Tu, Apr 4, 2006Mayoral Husting Webcast
Over one hundred people came down to the pool to hear the candidates debating for almost two hours over a wide range of arguments including sports, education, environment, pensions, refugees, housing, libraries, speed humps...
The debate was lively and hugely enjoyable and it will surely help you to make up your mind about who to vote for on May 4th.
A big thank you to all the mayoral candidates, especially Mayor Bullock for agreeing to come down into the Lion's den for probably one of the most uncomfortable debates of his life.
The whole cabinet was there to support him and most of them were very well behaved indeed.
Thanks also to all the other candidates - in no particular order: Chris Maines (Libdem Party), James Cleverly (Conservative Party), John Hamilton (Independent), Abi Oppel (representing the candidate for the Lewisham People's Party Sinna Mani that could not attend), Mike Keogh (Green Party).
We wanted to make a video-recording of the event available but it turned out to be too big a file for our web-hosting capabilities and we opted for a better sound rather than a heavily compressed video. ...read more...