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	<title>Brent East Campaigning.</title>
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	<description>The Brent Campaign Trials.</description>
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		<title>Sarah Teather appointed Minister of State for Children and Families</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent&#8217;s LibDem MP ﻿﻿Sarah Teather has been appointed Minister of State for Children and Families at the Department of Education by David Cameron. Sarah will work under the new education secretary Michael Gove who had immediately renamed this department from the ﻿﻿﻿Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Top. Priority. A surprise appointment? Others had suggested housing&#8230;. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/14/sarah-teather-appointed-minister-of-state-for-children-and-families/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Teather &#8211; Housing Minister?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public sector newswires with insufficient to talk about have been waiting for news on who the new Housing minister would be, with Grant Shapps and Sarah Teather the most likely candidates. Housing is an issue Sarah has spoken about often in the Commons.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/13/sarah-teather-housing-minister/</link>
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		<title>Brent Council &#8211; Labour Gain from NOC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over on the Brent Greens Blog, Shahrar Ali has posted a write up the results for the candidates at the Local Elections. The Greens stood the maximum number of candiates in each of the  20 wards in Brent and many of the candidates clocked up, several hundred votes, even reaching 840 votes in Kilburn.
The Local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/10/brent-council-labour-gain-from-noc/</link>
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		<title>Would Brent Central Lib Dems punish Sarah Teather for Lib/Con pact?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent Central is close. Just 1,345 votes separated Labour and the Lib Dems, around 3% or about 1.5 voters in every 50.
Would Brent Central Lib Dem voters punish Sarah Teather for a Lib/Con pact? In a briefing paper published today by the Fabian society, Brent Central is listed as a constituency likely to swing back to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/10/would-brent-central-lib-dems-punish-sarah-teather-for-libcon-pact/</link>
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		<title>More news from up Brent North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I met this chap while out on the Unlock Democracy /  Hang-em rally this afternoon.

Barry Gardiner&#8217;s £198,500 dwarfs Dawn Butler&#8217;s £66,000 expenses claims.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/08/more-news-from-up-brent-north/</link>
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		<title>Brent&#8217;s General Election results.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The voters of Brent have returned Lib Dem Sarah Teather with a majority of 1,345, a swing of 11% from Labour, and Labour&#8217;s Barry Gardiner with a majority of 8,028, loosing 2.5% of the vote to the Conservatives (+2.2%) and other parties. I was at the count on Thursday night tally marking for the Lib [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/08/brents-general-election-results/</link>
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		<title>broke my blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[images will return shortly.
UPDATE: Fixed!
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/08/broke-my-blog/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Teather Is Our MP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Teather was returned to parliament by the voters of Brent Central.

Brent Central results


Election Candidate
Party
Votes
%



 Sarah Teather
Liberal Democrats
20026
44%
Elected


 Dawn Butler
Labour
18681
41%
Not elected


 Sachin Rajput
Conservative
5067
11%
Not elected


 Shahrar Ali
Green Party
668
1%
Not elected


 Errol Williams
Christian Party
488
1%
Not elected


 Abdi Duale
Respect
230
1%
Not elected


 Dean McCastree
Independent
163
0%
Not elected




Mapesbury returned Cllrs Leaman, Matthews and Hasmi. Full results posted by Ward over at the Brent Council website.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/07/sarah-teather-is-our-mp/</link>
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		<title>While I was out&#8230;.</title>
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/06/while-i-was-out/</link>
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		<title>Gone in 60 seconds.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is Ross Kemp&#8217;s party piece.

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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/06/gone-in-60-seconds/</link>
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		<title>Team Teather in Mapesbury</title>
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/06/team-teather-in-mapesbury/</link>
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		<title>Brent Central &#8211; Willesden Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark Pack reports that in Willesden Green polling didn&#8217;t start until after 9am becuase ballot papers for the wrong Parliamentary constituency had been supplied to all three polling stations Willesden Green ward.
Bonkers.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/06/brent-central-willesden-green/</link>
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		<title>The peoples election</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr Brown was asked for his reaction to the news that celebrity TV supremo Simon Cowell was backing the Conservatives and thought the prime ministers was tired. ﻿﻿&#8221;This election isn&#8217;t about celebrities, it&#8217;s about people&#8220;, he said. Yet we have had a lot of celebrity involvement in the national and local campaigns:
Labour celebrities: Ross Kemp, Jo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/06/the-peoples-election/</link>
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		<title>Kilburn Station, 6:45pm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Busy outside Kilburn Station this evening. Picked up a whole host of goodies and the Evening Standard.
Team Glenda gave me a DVD with ROSS KEMP on it! &#8216;Gone in 60 seconds&#8217; explains &#8220;what&#8217;s at stake on Thursday&#8220;. Hopefully. He. Makes. It. Easy. For. Me. To. Understand.

Some more celebrity messages for Team Labour attacking the Tories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/05/kilburn-station-645pm/</link>
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		<title>Labour voter goodie bags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As seen in Mapesbury, junction of Olive and Snyed Roads.


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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/05/labour-voter-goodie-bags/</link>
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		<title>Photos from Stonebridge &#8211; Hillside &amp; Fawood Children&#8217;s Centre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From wikipedia: Stonebridge is the largest electoral ward in Brent and includes Stonebridge Estate, and parts of Park Royal and Brent Park, St. Raphael&#8217;s Estate, Mitchellbrook and the Hillside district. The area has strong links with the Afro-Caribbean community which forms the ward&#8217;s ethnic majority.
Here are a few photos of the last remaining block on the Stonebridge Estate off Hillside, Brent. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/05/photos-from-stonebridge-hillside-fawood-childrens-centre/</link>
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		<title>Dawn Butler&#8217;s hoarding at Unisys, Brentfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is back on its legs.


Whatever you do, don&#8217;t visit the web address stencilled on the windows of the building, unless you want to book an escort&#8230;.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/05/dawn-butlers-hoarding-at-unisys-brentfield/</link>
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		<title>Does Dawn know (or care) where Stonebridge is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this mornings electoral communication from the Labour Party, Dawn Butler highlights housing, in particular the investment in Stonebridge and St. Raphael&#8217;s Estate where monstrous concrete high rises are being destroyed, replaced with low-density and low-rise housing.

Only that is not Stonebridge. It&#8217;s Trellick Tower, 3miles down the road in Ladbroke Grove&#8230;..

The stock photo comes from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/04/does-dawn-know-or-care-where-stonebridge-is/</link>
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		<title>Local Torys ready for an election.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Torys care for mapesbury! Is the exclamation mark is necessary? Well, I&#8217;m as surprised as they are, so I guess so!
On the back, Brent Conservatives ask Mapesbury residents how they would vote IF there was a general election in the next few months&#8230;&#8230; Someone ought to let Sachin Rajput know that he&#8217;s on the list [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/04/local-torys-ready-for-an-election/</link>
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		<title>Dawn Butler hording advertising at Unisys, Brentfield.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a few more windows. Eventually, they may even break into the building, and if it&#8217;s unoccupied, perhaps become squatters or light fires inside.&#8221; Wilson and Kelling, 1982.
A building like this?

