As promised, we’ve got some audio and photos from the Time Out hustings on Wednesday.

The audio is not exactly of brilliant quality (it was recorded from quite near the back of the room) but if you’re really determined to hear what you missed, it’s just about listenable:

Time Out hustings full recording (MP3, 1hr20, 27.5MB)

The pictures are behind the cut:

First, this is part of the sight that greeted hustings-goers on arrival – there were about ten Boris-backers in total. In this picture it’s thought that the bloke by the plaque at the back is the only person who isn’t a Boris campaigner.

This next picture is the closest thing we’ve got to evidence of the fact that the campaign team leader was reading out his chants from a printed sheet, as if they had been approved in advance by some higher authority (e.g. Lynton Crosby):

The A4 sheet immediately under the leaflets had their chants printed on it. This close-up makes it slightly easier to tally the word shapes to the chant, but if you can’t quite see it, you’ll just have to take the word of the Boris-stopper in attendance that this really does say:

HELLO BORIS, GOODBYE KEN
LET’S MAKE LONDON SMILE AGAIN

Inside the hall, the candidates took to the stage, along with the chair from Time Out, Marcel Theroux:

Oh, and look who Ken placed in the empty space in the middle:

Calm Down, Boris!
Boris is a VERY lovable monster. If only he didn’t get so carried away…

…with delusions of Mayoral grandeur and stuck to being a TV buffoon, London wouldn’t be under such threat, and I might have had a bit more sleep in the weeks since StopBoris.org launched.

Finally, this is the bloke who was reading the chants from the A4 sheet, and who was the only one of Team Boris who actually stuck around for the hustings:

He was also apparently the only person in the audience who came remotely close to supporting Boris in any way, which is gratifying. He made his first point from a seated position and only when he got more heated did he stand up, at which point everyone saw his t-shirt and there was a general murmur suggesting a room full of people thinking "Ohh, that explains why he was being so antagonistic towards the other candidates".

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