by admin | Jul 3, 2024 | Opinion
General Election Hustings – 2024 Here we go, the first proper hustings in many years. None of that Mayoral nonsense. No, a proper hustings for a proper job. The chance to be the MP for the new, and exciting, constituency of Hall Green and Moseley. Though hold on...
by admin | Apr 10, 2024 | Opinion
West Midlands Mayoral Hustings – 2024 And we’re back. The West Midlands Mayoral Election is just a warm-up for the real election, later this year, but it’s nice to get our democratic boots back on and throw ourselves into a hustings. Fortunately, we...
by admin | Apr 20, 2022 | Opinion
It’s Hustings – 2022 Have you missed the white-hot energy of local government elections? I have. It’s been four years since people stood before us and made passionate cases for why they should be the people I complain to when the bins don’t get...
by admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Opinion
West Midlands Mayoral Hustings – 2021 After a year off from any sort of democratic activity we’re easing back into things with the West Midlands Metro Mayor election. The Mayoral election is an odd one. Nobody really understands what the Mayor does, not many...
by admin | Nov 28, 2019 | Opinion
admin For an election that nobody wants these hustings turned out to be strangely popular. The Labour Party, dumping Roger as our MP, and his decision to run as an independent candidate, had obviously got a lot of people convinced that this was going to be a lot more...
by admin | May 15, 2019 | Opinion
Considering this is an election that nobody wanted a lot of people turned up on a Tuesday night to find out what candidates were offering. An audience of ninety people is a good turnout for an election that could be either entirely pointless or quite important...
