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	<description>Mainly Political, Right of Centre and Personal, not Party Political</description>
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		<title>The Honours System</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/05/the-honours-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<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>
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		<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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		<title>Determining the Value of EU Membership</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/20/determining-the-value-of-eu-membership/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/20/determining-the-value-of-eu-membership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Could it be that bearing in mind the Second World War where we were on the “winning side” but in reality as impoverished by the event as any other European country, our £8-10 billion a year is seen as a preventative down payment on the costs of the Military Divisions we might otherwise have to fund in defence of our way of life in future years ?"]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Bending Time&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/11/09/banana-bending-time/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/11/09/banana-bending-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Constitution grew out of the need to accommodate many and often conflicting “wants &#038; needs”, the beauty of the UK is that it is always a “work in progress” and never quite the “finished thing” and in that respect, my best advice is to leave it alone as it is, it was no accident that it got here in the first place.]]></description>
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		<title>A Row Over the ECHR</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/10/05/a-row-over-the-echr/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/10/05/a-row-over-the-echr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been greatly compounded by this Act allowing public figures of various kinds hiding their marital indiscretions behind it and in effect, bringing into being something Parliament surely never intended, a Privacy Law – but only for the wealthy !]]></description>
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		<title>The EU Twaddle</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/08/07/the-eu-twaddle/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/08/07/the-eu-twaddle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3099</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental problem with the EU is that it is like a seriously ugly person who keeps on saying: "Yes but if you really knew me, you would love me..." The reply is: "I don't want to, you are too ugly to get close to !" Put another way, what is wrong is simply that there is no European Demos and the Euro crisis shines a very harsh spotlight on this.]]></description>
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		<title>Clegg and Lords Reform</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/05/16/clegg-and-lords-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/05/16/clegg-and-lords-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=2991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If 300 can get the job done then fine but I suspect that might be a little on the light side however, it is not that crucial to me but the 15 year term is bonkers. If someone is elected for 15 years, why bother having an election in the first place ? It is hardly a term of office that makes people feel accountable is it ?]]></description>
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		<title>The Referendum on the Alternative Vote</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/05/04/the-referendum-on-the-alternative-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/05/04/the-referendum-on-the-alternative-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 16:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=2967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whilst you may deplore it, it would seem that the British electorate like a choice based upon extremes and are not really interested in the "middle". To support AV or any form of PR simply on the basis that as your party will never ever gain a majority, preventing others from doing so via fixing the voting system is what you want to do, doesn't seem quite the game.]]></description>
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		<title>Sour Grapes on a Royal Wedding</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/04/28/sour-grapes-on-a-royal-wedding/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/04/28/sour-grapes-on-a-royal-wedding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=2946</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no reason that the Monarchy in the UK works as well as it does, it certainly wouldn't transfer easily to others but, work it does and will likely continue to evolve as it has done in the past and therefore survive. Enjoy Friday, most of us in the UK will and no doubt, one or two around the globe also, it will be great fun.]]></description>
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