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This particular ‘Five Minutes with…’ is longer than five minutes. It seemed important, when you have a politician in your house the week leading up to a general election, to make the most of whatever time you get.
Make of it what you will. Particularly if you have a sampler and a drum machine.
I didn’t quite go the full Jeremy Paxman, but I did raise a few key issues. Hopefully this will help contribute to informed debate. Whatever you think – make sure you go vote.
As far as the expenses thing goes, looks like the Telegraph have done the legwork. I didn’t have all the facts to hand, as he just sort of showed up on my doorstep, but I thought it was worth a mention.
Update: Stef asks if I mentioned the dirty tricks campaigning. I didn’t, but wish I had.
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I’m ashamed to admit that’s the first interview I’ve heard with any of the candidates in my ward! Excellent job, well done and thanks for posting.
nice one. please do evens and yaqoob too.
evans even…
Will do my best. I’ve put in requests, but imagine they’re reasonably busy over the next couple of days…
Pretty good piece, expenses and dirty tricks should definitely had been more prominent, you could had an exclusive from the ever-elusive Roger Godsiff.
Okay, i can see why more interviews are needed with Godsiff and Evans, there’s hardly anything out there. But Salma Yaqoob has a webiste and youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/salmayaqoob
http://www.youtube.com/salmayaqoobtv
Though that noted, it would still be good for yout to get your own interview with her to see what she says off the cuff – even though she’d probs the only one out of the candidates we’ve seen put on the spot on Question time and other news programmes.
Still, be good to get your take on it.
He sounds like a Londoner…I’m suspicious already.
Nice work Dubber – the anti Paxman approach, letting the interviewee finish a sentence, is refreshing.
Roger Godsiff seems to have eluded voters for this election campaign, so well done on tracking him down. However, whilst its good to hear his views, I do wonder why he seems reluctant to appear in public and suspect it is because of possible challenges over expenses and dirty tricks – I’m pleased you managed to pick these up in your comments above.
Adam makes some good comments above too. Salma Yaqoob is out there, but I have challenged her about using the campaign primarily for building personal publicity. She is always keen to appear at the front of demonstrations that moan about issues – often claiming she has organised them even when she has hijacked them – but hasn’t said much about how she or her party will solve said issues. So if you can get her to the microphone (and that shouldn’t be too difficult from what I see) then please ask her to describe her policies that giving solutions and don’t just let her grab self-seeking airtime.
I too would like to hear Jerry Evans being interviewed and hope you can do it given there is only 1 day left of campaigning.
@Juliet, he is, he was born in Lewisham and was mayor of Lewisham. He still lives there.
Questions regarding how he has managed to remain a candidate despite efforts to remove him twice, negative campaigning, running up the second highest expenses despite remaining a backbencher who only bothered turning up for 49% of debates and just how he managed to spend over 115,000 quid on staffing expenses would have been appreciated.
oops, just caught the exes question.
He managed to divert you from your line of questioning when tackling him on the issue of why Lynne Jones had disowned his campaign to a rant about Salma Yaqoob but then nearly forgot the name of his own constituency when ranting about Yaqoob and some old guff aboout Stalin.
Hilarious.
I’ve had responses from both Salma Yaqoob and Jerry Evans, who will both get back to me for an interview ‘time permitting’. Given that the election’s tomorrow, I’d say that time probably won’t permit.
I think I’ve made up my mind though, and it’s not Roger Godsiff.