Blogminster » Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com Blogging for Westminster Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 6 http://wordpress.org/?v= 'Now Is The Time To Say “Goodbye”' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/now-is-the-time-to-say-goodbye/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/now-is-the-time-to-say-goodbye/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Parliament broke up last Thursday (08.04.10) and we formally close down at 5pm on Monday (12.04.10). MPs not standing again curiously retain their titles until the new MP is announced on 6th/7th……

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]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/a-grand-national/feed/ 0 'Financial Times Interview on Retiring MPs' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/financial-times-interview-on-retiring-mps/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/financial-times-interview-on-retiring-mps/#comments Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Financial Times: Page 2  Saturday 10.04.10

Jim Pickard article entitled: Regrets and Nostalgia as MPs face exit.

“Derek Wyatt, the 60-year old Labour MP for Sittingbourne……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/11/financial-times-interview-on-retiring-mps/feed/ 0 'MP intervenes in 3rd Reading of Digital Bill' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/mp-intervenes-in-3rd-reading-of-digital-bill/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/mp-intervenes-in-3rd-reading-of-digital-bill/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 3rd reading of Digital Economy Bill07.04.2010Derek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Lab): It is alarming, although not surprising, that it took me a search of the internet to……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/mp-intervenes-in-3rd-reading-of-digital-bill/feed/ 0 'Tory Economic Policy “A house of cards”' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/tory-economic-policy-a-house-of-cards/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/tory-economic-policy-a-house-of-cards/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 LABOUR: Tory economic plan ‘a house of cards’Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Chancellor Alistair Darling and Business Secretary Peter Mandelson today warned that the Conservatives’ economic……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/08/tory-economic-policy-a-house-of-cards/feed/ 0 'Oral Question on Zimbabwe' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/07/oral-question-on-zimbabwe/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/07/oral-question-on-zimbabwe/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 FCO QT 06.04.10ZimbabweDerek Wyatt (Sittingbourne and Sheppey) (Lab): Will the Minister bring me up to speed on the extent to which the Financial Services Authority or his own……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/07/oral-question-on-zimbabwe/feed/ 0 'MP’s last speech in the House on the Digital Bill' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/mps-last-speech-in-the-house-on-the-digital-bill/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/mps-last-speech-in-the-house-on-the-digital-bill/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 MP Derek Wyatt made his last speech in the House this afternoon on the 2nd Reading of the Digital bill.…

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/mps-last-speech-in-the-house-on-the-digital-bill/feed/ 0 'KCC get £12m Government grant' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/kcc-get-12m-government-grant/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/kcc-get-12m-government-grant/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 KCC have received over £12m from central Government as a reward for meeting targets to improve public services.The money is not ring-fenced, so KCC can use it to boost any services they wish.…

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/kcc-get-12m-government-grant/feed/ 0 'Extra funding for Further Education' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/extra-funding-for-further-education/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/extra-funding-for-further-education/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Government has announced funding for an additional 8,530 Further Education places across the South East from the next educational year. This will take allocation across the region to almost……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/06/extra-funding-for-further-education/feed/ 0 '3 Degrees, Drifters, 4 Tops & Temptations' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/3-degrees-drifters-4-tops-temptations/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/3-degrees-drifters-4-tops-temptations/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Derek went to see some of his favourited bands mostly re-constituted except for the 3 Degrees….there was only one remaining Drifter, Tops and Temptation but the music was still the same old……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/3-degrees-drifters-4-tops-temptations/feed/ 0 'Blind Side & Lourdes: 2 contrasting films' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/blind-side-lourdes-2-contrasting-films/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/blind-side-lourdes-2-contrasting-films/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Two Easter Films to see:

Blind Side starring Sandra Bulloch in her Oscar award performanceandLourdes – a  subtle French film about those groups who go to Lourdes for a miracle; in the end……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/blind-side-lourdes-2-contrasting-films/feed/ 0 'A Day at our Free Museums & Galleries' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/a-day-at-our-free-museums-galleries/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/a-day-at-our-free-museums-galleries/#comments Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Derek and his daughter, Daisy spent today at:** National Portrait Gallery – Irving Penn Portraits (stunning)  and Indian Portraits (wonderful) exhibitions** V&A – Quilts: curated by Sue……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/04/04/a-day-at-our-free-museums-galleries/feed/ 0 'Tony Blair’s speech' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/30/tony-blairs-speech/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/30/tony-blairs-speech/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Speech to Trimdon Labour Club – Tony Blair

