Question Time on Thursday 8th July

Is a special edition of the program. It will be produced by the winners of the BBC Schools Question Time Challenge. “Schools Question Time Challenge is a UK-wide scheme, supported by BT in association with the Institute for Citizenship and by the BBC, to help pupils develop their citizenship and communication skills by producing local School Question Time events.” Along with the head of the National Union of Students, the panel will include Sarah Teather!...

July 2, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

googling “sarah teather” this evening...

and within 6 days of starting, sarah teather is my mp is the second listing.

June 23, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

tom watson MP stopped by...

“Bloggerheads is creating mayhem. Sarah Teather is my MP. She isn’t but you know what I mean” Bloggerheads a.k.a. Tim Ireland began the ‘blog for your MP’ crusade with his blog for Tim Yeo. I found out about Bloggerheads and TheyWorkForYou through a long chain of email lists, conventions, links and sites, that all started as a dinner meeting email follow-up from the loverly DH. Is Bloggerheads “creating mayhem”?...

June 23, 2004 · 2 min · Rob Dyke

i’m glad to see she’s consistant

I checked out how sarah has voted on some recent key issues. She voted against the Higher Education Funding Bill and the Lords Amendment on Foundation Hospitals. She also voted for votes for 16-year-olds, inline with her view that they should have sufferage extended to them. Her views on post office closures are confirmed by her voting record and by her questioning of other MP’s.

June 17, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

things sarah feels strongly about

Read ‘Sarah’s’ campaigns Sarah thinks that the Council Tax is an unfair tax introduced by the Conservatives and made worse under Labour. Sarah wants to see the Council Tax scrapped and replaced with a fairer alternative based on a persons ability to pay. Sarah wants the Government to scrap Tuition fees and abandon its plans for top-up fees. Sarah belives that university fees are an ‘unfair tax’ on students....

June 17, 2004 · 1 min · Rob Dyke