tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73158072011-04-21T20:34:22.764+01:00Sarah Teather is my MP - is she your MP too?robdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01274537681469633634noreply@blogger.comBlogger821100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315807.post-1144522362786265822006-04-08T19:30:00.000+01:002006-04-08T19:52:42.833+01:00

could this be strong indication of more C&A posting to this blog? The STMPblog is moving from the fine upstanding home of blogger to some space on the webserver of the main (only!) poster. From now on the blog is available and updated over at stmp.robdyke.com.Keep up with The Teather over there!

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parliament.uk says "The House of Commons and the House of Lords will be on Summer recess between 22 July and 9 October. The Houses of Parliament will return on the 10 October 2005."Good thing. I'll be on recess working on community wireless projects for the summer months. I'll also be visiting WTH05 for meetings with hackers, social engineers and activists.I'll be blogging again come the

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"Perhaps I can drag the right hon. Gentleman away from the spat with the Conservative Front-Bench spokesman, fun though it is..."Well, those where her first words of the new parliament...Sarah returns to the House of Commons and continues her efforts at tackling the housing 'crisis' in Brent. Those of you who are regular readers of the BELD website will recall her speech of Oct last year in

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Sarah and the BELD team must be on holiday. It took a while for the 'message from Sarah Teather MP' to appear on Sarah's websites...No proclamation from the count, no pictures...But some Excel wizard has had the time to create a new 'can't win here' graphic for the website. I never liked the old one... The margin was not large enough.

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...picking a shadow cabinet when you don't have all eyes watching, waiting for you to make clear exactly what your intentions are with regard to the party. If your leadership hasn't been subjected to intense probing by spectators and participants alike you are not under the same pressures and scrutiny and can take stock, deliberate before revealing your hand.Having worked as a constituency MP for

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This graphic was generated from the hit data to this blog between the 3rd and the 9th of May 2005.

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I've posted over at Brent East Campaigning about yesterday, the election count and the result - take a peek.Looks like the BELDs need to get their website updated... no mention yet of Sarahs HOLD of Brent East.From the Lib Dem website election news ticker:04.12 GAIN - Sarah Teather wins the Brent East seat she won at a by-election (technically a gain measured from 2001) with a swing of 30% and a

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Congratulations Sarah!View the full result here

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Received a letter from Charles Kennedy this morning urging me to vote because 'in certain places, the election is effectively a straight choice between having a Liberal Democrat or a Labour MP'.The real alternative has been distilled to four key points:end student tuition and top-up feesprevent older people having to selltheir homes to pay for long term personal careprovide 10,000 more police and

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If you received a copy of Brent People from the Liberal Democrats over the weekend you'll have seen this pic already.More over at Brent East Campaigning

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Should have done this ages ago... although I'm not sure whether or not the rules apply to my private publication... I've changed the info of this site to reflect the fact that Sarah is currently the Parliamentary Candidate for Brent East and not our MP due to the disolution of Parliament.

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I've received a letter from Sarah Teather for her campaign to be re-elected by the people of Brent East to serve a second term.Her message: 'I believe that people in Brent East deserve a local MP who will stand up to Tony Blair. I am proud to fight this election on my record of local action from fighting for fairer funding for our local schools to welcoming more police for Dudden Hill, Kilburn

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In December 2003, Simon Ellis interviewed Sarah for myBrent.co.uk.You can read the full interview here. What interested me was Sarah's answer to this final question: How will you convince Brent voters to give you another term as MP?"I am going to have to work extremely hard over the next two years because many people voted for me partly on a protest. Some people voted for me because our policies

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...or had you'd missed that?I want to share the Brent East campaign experience from the point of view of the electorate. And I want to distribute information about the candidates and the parties standing in Brent East to my neighbours in this constituency. So until the 6th of May, when the hangover is gone and the lost sleep caught up on, I'll put most of my posting efforts into 'Brent East

