You are warmly invited to attend the next Ordinary meeting of Dennistoun Community Council, which will take place on Tuesday 9th July 2024, from 7pm, at St Andrews East Church Hall, 685 Alexandra Parade, G31 3LN.
The agenda is available here.
Time will be allocated for general public input.
Approved minutes from past meetings can be viewed here.
The video of the 2024 Glasgow North East constituency general election hustings event held on Monday 24th June is now available for viewing.
The full list of nine candidates was invited. Six attended. We appreciate their participation in what we believe was a successful event, judging by the positive comments received from many of the attendees afterwards.
On that note, thanks also to residents who attended, collectively submitting the numerous suggestions for questions to be put to the panel of candidates. Inevitably we ended up with many more questions than could have been asked in one night. But we made our best effort at selecting a representative sample across a range of topics, intended to provide the audience with the best possible insight into the candidates standing for election.
Rounds of questions were asked on the following local, national, and international topics:
The first of those questions came from DCC. Questions in rounds 2-7 were taken from the many suggestions provided on the night by those attending.
The panel of candidates were advised of the format in advance of the event but were, as per the above description, given no briefing on what questions would be asked.
Direct link to video: https://www.facebook.com/DennistounCC/videos/833215432039504/
It’s not long until the DCC hustings for the Glasgow North East constituency on Monday 24th June.
Further details about the time, location and venue are available here: dennistouncc.org.uk/2024/06/13/2024-general-election-hustings-glasgow-north-east.
A hustings is an event where political candidates for your constituency answer questions from you, the local voters.
DCC’s general election hustings will be chaired by a community councillor. The candidates will each give brief opening statements, where they will set out their priorities if elected. Then the hustings will be opened to questions from the audience.
Come along to Drygate on the night (doors open at 7pm). You can have your question written down in advance or you can write it down when you arrive, and hand it to one of the community councillors who will be there to assist you.
DCC has invited all nine candidates, and each question will be put to all of those in attendance. Previous DCC hustings have proved very popular, so we will ask as many questions as we can, but we may not be able to get through all of them. If there are a number of questions on the same topic, the chair will select a representative question to put to the candidates.
We plan to live stream the event via our Facebook page and make the video available for viewing thereafter.
A video of our 2019 general election hustings is available on our Facebook page.
Direct link to video: https://www.facebook.com/DennistounCC/videos/567798787341327/
Dennistoun Community Council is hosting an election hustings on Monday 24th June for all candidates in the Glasgow North East constituency.
The venue is accessible. The event will take place on first floor. The first floor bar will be closed for the duration of this event.
A Dennistoun community councillor will chair.
The exact format is still to be finalised. It is likely that each candidate will be invited to make a short opening statement, followed by initial questioning from the chair, with attendees being invited to submit written questions for moderation and presentation by the chair thereafter.
Live streaming online via the Dennistoun Community Council Facebook page is planned.
See the most recent Dennistoun Community Council post for information on voter registration, key dates, voter ID, postal votes, proxy votes, constituency, candidates and more.
All nine confirmed candidates for the Glasgow North East constituency have been invited to take part.
The full list of candidates (and parties as they appear on the ballot paper) is as follows:
A parliamentary general election has been called for 04 July 2024.
The following dates and deadlines apply:
You will need to show photo ID to vote at a polling station in these elections.
If you will be away from home on the day of the election or otherwise unable to get to your polling station you can apply for a postal or proxy vote.
gov.uk/vote-uk-election provides information on all of the following aspects of voting:
Additional information on the electoral process, voting, voter ID, polling stations, candidates, and more, can be found via the following websites:
electoralcommission.org.uk
glasgow.gov.uk/elections
Enter your postcode to get more information about the candidates at the following site:
There have been some constituency boundary changes since the last UK election. Information on this can be found via the following site:
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/boundary-review-2023-which-seats-will-change
More information about the UK parliament, its MPs, and what they do can be found on the following page:
parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members
You are warmly invited to attend the next Ordinary meeting of Dennistoun Community Council, which will take place on Tuesday 11th June 2024, from 7pm, at St Andrews East Church Hall, 685 Alexandra Parade, G31 3LN.
The agenda is available here.
Time will be allocated for general public input.
Approved minutes from past meetings can be viewed here.