- Check against delivery -

 

Tony Blair, former Prime Minister and former Leader of……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/30/tony-blairs-speech/feed/ 0 '1 in 4 MPs regret careers' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/1-in-4-mps-regret-careers/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/1-in-4-mps-regret-careers/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 COMMONS: 1 in 4 MPs ‘regret’ careers One in four MPs wishes they had never entered Parliament and eight out of ten believe they are ‘hate figures, according to a BBC survey. Two-fifths said their……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/1-in-4-mps-regret-careers/feed/ 0 'Prime Minister rules out Estuary Airport' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/prime-minister-rules-out-estuary-airport/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/prime-minister-rules-out-estuary-airport/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 From kentnews.co.uk:  KENT NEWS: The Prime Minister has assured Kent voters his party has no plans to build a Boris Island-style airport in the Thames Estuary.Tory London Mayor Boris Johnson has……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/prime-minister-rules-out-estuary-airport/feed/ 0 'Latest local Warm Front stats' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/latest-local-warm-front-stats/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/latest-local-warm-front-stats/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Warm Front, a government scheme to help those on low incomes insulate and heat their homes, has been running since 2000. In that time:3536 homes have received some form of assistance;1447 homes have……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/latest-local-warm-front-stats/feed/ 0 'Response to MP’s letter to KCC on potholes' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/response-to-mps-letter-to-kcc-on-potholes/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/response-to-mps-letter-to-kcc-on-potholes/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 MP Derek Wyatt wrote to KCC earlier this month asking about road repairs after receiving complaints from constituents about poor quality, temporary repairs. He has now received the response below.In……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/response-to-mps-letter-to-kcc-on-potholes/feed/ 0 'The Late Ashok Kumar – A Celebration' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/the-late-ashok-kumar-a-celebration/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/the-late-ashok-kumar-a-celebration/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 MP Derek Wyatt attended the very moving Celebration in The Speaker’s State Rooms of the life of Ashok Kumar at lunch-time today.He has also signed the EDM 1186 Dr Ashok Kumar MP…

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/the-late-ashok-kumar-a-celebration/feed/ 0 'How Long Will Osborne be Shadow Chancellor?' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/how-long-will-osborne-be-shadow-chancellor/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/how-long-will-osborne-be-shadow-chancellor/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 George Osborne’s failure to understand how to plan for the deficit  yet at the same time promising tax cuts and departmental efficiencies (heard those before?) shows his lack of grasp of the current……

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]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/part-2-of-mps-interview-with-east-kent-gazette/feed/ 0 'Osborne Guilty of Schoolboy Economics says Vince Cable' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/osborne-guilty-of-schoolboy-economics-says-vince-cable/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/osborne-guilty-of-schoolboy-economics-says-vince-cable/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 ECONOMY: Osborne accused of ‘schoolboy economics’ Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has been accused of ‘schoolboy economics’ by Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable. He was commenting on……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/29/osborne-guilty-of-schoolboy-economics-says-vince-cable/feed/ 0 'Danny Holkham RIP' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/danny-holkham-rip/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/danny-holkham-rip/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Sad news coming in is that Danny Holkham, one of three sons all under 21, serving in Afghanistan, has died.The family live in Warden Bay on the Isle of Sheppey.…

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/danny-holkham-rip/feed/ 0 'Danny’s Brothers arrive home' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/dannys-brothers-arrive-home/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/dannys-brothers-arrive-home/#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Matt & Andrew, Danny’s brothers, have arrived home.  …

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/28/dannys-brothers-arrive-home/feed/ 0 'Letter to The Guardian on Google and China' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/25/letter-to-the-guardian-on-google-and-china/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/25/letter-to-the-guardian-on-google-and-china/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Letter for The GuardianPublished 27.03.10

Dear Sir Timothy Garton Ash’s analysis of the future of the Net misses the point. America loathes international bodies and treaties. Unlike many……

]]> http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/25/letter-to-the-guardian-on-google-and-china/feed/ 0 'IPT to give presentation to MP' -- Derek Wyatt (Lab, Ret 2010) http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/25/ipt-to-give-presentation-to-mp/ http://www.blogminster.com/2010/03/25/ipt-to-give-presentation-to-mp/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Industry & Parliament Trust will give a special presentation to MP Derek Wyatt this evening.

Fellowships undertaken since 1997:

** Motorola 1998-99 inc……

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