews would be much appreciated.

Indeed, that was the finest political interview, anywhere, ever.

It was...fascinating.

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Toobz you need to start a new thread about your Tommee Tippee problem, this is the thread to discuss the Jeremy Corbyn webchat.

Though I'm sure if he were here, he'd rather answer the Tommee Tippee questions than the prostitution ones

My guess is ghosts.
the ghost of the Labour Party

Thanks for this interview. It's wonderful to finally hear what Jeremy Corbyn thinks, without daft interviewers manipulating the questions and answers to turn the whole process into nonsense.

This time he managed to avoid questions, answers in soundbites and come accross badly all by himself.

Perhaps Jeremy is like the prophets of old and we need to look beyond the obvious meaning of his words to discover hidden prophecies.

Jeremy’s reference to Ulysses may have been an allusion to the Greek poem the Odyssey in which we are told that Ulysses triumphantly vanquishes the usurpers who had taken over his palace.

In the poem The Second Coming by Yeats we find the phrase that inspired the title of the other book Jeremy mentioned:

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world

As for the shortbread pronouncement, I think Jeremy is telling us that, while he is against colonial expansionism, he will, if forced into it, take some pleasure in Labour swallowing up Scotland again.

He won, in case you didn't see yet. 61.8%