http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "SPOKES SPRING PUBLIC MEETING:  ELECTION HUSTINGS" en Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:25:51 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-64323 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:31:32 +0000 Claggy Cog 64323@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://t.co/mO0wLaWl" rel="nofollow">http://t.co/mO0wLaWl</a> - one view of the hustings and how it all went. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63425 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:36:10 +0000 lionfish 63425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks SRD! Nice to meet you too! Shame we didn't have time to chat.</p> <p>I'll definitely help spread the Pedal on Parliament leaflets etc. Unfortunately we just realised we're going to be away that weekend (already have train tickets booked etc)... but I'll campaign extra hard to get others to go, to make up for it :)</p> <p>re the hustings: I wish I'd had some more questions prepared. I assumed everyone else would have. I've got loads of ammo from all the emails I've had back-and-forth with various councillors and MSPs...</p> <p>Still, I thought it was very useful (for me at least). I was kind of disappointed by the Labour person. She didn't say very much concrete stuff (it all seemed to be about "wanting to communicate/engage"...).</p> <p>The biggest thing I learnt was that there seems to be growing support for low-emission zones. Greens, Lib Dems and maybe Labour seem quite keen on it. It does seem though that for some, the threat of an EU fine appears to galvanise them more than the health damage to their constituents...</p> <p>...anyway, enough rambling (still have the tail-end of the zazou coffee hit!). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63423 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:28:07 +0000 DaveC 63423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Amir said " Also pilates tonight - got to keep my body together!"</p> <p>This reminds me of the puzzled look on Mrs DaveC's face once when she'd come off the phone to her mothers boyfriend. She wasn't in and he'd told her, her mother was out at Polaris.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63418 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:21:10 +0000 SRD 63418@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>An interesting evening. Nice to meet lionfish! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63364 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:34:42 +0000 chdot 63364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.twitter.com/search/#SpokesHustings" rel="nofollow">https://www.twitter.com/search/#SpokesHustings</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63361 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:56:09 +0000 chdot 63361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Leave me a seat... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63316 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:22:36 +0000 amir 63316@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll save my ammo for the Midlothian hustings (perhaps you can pass on good q's to me). Also pilates tonight - got to keep my body together! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63314 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:18:52 +0000 DaveC 63314@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm going to try and get there before the start this evening as I want to buy a couple of Spokes maps, one for me and one for our Cycling Hub notice board at work for collegues to borrow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63287 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:04:34 +0000 SRD 63287@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Going! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63251 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:33:50 +0000 Dave 63251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm, is anyone planning to go? I'm generally too cynical to want to sit and be lied to... but if there's a posse heading up I am available on a technicality this evening. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63246 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:24:52 +0000 DaveC 63246@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Damb forgot about this. I'd love to go but can't stay out late tonight. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-63245 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:20:05 +0000 chdot 63245@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>TODAY! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-58450 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:43:48 +0000 chdot 58450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"<br /> Under the Single Transferable Vote system – first used at the last council elections in 2007 – voters number candidates in order of preference and three or four councillors are elected for each ward. </p> <p>But the way second, third and fourth preferences are distributed can prove crucial. If a party puts up two candidates in one ward, it risks getting neither elected. </p> <p><a href="http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/nationalists_drop_aim_to_take_outright_control_of_city_1_2141265" rel="nofollow">http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/nationalists_drop_aim_to_take_outright_control_of_city_1_2141265</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=5350#post-57341 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:07:35 +0000 chdot 57341@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>Date: Thursday 29 March<br /> Time: 7.30-9.30 [open 6.45 for coffee, stall and chat]<br /> Place: Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh</p> <p>Subject: Election Hustings: Cycling and related transport issues</p> <p>Speakers:<br /> Con – Cllr Cameron Rose [Spokes member]<br /> Green – Cllr Steve Burgess [currently Green transport spokesperson]<br /> Lab – Cllr Lesley Hinds [currently Labour transport spokesperson]<br /> LibDem – Cllr Gordon Mackenzie [currently Edinburgh's Transport Convener]<br /> SNP – speaker still to be confirmed<br /> The speakers will each give a short introduction to their party's policies, after which the meeting will split into groups, and the candidates will visit each group in turn for 10 minutes or so.  This gives the audience a much greater chance to engage with the politicians than the normal format of a speaker panel sitting on the platform throughout.</p> <p>Further details and a downloadable poster are on our website at</p> <p><a href="http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2012/02/edinburgh-council-election-hustings" rel="nofollow">http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2012/02/edinburgh-council-election-hustings</a></p> <p>Spokes contact for more information:  Mark Symonds   <a href="mailto:symondsmark@hotmail.com">symondsmark@hotmail.com</a>;  0131 661 9763.<br />  <br /> " </p>