The ex-Unisys building on Brentfield [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/04/butler-advertising-at-unisys-brentfield/</link>
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		<title>MapRA AGM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of the photos I took of the Meet the Candiates session at the Mapesbury AGM last month.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/04/mapra-agm/</link>
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		<title>Bridge Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I popped down to Bridge Park yesterday morning, for reasons which will become clear&#8230;. Bumped into Errol Williams, preparing for a busy day out in Brent Proclaiming Christ&#8217;s Lordship. His first pledge is to bring all legislation is brought into conformity with the word of God. I uploaded his materials to TheStraightChoice for reference and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/04/bridge-park/</link>
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		<title>Local elections in the shadow?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿﻿&#8221;The local elections are in the shadow of the general election,&#8221; said Andrew Stunell, chair of the Liberal Democrats&#8217; local election campaign team, reports the Beeb. Locally, the Labour team are focused the parliamentary campaign. What little local material they have published and distributed has been discredited and retracted. The Lib Dems are emphasizing the local campaign, highlighting the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/03/local-elections-in-the-shadow/</link>
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		<title>A message from Ken Livingstone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shoring up the core vote, Ken Livingstone writes to Labour party voters/members in Brent Central. &#8220;We can&#8217;t afford to have the country run like Brent Council.&#8221; Letter received in Mapesbury, 2nd May.

Uploaded to TheStraightChoice.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/02/a-message-from-ken-livingstone/</link>
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		<title>Hampstead and Kilburn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liberal Democrat candidate Ed Fordham needs just 474 votes to win the seat from Glenda Jackson. Driving through QP this afternoon I saw lots of Labour posters and flags with only a few Lib Dem orange diamonds. Looks like there is mroe work for the Lib Dem team to do there. The Torys had just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/01/hampstead-and-kilburn/</link>
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		<title>Floella Benjamin campaigns with Sarah Teather</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WBTimes report that &#8220;Floella Benjamin ditched the teddy bear props&#8221; when she joined Lib Dem candidate for Brent Central, Sarah Teather this week. Floella joined Sarah on Harlesden High Street to collect signatures in Harlesden, to sign up residents to a petition urging the government to reform air passenger duty.
Air Passenger Duty (APD) is an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/01/floella-benjamin-campaigns-with-sarah-teather/</link>
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		<title>NW2 Residents Association Thanks Lib Dem Councillors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The North West Two Residents Association held its AGM on the 22nd April at the Windmill Pub on Cricklewood Broadway.
NW2 began in September 2007 as a group local residents who wanted to improve the sense of community in the Cricklewood area. As Carol Granger, Committee Chair, writes &#8220;The Association was founded first to try to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/01/nw2-residents-association-thanks-lib-dem-councillors/</link>
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		<title>Labour pay legal costs to Brent Lib Dems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent councillor James Powney laments the threat and use of legal writ to silence debate, tending towards an environment where &#8216;legitimate freedom of speech could be restricted by self censorship.&#8217;
Legal writ has its strength though. When Brent Labour distributed a leaflet with false claims about Sarah Teather, the Brent Leb Dems took appropriate legal measures. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/01/labour-pay-legal-costs-to-brent-lib-dems/</link>
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		<title>Atiq Malik standards board inquiry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More on Atiq Malik, independent candidate in Brent Central, on this weeks WBTimes front page. They don&#8217;t disclose the nature of the allegations against him for &#8216;legal reasons&#8217; and the internet isn&#8217;t throwing up rumours for me to link to, not even on Labour Cllr James Powney&#8217;s blog &#8211; although there is a great archive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/05/01/atiq-malik-standards-board-inquiry/</link>
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		<title>from the local press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Willesden and Brent Times spoke to local candidates standing as independents or for the smaller parties, including Shahrar Ali for the Green Party and Atiq Malik.
Atiq Malik is Brents&#8217; own &#8216;controversial&#8217; candidate. An ex-conservative councillor in Queensbury ward,  jumped/pushed from the party in 2008, he has previously been referred to the Standards Board for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/27/apr-local-press/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Teather commended by British Muslim Initiative and salaam.co.uk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouElect is a non-profit and independent British Muslim grassroots initiative aimed at promoting voter registration and political engagement. I&#8217;ve just looked up Brent Central where Sarah Teather is the Community Choice Candidate, commended by both the British Muslim Initiative and  salaam.co.uk.
Dawn Butler and Sachin Rajput are also profiled on the YouElect site.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/24/sarah-teather-commended-by-british-muslim-initiative-and-salaam-co-uk/</link>
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		<title>News from up Brent North</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Barry Gardiner standing as an independent? You&#8217;d think he doesn&#8217;t want to be associated with Labour from the look of his campaign materials. See the full leaflet at The Straight Choice.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/24/news-from-up-brent-north/</link>
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		<title>WB Times &#8216;Butler told to apologise&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent&#8217;s Labour Group formal apology for issuing leaflets with defamatory claims about Sarah Teather is on page 4 of the WB Times this week.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/23/wb-times-butler-told-to-apologise/</link>
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		<title>Local election leaflets online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Straight Choice election leaflet project is an archive of election leaflets distributed throughout the campaign. This is a helpful thing to be doing as &#8230;..
1) Promises that candidates make in their leaflets can be compared to what they promise to do elsewhere. In the future we can also compare the voting record of MPs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/23/local-election-leaflets-online/</link>
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		<title>Brent Central &#8211; track the candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy Club website helps us to hold candidates to account, and stimulate public engagement in the campaigns for local and national elections. Big job&#8230; lots of small tasks. The website helps residents to track and contact candidates, create local issue lists and track the responses from candidates.
Check out Brent Central, Brent North and Hampstead and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/23/brent-central-track-the-candidates/</link>
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		<title>Butler issues full apology for Teather expenses smear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LibDem Voice has some news on Brent Centrals dirty politics.
Labour Minister Dawn Butler has issued a legal apology to Sarah Teather for calling her a hypocrite over MPs’ expenses. Butler made the accusation while the running of Sarah Teather’s office was under investigation. The Parliamentary Standards Commissioner later dropped the investigation because there were no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/21/butler-issues-full-apology-for-teather-expenses-smear/</link>
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		<title>photos from the MapRA hustings last night.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bums on seats&#8230;.

And more&#8230;..
 
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/20/photos-from-the-mapra-hustings-last-night/</link>
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		<title>MapRA AGM and hustings tonight.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Election hustings and MapRA AGM at St. Gabriel&#8217;s Church, Walm Lane, tonight.
Click on for a map.