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10 Good Reasons to vote Liberal Democrat from http://www.libdems.org.uk/.Read about Sarah launching the Lib Dem poster campaign.WE OPPOSE: Putting targets firstWE PROPOSE: Putting patients firstWE OPPOSE: Tuition fees & top up feesWE PROPOSE: Scrapping student feesWE OPPOSE: Compulsory I.D. CardsWE PROPOSE: Spending the money on 10,000 more policeWE OPPOSE: Selling your home to pay for

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Sarah is being blighted by postage problems. It seems that whenever she writes to a member of the government they take months to respond or the letter is delayed.Here's an example.Letter sent - 14 Oct 2004Parliamentary question asked to chase up - 4 March 2005Reply sent - 22 February 2005Another. Two on the 22nd of Feb, here and here. Another from the 21st Feb.Extremely late replies, letters not

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Sarah will be at Dowing Street today to deliver a 1,000 name petition on behalf of Hindu's opposing further restrictions by the Home Office on religious workers seeking leave to stay in the UK.For the Home Office, the measures they wish to take (outlined here by The Scotsman) are part of building community cohesion."Multi-cultural communities are often multi- faith communities and this should be

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Some of you may remember that I wrote to Sarah asking her if she will be supporting the motion to impeach Tony Blair. She wasn't minded to.She wrote to me last week after going through some papers and finding my email. Papers? Email? I know, I didn't quite get it either. I digress. She wrote to me last week to bring an Early Day Motion she had recently signed to my attention."I have decided to

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Sarah launched a text poll on tuition fees. Describing tuition fees as an unfair tax on students, Sarah said "Tuition fees will be one of the key issues to many at the forthcoming General Election. Many people are now suffering horrendous levels of debt because of Labour's broken promise on this issue."The Liberal Democrats are committed to scrapping tuition fees. To pay for free higher education

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Sarah has been unanimously re-selected by Brent Liberal Democrats to fight the next General Election. You can read the news story on this over at the BELD website.Sarah said she would be campaigning for a renewed mandate from the electorate of Brent East on local issues such as civic neglect, neighbourhood policing, housing problems and post office closures. Her efforts would continue in the

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I wasn't sure who the campaign material that recently popped through my front door belonged to. I wasn't inclined to turn the flyer over really... I read the Guardian & the Indy, I get enough conservative bashing on a daily basis to have toned it out. But who was it from... Labour or Lib Dem? A closer inspection and I trained my eye on the graphic in the bottom corner which gave it away as

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Public Servants.mySociety have launched WriteToThem.com, the successor to the multi-award-winning FaxYourMP.com. WriteToThem lets people write to any of their elected representatives: MPs, MSPs, MEPs, Welsh or London assembly members, and last (but certainly not least) their local councillors.Thanks to The Register for the link up.

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They said they'd be back soon.... They are almost as bad as me! Low output here over the last eight weeks. I've been rather busy, spending my time studying for a BA Politics, Economics and Public policy... My studies have had greater importance than my indulgent ramblings here. Besides... she's your MP too - email me to become a contributor to this blog. But a few things have happend, not least

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It was a busy Commons week for Sarah last week. Not content with appearing in Hoggart's Sketch...Sorry...Questioning the Prime Minister over a serious funding shortfall caused by the actions of Government, Sarah was also speaking up for Family Doctor services in Brent East on Opposition Day. Speaking of the impact of the Governments 48-hour first appointment target for GPs on the forward

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How do you know you've made it as an MP? When Simon Hoggart features you in his Sketch. It had taken our Sarah a little over a year to gain such acceptance. It was after her performance in Prime Ministers Question Time last week Simon welcomed her into the fold. "Prime minister's questions, and the Liberal Democrat Sarah Teather rose to speak. She is very short and is the youngest of all MPs, but

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Dividends from Polidex for week ending Sunday 14, November 2004 MP: Sarah Teather Full shares: 268 Additional shares: 1 Increase: 0% Profit: euro0.00 Total profit this week: euro0.00 New total value: euro1,395.66

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...is sometimes you recycle things too quickly. And I that is what happened to last weeks Kilburn Times. So, I can't give you a copy of the data published by the them right now. I'm going to mail the paper and see if I can get a copy from them.

