Webchat with Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, Tuesday 30 May at midday

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Hello,

We’re pleased to announce a webchat with the leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday 30 May at midday.

Jeremy has been MP for Islington North since 1983, and has been Labour leader since 2015, having been re-elected when Owen Smith stood against him in 2016. Labour’s manifesto for the election on June 8 proposes ‘a Brexit deal that puts our economy and living standards first’, tax rises for the top 5% of earners, the renationalisation of the railways, free school meals for all primary pupils, the abolition of university tuition fees, and a £250 billion investment fund for infrastructure and the economy.

Please do join the chat on Tuesday at midday, or if you can’t make it, leave a question here in advance. Please do share the webchat on social - the more, the merrier!

As always, please remember our webchat guidelines - one question each, follow-ups if there’s time and please keep it civil .

(As we approach the General Election we will endeavour to offer you a balanced diet of webchats with politicians from different parties. More announcements coming soon.)

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MNHQ

Folks no point in asking any more questions. He's gone.

Don't be ridiculous, MN always ask the biscuit question

In my view, this should stop. This is what allows politicians like Corbyn to get away with this sort of patronising nonsense where they confuse Mumsnet with some sort of bakey type mothers' union. It is very far from that, but the inane biscuit question is what allows this sort of patronising nonsense to continue.

Basic economics back at you chaotica - higher wages to be paid in a nursery = higher nursery fees.

Well it was short and sweet I suppose. I've not decided which way to vote yet andcwas hoping this webchat might clarify some points for me.

We should be grateful he came at all. There were loads of questions on here that he was never going to answer ad that it wasn't appropriate to ask, if people had been a bit more focussed we might have got more out of it.

Very sorry to disappoint folks - we were under the impression that Jeremy could spare an hour for us which is the usual duration of our chats but 20 minutes in his team told us he'd have to leave to catch a train at 12.30 We did try to persuade them to stay longer but he had a launch event he had to get to. Apologies for the disappointment. We agree it's not an ideal length of time for a webchat.

Did anyone else hear him earlier on Woman's Hour? He was poorly prepared for that too.

So Corbyn wasn't here to convince undecided voters that the Labour is the party for them then, he just wanted to have a nice chat with the Corbyn fan club.

We should be grateful he came at all. There were loads of questions on here that he was never going to answer

He barely answered anything. Surely no one can defend a 2/3 paragraph on biscuits.

Well that was awful.

I never really expected him to answer my question amongst all of the others, which is fine as there was a very good, challenging selection. I do, however, find it ironic that in a way he's given me an answer to whether it would be an effective government through his actions. If you're not going to properly bother then do say you will. I can't get to rallies, this was a good opportunity to answer questions that matter, with a very wide audience.

so he did agree to an hour, turned up late (without even a token apology) and then left half an hour early - which he'd decided to already, even though he'd committed to an hour and he didn't bother letting you know in advance?

yeah, that makes a great impression.

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I think this shows a bit about his organisational skills.

derxa on the Radio 4 interview this morning the question about his office being chaotic was leveled at him. He said it wasn't chaotic. But this morning's performance of not having his figures to hand, a copy of his manifesto, frantically trying to contact one of his staff and then turning up late on here and leaving after 20 mins, doesn't do anything to dispel the rumour of Labour being chaotic.

I have several questions:

1- This is the first election in my memory where personal intimidation of women has been a political technque, this is a new development since you became Labour leader. Today a Womans Hour journalist was abused because you forgot your figures. How can we trust that in Downing Street?

2- The Labour Left used welfare cuts which impacted women to generate an anticuts movement which did not discuss social care or the impending system failure of our cash transfer system, you ommitted the benefit cap you weaponised from the Labour manifesto, and you use the trade unions who represent social care workers and our cash transfer system as part of the Labour left's power sources. The share mythology of your culture appears to relate to the 1983 election where your peers gave Thtcher her mandate. What do we do about welfare cuts, the system failure of our cash transfer system and our social care system collapsing? We dont have trade unons because they are yours, you have squeezed every last bit of power out of austerity and then omitted us from your manifesto. THis looks from where am sitting like using womens political power, womens hardship and then using abuse of women to maintain position, this is a problem. How will you address it?

On the morning after Brexit you stated we should trigger Article 50, you then denied you said it, and you summoned a mob to parliament green and spent the summer telling the electorate you were replacing parliamentary mandate of MPs with a synthetic grassroots movement, Peoples Momentum, a LTD Co registered to Jon Lansman, and then those people had your support as they shouted traitor at Labour MPs only weeks after Jo Cox was murdered. Do you believe any of this is safe in a Prime Minister?

You deliberate conflation of your rle in supporting the IRA with the actual Peace Process that led to peace in NI- How do your colleagues feel aout you conflating your support of IRA terrorists with the work they did to assist NI in finding peaceful resolution to the troubles.

And finally the abuse of journalsits by your supporters. Do you understand why an extra parliamentary force, supporting a parliamentary leader, intimidating journalsts is not ok?

Oh.

That went well 😂

@lisamuggeridge He left an hour ago.9

He committed to an hour, turned up late, did twenty mins then went to lunch?

Charming.

Well how dissapointing, answering a few fluffy questions, what on earth was the point in that? total let down, not your fault Mumsnet.

I fear he may have lost labour a lot of votes on account of this.

When is Teresa May coming?
Her predecessor always did.

Awlook- I think you may underestimate the power of a web chat on a parenting forum tbh...

No definitely not mumsnets fault - he committed to the hour, already knew he wasn't going to bother staying for it but didn't let them know that in advance. Topped it off by turning up late and not even apologising.

I really don't see Labour winning, there are urgent concerns that he just won't answer on whilst promising the moon on a stick and quietly ignoring that none of this could be delivered without law changes requiring parliamentary support that he would not be able to secure. That's without even mentioning the money.

He had the opportunity here to talk about security, tackling extremism and to allay concerns about his alleged terrorist sympathies and anti-semitism within his party.

I can't see how anyone who isn't either totally tribalised in their politics or totally dependant on welfare can vote for him without his addressing these kind of issues.

I didn't think my question was fluffy. But I'm not entirely happy that my increased tax contribution from my business will go toward the govt helping the smaller businesses pay the £10pw min wage .....as opposed to you know, not increasing their corporation tax and implementing the £10.00ph to allow them to grow instead?