View Larger Map
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/19/mapra-agm-and-hustings-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Last day to submit your nomination.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Completed nomination papers accompanied by the deposit of £500 must be delivered to the Acting Returning Officer at the offices of the London Borough of Brent not later than 4pm on Tuesday, 20th April 2010.
You can view / download the election notices at Brent Council&#8217;s website.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/19/last-day-to-submit-your-nomination/</link>
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		<title>Mapesbury Residents Associations AGM &#8211; 19th APR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Mapesbury Residents Association are holding the groups&#8217; Annual General Meeting on the 19th April. After the formal meeting there will be an Election Hustings. All the political parties have been invited and it will give you the opportunity to meet the candidates for election &#8211; councillors as well as MPs.
The MapRA AGM is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/12/mapesbury-residents-associations-agm/</link>
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		<title>List of candidates for Brent Council wards.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for nominations closed at midday on 8 April 2010 and details of the candidates for the local elections are available in this PDF, published on 9 April. A PDF? Have Brent Council learned nothing about publishing information online? I&#8217;ll rework the list and make it nice and human-readable without having to download a PDF!
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/09/list-of-candidates-for-brent-council-wards/</link>
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		<title>No Brent East, Just Campaigning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is to be a General Election on May 6th, along with the local elections. You would think it had been called back in December given the fluster and bumph in the media. The snow wasn&#8217;t enough to distract us from the political machinations at Westmonster. That snow will probably become an election issue this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/06/no-brent-east-just-campaigning/</link>
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		<title>Brent Labour &#8211; Mapesbury News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From your local Labour Action Team.

The theme of this newsletter is rubbish. Brent Labour argue that the charge made by the council for bulky refuse collection has lead to an increase in fly-tipping in Brent and pledge to &#8216;dump&#8217; the £25 charge if elected. If that isn&#8217;t inducement enough for you, they claim that cuts, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/04/brent-labour-mapesbury-news/</link>
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		<title>MP Sarah Cleared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From WB Times today. Sarah Teather smeared by member of Dawn Butlers team in fictitious expenses complaint.

AN INVESTIGATION into the expenses of one of the borough&#8217;s MPs has been abandoned after it was found that a letter of complaint was fictitious.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards said an objection claiming that Brent East MP Lib Dem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/01/mp-sarah-cleared/</link>
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		<title>MP Sarah Cleared</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A letter of complaint against Sarah Teather was sent to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner, supposedly from a  man at an address in Brent. Then a second letter of complaint was sent, again from this man, but giving a new address. However, this new address does not exist. There is a real address with the same house number [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/04/01/mp-sarah-cleared-2/</link>
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		<title>Mapesbury Labour Team smear tactics&#8230;.?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent letter to residents of the Mapesbury ward of Brent Central, Labours&#8217; candidate Angela Griggs slings a little mud on expenses. Apparently complains have been made to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner about Sarah Teathers&#8217; expenses in relation to her constituency office.
Now we know Sarah&#8217;s expenses are squeaky clean &#8211; check TWFY.com and compare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2010/03/25/mapesbury-labour-team-smear-tactics/</link>
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		<title>Final post &#8211; read the About page.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last post to this blog before being mothballed. Check the About page for a potted history of this site and information on where you can continue reading&#8230;.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2007/02/04/final-post-read-the-about-page/</link>
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		<title>stand back folks, there is nothing to see</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been occupied with my Study of the Political for most hours of the last quarter of 2006 and have had precious little time for anything other. This website (BEC) and also STMP have not been updated in months… a sad state of affairs really. Furthermore proposed boundary changes and my moving plans mean changes! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2007/01/16/stand-back-folks-there-is-nothing-to-see/</link>
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		<title>Freedom of Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading (and posting) Shahrar&#8217;s email I got thinking about what other information about parking and PCNs issued I could request from Brent Council under FoI.
How many of us have been issued a ticket because of a simple honest mistake, like, say, scratching off the wrong day on a parking voucher in error, or perhaps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/09/21/freedom-of-information/</link>
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		<title>Parking tickets in Brent and the FoI Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shahrar Ali, a Green Party candidate at both this years local and last years national elections, sent me an email yesterday on a topic important to car-owners &#8211; Penalty Charge Notices, or, rather, f&#8217;ing-tickets, as I&#8217;m sure most of us refer to them. Shahrar told me about meeting Brent residents while campaigning during the local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/09/21/parking-tickets-in-brent-and-the-foi-act/</link>
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		<title>quick hello</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to say a quick hello to the frequent visitors out there (you know who you are). Thanks for popping by, reading this site and (hopefully) providing reciprocal links back here. leave a comment, say hello back.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/08/08/quick-hello/</link>
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		<title>FUD review for July</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FUD? Check wikipedia&#8230;
Received the first campaign materials from Team Yellow Gold and Team Red since the elections for local government in May. Sorry for the blue tint on the scans, I think my scanner is broken.

The BELD are thanking people for voting for them in Mapesbury and give people the contact numbers of their new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/08/08/fud-review-for-july/</link>
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		<title>helping more community interest groups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hoping that this coming week will see two local residents associations get online with powerful internet based self-publishing tools provided by comwifinet. These two groups, one in Stonebridge and one in Mapesbury, will also become part of the Bonnet network of community interest groups, extending the Bonnet network and improving their own effectivness as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/08/07/helping-more-community-interest-groups/</link>
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		<title>brent projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted recently on what could be done next with this journal. &#8220;wither b.e.c?&#8221; i asked. well, new projects are on the horizon. I&#8217;ve been working on a community information network project with Colin George, Chair of QPARA and Director of MarketSpark (publisher of the excellent Local Directories for Brent residents associations). We see a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/06/13/brent-projects/</link>
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		<title>legal challenges to the results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weeks&#8217; (24th May) KTimes carried two stories about potential legal challenges to the results of the Brent Council elections. I don&#8217;t know what is happening with the query about the election of Cllr Pawan Gupta in Dudden Hill but I do have some news on the challenge to the count in Queen&#8217;s Park.
I understand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/31/legal-challenges-to-the-results/</link>
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		<title>new link added</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A link to rockyf.com has been added &#8211; Rocky Fernandez:advocate and campaigner. Rocky has stood as an independent candidate in both local and national elections in Brent over the last few years. Most recently famous for the double-switchback manoeuver: joining the Lib Dems getting kicked out and then bitching about them online and in print [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/22/new-link-added/</link>
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		<title>Next steps in Queen&#8217;s Park ward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What news have I on the &#8216;missing votes&#8217; in Queen&#8217;s Park? Well, I know that all the candidates have been written to by Shahrar Ali who has appraised them of his calculations and his investigations with Brent Council. I imagine that the next steps will be to petition the Returning Officer through the High Court [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/21/next-steps-in-queens-park-ward/</link>
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		<title>The Popular Girl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading more F Scott Fitzgerald recently as I&#8217;ve just discovered a collection of his short stories published by Hesperus. &#8220;The Popular Girl&#8221; collects together 5 short stories, each a gem, each of which, with dazzling brilliance and sparkling wit, disects Fitzgerald&#8217;s favourite topic: the American society-life. This came to mind this morning while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/21/the-popular-girl/</link>
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		<title>Correction&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not William Motley, it is Antony Dunn elected in Kilburn.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/20/correction/</link>
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		<title>Witnessing the count</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The suggestion that a number of votes went uncounted at the local election is based on what was witnessed by Shahrar Ali on the night. There is no way that Shahrar could have seen all the ballot papers in for the Queen&#8217;s Park ward, but he did witness the first sort and count of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/19/witnessing-the-count/</link>
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		<title>How are votes counted?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While researching the possibility of votes going uncounted in Queen&#8217;s Park ward I&#8217;ve discovered many interesting pieces of information. Well, I fiund them interesting anyway. Want to know how your votes are processed after you have mailing them of pushed them into those little black boxes at the polling station? Read more&#8230;.