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In the Kilburn Times this week, Sarah features three times on the letters page. She is pictured with staff from the New Deal Communities group announcing further measures to curb anti-social behavior in South Kilburn. Residents of estates in South Kilburn are being urged to report drug-dealing to Crimestoppers and Crime Concern to reduce the high drug crime rate of the area. There are two

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Last week, in a show of openness prior to the commencement of the 'Freedom of Information Act' next year, MPs released the details of their expenses for public review. In yesterday's Kilburn Times, part of the Archant London Group of newspapers, Kristina Pedersen reports on the disclosure. The paper has published tables comparing the MPs that serve the constituencies that their paper is

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I wrote the post below last weekend - but I didn't have time to post it until today. Sorry. I was sure I was going to have something to say on this topic after I saw the manner which the placater of the commuting masses 'Metro' covered the story: "UK pay is dwarfed by MP's expenses" (Frontpage, Fri 22 Oct). Here we have an example of the media creating a frenzy. This story is not being reported

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I wrote to Sarah last week after reporting on her questioning of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry on the subject of unsolicited telecommunications. I asked her what steps would the Liberal Democrats take to combat SPAM? Would the LD's advocate OPT-IN or OPT-OUT measures? Would LD's toughen up privacy laws to protect my contact details or will they be relaxed? Sarah was prompt in her

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Today Sarah celebrates the first anniversary of being elected to serve Brent East. 365 Days in office. Happy anniversary Sarah. In today's Guardian Sarah is interviewed by Matt Barnard where she talks about the highlights of the last 12 months. Top thing you probably didn't know about Sarah that you'll discover from the interview - she's learning Gujarati.

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Sarah has been asking questions of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry relating to unsolicited bulk communications (be they by mail, telephone or fax calls or email. You can follow the question thread here. Sarah wanted to know how many residential and commercial address have registered for the Address Preference Service - But because the Post Office is no longer a state concern, the

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In last weeks Willesden & Brent Chronicle, Sarah wrote of the recent silly season for the UK's political parties, hammered home the message that the Lib Dems are now the second party of British Politics (although, not yet Her Majesty's Official Opposition) and invited us to make a cup of tea while waiting for the pre-manifesto to download. "The Conference Feelgood Factor" It is conference

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Available for download from Sarah's website is the LDs pre-manifesto "Freedom Fairness Trust'. It'll save you a £1 on buying it. Although as it is a 5.8MB PDF (with an estimated 17 minutes download at 56k) of 12 full colour pages, I wouldn't advise you print it...not with the cost of inkjet printing. But I would advise you read it; well, at least give the front page a glance and read the Ten

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Polidex is an online trading game based on how good our MPs are. So I've got myself an account. I've consulted with the Motley Fool and I'm now a trader. I'm not sure whether or not this counts as insider trading, but I've got a hot tip - BUY Sarah Teather shares.

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Brevity is clarity. The fridge is gone. Thank you Brent Council.

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I've recieved a reply to my email to the Brent Streetcare team. They acknowledge my request and the Councils contractors will be along to remove the items "over the next few days". Not got a specific answer to the question of WHY do I have to print and return this online request. L was saying to me that 'it never used to be this obfuscated' and that a single phone call would have sufficied in

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You'll remember Sarah's campaign - it is highly memorable after all! Without a hit of sarcasam: when I am walking about Brent and I see the spoil that is illegal fly-tipping I think 'thats a grot spot that is'. Well. I recently disposed the aging 1980s 75/25 Fridge/Ice Box monster that lurked in the corner of my kitchen and took delivery of two purring sleek shinning white replacements. So now I

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With the RNC and the DNC being blogged both from the floor and by corporate bandwidth whores and used as sources of discussion here in the UK, I'd have thought that we would have had a few bloggers for the current silly season here within our own shores. But alas, no. While 37 independent bloggers received press passes for the US Democrat convention, the Liberal Democrat Press Office reports

