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"SPOKES SPRING PUBLIC MEETING:  ELECTION HUSTINGS"

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  • Started 12 years ago by chdot
  • Latest reply from Claggy Cog

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  1. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Date: Thursday 29 March
    Time: 7.30-9.30 [open 6.45 for coffee, stall and chat]
    Place: Augustine United Church, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh

    Subject: Election Hustings: Cycling and related transport issues

    Speakers:
    Con – Cllr Cameron Rose [Spokes member]
    Green – Cllr Steve Burgess [currently Green transport spokesperson]
    Lab – Cllr Lesley Hinds [currently Labour transport spokesperson]
    LibDem – Cllr Gordon Mackenzie [currently Edinburgh's Transport Convener]
    SNP – speaker still to be confirmed
    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.

    Further details and a downloadable poster are on our website at

    http://www.spokes.org.uk/wordpress/2012/02/edinburgh-council-election-hustings

    Spokes contact for more information:  Mark Symonds   symondsmark@hotmail.com;  0131 661 9763.
     
    "

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. chdot
    Admin

    "
    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.

    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.

    http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/nationalists_drop_aim_to_take_outright_control_of_city_1_2141265

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. chdot
    Admin

    TODAY!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. DaveC
    Member

    Damb forgot about this. I'd love to go but can't stay out late tonight.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. Dave
    Member

    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.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. SRD
    Moderator

    Going!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. DaveC
    Member

    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.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. amir
    Member

    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!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. chdot
    Admin

    Leave me a seat...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.twitter.com/search/#SpokesHustings

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. SRD
    Moderator

    An interesting evening. Nice to meet lionfish!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. DaveC
    Member

    Amir said " Also pilates tonight - got to keep my body together!"

    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....

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. lionfish
    Member

    Thanks SRD! Nice to meet you too! Shame we didn't have time to chat.

    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 :)

    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...

    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"...).

    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...

    ...anyway, enough rambling (still have the tail-end of the zazou coffee hit!).

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. Claggy Cog
    Member

    http://t.co/mO0wLaWl - one view of the hustings and how it all went.

    Posted 12 years ago #

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