Here&#8217;s the process vote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/19/how-are-votes-counted/</link>
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		<title>Missing votes in Queen&#8217;s Park ward?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did those of you who stood up to be counted on May 4th get counted?
I&#8217;ve spent today researching the process for the counting of ballots and gathering information on the election result in Brent as I believe that there is cause for concern over the result returned in Queen&#8217;s Park ward. My concern centres on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/12/missing-votes-in-queens-park/</link>
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		<title>wither bec?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think we are all voted out. When I say &#8216;we&#8217; I mean the 37.26% that voted. And for the rest of you? election fatigue or political fatigue disconnected, not apathetic? we&#8217;ll see. so, wither bec?
much more to be done.
I write this weblog and others as I am practicing what I preach: web technologies really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/08/wither-bec/</link>
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		<title>Photos from the count.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve uploaded all the snaps I took at the count to my gallery.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/07/photos-from-the-count/</link>
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		<title>Updates at brent.gov</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to post this when I got home from the count early this morning but the brent.gov webserver had broken and was not serving the Election Pages. 404errr. That and they were still counting when I got home. And recounting no doubt. You can get the full results for all the candidates in each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/05/updates-at-brentgov/</link>
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		<title>And our winners are&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Queen&#8217;s Park, Mapesbury and Brondesbury have all turned Yellow &#8211; congratulations to the Cllrs in these wards. You&#8217;ve been trusted with them &#8211; look after them. Make sure that you continue with the effort that it took to win the ward as you work the ward.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/05/and-our-winners-are/</link>
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		<title>still counting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[a few wards have been called and a few are being recounted. in several wards the gap between candidates are in the tens of votes. Brondesbury went to Team Yellow and Mapesbury and Queen&#8217;s Park wards look like there will be changes there. and the bar did close on time!
You can get the details on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/04/still-counting/</link>
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		<title>Live! from Brent Town Hall it&#8217;s&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well what a difference a year makes. Last year there was smoking in the Town Hall and a late (unlicensed?) bar. This year after two major pieces of legislation (smoking ban and 24h licensing) the Town Hall is not the den it was. Shame about the bar&#8230; Now, where would I find out if the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/04/live-from-brent-town-hall-its/</link>
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		<title>Going to the count&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year I was the guest of Team Green. This year Team Yellow have invited me to join the best lockin in Brent. Once again I&#8217;ll bring you the result and a pretty graphic from the floor of the town hall as the result is announced&#8230;.assuming I don&#8217;t fall asleep! I&#8217;m tired now. Not from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/04/going-to-the-count/</link>
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		<title>Brent, are you voting?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can see people reading this blog. There have been 216 of you this last week and 48 readers so far today! Are you voting, Brent people? Who are you voting for? Why? Why vote at all? Got any comments? After all, it&#8217;s Your Council for Your Street and Your Services &#8211; Are you having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/04/brent-are-you-voting/</link>
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		<title>Big Brother Brent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/04/b/</link>
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		<title>my thoughts on the results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[what do I think? I think the Green&#8217;s have won it really. I expect them to gain two seats, well, at least one in Queen&#8217;s Park. Also, I think that Cameron may have spoken to a lot of people at a local level and Team Blue will make a few gains. Team Yellow (Look for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/03/my-thoughts-on-the-results/</link>
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		<title>Brent Conservatives leave the office &#8211; SHOCK!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was emailed a copy of the Queen&#8217;s Park Conservative Action Team campaign materials yesterday. Arwh, they are so smiley! not meanleanbusinessy-looking like some of the candidates in their campaign materials. So friendly looking I almost misstook them for the Greens!
Anyway&#8230; The photos, I noticed, were all taken in the Brent Conservatives office on Walm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/03/brent-conservatives-leave-the-office-shock/</link>
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		<title>been busy &#8211; is this the last post?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[well tomorrow is the day when Brent will select its councillors. I&#8217;ve heard many a rumour (and started a few) and seen many a bun thrown. Could I call Mapesbury, Queen&#8217;s Park or Brondesbury now? And the others in Brent East? Could I tell you have the council will look by Friday?
If you are into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/05/03/been-busy-is-this-the-last-post/</link>
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		<title>Solar Panels in a conservation area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have read a letter in the Kilburn Times from a residents in Queen&#8217;s Park questioning the sanity of planning regulations that prevent people from moving towards renewable energy. I bumped into Rupet Degas from the Brent and Harrow Green Party in Queen&#8217;s Park yesterday and he nearly split our sides laughing at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/28/solar-panels-in-a-conservation-area/</link>
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		<title>Past Election Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One sure-fire way of demonstrating that you have some skill with a computer is to generate a barchart from some data in a spreadsheet program like Calc (in openoffice) or a program from Microsoft. Both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives have got someone on their team that would pass a European Computer Driving License [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/26/past-election-results/</link>
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		<title>find the Torys online (update)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After bumping into one of the Dudden Hill Tory candidates last friday I now have the correct website for the Brent Conservatives. The link has been added to the sidebar. I&#8217;ll keep the old link up as it is the link that the official Conservative Party website links to &#8211; when they update, so will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/26/find-the-torys-online-update/</link>
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		<title>meeting Jack Sayers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting out my step, enjoying a smoke in the evening air, when Jack Sayers walks up the drive out on the campaign trail delivering leafets. Jack has been a Councillor since 1990 so he is looking to be returned for the fourth time by this ward. The leaflet introduces us to the other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/26/meeting-jack-sayers/</link>
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		<title>is the veil intact?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Electoral law prevents a council from promoting candidates standing in local elections. Has the spirit of the &#8216;purdah&#8217; period been broken by Brent Council? The Brent Lib Dems seem to think so. Now, I&#8217;ve not yet seen the article in question, my copy of the Brent Magazine has been sitting unread since it arrived and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/25/is-the-veil-intact/</link>
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		<title>Mapesbury is All Action!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noticed more people in yellow safety jackets walking around the streets recently? On Friday last week I saw a member of the Brent Council Street Care team out ward walking in Mapesbury. He was monitoring the recycling collection from both the kerb side boxes and the green wheelie bins &#8211; check we residents were using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/25/mapesbury-is-all-action/</link>
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		<title>Brent Green Party in Queen&#8217;s Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The local Greens have been distributing their literature in the wards. They have also made the literature available online so I don&#8217;t have to scan it I can link to it from here.
here you go.
Note that Shahrar Ali, candidate in Queen&#8217;s Park, will appear in the the Green Party Election Broadcast on BBC 1 tomorrow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/23/brent-green-party-in-queens-park/</link>
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		<title>Focus on&#8230;Queen&#8217;s Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Focus On&#8230;Queen&#8217;s Park from the Liberal Democrats with the candidates for Councillors showing their opposition to the Queen&#8217;s Park tower development.

