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.
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 address preference service is not managed by the government but by Royal Mail Group....
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 season. To those uninterested in politics the annual tradition of political gatherings with their set piece speeches and media razzmatazz in some seaside town must seem a little odd....
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 Reason to vote Liberal Democrat....
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.