With Layla and Ed duly nominated, they now embark on an eye-watering series of hustings events across the country. There are 4 this weekend.
In just under an hour you can see them at the Social Liberal Forum q and a at 11 am.
At 3:25pm, both candidates will be put through a job interview style interview at the Scottish special conference by former candidate Katy Gordon, who’s a senior HR person and John Ferry, a journalist. I wonder if they’ve been modelling their interviewing style on Claude from The Apprentice.
Tonight at 6pm, it is the South Central hustings.
Tomorrow at 6pm, it’s the Yorkshire and the Humber’s turn to question the candidates.
The difference, of course, is that all these events take place on the internet, so there’s no endless and exhausting travelling to be done.
More details about how to register for these events are here.
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It is great that both candidates are making themselves so available, but yesterday was a bad start.
We live in South Central Region and wanted to join last night’s hustings, but we had a long-standing personal commitment that prevented us. Then, yesterday afternoon, we managed to get it reorganised and I clicked the RSVP to say we would be there. It acknowledged my RSVP and thanked me, but no joining instructions ever arrived. I sent a message to “Support” and I replied to the original email, but nothing. Still, nearly 18 hours later, nothing.
If we are going to rely on online hustings, which clearly we must, then we need to do better than this.
Apparently, the Yorkshire and Humber Hustings has had to be postponed until further notice “due to unforeseen circumstances”.
Can we see any of the hustings after the event?
I tried to find something on the Party website. It is still thoroughly appalling – difficult to find things (apart from appeals to donate money), perhaps the links are there, who knows?. If the Party website cannot give the leadership contest due prominence, how can anyone complain if no one else does?
If there are links available, could LDV provide these? – Perhaps with Mark Vallederes’ press briefings.
Here’s a link to the SLF event.
https://www.socialliberal.net/podcasts?utm_campaign=recording_of_hustings&utm_medium=email&utm_source=socialliberalforum
I’m going to compile these in a single post which we’ll put out weekly so people can watch them at their leisure.
Thank you Caron. Will that mean we can watch them without joining instructions, which I presume would allow for the possibility of asking questions?
I just searched on Lib Dems leadership hustings and I was encouraged to find how easy it was to find a list of hustings on the party’s website:
https://www.libdems.org.uk/leadership
Thank you Caron, I guess that comes from SLF’s own website. This is what I searched for in vain on the Party’s (poor) website.
Julian Heather, Caron had already given the link for future hustings, but I would have thought that the Party website would be highlighting what has been happening in the leadership contest.