Also highlighted are the traffic problems that are percieved will blight an already congested Salusbury Road. Well, the development is supposed to address this issue by changing the flow of traffic in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/23/focus-onqueens-park/</link>
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		<title>Queen&#8217;s Park Tower Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The proposal for the tower block in Queen&#8217;s Park is a lead topic for each of the parties contesting the electoral ward of Queen&#8217;s Park. For Labour it is getting like the Monty Python topic not to be mentioned in front of our hosts for the World Cup. The Lib Dems have made great gains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/23/queens-park-tower-plan/</link>
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		<title>QP Green&#8217;s letters on tower block development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed these letters written by Dr Shahrar Ali, Green Party candidate for Queen&#8217;s Park along with Rupert Degas, to Brent area newspapers recently.
On Brent Labour Council tower block imperatives:
&#8220;Whilst this may not come as a revelation         to seasoned campaigners, the public admission is a sign of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/19/qp-greens-letters-on-tower-block-development/</link>
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		<title>Will Brent Vote Blue and Go Green?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you serious?
Each day I walk from Mapesbury to Queen&#8217;s Park via Brondesbury/Kilburn wards &#8211; sounds like a round about route but I&#8217;m just walking cross the boundry corners. In contrast to the General Election last year there are not many posters out on display in gardens and  in the shop windows in support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/19/will-brent-vote-blue-and-go-green/</link>
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		<title>Tower Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at stopthetower a recent email news update has been posted by Barney Cokeliss. Go read it for the stopthetower campaign group&#8217;s update on the proposed tower block development in Queen&#8217;s Park.
Barney, Will and the gang have not yet got the hang of the idea that as the web is always on, 24hrs a day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/19/tower-politics/</link>
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		<title>Brent Conservatives Unavailable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to contact the websites of the Brent East Conservatives and Kwasi Kwarteng. I know they were available during the General Election last year but now they are uncontactable&#8230;

and

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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/13/brent-conservatives-unavailable/</link>
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		<title>Green Party Candidates in Queen&#8217;s Park ward.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone, meet Shahrar Ali and Rupert Degas.

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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/13/green-party-candidates-in-queens-park-ward/</link>
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		<title>JONATHAN DAVIES BRENT COUNCILLOR QUEENS PARK WARD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JONATHAN DAVIES BRENT COUNCILLOR QUEENS PARK WARD
6 April 2006
QUEEN&#8217;S PARK TOWERBLOCK
Many people have been asking me about the Council&#8217;s plan to put a 26-storey towerblock on the car park next to Queen&#8217;s Park Station. The Council is not prepared to have an open public consultation about the proposal. My view is that the people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/13/jonathan-davies-brent-councillor-queens-park-ward/</link>
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		<title>where did the logo go? Part 1 of a series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Labour Action Team have some hot Election Information for the citizens of Brent &#8211; they are ernestly distributing glossy colour A4 &#8216;Election Information&#8217;,erm, leaflets? newsletters? I don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;d call it. The glossy reminded us it was important for us to vote and we were not to be talked out of it by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/12/where-did-the-logo-go-part-1-of-a-series/</link>
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		<title>Brent Labour Councillor Jonathan Davies has joined the Liberal Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent Labour Councillor Jonathan Davies has joined the Liberal Democrats reports the BELD website.
&#8220;I have realised that the beliefs I stand for such as the safeguarding of our civil liberties, international justice and a free and fair society are best represented within the Liberal Democrats.&#8221;
Also connected to Jonathan&#8217;s feelings over the proposed development of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/12/brent-labour-councillor-jonathan-davies-has-joined-the-liberal-democrats/</link>
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		<title>Brent News from the Lib Dems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This local red top was delivered in late February. It leads with the news of the Liberal Democrats delivering a &#8220;hammer blow&#8221; to Labour&#8221; in Dunfermline by-election.

The national political story was the continued opposition to the ID card legislation by Sarah Teather and the Liberal Democrats. The newsletter also covered the story of the comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/10/brent-news-from-the-lib-dems/</link>
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		<title>an evening with Rt Hon Charles Clarke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[receiving this letter was one of the prompts to get me back blogging again &#8211; an evening with Charles Clarke. The Home Secretary was to visit Brent East to meet and greet and have a Big Conversation with people about the Respect Agenda, law and order (as someone with some political education I shouldn&#8217;t right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/10/an-evening-with-rt-hon-charles-clarke/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;the lib dems stand up for us&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;the lib dems stand up for us&#8221; ? well it is a Brent Lib Dem flyer&#8230; this flyer arrived in either late Feb or early March &#8211; the trail started early for the BELD team.

The update lacks focus &#8211; there are a lot of different things crammed ontoa doublesided sheet of A4. Quality of life/local [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/10/the-lib-dems-stand-up-for-us/</link>
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		<title>campaign materials &#8211; liberal democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[also in early march I received the Liberal Democrat Focus On&#8230;Mapesbury newsletter. This newsletter was the first opportunity to meet the Lib Dem candidates for the Mapesbury wards. The candidates are Chris Leaman, Sami Hashmi and Hayley Matthews.

The BELDs expect that a Labour council would again increase council taxes significantly after the local elections. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/10/campaign-materials-liberal-democrats-5/</link>
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		<title>calling it as you see it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent Lib Dems have been redistributing the comments made by Labour Cllr for Queen&#8217;s Park Jonathan Davies on the governance and effectiveness of Brents&#8217; Labour Council.

I&#8217;m glad to see that Cllr Davies has the ability to speak his own mind and to make judgements based on his observations. His views on the consultation around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/09/calling-it-as-you-see-it/</link>
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		<title>5 reasons to vote &#8211; one is a tower!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[did anyone else see this? the electoral commission have been running advertising campaigns to encourage us out to a polling station next month. here&#8217;s one that i think makes the link between local service delivery and decision making nice and simply.

Reason number one (to vote) is the large tower block looming in the back ground [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/09/5-reasons-to-vote-one-is-a-tower/</link>
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		<title>queen&#8217;s park labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ever wanted to know who your queen&#8217;s park labour action team are? me too. I picked up this flyer in queen&#8217;s park ward in early march. The snap shows Cllrs Neil Nerva, Helga Gladbaum and Reg Freeson campaigning for safer stations and more police in
queen&#8217;s park.

