London mayoral candidates are using the web to bypass the mainstream media and answer questions put to them directly by the electorate.and adds that
Crowdsourcing debate website Yoosk is running an online hustings, gathering questions to put to several of the candidates running in next month's election.
Readers submit questions for their specified candidates, other users then vote on the questions they want the candidates to answer
Of course there is a problem with this sort of interactivity.The Sun are running a question and answer session online with Boris Johnson and this was his answer to a qusetion about the smoking ban
What is the point of having local democracy if we don't leave decisions like this to a local level?
If I had my way, we would have an online referendum in London about whether to give boroughs back the power to give discretion over smoking to pubs and clubs
For the record his comments were quickly covered over by his minders as personal only and not part of Tory policy
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