Please clap.

That's not even remotely decided.

I watched a bit of a recent Trump town hall gig the other day. That's one part of US political culture that I wish UK would copy. In past elections I've wtched loads of them but this is my first this year.
Trump's pretty good. He gives off a "this is just between me and the people in this room" kinda vibe, and he promises almost nothing. I think all of the promises I saw were more about procedure than results. It was all stuff like "I'll get the top (unspecified) business guys to negotiate the best deals for the country." The crowd were loving it but, out of 40 minutes talking, there was virtually nothing there that anyone could hold him to.

I could never understand the appeal of George W Bush until I saw him do a town hall. All I'd seen was him in a suit at a lectern fucking up almost everything he said. At a town hall without a script he was completely different.

Cameron: don't stop 'til you've sold it off.

'Cameron In The Wind'

The blustery weather conditions couldn't stop Dave from delivering this blistering set, recorded live at the 2016 Donnington Monsters of Rock concert.

'Gove Vibrations'

Michael Gove brings his own unique brand of sunshine pop, and cheery summer sound to Brighton Beach. Michael Gove, the soundtrack to a perfect, endless summer.

Fuck doing things the yank way.
It is like a pop tour, horrible, media friendly bullshit.

As dull and bias as Question Time can be it stands high above what the Americans do.
Politics should be dull, it should be grey and boring and full of uninteresting and not very sexy things like facts and statistics.

It should never ever be about filling sporting stadiums with hooping and hollering morons, nor should it be about how a sandwich is eaten.

There is an attitude that this kind of thing is good because it gets the non-voters interested but that is horse shit. If people aren't interested in voting based on the merits of democracy then screw them, or at least attempt to explain the importance of voting. This isnt the X Factor, peoples lives, livelihoods and general well being are at stake. This isn't a game.

If people want to act like children and not get involved without a chimp in a hat running, then they should be treated as such because frankly I would rather it was left to informed people to vote, whatever way they choose.

It is a damn fine hat too.

IanHamlett wrote:

Trump has been turning thousands away at his so they're probably all going to be huge from now on, some of them are tiny.

Exactly!
Pick and choose who turns up, who is let in and what is shown on TV.

There is no impartial organisation reporting what is actually happening.
It is a garbage system influenced heavily by media spin and agenda.

Those type of events work in the U.S. because:-
-it's a two party system with a far more partisan electorate;
- the percentage of floating voters is more pronounced in the UK;
- the physical size of the country means that a candidate visit is likely to be the last one for 5 years;
- it's far more engrained in their political culture, see also TV debates.

http://www.ifitweremyhome.com/compare/GB/US

I like the idea of Cameron having to stand on a chair and shout to a bunch of people in a room who aren't necessarily in agreement with him.

We have hustings, don't we?

We're gonna need a bigger chair...

Diluted Dante wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

We have hustings, don't we?

I've only been to a Green Party hustings. That was for standing as a Parliamentary candidates. I don't believe any MP faces reselection do they? Once you are in, you are in, which is shit.

MPs can be deselected. 
Lookee here.

Permarelevant.

http://www.theonion.com/article/will-be-end-trumps-campaign-says-increasingly-nerv-52002