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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>
				<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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A United Kingdom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Election]]></category>
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		<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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		<title>Ethical Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/ethical-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/23/ethical-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Herein lies the real problem concerning recruitment. We have a failed Bank that the British taxpayer has had to bailout and we need 'top people' to lead it “from the shadows to the sun lit uplands”, what is that job worth and might that be different from what the 'public expect and if so, are they even half right in their expectations ? In most respects, it is like a 'second husband' taking on a woman and her children from her previous marriage and being told “You may not have sex”, which asks the question, why should he take it on in the first place ?]]></description>
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		<title>The Money in the Wallet and Purse</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/the-money-in-the-wallet-and-purse/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/17/the-money-in-the-wallet-and-purse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A United Kingdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Interests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliamentary Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An independent Scotland that retained Sterling would have its monetary policy being set in London but without the Scottish Parliament having any influence on that policy in anyway. The alternative for an independent Scotland might be for them to join the Euro , if accepted which would be even more restrictive. Has anyone in the SNP ever thought just why the UK hasn't and won't join the Euro ?]]></description>
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		<title>The Survival of the Labour Party</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/15/the-survival-of-the-labour-party/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/15/the-survival-of-the-labour-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Opposition is always difficult if only because the Government of the day holds all the cards, it is difficult to look anything but rather impotent for most of the time in the public's mind. This is made worse today by the inevitable narrowing of choice as dictated by the current economic situation. In the end though, only change is constant and just like Cameron in opposition had to accept the then accepted wisdom that the economy was doing well under Brown and he would "share the proceeds of growth", so too today Labour has to accept the logic of "cuts" albeit belatedly]]></description>
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		<title>The Nature of Leadership</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/02/the-nature-of-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2012/01/02/the-nature-of-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one sense we seem to be judging present day Politicians in this “warrior leader” mould when in all reality, it long ceased to exist, the last English King to anywhere close to this model being Henry Tudor (VII) who took the Crown from Richard III. Since that time and for all the fuss, whether King or Parliament, all leadership is constrained by the “system” and Prime Ministers are at best “Chairmen of the Board.”]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Political Year and the Death of an Atheist</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/21/end-of-the-political-year-and-the-death-of-an-atheist/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/21/end-of-the-political-year-and-the-death-of-an-atheist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Journey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very worse thing that anyone, especially a “Sunday Atheist” like Hitchens could have is a drooling, dribbling Eulogy” from the likes of Richard Dawkins, the “Jeffrey Archer” of published atheists. An insult that is on a par with Barbara Cartland reciting a eulogy over the corpses of Romeo and Juliet, very sad ending indeed if not downright insulting !]]></description>
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		<title>More EU Waffle</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/13/more-eu-waffle/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/13/more-eu-waffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There remains just one problem, they haven't fixed the Euro and may well run out of time, the Germans should have got a grip on this 6-12 months back, they could have created a whole new set of rules by now for everyone to ignore, as usual.]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/01/writing-nonsense/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/12/01/writing-nonsense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://baldysblog.co.uk/?p=3297</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[...we, economically speaking, live in very difficult times and I for one, see every national advantage in the two top jobs being held by people who are obviously 'at ease with each other' and beyond just 'photo-opportunities', I think that is a good thing for us all...]]></description>
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		<title>Repatriating Powers Back to the UK from the EU</title>
		<link>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/11/24/repatriating-powers-back-to-the-uk-from-the-eu/</link>
		<comments>http://baldysblog.co.uk/2011/11/24/repatriating-powers-back-to-the-uk-from-the-eu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>baldy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...as far as resolving the Euro crisis, the clock stands at 23:59, action should have been taken long before now. Additionally, when push comes to shove, the political price of overt “German Domination” will be as unacceptable in Germany as anywhere else, reverting to national currencies would be seen as a better solution.]]></description>
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