The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has announced that a General Election will be held on Thursday 6th May 2010. As part of the run-up to the General Election, a hustings is being held in Melksham on Sunday 25th April in the hall at George Ward School from 7:30pm until 9:00pm.
Melksham is part of the Chippenham Parliamentary Constituency and all eight candidates standing for election as Member of Parliament have been invited to participate by presenting their policies and by answering questions put to them. The candidates are (in alphabetical order): - Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones (Conservative)
- Samantha Fletcher (Green)
- Duncan Hames (Liberal-Democrat)
- Greg Lovell (Labour)
- Jon Maguire (English Democrats)
- Julia Reid (UKIP - UK Independence Party)
- Richard Sexton (Christian Party)
- Michael Simpkins (BNP - British National Party)
Rather than engage in a debate about their own policies, the Conservative and Labour candidates have decided to make BNP policies a central issue and have declined to participate because the BNP candidate is attending. However, the remaining six candidates have agreed to support the hustings and will be attending.
Our aim is to conduct the hustings without showing bias or partiality to any one candidate over the others. The same questions will be put to all candidates and answers will be subject to a time limit.
Inviting a candidate to participate does not constitute an endorsement of their views by the Melksham Family of Churches.
For further information or to suggest a question to be put to the candidates please use the email address below.
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