Tamworth Hustings - 6 days to go: Where's the questions?

Well the Lib Dems have apparently seen a rise of one point as their popularity rises and the leaders remain static. But will that be the way our constituency votes?

Conservatives 34%

Labour             33%

UKIP                13%

Lib Dems          9%

Green Party      5%

Are you happy with the election thus far?

Do you know what the parties stand for and what they promise to do and (sometimes more importantly) what they promise not to do?

Do you have questions over what you have read or heard?

There's so much information and disinformation on offer and there are so many people who portray things regarding the parties and the candidates that are mistaken and sometimes just downright lies.

Want to to know the truth? The send in your questions - or bring them in with you on the Hustings at St Editha's on the 30th and help yourself vote intelligently. You are coming aren't you?

You can also post questions here if you like - just send me questions.




Should you be doing this Vicar?
This is a question I was asked recently on Facebook. The conversation went (exactly) like this:

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  A Friend My feelings are that the Church shouldn't get involved in politics.

  21 April at 18:41 · Like
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  Vic Van Den Bergh But the Church is people and people need to vote intelligently - we're not being political we're being responsible citizens.

  21 April at 22:15 · Like · 1
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  A Friend Unbiased then.

  21 April at 22:16 · Like
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  Vic Van Den Bergh I have to be for a number of reasons, but yes - totally unbiased. My job is to provide a level playing field for others to get questions asked and make up their own mind.
  
  For a Cleric to use their position to engage in bias would be an abuse of the role.

  21 April at 22:18 · Like · 1
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  A Friend Yes I agree, mine too.

  21 April at 22:19 · Like
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  Vic Van Den Bergh I'm only doing the hustings because people keep telling me that they don't know who to vote for because they don't know what they stand for - church is about providing solutions of all kinds.

  21 April at 22:27 · Like
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  One of the things Church must never do is find itself unwilling (or unable) to give answers for its actions.

  
  

  

  
  

Blue Sky Thinking - Ignorance

Saw this in a slightly different form and thought I'd post it as a bit of 'Blue Sky Thinking' as it's something I wish we, as Christians, did a lot more of and would love some of the 'I'm a thinker and I'm a scientific sort' to engage in a lot more! After all so many people out there claim to be thinkers and yet their assumptions and glib off the cuff comments show them generally to be better sheep than the Christians (who are supposed to be after all!!).

Anyway, enjoy yourself with this one:

Would be good to think that there were more willing to dialogue across the strata that exists in Christendom and with those outside who claim - wouldn't it?