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....
At 01:26 this morning, sarah teather is my mp received its 1000th unique page load. from the statcounter logs… Users of the Parliament network can’t type. They keep on ending up at the blog after searching for a miss-spelling of ‘sarah teather is my mp’ Users who arrive at the site from search engine results have only used Google to search Those working late on the Brent Council Network had fun with the “Google ‘sarah teather’ find the blog game” on Tuesday
On Friday 6th August, Sarah announced that she was to conduct her own ‘Big Conversation’ consultation with the residents of Brent East. “Too many politicians think they know what’s best, without taking the time to listen to local people. I hope that Brent residents take the time to fill in the survey so that I can take up their issues both with the local Council as well as taking them up in Parliament....