Crude and attention grabbing?

Well, why else would someone call it Operation Gobstoppers? Althought after ‘Grot Spots’, what did I expect? When you read Sarah’s comments made on the launch of the initiative you’ll notice that she doesn’t use the verb ‘to gob’ once! She uses ‘to spit’! Perhaps it should have been called Operation SpitStopper. “Being spat at is a horrible thing not only is it totally anti-social it also carries health risks particularly in a place like Brent, which has such a high rate of TB....

September 2, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

A few notes by way of an update.

No response from my fax to Sarah last week. I’m sure she’ll respond within the target timescale - maybe even bettering her average response time! (she currently responds to 42% of messages sent via FaxYourMP.com within 14 days). There are some dates for your diary on the BELD website. Sarah Teather holds six advice surgeries a month you can find the times and venues here. I’m just not going to pass comment on this....

September 2, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Will Sarah vote to impeach Blair?

Yesterday moves were made to begin impeachment proceedings on Tony Blair. I want to know where Sarah stands on this issue. Sent via FaxYourMP.com Dear Sarah Teather, Yesterday afternoon a group of MPs launched a campaign to impeach Tony Blair for “high crimes and misdemeanours” in the run up to the war against Iraq. As I’m sure you will agree, the prime minister still has a case to answer regarding his role in persuading parliament to support the war in Iraq....

August 27, 2004 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

PRAI, FOCI, BELD, ST, BLOG!

PRAI, FOCI, BELD, ST, BLOG? read on. I received a mail this afternoon from Tim at Prater Raines Partners. PRAI are the people who developed FOCI, the web content management system used by Sarah and the Brent Lib Dems. Hi Tim. As CMS go, FOCI is pretty good. There are lots of functions: election graphs, opinion polls, online petitions. Although as I’ve not seen the user interface I can’t comment on it’s easy of use as a tool....

August 27, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

Information Request

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

August 25, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke