Stuart Johnson writes:
Candidates standing in the European Parliament elections for the West Midlands will have the chance to put their cases to the people of Birmingham at a hustings event next week. The hustings will take place on Wednesday 15th May, starting at 7pm at the Priory Rooms in Birmingham City Centre. The evening will be chaired by Eileen Schofield, former Chair and President of the Birmingham Law Society, and all the parties standing candidates on 23rd May have been invited to attend.
Doors open at 6:30pm and the event is expected to finish at 8:30pm.
The Priory Rooms Meeting & Conference Centre is located within the Quaker Meeting House on Bull Street in the city centre, right next to the Metro tram stop and a short walk from Snow Hill train station and local bus services.
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hustings-for-european-parliament-elections-tickets-61089212479
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A similar event has also been organised to take place at Stratford-upon-Avon School on Monday 20th May 2019, from 7pm to 9pm.
Although this event is being organised by Stratford4Europe we are committed to making sure that the event is non-partisan and that each candidate taking part receives an equal hearing. For this reason we will be engaging an independent and neutral chair to manage the proceedings.
Also, we will be welcoming audience members who support any of the seven different parties as long as they share our commitment to see fair play for all the candidates.
The format of the evening will be that each candidate will be asked to make a short opening statement and then this will be followed by questions to all candidates from the audience. Towards the end of the formal part of the evening each candidate will be asked to make a brief closing statement.
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hustings-for-the-west-midlands-european-elections-tickets-61376441589
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I have also just been informed of the following:
From the Moseley Forum mailing list:
EUROPEAN ELECTION HUSTINGS – TUESDAY 14th MAY
Moseley and Kings Heath Forums are holding joint hustings at 7.30 on Tuesday, 14th May at the All Services Club, Church Rd, Moseley for the European elections. Come and meet the candidates and question them about their intentions.
This is your opportunity to grill candidates hoping to get your vote; it sadly looks like we’re very much going to be staying in the EU for some time, so time to find out EXACTLY what your candidates plan to do to best serve the interests of the people of the West Midlands at the European Parliament.
On the surface all these smaller battles are between Brexit and remain. Nonsense. It never since 2010 has been anything but a battle between the People and the assumption of total power. AS Nigel puts it. And as usual he has plucked the truth from the rubbish. The coalition against the people Talking about this and is only a way of changing the result.
Th realitywhich should be made clear is it is
A COALITION AGAINST THE PEOPLE
The bargain was struck by Cameron :-
THE CHOICE IS YOURS .
FOR A ONCE IN A LIFE TIME.CHOICE.
THat is what we must make clear. It’s the old assumed aristocracy vs the people.
What’s the betting that UKIP will be deplatformed for .. well for any excuse to deplatform!
I have myself registered a ticket to attend the hustings on 15th May in Birmingham city centre, and I will also try and attend the event in Moseley the previous day (I live near Kings Heath in Birmingham). I can see from the event details for the meeting in Stratford-on-Avon that UKIP have ‘provisionally’ accepted the invite to attend, so hopefully it is not all ‘bad news’ for UKIP here.
It is of course disconcerting to learn that UKIP are being deplatformed elsewhere across the country, so it remains to be seen if this becomes common practice elsewhere.
These public events do not appear to be widely publicised, so I would urge anyone to attend them if they become aware of them, I only found out about these ones through the ‘NextDoor’ local social network.