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At one of the Guardian sponsored fringe events surrounding the Liberal Democrat conference in Bournemouth yesterday, Sarah shared the stage with Nick Clegg, Mark Oaten and Sir Menzies Campbell debating Liberty or Equality? Anyone blogging from the LD conference attend? "Ms Teather, the party's victor in last year's Brent East byelection, suggested a compromise of "licensed smoking bars" if a

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"Sex, gaffes and silly stunts - it's party (conference) time again and Westminster's circus is heading off to the coast." Participating in the Guardian fringe debate at the Lib Dem conference on Mon 20th will be Sarah Teather. "Liberty v equality: which do the Liberal Democrats want?" Simon Hoggart chairs a panel of Sir Menzies Campbell, Nick Clegg, Sarah Teather MP and Mark Oaten MP. You can

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Last month, I faxed Sarah to get her views on the move to impeach Tony Blair. Awaiting me on my return from holiday was a soft creamy envelope from the House of Commons. It's dated 7th September so, if you allow for fax being sent on FRI 27th and the Bank Holiday Monday that followed, I make that a response within 5 working days. Tick in box - Faxyourmp.com informed. In short, Sarah does not

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Search the All Seeing Eye (You know who I mean....) for "Who Is My MP"? And.....

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Ok, I know I said that I wasn't going to comment on that story, but in the end I did. I had some time while sitting waiting for my outbound flight. And yes, my holiday was very refreshing, thanks. Teather Opens Erin Court Sarah cut the ribbon (I assume; no photo of this) on Erin Court on Friday 3rd. Developed by Sutherland Housing Association, Erin Court provides housing for key workers from

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Well, why else would someone call it Operation Gobstoppers? Althought after 'Grot Spots', what did I expect? When you read Sarah's comments made on the launch of the initiative you'll notice that she doesn't use the verb 'to gob' once! She uses 'to spit'! Perhaps it should have been called Operation SpitStopper. "Being spat at is a horrible thing not only is it totally anti-social it also

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No response from my fax to Sarah last week. I'm sure she'll respond within the target timescale - maybe even bettering her average response time! (she currently responds to 42% of messages sent via FaxYourMP.com within 14 days). There are some dates for your diary on the BELD website. Sarah Teather holds six advice surgeries a month you can find the times and venues here. I'm just not going to

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Yesterday moves were made to begin impeachment proceedings on Tony Blair. I want to know where Sarah stands on this issue. Sent via FaxYourMP.com Dear Sarah Teather, Yesterday afternoon a group of MPs launched a campaign to impeach Tony Blair for "high crimes and misdemeanours" in the run up to the war against Iraq. As I'm sure you will agree, the prime minister still has a case to answer

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PRAI, FOCI, BELD, ST, BLOG? read on. I received a mail this afternoon from Tim at Prater Raines Partners. PRAI are the people who developed FOCI, the web content management system used by Sarah and the Brent Lib Dems. Hi Tim. :-) As CMS go, FOCI is pretty good. There are lots of functions: election graphs, opinion polls, online petitions. Although as I've not seen the user interface I can't

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Today I extend my congratualtions and a big welcome to the blogging community to Jody Dunn, Liberal Democrate candidate in the (maybe) Hartlepool by-election. You can read her blog at http://www.jodydunn.org.uk/ Sarah visited Jody in Hartlepool last week. It was the highlight of Jody's day. I hope that Jody will share her blogging experiences with Sarah when they next meet. Maybe that will

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To: info@brentlibdems.org.uk Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 10:06:01 +0100 Subject: Information request Hello, I was hoping that your office could forward me the results of the 2003 Brent Residents survey. On your website you state that you will be reporting back to local residents, however I do not find this report on the website. Many thanks, Rob

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Or, how to give out the desired impression by using images. In 2003, Sarah undertook a Residents Survey. The people of Brent were asked 50 questions on key-issues in a door to door survey. You can have a look at the PDF of the survey here. Take a look at the photograph of Sarah and Cllr Havard Hughes with bulging post bag of responses that accompanies the news post in June 2003. Now have a

