I HOPE the general election will generate a lively debate this time.

At the last election my main recollection was stultifyingly boring meetings where questions to candidates had to be submitted before hand and were syphoned through a third parties ‘choice’ of appropriateness.

They were then presented by a third party to the candidate.

I cannot imagine a system more designed to stifle debate, illicit puerile responses and basically send everyone to sleep.

This is to me undemocratic. 

These meetings should put candidates on the spot. 

The system described above is just a way of offering a cosy unchallenging evening for the candidates. 

No one gets upset, no one ‘rocks the boat’ - that is not democracy!

There should be unexpected, unscripted and uncensored questions from the hall with a chair person to keep order.

Kenneth Brown

Eastcombe