Weekly e-mail
Posted by Edward Vaizey, MP for Wantage, at 20:45, Sun 18 October 2009:
My week started with a question to Ed Balls asking why he had not extended the academies programme to primary schools. The education theme continued on Tuesday with a visit from home educators from Wantage to the House of Commons. They are lobbyinga against the Badman report, which seeks to extend regulation to people who educate their children at home. On Friday, my constituency day included meetings with the local branch of Age Concern, a group from Blewbury lobbying on international aid, the regular Didcot Community lunch, where we heard from Didcot's food bank (I helped secure them rate-free premises)and the Business Community Awards hosted by Didcot First, a lobbying group I established to give Didcot better PR. I rounded the day off with a public meeting on some controversial development proposals in Marcham, which went extremely well and helped defuse a lot of the anger in the village. On Sunday I reviewed the papers with Adam Boulton and Diane Abbot on Sky.
Highlight of the week was my return to the Oxford Union, where we debated the motion This House has No Confidence in Her Majesty's Government, twenty years after I left oxford. We lost. Shaun Woodward, who spoke for Labour and is no Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, turned up with four Special Branch officers. One of them was positioned directly in front of the door through which you had to pass to vote for the motion, so it's no wonder Labour won. A shape of things to come?
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Posted by John King, 21:29, Sun 18 October 2009: (Is this post abusive?) #
I thought the Conservative party was the shape of things to come!