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it is "bureaucratic nonsense". Under rules introduced by the Home Office last month, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans and Americans must prove they have a good grasp of English to become UK citizens. Yet the Home Office has to decide who will judge this. Meanwhile, applications for naturalisation are being rejected. Sarah wrote to David Blunket highlighting the "

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On Monday afternoon I met with Sarah Teather in her constituency office on Willesden Lane. We spoke about a number of things: blogging (needless to say), engaging with constituents, getting voice for unreported activities, technology as a barrier (for BELD!) and as an enabler (for local people) and also a little project I’ve been working on. How Sarah engages with her constituents The BELDs

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Last week, Sarah was trumpeting the launch of the 'Safer Neighbourhoods' initiative in Kilburn ward. This week, she's calling for action to tackle ticket touts in Kilburn ward. Surely any action taken would be taken as part of the Safer Neighbourhoods initiative. Having spoken last week about how the "...police are not allowed to get on with their job because of excessive paperwork", Sarah now

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On Friday 6th August, Sarah announced that she was to conduct her own 'Big Conversation' consultation with the residents of Brent East. "Too many politicians think they know what's best, without taking the time to listen to local people. I hope that Brent residents take the time to fill in the survey so that I can take up their issues both with the local Council as well as taking them up in

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Yesterday was a busy day for this blog - 108 page loads for 81 unique vistors (of which, 15 were returning visitors). And no, those stats don't include me. This doesn't quite beat the 109 page loads for 66 unique vistors on the 16th of July. Worth mentioning that several of the unique visitors originate from gsi.gov.uk & parliament.uk - From MPs? A flurry of posts early this morning. I received

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In an article published in Asian Voice on Tuesday 3rd, Sarah comments on the recent WTO trade talks and the floods in Bangladesh. You can read it here.

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I am pleased to see Sarah continuing to take action on the street furniture left behind following the privatisation and deregulation the telecoms industry. Announcing her actions, Sarah said: "Derelict phone boxes are an eyesore in Brent. Local residents are sick and tired of seeing them being used as rubbish bins, fly-poster sites and public toilets. I hope that local people show their

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On Monday, Sarah attended the launch of the Metropolitian Police Safer Neighbourhoods initiative in Kilburn. First launched for the Stonebridge Estate in April this year, the program aims to provide new teams of uniformed officers working within communities to tackle quality-of-life issues and anti-social behaviour crimes. Sarah commented that it was community policing that local people wanted.

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From what I can gather, there are two different options for reporting 'grot spots' for action by the local authority. You can report them to Sarah. Or You can report them direct to Brent Council's Street Care Team. For street sweeping, you can visit them online to report poor standards of cleanliness. The Street Care team promise they will be rectified within 24 hours. They will ensure that

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Some background Some comment Get a blog Sarah

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38 days later....and the Brent LD website has been updated! On Thursday it was announced that Sarah was urging her constituants to adviser her of "grot spots" in the locality. She promises "real action to tackle these problems". If Sarah was a blogger, she may have discovered the The Willesden Herald blog (delivering all the news that's unfit to print). Over recent weeks, they have had

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Just not in Brent...in Leicester. Lib Dem Parmjit Gill celebrates victory in Leicester South with Sarah Teather

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Last update to Brent & Brent East Lib Dem website? June 14th Last update to Sarah Teather's website (which is, incidently, exactly the same static content as the B&BE LD website)? June 14th So, it's been over a month since Sarah or the Brent East Lib Dem's updated their site. Is that because there is nothing to announce? And if so, just what has my MP been up to and where? We know where she was

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The NS NMA 2004"...focus on how new media technology is used to make a difference in public life. The key themes of this year's awards are "innovation, efficiency and modernisation". We intend to award those who have really achieved something good for society through the use of information communications technology." Great! So, who is up for an award? Wholly worthy of highlighting is non-other

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Wow! What an informed and articulate audience! If there was ever an argument for extending suffrage to the 16-18 year old age group then last night's broadcast proves it. I would have blogged this live, but since the untimely demise of my iBook and the now elongated repair time from Apple I had to make notes old-school style with lead and tree fibre. I've tried to capture Sarah's point of view

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BBC Question Time tonight features Sarah Teather MP, David Lammy MP; Minister for Constitutional Affairs, Boris Johnson; Shadow Arts Minister, Jimmy Carr; Comedian and Kat Fletcher; NUS President. And I've not been offered tickets for the audience! Downer!