I wonder if their campaigning will be rewarded in on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/09/queens-park-labour/</link>
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		<title>new home for this blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i’ve moved e-house from the excellent blogger.com to dedicated web presense. This has allowed me to consolidate a number of info-points, blogs, mailing lists and other web activities into one place. all things from the fingers of robdyke are now posted on or around robdyke.com
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/08/new-home-for-this-blog/</link>
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		<title>did you know there was an election on?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elections are due to be held on 4th May 2006 to elect Councillors for all the seats on Brent Council.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2006/04/08/did-you-know-there-was-an-election-on/</link>
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		<title>Local Democracy: Election for Councillors in Preston and Fryent wards.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While technically in Brent North the elections for local councillors for the Preston and Fryent wards of Brent still need reporting &#8211; and where better then here?
Brent Councils Local Democracy pages have lots of information on the elections which will take place on the 16th June 2005.
Shahrar Ali will be standing in the Preston Ward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/24/local-democracy-election-for-councillors-in-preston-and-fryent-wards/</link>
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		<title>Catch your MP&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The film of the Brent East STW hustings is one of a number of films documenting the views of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates on the aggressive action taken against Iraq. The Catch Your MP project aims to hold to account the 412 Members of the 2001-2005 Parliament that voted in support of military action.
Candidates for Brent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/13/catch-your-mp/</link>
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		<title>I wish I&#8217;d seen this earlier&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trawling through the list of refering links to this site I came across a search engine, A9.com, that I hadn&#8217;t heard of. I followed the link to discover where this blog was ranked on the list that refered the reader to the blog. Just below the link to this blog was a link to Film [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/12/i-wish-id-seen-this-earlier/</link>
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		<title>Election Expenses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been digging around into the rules around election expenses. I&#8217;m trying to calculate the maximum permitted expenses a candidate or agent may incur in Brent East. Thankfully the Electoral Commission website is a wealth of information on electoral law and regulations.
Election expenses are those ‘expenses incurred whether before, during or after the election, on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/10/election-expenses/</link>
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		<title>Brent East Campaigning &#8211; A review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 6 weeks &#038; 53 postings the Brent East Campaign has been blogged. My keyboard is wornout and revision for my exams in backlog. This has been a prolonged high &#8211; which explains my recent apearance. I thought I&#8217;d review my efforts and share my experiences of the last six of weeks.
Brent East Campaigning: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/09/brent-east-campaigning-a-review/</link>
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		<title>Any Answers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Germaine Greer has some advice for newly elected politicians &#8211; don&#8217;t wear little red suits. You&#8217;ll have to listen to the Radio 4 Any Answers stream of the show to hear it&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/08/any-answers/</link>
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		<title>A news round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not awake at 415am? Shame as you missed Sarah&#8217;s victory speech! If you want to watch it you can thanks to the BBC.
Paul Palmer of the Evening Standard, who was having terrible trouble with his laptop when trying to submit his story, writes about the Brent East result. He focuses on Yasmin loosing rather than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/06/a-news-round-up/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Teather Is STILL My MP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve woken up and eaten &#8211; needed to do that before posting anything. NK and I left the count after Sarah Teather had been returned as the MP for Brent East, but not before posting to sarah teather is my MP. I&#8217;ve still got the &#8216;wild eyes&#8217; I had yesterday, although that&#8217;s now from lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/06/sarah-teather-is-still-my-mp/</link>
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		<title>Tally marks&#8230; .. .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reminded of the Banksy piece in Barcelona Zoo. Tally mark after tally mark after tally mark. From what I&#8217;m seeing as I tally out the ballots as they come out of the box for the collate before the count, it really is neck and neck.
For every one vote the Greens receive, the Conservatives are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/06/tally-marks/</link>
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		<title>From the count&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I didn&#8217;t expect that I&#8217;d be at the count for the Brent constituencies General Election ballot. But strange things happen in blogsphere&#8230;
I&#8217;m joined by NK a friend from Goldsmiths. We&#8217;re surounded by more rosets than a horse show. It is a three legged&#8230;sorry&#8230;horse race (sorry Kwasi) after all!
Some of the ballot boxes have arrived [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/05/from-the-count/</link>
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		<title>Brent East 05/05/05</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Out and about in Brent East this morning and all is quiet at Brent East Conservative HQ.

My first stop was Sarah Teather HQ at 1 High Road to give my support before going off to meet Sarah at her polling station.
  
Team:Yasmin are at Willesden Green tube, handing out leaflets that look like an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/05/brent-east-050505/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Michele Weininger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The independent candidate for Brent East fighting for Justice for Motorists from the &#8216;totalitarian power machine&#8217;.
Here as a JPG
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/05/campaign-materials-michele-weininger/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Conservative</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Blue team managed to get a photocopied A5 flyer delivered yesterday&#8230;they must have had a few quid spare after buying all those billboards.
It&#8217;s a three legged race &#8211; Front / Back as JPGs
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/05/campaign-materials-conservative/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recevied a letter from Ken Livingstone yesterday.
&#8220;If you thought I was right as the local MP to take an independent-minded approach then you will find that Yasmin stands firmly in that tradition&#8221;
Front page JPG &#8211; Back page JPG
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/05/campaign-materials-labour-7/</link>
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		<title>Voting intentions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought that the time had come to talk about my personal voting intentions for tomorrow, in case you havn&#8217;t guessed them already.
I was talking to E over supper this evening about voting for what you believe in. This reminded me of  C of the Olive Tree on Willesden Lane and his view that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/04/voting-intentions/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Many!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More from Kwasi Kwarteng!
More from Sarah Teather!
More from Team:Yasmin!
First piece of campaign materials from Michele Weininger!
And Archant Media Group, publishers of the Times series of local papers, lead with the headline &#8216;Appeal to Vote&#8217;. Although WTF Archant are doing partnering with Beacon Bingo and Paddy Power Bookmakers I do not know&#8230;
All coming tomorrow&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/04/campaign-materials-many-2/</link>
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		<title>Indecision in Queen&#8217;s Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/04/indecision-in-queens-park/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Liberal Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Received a letter from Charles Kennedy this morning urging me to vote because &#8216;in certain places, the election is effectively a straight choice between having a Liberal Democrat or a Labour MP&#8217;.
The real alternative has been distilled to four key points:

