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
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....
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 “bureaucratic nonsense” of the rules after one of her constituents was rejected....
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 maintain an office on the Willesden High Road....
Join them. Commuter plans own train service saying “I’m just an ordinary man in the street with a desire to see things work better. There’s no consideration for the traveller at the moment. We might as well be meat. Even if all this comes to nothing more than waking First Great Western up to the fact that there’s a demand for earlier trains, then I will have achieved something.”...