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While this isn't news in the current affairs sense, it's relevent to the 'online activism' of blogging for your MP. I found this on the Guardian website from the time of the Brent East By-election last year which took Sarah into Parliament. 'Brent-up frustration' is a campaign trail diary for the week running up to the election on the 18th of September 2003. It's a great example of what a weekly

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Following up on those missing speeches... Dear Mr Dyke, Thank you very much for your e-mail about the two debates that Sarah took part in the week before last. You mentioned that you had looked on Hansard and Theyworkforyou.com for the debates but couldn't find them. Both debates took place on Tuesday 22nd June in Westminster Hall, which is separate from the main chamber of the House of

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OK. After some further searching I found the speeches. Firstly, the reason I couldn't find the searches is that they were not made on the 1st of July as the news posts on the Brent & Brent East Lib Dem web site states and secondly, the speeches were made in adjournment debates in Westminster Hall, not in the House of Commons as the photographs would suggest. So, updated with correct, relevent

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OK. It's great to have the Brent Liberal Democrat auto mailer tell me that a speech made by Sarah has been posted to their website. But this is the crazy-super-inter-highway-web-thingy! Here we can make things more informing, have greater detail and relevence. Online, you can hyperlink! So. In order to make Sarah's speech on 'Fighting Descrimination Against Muslims' have greater depth, I set

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Yesterday, the 'Brent & Brent East Liberal Democrats team' automailer sent me a content update for their website. Today's content in brief from the Brent & Brent East Liberal Democrats web site: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Articles posted to the site today: * Fighting Discrimination against Muslims by Sarah Teather in Hansard, speech by

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is a special edition of the program. It will be produced by the winners of the BBC Schools Question Time Challenge. "Schools Question Time Challenge is a UK-wide scheme, supported by BT in association with the Institute for Citizenship and by the BBC, to help pupils develop their citizenship and communication skills by producing local School Question Time events." Along with the head of the

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Use the neat A-Z of Parliment from the BBC. TWFY.com also have a great glossary

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and within 6 days of starting, sarah teather is my mp is the second listing.

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"Bloggerheads is creating mayhem. Sarah Teather is my MP. She isn't but you know what I mean" Bloggerheads a.k.a. Tim Ireland began the 'blog for your MP' crusade with his blog for Tim Yeo. I found out about Bloggerheads and TheyWorkForYou through a long chain of email lists, conventions, links and sites, that all started as a dinner meeting email follow-up from the loverly DH. Is Bloggerheads

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I checked out how sarah has voted on some recent key issues. She voted against the Higher Education Funding Bill and the Lords Amendment on Foundation Hospitals. She also voted for votes for 16-year-olds, inline with her view that they should have sufferage extended to them. Her views on post office closures are confirmed by her voting record and by her questioning of other MP's.

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Read 'Sarah's' campaigns Sarah thinks that the Council Tax is an unfair tax introduced by the Conservatives and made worse under Labour. Sarah wants to see the Council Tax scrapped and replaced with a fairer alternative based on a persons ability to pay. Sarah wants the Government to scrap Tuition fees and abandon its plans for top-up fees. Sarah belives that university fees are an 'unfair tax'

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and I found this priceless story! Sarah Teather MP, youngest in Parliment, caught and rebuked by the Speaker for making comic gestures! More from LibDemWatch and Recess Monkey

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This is NOT the official weblog for Sarah Teather. This weblog is inspired by the grassroots activism and democratic advocacy of They Work For You Dot Com. Read these articles by Tim Ireland for further information. Why Politicians Need Weblogs How To Run a Weblog on Behalf of Your MP

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I live in the constituency of Brent East and I have the pleasure of being served in the House of Commons by Sarah Teather MP; the youngest member of parliment.

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