Parliamentary Election Hustings - Tuesday 6th June

Events
#44

A good choice. I know him quite well and am sure he will be a fair and unbiased moderator.

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#45

then it stands to reason that he must be a splendid chap

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#46

Nice of you to say so.

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#47

Anybody want to be the chief tweeter or report all the hustings on this forum?
Always interesting to hear what was said afterwards and for those that canā€™t make it.

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#48

I have quite a few twitter accounts and will report on one or another afterwards :wink:

Iā€™ll have my iPad with me tomorrow :rofl::rofl:

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#49

Maybe agree a hashtag and post it here before the hustings so you can collate tweets and reactions afterwards?

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#50

Good idea, maybe #SE23Hustings might be a good hashtag :slight_smile:

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#51

Any suggestions on a sensible hashtag?
" #Lewishamwest & #penge seem to be used but it would be nice to have something catchy

#52

.#LewWestHustings

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#53

Are you saying mine was not sensible @Michael Iā€™m always sensible sometimes :joy::joy:

  • #LWPGE2017
  • #SE23GE2017
  • #GE2017FH

Iā€™m sure I can thing of some fun ones tomorrow if you like :slight_smile:

#54

Got it #FoHoHustings :+1::+1:

#55

It needs to be accurate to the constituency. Itā€™s not just SE23 or Forest Hill.

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#56

Iā€™m happy to update the forum live from tonightā€™s event. If anyone else there has a laptop and are willing to split the typing with me, theyā€™re free to piggyback on my mobile broadband.

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#57

Iā€™ll bring my IPad :+1:

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#58

Im trying to up the Tory count in the audience. Said right winger is asking me what time itā€™ll finish?

#59

9.30pm

#60

Is there a hashtag?

#61

. #lwphustings

#62

Thanks!

#63

Thanks to FHSoc/SydSoc for organising this. I sort of enjoyed it, but could have done with a bit more passion from the audience and a bit more and cut and thrust between the candidates, who all seemed boringly nice. (We werenā€™t allowed to boo, but I didnā€™t actually want to boo anyone, much to my disappointment - even the UKIP guy seemed alarmingly reasonable and affable.) Too much time spent in the candidates reading out extracts from their party manifestoes, which we can read online if we want to. In sum, the event felt like a sort of ritual which had to be gone through, rather than real politics. What an odd election this is.

Didnā€™t anyone check the PA system in advance?

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