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).

I think that any Tory who disingenuously took part in the Labour leadership election should be ashamed of themselves.

I would like to know how you plan to combat the antisemetic elements of your party, especially given your stance on Israel?

I think that any Tory who disingenuously took part in the Labour leadership election should be ashamed of themselves.

So should Greens, SWP etc etc etc.....

Simple fact is none of the questions asked (And many of them very well thought out and valid) are relevant. Because Labour Will not be elected with Jeremy as leader.

A conductor turns up for his concert to a packed audience but 80% of the musicians refuse to come to the stage.

He continues to turn up to scheduled performances, concert halls remain full of fans who have bought tickets - but no true music can be made.

When you have tried so hard to change the atmosphere of personality politics, why can't you see you are nothing but a personality politician? You might have a movement of people behind you but no ability to make the sound in Parliament that the country are so so desperate to hear.

The Tories march on

Do you not feel it is hypocritical of yourself to ask MP's to back you should you win again when you have constantly over your time as a back bencher rebelled against the Labour Party? They too are principled and many believe you should not be the leader of the party

Will the labour party 'stop putting housing benefit in the pockets of private landlords' by stopping right to buy and building more council houses?

I'd like to ask about anti-Semitism too. I watched that press conference with my head in my hands, peeking between my fingers. Your line about 'We no more hold our Jewish friends responsible for Israel than we hold our Muslim friends responsible for ISIS" was so cloth-eared. Do you even get why? Do you understand how strongly it came across that you only understand the issue of anti-Semitism through the prism of your anti-Zionist politics? That, in effect, you were saying there are good (anti-Zionist) Jews and bad (Zionist) Jews, and we shouldn't be mean to the good ones or hold them responsible for the bad ones? Do you accept that Ken Livingstone - who I used to really admire - has become someone who is happy to use anti-Semitism in order get himself into the press, and that that makes him an anti-Semite?

I want to know how you are going to win back disenchanted Labour voters who feel that you are massively unelectable and are handing Britain to the Tories on a plate at least for the next ten years.

Dear Jeremy ,

Single parents have had a rough ride since the Tories have been in government and one of the Tories changes was Resident Parents paying to use the child maintenance service.

The child maintenance service is not fit for purpose, thousands of single parents paying for a service but many NRP choosing not to support their children or lying about income and the CMS does nothing and ignores letters.

How would you ensure the child maintenance service delivers on its promise that children have the right to be supported by 2 parents?

No MP seems to want to tackle the child maintenance problem but this is an issue affecting many women.

Please resign. Please. You're destroying the party.

As Labour has no hope of winning an election with you as the leader, how do you sleep at night knowing that the citizens of Britain will watch the welfare state being dismantled by the Tories during this government and the next?

If, and that's a big if, Labour get back in within the next 10-15 years, it will be too late and the Tories will have taken everything apart. It won't be a case of plowing more investment into hospitals and schools like it was in 1997.

Let them eat principles. You'll be sailing off into the sunset with a comfortable MP pension.

Just do the decent thing and resign and let someone else lead an effective fight back against the Tories. You've shown that you're not up to the job.

Hi Jeremy,
I'm finding this whole labour split infuriating and frustrating, especially since the Conservative party have much more serious dividing issues, but their hunger for power keeps them together.

My question is this: if you get reelected, will you do anything differently? Have you learnt anything or reflected on anything from the post Brexit fallout?

I'd like to ask Jeremy what his motto is, or code that he lives by.

And I would like to send my encouragement and very best wishes.

Are you typing this sitting on the floor whilst being surrounded by empty chairs?

I wish people would take this seriously and not just use this thread as a way to tell Corbyn they hate him.

I really want a MP to take on the issues single parents face and hoping he can answer genuine questions and not waste time explaining why he won't resign ( he has answered this many times) and answer people's genuine issues

I think those questions are fair given the situation of the Labour Party at the moment.

Most people assume that Jeremy Corbyn will win the leadership election.

Few people have any idea of how the Labour Party will be able to function in parliament as an effective opposition under his leadership, never mind a party that can win an election and implement policy.

We are taking it seriously, XMAS, very bloody seriously indeed. I'm a single parent too - and I think the issues you mention are desperately important. Which is why I so desperately want an electable Labour party who might have a chance of ousting the Conservatives at the next election, because, let's face it, it doesn't matter a damn what Jeremy Corbyn's views on single parents are, if he can't get elected, he can't do anything about that. And he is consigning the Labour party to the electoral wilderness for the next decade at least. By that stage we won't have a welfare state, we won't have an NHS.

I keep hearing that speech of Neil Kinnock's, about the obscenity of Hatton and the militant tendency in Liverpool spending council funds on taxis to deliver redundancy notices to council workers. That is what Corbyn is taking the Labour party back to. That's why I am so amazingly angry about this carry on, and furious with the bloody idiots in the Labour party rank and file who are backing Momentum.

Hi Jeremy, and welcome. My question is about Carers. All politicians give lip service to the idea that we're crucial and deserve support, yet services for us and those we care for are vanishing- even the voluntary support here has mostly ended as there was nobody left to refer to or provide help, and I'm hearing of heartbreaking cuts to young carer provision. When care ends people find themselves ex battling bedroom tax and the unemployment system even before they've had a chance to start grieving or adjusting. What would your plan for us be, should you become Prime Minister? Thank you.

Given the evidence of media bias against you, what do you think can be done to combat the power of the media (specifically, the right wing tabloid press) ?

Why do you get so angry when challenged or contradicted by female journalists? You literally go rigid, and white to the lips. Is this in your conscious control or can you not help it?

He can promise free unicorns for all. It doesn't matter because Labour are unelectable. It's as serious as it gets. They've wheeled out Grammar schools FFS. They're working their way through their 'shit we never dreamt we'd get away with' list. There is literally no point in asking him to take on any issue for you unless you're a constituent of his. You'd have much more chance writing to the SNP.

Hello Jeremy.

Back in April the Govt introduced the NEM for the Armed Forces. That meant the men and women who are serving, like my husband and son, (more so my son because he's at the beginning of his career) had pay cuts and thousands wiped from their pensions. This was done at the same time that the housing costs for SFA was increased. You remained silent. You have never spoken out against this.

It appears to me that because you don't see a time when you would deploy personnel that you just don't care. It doesnt matter to you that thousands and thousands of people are seeing less in their pay packets. It doesn't matter to you that the values of their pensions have dropped significantly, yet you are incredibly vocal in your support of other professions who are being threatened with pay cuts.

Why doesn't my family and hundreds of thousands like us matter, Jeremy? You're supposed to speak up against unfairness. Your silence speaks volumes.

I'm another who wishes you'd just resign.

I can't wait for you to win this leadership election and am thrilled at how many, especially young people have found an interest in politics because of you.
What is your opinion on Hinkley point being sold to the Chinese and what is your position on future energy provision for this country if not nuclear energy?