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	<description>Mainly Political, Right of Centre and Personal, not Party Political</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>
		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3560</guid>
		<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>The Local Government Elections 2012</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/05/the-local-government-elections-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/05/05/the-local-government-elections-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 12:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Democrats]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[UK Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a rather clear sign of what the public think about Local Elections generally, a turnout of under 30% on Thursday rather paints the picture all too well. The truth of course tells us absolutely nothing of any value because only those with some kind of commitment and/or anger, will bother to turn out. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BBC – Time For a Radical Rethink</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/28/the-bbc-time-for-a-radical-rethink/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/28/the-bbc-time-for-a-radical-rethink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[However, I don't think that these commercial operations are totally wrong in their complaint that the BBC enjoys an “unfair advantage” because in one sense, it does. Whereas commercial operators profits will rise and fall with their output, the BBC is like a Premier Football Club that can never be relegated to a lower division.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunt Witch Hunt</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/27/the-hunt-witch-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/27/the-hunt-witch-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of emails from an “Adviser” to Jeremy Hunt came to light where he was having an inappropriate and unauthorised (as he admitted), level of contact with someone inside News International concerned with the Sky-B bid, both these individuals seemed to have “bigged up” their roles and projected a level of influence that they didn't have.]]></description>
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		<title>The French Presidential Election</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/06/the-french-presidential-election/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/04/06/the-french-presidential-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sarkozy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The European Union]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that apart from getting rid of the Euro before it destroys the whole of the EU, all European citizens need to accept that we get both the politicians and the governments that we deserve and it seems, want to be lied to.]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
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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>Politics at the Top Level</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/19/politics-at-the-top-level/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/03/19/politics-at-the-top-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It must be a problem for them because if you were a Prime Minister, leave the party leadership and yet remain a sitting MP, it must be like an Opera Company where you go fro Lead to a 'spear carrier'.]]></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 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>
				<category><![CDATA[Reform and Change]]></category>
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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>True Blue and Other Fantasies</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/true-blue-and-other-fantasies/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/02/03/true-blue-and-other-fantasies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In fact, I suspect that there is a parallel between the General Election of 1992 and that of 2010 except that the result for the incumbent was different in the short term. Although due to the débâcle of the ERM ejection, the Tories had lost their “Good with the Economy” label, the electorate weren't quite sure about trusting Labour so John Major won with a workable but narrow majority that was to be torn apart by the EU issues in the end but, got the Tories re-elected in 1992.]]></description>
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