I’ve started to blog the Brent East constituency election campaign. I’ll be sharing all the paper propaganda distributed by candidates over the coming four weeks. Wide open for all the see. Informed choice facilitated. I’ve met two of the candidates already, well three, as I’ve met Sarah Teather too. More to share on that score soon.
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 first WE PROPOSE: Putting patients first WE OPPOSE: Tuition fees & top up fees WE PROPOSE: Scrapping student fees WE OPPOSE: Compulsory I.D. Cards WE PROPOSE: Spending the money on 10,000 more police WE OPPOSE: Selling your home to pay for care WE PROPOSE: Free personal care for the elderly...
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 2004 Parliamentary question asked to chase up - 4 March 2005 Reply sent - 22 February 2005 Another. Two on the 22nd of Feb, here and here. Another from the 21st Feb. Extremely late replies, letters not received at each end - poor filing perhaps?...
Sarah will be at Downing 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 fully recognised in policies aimed at promoting diversity....
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....