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 on the subjects raised and capture a few quotes....
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!
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. 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....
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 Commons. Speeches made in Westminster Hall are still recorded in Hansard but are in a different section, which might account for why you could not locate them in the online Hansard....
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 and contextual information, here is the Brent & Brent East Liberal Democrats ‘Content In Brief’ for 2nd July 2004....