Sofa said:
Oh, and I would be more than pleased to attend a hustings event with my fellow candidates, but nobody has invited me anywhere! (Have you been to any hustings Mark?). Perhaps Stafford needs a Forum for such things!
I'm unaware of any hustings having taken place, certainly I haven't received any invites.
I would imagine this being because
a) the Labour candidates are quite keen to use their incumbency for all it's worth so wouldn't want to take the risk of being upstaged. Fair enough, that's their prerogative.
b) to have a hustings there'd be pressure to invite the BNP candidate down from Newcastle, which obviously everyone else would be keen to avoid.
c) Five county Council candidates waffling on is hardly great box office anyway...