The two men, who are being named as Bobby Smith and Martin Matthews, climbed onto the Labour leader’s roof at around 1000 a.m. (BST) in protest against Corbyn for failing to listen to them on the issue of access rights for dads.
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“Without being able to win and put our principles into practice, I don’t see that we are going to be able to do anything other than protest”.
Describing himself as a “scrapper”, whose mission is to keep the party he loves together, the former work and pensions secretary is aghast that the Conservatives are now 16 points ahead of Labour in the opinion polls and that more than two million people, who backed his party at the last General Election, now say they would prefer Mrs May to continue in No 10.
Tax relief costs the government approximately £35bn a year.
If voted into power in the next election, then Labour would achieve full employment, as a million jobs would be created constructing infrastructure projects across the UK.
Owen Smith, who was heckled at times, told an audience of several hundred people in Cardiff that he was “the person who has got the ideas in this debate”.
Mr Corbyn kicked off the tete-a-tete by taking a pop at the mass Shadow Cabinet resignation which culminated in a bid to topple him as leader and rounded on Mr Smith for being one of the Labour rebels.
But Smith, 46, has strong support among Labour MPs, who argue that Corbyn – a veteran anti-war and anti-nuclear campaigner who has never held high office – can not beat Prime Minister Theresa May’s governing centre-right Conservatives at the next election.
Corbyn will speak in Dagenham, east London as part of his campaign to become re-elected as leader of the Labour Party.
Mr Corbyn, who has faced repeated criticisms that he has not done enough to tackle the problem, insisted he has taken a strong stand against it.
Corbyn blamed divisions in the parliamentary Labour Party, which in June voted “no-confidence” in his leadership by 172 ballots to 40, and a “biased” media for the party’s poor showing in the polls.
But Smith said he was anxious the party might now split.
“We could all be living richer lives in a sustainable, more prosperous and more caring society”, he will say.
A final decision on a High Court battle brought by Labour party members banned from voting in the forthcoming leadership contest will be published on Monday.
Mr Corbyn talked down claims the party was “teetering on a precipice” as he unveiled his policy plans to “rebuild” Britain.
He added that campaigning for the return of rail services to public ownership and the abolition of the Southern franchise would unite his party.
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“And, Jeremy, you couldn’t answer that question, you didn’t have an answer as to how we were going to forge better relations in the party, you simply said “let’s have an election”, you simply said “I’ve got a big mandate”.
