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		<title>A Time for Major Economic Change</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/14/a-time-for-major-economic-change/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/14/a-time-for-major-economic-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...if Labour were the Government today, they would be doing exactly the same as the Coalition. So in truth, the real difference between any “proffered solutions” is wholly cosmetic which brings the difference to not one of Left or Right but whether a political party is “In Power or In Opposition”.]]></description>
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		<title>More EU-UK In or Out Referendum</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/12/more-eu-uk-in-or-out-referendum/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/12/more-eu-uk-in-or-out-referendum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 13:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I returned to the “Britain and the EU” theme recently only because of an article in The Economist on the subject of a proposed UK Referendum on the topic. I posted a comment against the article and as a result got some interesting replies. Often most replies on this topic are a waste of time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should There be an In or Out Referendum ?</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/10/should-there-be-an-in-or-out-referendum/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/10/should-there-be-an-in-or-out-referendum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the former &#8216;Dark Lord&#8217;, an European Groupie if ever there was, Peter Mandleson has put forward the idea that we should hold a UK Referendum on an IN or OUT basis. As someone wryly commented, a proposition that only a person no longer seeking elected office could make. Of course it is more likely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power-The Poisoned Chalice</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/08/power-the-poisoned-chalice/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/08/power-the-poisoned-chalice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The French have that lovely expression: “Plus ça change plus c&#8217;est la même chose”- The more things change, the more they stay the same and I suspect that that is the case with the election of Francois Hollande as the new French President. The truth is that for all the noises and echoes of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Issue</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/16/the-scottish-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/16/the-scottish-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being a Catholic]]></category>
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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>It Is Worse than You Think</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/09/it-is-worse-than-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/09/it-is-worse-than-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 14:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to the economy, Governments can make things worse with bad decisions and thereby increasing the tax burden but they don't have the ability to makes things better, unless it is by slashing public spending and therefore reducing taxes. And like it or not, wealth creation is down to the private sector through ingenuity or Acts of God that give a nation natural resources.]]></description>
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		<title>An Economic Dance of Death</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/15/an-economic-dance-of-death/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/15/an-economic-dance-of-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With rising labour costs, the Chinese will move towards ever greater 'automated, machine based production' methods which will leave them with an increasingly large unskilled labour pool with no employment prospects or a “place at the table” in a consumer driven China. In this respect, China will come to reflect the high levels of unemployment currently all too common in the West and how that will play out socially in a Country that contains a fifth of everyone on this planet with its history will be anyone's guess.]]></description>
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		<title>Will Cameron Get Re-Elected ?</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/01/will-cameron-get-re-elected/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/01/will-cameron-get-re-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Journey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...in Britain, "Great Leaders" tend to be shaped by external events not, internal ones and the answer to where David Cameron will "get those votes" will be the same...]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pensions]]></category>
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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>Cameron Lacking a Defined Outline ?</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/19/cameron-lacking-a-defined-outline/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/19/cameron-lacking-a-defined-outline/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:04:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Labour Party still in disarray following their election defeat and unlikely to pose a serious political threat for some time to come, his real 'opposition' comes from within the Coalition itself. On the one hand a LibDem Party that have in effect "sacrificed" themselves by being part of the Coalition and ever eager to prove to the public that “they make a difference...” On the other hand the Tory Right ever hungry for the red meat of “...proper Tory policies...” and as deluded in that as their equivalents on the Left of British politics.]]></description>
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