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

Where's Haidik?
Making jam?!

Yes Charmageddon Haidik is busy making jam for the whole of the UK...AND her husband paid for the ingredients!

I dont know charm i think she is only on this thread

And honey is right (as always) you can only pop to waitrose

You have no idea how pissed off i was when a co op opened in the village instead of a waitrose

I'm going to buy a bathtub's worth of jam and biscuits and swim in it, now I'm getting my free ride from Haidik 's husband

Nobody ruin this for me by mentioning my job or anything ok?

moo

Lol at Moo making Rufus rage

😂

Dunno what you are laughing for charm

Ds1 is going to be so pissed at you

Puzzledandpissedoff, I read the link you posted upthread. What on earth do you think is damming about it?!

I didn't say it was damning - I merely contrasted Corbyn's concern for a group he favours with the attitude he shows when his regard is less forthcoming. FWIW I agree that his words sound fairly convincing on the face of it ... it's just a pity they're not matched by his actions

My local corner shops are M&S and Waitrose.

I'm snacking on Tesco's bubble gum lollies and some rainbow cookies I made yesterday that look like anal fissures because that's how I roll. I don't need Jeremy's jam.

You are just showing off now honey

I prefer marmalade or lemon curd

That's true, I'm not even stealth boasting about the anal fissure cookies I'm openly boasting

They look gross honey

Very mumsnetty though

The point missed by people posting about how other countries provide so much more childcare, healthcare, etc is that they pay far more in income tax than we do. Someone mentioned Belgium upthread but they have a far lower personal allowance than we do and pay far higher tax rates. We cannot go on wanting everything yet wanting low tax rates

OMG. Those cookies!

Oh, well what an enormous surprise.

Jeremy Corbyn ducked my questions on anti-Semitism and what the fuck he was doing attending a ceremony to honour one of the Munich terrorists.

He ducked loads of questions

Those cookies look awesome, kind of how I imagine a psychedelic alien apocalypse. HoneyDragon, you'd have got my vote anyway for your posts, the cookies would have me out leafleting.

haidik your husbands choice to work in the city and for you both to have the lifestyle you have. i left a very well paying job to spend more time with my children, my oh works too. what you want me to cry for you? i think not however, i will cry for people dying in poverty, for the 1.3 million working people in poverty, for the homeless. you take out of the system put back in. if you don't like it move somewhere else. this country has had a welfare system and an NHS for decades and we are keeping it thanks

Indeed, Rufus.

He basically ducked all the difficult ones.

Which does beg the question of what he thinks he was here for.

Are there really people who go 'I want to vote for the politician who coos about jam! He's got my vote!?!'

I find it hard to believe.

Surely most people who read this wanted to find out the answers to important policy questions. These were decidedly thin on the ground. And his assumption that as it was MN, the only policy he needed to focus on was childcare was really incredibly insulting and patronising.

One of my friends has just messaged me to say he was at a meeting with other MPs and local people and the local candidate in Watford today too

So he was on radio 4, MN HQ, public meeting in Watford, BBC ONE SHOW all in different towns or areas --- also probably other towns or meetings too

No wonder he was running out of time,

Please tell us when TM is coming into MNHQ?

I expect she isn't going to though