If you couldn’t make the Islington South and Finsbury hustings this evening at Sadlers Wells here are my tweets of what went on. Like all ‘live tweeting’ it should be treated as impressionistic, rather than deadly accurate – I am not a court stenographer – any issues please raise them with me in the comments. Thanks to chairman of the Islington Society, David Gibson for chairing and to the Gazette and Sadlers Wells for hosting. Tweets below are in reverse chronological order – ie last first
The candidates are:
Jay Kirton Cannabis is Safer than Alcohol
Charlie Kiss Green Party
Mark Lim The Conservative Party Candidate
Pete Muswell UK Independence Party (UKIP)
Terry Stacy Liberal Democrats
Emily Thornberry Labour Party
that's it – end of #islsfhust thanks to @sadlerwells and @jondeano at the Gazette – miles better than the TV debates…….
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
candidates asked for a brief 'vote for me' sentence #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – i have done a good job over last ten years and we need a labour govenrment #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – am the anti austerity candidate #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – only people to raise the minimum wage #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – route to equality is opportunity #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell – am islington through and through #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton – [something about nature of coalitions- didn't get it] #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – immigration great benefit to uk proud of our liberal history have welcomed people from all over world #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – would always stand by principles not follow popular opinion #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell – ukip – would support unqualified teachers, they have something to give to qualified teachers #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – cons – support bed room tax – shouldn't pay housing allowance greater than need #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – death penalty, womens right to choose, lgbt consent #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
question – ed read – if principles more important than populism what issue would you stand against tide of public opinion #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
question now on decriminalising some drugs would you support royal commission to review drug laws #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – green – gangs etc deal in drugs for the money – should decriminalise, support royal commission war on drugs failed #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – labour – decrim – changed mind on this – now believe we should keep drugs illegal #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – conservative – well set up royal commission should advise #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell – support royal commission, should legalise for medical purposes #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – support royal commission, tackle suppliers, learn from portugal experience. #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
thornberry – 'i am rich, successful woman now but don't accuse me of not understanding people fm variety of diff. backgrounds' #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell – ukip – it's our nhs 'i don't want to be paying 4 other people to come here who haven't contributed to the system' #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
heckler now challenging emily thornberry on white van tweet 'you are a snob' 'I voted Lab all my life I am disnefranchised' #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell ukip – nhs reintroduce matrons, [heckling] 'smugness of champagne socialist' [to applause] #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
Follow @willperrin who is providing superb updates of @killa_kirton at #islsfhust
— CISTA2015 (@CISTA2015) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – only libdems have committed to £8bn for nhs Simon Stevens recommended and have actually costed it #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – libdem – better care fund – norman lamb and paul bairstow were responsible #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – islington has 5th highest public health budget per capita in the country #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – conservative – manchester devolution xparty support [on integrating health and social care] #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – green – disappointing islington council still prioritise car drivers over others #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – will immediately increase nhs budget by £12billion per annum #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – green – pfi has got us into lots of problems [heckling outbreak] 14% of nhs budget goes on administering #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – labour – instead of injecting competition into NHS should have merged health and social care – hard but vital #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton – legalisation of marijuana wld generate enough money for NHS – money generated by drugs now going to wrong people #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
health service question now – how to make it fit for C21st #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – proud of creating proper Islington museum and of promoting the boroughs LGBT history #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – stand up to BT – stop taking the mickey we expect you to provide superfast broadband in areas like old st #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – labour – silicon roundabout 'BT are taking the piss' on bandwidths near Old Street #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton – i am a fine art photographer and model – [and outlines interesting business plan for an arts business] #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell – ukip – i was a member of a gamelan orchestra. but have never even looked at ukip art policy [to loud applause] #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – conservative – our broadband speeds compare well with other, silicon roundabout – hecklers ask if this is the arts #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – greens would encourage wider curriculum crazy u can only be paid to train to be teacher if in maths #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
it's the arts. what is candidates most recent inspiring creative experience in Islington ? #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton – alcohol male dominated society scared of femininity, making nature illegal zero tolerance doesn't work #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell ukip – put our kids 1st 4 jobs in new digital economy, 0 tolerance 4 crime, more police on streets national service #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim – conservative – refers to Mayor of London 'shield' anti gang pilot #islsfhust https://t.co/44na9mcWHR
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey – come down hard on drug dealers to combat gang violence #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey libdem – gangs central issue – police need to do more. 2 people hospitalised thro knife crime close by this theatre #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss green – education vital – need young people to understand carrying a knife means you are more likely to be knifed. #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
thornberry – cuts to frontline policing in islington a tragedy #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry – labour – working in a community is an important way of ensuring youngsters engage, rather than hanging around #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry labour – 'underlying fear when you talk to someone – are they carrying a knife, how much can i argue' #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton cista – talks about his own vivid gang experience growing up on an islington estate and now as a karate instructor #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
KOOS COUVÉE from islington tribune asks about knife crime #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
more heckling here than i expected (thank goodness), but well mannered and thought through #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
charlie kiss – green – austerity not necessary – 1945, uk on its knees but still set up nhs. no need to reduce deficit so quickly #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
pete muswell ukip – absolutely against austerity only people who suffer are the poor. working man no longer represented by labour #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim conservative – re austerity and mental health: govt have retained targets for talking therapies #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
thornberry [repsonse to heckle] labour policy on benefit caps is to have regionalised variation #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
emily thornberry labour – in islington bedroom tax hits harder as rents are higher ashamed in uk poorest are paying off bankers #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
jay kirton cista – we could use money saved by decriminalising cannabis (for instance) to improve mental health care #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
heckle re ATOS – did people kill themselves more under a labour government? #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey libdem – austerity – you can only spend the money you have #islsfhust we have moderated worst of conservative dominated govt
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
rochelle burgess a lecturer asks a wide ranging question about austerity – is it still the way forward #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
terry stacey lib dem wants to increase tax free alowance #islsfhust wants a country fair and liberal
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
UKIP candidate Pete Muswell opens by asking people not to throw rocks #islsfhust need amicable divorce with EU
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
mark lim conservative suggests that if u worked hard to own a house in islington your shouldn't be targeted by a left wing party #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
the modal hair colour at #islsfhust is grey, many spectacle wearers
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
how do you do a hashtag for 'islington south and finsbury hustings' #islsfhust
— William Perrin (@willperrin) April 13, 2015
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Regards, Ian