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Post by stb12 on Mar 14, 2024 0:48:38 GMT
Thornbury and Yate
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Post by WestCountryRadical on Jun 7, 2024 17:23:01 GMT
SOPNAndrew Banwell (Ref) Luke Hall (Con) Alexandra Jenner-Fust (Grn) Rob Logan (Lab) Claire Young (LD)
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Post by aslaw on Jun 17, 2024 15:25:17 GMT
Am told Luke Hall (Tory) is refusing to attend any Hustings. Is this common amongst Tory candidates?
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Post by r34t on Jun 22, 2024 8:10:55 GMT
Am told Luke Hall (Tory) is refusing to attend any Hustings. Is this common amongst Tory candidates? They are certainly not attending all invites |
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Post by aslaw on Jun 27, 2024 7:42:02 GMT
Attended a “hustings” in Chipping Sodbury last evening. Large, mature audience, 90% admitted to Chair (show of hands) that they had already decided how to vote before proceedings began. Chair introduced the candidates including the empty seat, the Tory [incumbent) candidate who was “too busy”. He received a significant groan from the audience. Whole debate rather bland and lacking in challenge. Too well “organised”!
Reform candidate admitted he wasn’t educated, though he could just read from his notes and impressed no-one. Labour, bright, cheerful, but needed to relax and string his thoughts together. Green candidate, smart, even devious, and quite appealing. LibDem, safe, generally fluent and presented a forceful concluding two minute speech. It was well received.
My guess…… LibDem by 3,000.
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Post by iang on Jun 27, 2024 8:58:48 GMT
It's typical of hustings isn't it? Objectively, you might say the Tory made a sound choice - you aren't going to change many / any voters' minds at a hustings (there might be lots of other good reasons for doing them, but appealing to the electorate isn't really one of them)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2024 9:00:43 GMT
Though if it gets into the local press that you didn't bother to turn up it can be a distinct negative. I think Sodbury has the same local paper as we do
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iang
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Post by iang on Jun 27, 2024 9:02:15 GMT
True - the hustings I had last week was ostentatiously "local people only" and there wasn't any press, but that was on a pretty small scale
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2024 9:04:10 GMT
I'm surprised there was nobody. I missed the Dursley hustings because of a campaign meeting so I don't know if the Gazette was actually there but they would definitely have heard about it if major party candidate hadn't been there
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Post by aslaw on Jun 27, 2024 10:38:37 GMT
Doubt if the local paper , the Gazette, will mention it. Known to be sympathetic to the Tories. Does anyone buy/read local newspapers these days?
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 27, 2024 16:28:16 GMT
Though if it gets into the local press that you didn't bother to turn up it can be a distinct negative. I think Sodbury has the same local paper as we do Few here have greater disdain for the average voter than me, but even I do not think they judge the suitability of their future representative on whether he attended a bollocks hustings that 99% of them avoided as well. If they do judge on that basis then I despise them even more and this absurdity incorrectly termed 'Democracy'! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2024 17:03:24 GMT
Doubt if the local paper , the Gazette, will mention it. Known to be sympathetic to the Tories. Does anyone buy/read local newspapers these days? Ah, it is the same one we have. They may be sympathetic to the Tories but it is also a "story" they would run with. I believe we have an advert for our Stroud candidate on the front this week |
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Post by graham on Jun 27, 2024 18:09:02 GMT
There is no obligation on candidates to attend hustings at all.Formerly it was very much the norm for each party to hold its own public meetings which were open to everybody.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Jun 27, 2024 18:28:17 GMT
There is no obligation on candidates to attend hustings at all. Formerly it was very much the norm for each party to hold its own public meetings which were open to everybody. And said meetings just got hijacked by opposition party hacks so weren't worth bothering with. |
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Post by john07 on Jun 27, 2024 18:30:53 GMT
I have only ever participated in one hustings event. That was in Marple Hall School in 1979 with Viv Bingham and Tom Arnold. It was chaired by Tony (24-hour Party People) Wilson and was very well attended and organised.
Other than that I did a couple of Labour Party events. The first was in Stockport Town Hall just before the 1979 election with Jim Callaghan, Andrew Bennett, Frances Done, and Tom McNally. I did another meeting at Brinnington with Harold Wilson and others prior to the European Elections later that year.
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Post by aslaw on Jul 5, 2024 7:36:18 GMT
Attended a “hustings” in Chipping Sodbury last evening. Large, mature audience, 90% admitted to Chair (show of hands) that they had already decided how to vote before proceedings began. Chair introduced the candidates including the empty seat, the Tory [incumbent) candidate who was “too busy”. He received a significant groan from the audience. Whole debate rather bland and lacking in challenge. Too well “organised”! Reform candidate admitted he wasn’t educated, though he could just read from his notes and impressed no-one. Labour, bright, cheerful, but needed to relax and string his thoughts together. Green candidate, smart, even devious, and quite appealing. LibDem, safe, generally fluent and presented a forceful concluding two minute speech. It was well received. My guess…… LibDem by 3,000. Fairly accurate…….. LibDem majority 3,015. !! |
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