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....
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 they will introduce a 50p tax rate on incomes over £100,000....
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 House of Commons tackling ID cards, detention without trail and student tuition fees....