Blogosphere: Tom Harris, Glasgow Labour MP, holds a public meeting

A COUPLE of years ago I tried out a radical new idea to engage voters. I held a public meeting and invited anyone on the electoral register to turn up and ask me any question they liked, without giving advance notice of what the question was… About 50 people attended (and the only trouble-makers in the audience were all pensioners!). Tonight I'm repeating the exercise.

Setting aside the obvious question (if it's an annual meeting, why did you wait two years for the next one? Hope no-one asks me that), it will be interesting to see if recent events will encourage people to turn up to vent their anger, or if apathy i...