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	<description>Mainly Political, Right of Centre and Personal, not Party Political</description>
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		<title>Why We Must Keep the Lords</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/22/why-we-must-keep-the-lords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless and until, the glaring democratic deficit of us living in an "elected dictatorship" run by whoever has a majority between elections is addressed and a fresh view taken of the Separation of Powers, there can hardly be any justification for doing anything to the Lords. Anything you can imagine is just an exercise in rearranging deckchairs and at that a dangerous thing to do.]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Issue</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/16/the-scottish-issue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather like militant atheists, Scottish Nationalists lack any sense of humour. Also, the tactic of Alec Salmond is always to suppress any debate within Scotland and to totally exclude the rest of the UK from having any say. His tactic seems to be to seize on any comments made by any Westminster politician as “foreign interference” and totally ignore any sensible discussion of the key issues, it is a dangerous tactic for both Scotland and perhaps, the First Minister himself.]]></description>
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		<title>That Human Rights Act Again&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/21/that-human-rights-act-again/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/21/that-human-rights-act-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[However, the Judges also said that if same-sex unions became lawful, any church that refuses to marry gay couples could be charged with discrimination.]]></description>
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		<title>Arrant Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/17/arrant-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/17/arrant-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Journey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3473</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It normally takes a couple of years into a second term for a Government to show this level of indifference to the public, become so introverted and believe that it has a “Divine Right to Rule”, David Cameron's Government has managed this in less than two years, this hardly speaks well for the chance of a second term for David Cameron.]]></description>
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		<title>Towards a More Intolerant Britain</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/06/towards-a-more-intolerant-britain/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/06/towards-a-more-intolerant-britain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Father used to joke: “When I was 16, I thought that my Father was the most ignorant man on the planet. By the time I was 20, I found it amazing just how much he had learned in 4 years.” We all as teenagers think we know it all, that we have “discovered sex” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NHS Bill and the Real Issues</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/01/the-nhs-bill-and-the-real-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/01/the-nhs-bill-and-the-real-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...someone once said about the NHS, “...the closest thing to religion that most Britons have...” Put another way, the NHS provides politicians of all parties with a nightmare scenario where the in built vested interests will always use emotional blackmail rather than face reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Dave Goes to Scotland</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/18/dave-goes-to-scotland/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/18/dave-goes-to-scotland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3426</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cameron is right on this, first the Referendum and then a look at what further may be done. The point is that the Scots should decide what they want first they should not be "bribed" in advance because that will solve nothing. In a 40/30 split to STAY, the whole issue would still be 'open' and therefore, resurface quite quickly again.]]></description>
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		<title>The Honours System</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/05/the-honours-system/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/05/the-honours-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The big problem is that politicians, with Knighthoods as with Life Peerages, have devalued these honours in various ways by how they are distributed. The first mistake lies in giving them out as of "right" to public servants, military and civil, once they reach a certain level/grade, this totally destroys any concept of “personal merit” in the award, it is just “buggins turn”. Beyond that, the choice of some people to receive an award is often either 'populist' or to people of questionable merit and therefore of course, the whole thing has become very "political" but also, lacking in any form of transparency in the process.]]></description>
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		<title>Ending the Union</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/13/ending-the-union/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/13/ending-the-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The support for the individual citizen remains the same whether in Kent, Antrim, Ayrshire or Powys because that over the decades is what being part of the UK is about. It has taken hundreds of years for us to get to this place something the EU can never manage today and won't achieve ever.]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional Change – Again, How Boring</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/07/constitutional-change-again-how-boring/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/07/constitutional-change-again-how-boring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To make the House of Lords elected, even partially elected is foolish because we really don't want another bunch of career politicians on the electoral stomp, far too boring. But more than that, it is highly dangerous because what powers will the Commons cede to the Lords because if the members of the Lords have no powers, why would people bother vote for them ?]]></description>
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