end student tuition and top-up fees
prevent older people having to selltheir homes to pay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-liberal-democrats-4/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yasmin used her what will probably be the final electoral communication delivered by Royal Mail before the election to remind us that &#8216;it&#8217;s the economy, stupid!&#8217; Short of saying &#8220;if you value it, vote for it&#8221;, Yasmin talked about the low mortgage rates under Gorden Brown and the fall in unemployment from New Labour&#8217;s New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-labour-6/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was speaking to Shahrar Ali last night about the Green campaign in Brent East and Brent South.
Something about a solar powered public address system playing a campaign song being cycled by tandem around the constituency. Anyone got any snaps?
I hope to be able to post an MP3 of the song here soon.
After speaking with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-greens-3/</link>
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		<title>Counting down&#8230; .. .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is May 3rd. It is 12:00. There are 47 hours of campaigning remaining until the polls open at 7am.
If you see any more campaign materials or meet any of the candidates out and about please let me know &#8211; blogger@robdyke.com.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/counting-down/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Liberal Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A departure from the tabloid red top of Brent News, the latest campaign freesheet from the Lib Dems, Brent News, leads with the headline of &#8216;Sarah Set To Win&#8217; &#8211; naturally&#8230;
It features a photo of the Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy with Sarah Teather on Kilburn High Road. Good to see that when top &#8216;names&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-liberal-democrats-3/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a scan of the Brent East Labour News &#8216;&#8221;I&#8217;m Backing Yasmin&#8221;&#8216; I picked up at Kilburn Station last week.
Front page &#8211; PDF file
Back page &#8211; PDF file
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-labour-5/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Rainbow George</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, did you get your Preferendum from George &#8216;Rainbow&#8217; Weiss last week? You can&#8217;t have missed it: it was an A3 sheet of paper folded to A4 and covered with text. What was curious about the materials was the lack of photographs &#8211; no pic of Rainbow George, no pic of Tony Bush and George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/05/03/campaign-materials-rainbow-george/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour &#8211; Quoting Andrew Gilligan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The man who claimed that New Labour had &#8217;sexed up&#8217; the dossier on the threat possed to the United Kingdom by Sadam Hussain&#8217;s Iraq is being quoted by Yasmin Qureshi on her most recent campaign material.
Andrew Gilligan was writing in Friday 29th Evening Standard. I picked up the most recent flyer &#8211; literally, there were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/30/campaign-materials-labour-quoting-andrew-gilligan/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I commented that there would be more on the Labour Party Brent East News &#8216;Delivering For You&#8217;.
One thing I noticed was that Tony (Blair not Benn) doesn&#8217;t feature on the campaign material. There are three photos of Ken &#8216;Red&#8217; Livingstone &#8211; Labours prodigal son &#8211; and a photo of Tony Benn (Old &#8216;Old Labour&#8217; &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/29/campaign-materials-labour-4/</link>
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		<title>Campaign materials: Many!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More campaign materials from Sarah Teather.
And George &#8216;Rainbow&#8217; Weiss&#8217;s Vote For Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket Preferendum.
More photo analysis of Brent East News.
And a rumor of Team:Yasmin in Queen&#8217;s Park Café this lunch time&#8230;
later&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/27/campaign-materials-many/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What else is there to notice about Brent East News &#8216;Delivering for YOU&#8217;&#8230;
I read the whole of the Ken Livingstone interview on the London Labour Party website. Campaigning in Brent East with Yasmin Qureshi Ken said:&#8221;I am delighted that my first election visit is in my old seat of Brent East, where human rights campaigner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/27/campaign-materials-labour-3/</link>
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		<title>Fifty extra police officers in Brent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up a copy of Brent East News published by Yasmin and the BE Labour Party when in Queen&#8217;s Park on Monday. Under the headline &#8216;Delivering for You&#8217; there is a photo of three police officers with a caption &#8216;Brent now has more than fifty extra police officers&#8217;.
Fifty extra police officers! Shame that three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/27/fifty-extra-police-officers-in-brent/</link>
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		<title>Hustings TONIGHT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent Stop The War are holding a General Election Candidate Hustings&#8230;
&#8216;&#8230;to answer your questions about where they stand on the invasion and occupation of Iraq, the withdrawal of troops and associated issues of Palestine, the “war on terror” and the attack on civil liberties.&#8217;
Here is the flyer.
It&#8217;ll be held at Dudden Hill Community Centre, TONIGHT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/26/hustings-tonight/</link>
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		<title>Postal Voting Application Deadline Today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Brent Council&#8217;s email alert service:
Postal Vote Application Deadline:
The deadline to apply for a new postal vote is Tuesday 26th April at 5pm.
Please make sure all applications have arrived at the Town Hall by that time.
You can deliver them in person should you wish.
Telephone 020 8937 1372 or e-mail using the link below if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/26/postal-voting-application-deadline-today/</link>
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		<title>Brondesbury Residents &amp; Tennants Association Meeting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris, a reader of this blog, writes:
Hi Rob,
Maybe you were there tonight. If so, I&#8217;m wasting your time. If not, highlights included: Kwasi (who, incidentally, and I appreciate this is always the luck of the draw, is the only candidate I have seen campaigning in the streets) being compared to Boris Johnson; a nice Irish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/26/brondesbury-residents-tennants-association-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Crime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The candidates from Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are all highlighting crime in their campaigns.

But do we need &#8216;more police on patrol to make our area safer for all&#8217;? (Sarah Teather &#8211; Standing Up For You)
Has the fear of crime &#8216;increased&#8217; in Brent? (Kwasi Kwarteng &#8211; In Touch)
Is &#8216;crime and the fear of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/24/crime/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Where do they all come from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading up on the entitlement of a prospective parliamentary candidate to the use of Royal Mail delivery services.
In Brent East, a candidate is entitled to use Royal Mail to deliver 40907 items of campaign literature. What I&#8217;m not sure about is if that is in total (i.e. to all the households) or per [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/24/campaign-materials-where-do-they-all-come-from/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Liberal Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After yesterdays mammouth posting session I went out for a while. I hadn&#8217;t had chance to even leave the building before my mind was drawn back to this blog. More campaign materials from Sarah Teather, local Liberal Democrat. This one an official &#8216;Election Communication&#8217; delivered by Royal Mail.
&#8216;Standing Up For You&#8217; highlights Sarah&#8217;s work during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/24/campaign-materials-liberal-democrats-2/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Liberal Democrats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many postings to this blog today. It&#8217;s all I&#8217;ve done this morning!
I&#8217;ve received a letter from Sarah Teather for her campaign to be re-elected by the people of Brent East to serve a second term.

Her message: &#8216;I believe that people in Brent East deserve a local MP who will stand up to Tony Blair. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/campaign-materials-liberal-democrats/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Conservatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I met Kwasi on Thursday at the MapRA AGM I mentioned to him that I hadn&#8217;t seen any campaign materials from him over the last couple of weeks. Yesterday an Election Communiation from Brent East Conservatives was delivered by Royal Mail.
His message: &#8216;The Conservatives are the alternative. I promise to give you, the electorate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/campaign-materials-conservatives/</link>
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		<title>Lack of campaign materials &#8211; Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the back of the Mapesbury Labour News distributed by Yasmin at the MapRA Annual General Meeting there is a list of ways to contact Yasmin: By phone: 020 8969 4550, By email: info@yasminqureshi.co.uk, By writting to: 102 Liddell Gardens, Kensal Rise, NW10 3QE.
I checked out the domain www.yasminqureshi.co.uk to see if there was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/lack-of-campaign-materials-labour/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Mapesbury Residents Association Annnual General Meeting on Thursday night I was hoping to speak to the assembled residents about the Community Wireless Network I am involved in running in Queen&#8217;s Park. Having been very impressed by the collective action that MapRA have motived in their community around the Mapesbury Dell project and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/campaign-materials-labour-2/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received the Green Party Election Communication for Brent East earlier this week. I&#8217;ve scanned the 100% RECYCLED PAPER leaflet for you to download from here (front cover, inside, back cover).

