So this afternoon Paul Smith – the Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidate for Bristol West – popped in to say hi, following our debate last week on “the internet and elections”.
Chatting to him got me thinking about how we should maybe run a Team Rubber election hustings in the run up to the forthcoming election. A simple suggested format could be us running a 3-way virtual husting where we get each of the candidates to film a 90 second speech, put it on YouTube, and then maybe link it into Twitter with hashtags, and get the local community to ask questions. We might even include a vote – though maybe the voting might overtake from the more important aspects of the discussion.
Anyway – there’s a thought. We could even roll the idea out as a wider-platform, and run hustings around the country???
Paul Smith @ Team Rubber HQ
I’m up for it
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I’m in favour of anything that shows people how odious that little man is. Giving him a platform should be enough.