If you have not received the Green Party Election Communication, please let me know and I will pass it on to Shahrar. I spoke to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/campaign-materials-greens-2/</link>
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		<title>Mapesbury Residents Association AGM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those active in local civil society and engaged in their neighbourhood were out at St. Gabriel&#8217;s Church on Walm Lane on Thursday night for the Mapesbury Residents Association Annual General Meeting. MapRA is a large and active group of neighbours all commited to woking for the benefit of the Mapesbury community. Attendance from the membership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/23/mapesbury-residents-association-agm/</link>
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		<title>C4.com on Brent East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Channel 4.com Election 2005 site.
&#8216;Labour has placed its hopes on lawyer Yasmin Qureishi, who is openly anti-war in her selection process. But like many Labour candidates in what was Labour&#8217;s urban core support she is going even further to regain disgruntled voters by opposing the policies of the prime minister.
She told Channel 4 news: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/21/c4com-on-brent-east/</link>
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		<title>Linkup for George &#8216;Rainbow&#8217; Weiss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a reader, here are some links for the Vote For Yourself Dream Ticket Party and George &#8216;Rainbox&#8217; Weiss.
This website details the background to the V4YDTP.
While this page has DTP info.
Links from a reader collecting campaign leaflets from this election. Send them some of the paper the Brent East Candidates send you.
The Guardian website [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/21/linkup-for-george-rainbow-weiss/</link>
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		<title>Candidate List Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The candidates in the Brent East constituency have been announced. They are:

ALI, Shahrar &#8211; Green Party
KWARTENG, Kwasi Alfred Addo &#8211; The Conservative Party Candidate
QURESHI, Yasmin &#8211; The Labour Party Candidate
TEATHER, Sarah Louise &#8211; Liberal Democrats
WEININGER, Michele Anna &#8211; Independent
WEISS, &#8216;Rainbow&#8217; George &#8211; Vote for Yourself Rainbow Dream Ticket

I&#8217;m going to try and get hold of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/20/candidate-list-announced/</link>
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		<title>Hustings this evening.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Teather &#8211; and others? who knows? &#8211; will be at a hustings event this evening at Willesden Library organised by BRAVA &#8211; Brent Association for Voluntary Action.
If anyone who reads this blog goes to the hustings this evening, please write-up about it here.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/19/hustings-this-evening/</link>
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		<title>Where are the Conservatives?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since starting this blog I have met the candidiates from Labour, Greens and Liberal Democrats &#8216;out and about&#8217; in Brent East. I&#8217;m still waiting to see Kwasi out and about&#8230; Strange not to have seen the Conservatives. During the by-election of &#8216;03 they were very visible in this constituency &#8211; I remember vividly meeting three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/19/where-are-the-conservatives/</link>
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		<title>While on the subject of voting records&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can view the voting record of Sarah Teather as complied by The Guardian and Public Whip.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/18/while-on-the-subject-of-voting-records/</link>
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		<title>Postal voting in Brent East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Applications for postal voting in Brent East are up 511% on the 2001 General Election. Around 2500 votes in Brent East will be made by post this year.
You can read more on postal voting in London in this story from thisislondon.co.uk
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/18/postal-voting-in-brent-east/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mention the war?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian comment on the &#8217;sssshhhh&#8217; today. You know, that little exercise in Middle East. They say that &#8216;Many in Tony Blair&#8217;s party who opposed the US-led invasion are keeping quiet about the issue now&#8217;.
&#8216;However, candidates are mentioning their anti-war positions in constituencies where there has been strong opposition to the conflict, for example, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/18/dont-mention-the-war/</link>
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		<title>What are the policies of the three main parties?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found quite a useful page on the Politics website this morning. They have grouped the policies of each of the three main parties on specific areas together for your comparison. Nifty.
It beats downloading and reading each of the manifesto documents. But if you really wanted to, here you go

Liberal Democrats, PDF file, 20 pages, 1.1mb
Labour, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/17/what-are-the-policies-of-the-three-main-parties/</link>
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		<title>Calling all candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter, to be emailed to each of the candidates standing in Brent East at the forthcoming general election.
Dear Candidate,
I am writing to all the candidates standing in Brent East at the general election with a question. Each party has unveiled their manifesto. National commitments have been made for the program of the next [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/17/calling-all-candidates/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Shahrar Ali</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; coming soon&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/13/meeting-shahrar-ali/</link>
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		<title>Strategic Voter &#8211; Info for London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategic Voter has a PDF detailing their recommendations for voting accross London. For Brent East their recommendation is Vote Lib Dem.
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/13/strategic-voter-info-for-london/</link>
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		<title>Campaign Materials: Greens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brent East Green News &#8211; A4 newsletter &#8211; Front Page &#8211; JPG
Brent East Green News &#8211; A4 newsletter &#8211; Back Page &#8211; JPG
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		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/11/campaign-materials-greens/</link>
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		<title>Campaign materials: Labour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some campaign materials from the Labour Party for their candidate Yasmin Qureshi. I won&#8217;t display them all here, but you can click on the links to see full size scans of the unsolicited mail that has popped through my letter box in support of their candidate.
Elect Yasmin Qureshi &#8211; A5 flyer &#8211; front [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/11/campaign-materials-labour/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Yasmin Qureshi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday I bumped into Yasmin Qureshi, the Labour candidate for Brent East, on Salusbury Road just outside the friendly and well stocked Queen&#8217;s Park Books (yes, I do work there, how did you guess?). She was out on the campaign trail, meeting and greeting, probably kissing babies, seeking places to display her posters. Yasmin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/09/meeting-yasmin-qureshi/</link>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing on the Brent East Campaign Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[05.05.05 said the Indy.
General erection said The Sun.
and they are off.
I&#8217;ve already met the candidates for the Greens and for Labour out on the streets of Queen&#8217;s Park. I&#8217;ll share these two encounters with you over this weekend.
Campaign materials from the Lib Dems and Labour to come &#8211; just as soon as i&#8217;ve got my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/04/08/fear-and-loathing-on-the-brent-east-campaign-trail/</link>
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		<title>Brent East by-election, 2003</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The by-election of 2003 was caused by the death of the member of Parliament for Brent East, Paul Daisley of the Labour Party. The by-election to fill his seat was held on September 13, and was won by the Liberal Democrat candidate Sarah Teather.
The turnout by electors at this election was 36.42%
More information on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/03/24/brent-east-by-election-2003/</link>
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		<title>Showing the paper trail&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Election 2005. You know its coming. I know its coming. It has been trailed more heavily than a Lord of the Rings movie. You probably think its all happened already given the amount of comment and analysis in the media. Slow news year?
Because of my own interest in seeing increased participation from citizens in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.robdyke.com/bec/2005/03/24/showing-the-paper-trail/</link>
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