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		<title>Why I’m Labour</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 10:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Lovell (@greglovelluk)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[After thirteen years of government, British political history would suggest change is inevitable this week. However, David Cameron&rsquo;s Conservatives have fundamentally failed to present any kind o [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Conservative Government is a Change We Can't Afford</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-conservative-government-is-a-change-we-cant-afford.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has been telling us what he will do&nbsp;in his first six months of government, even detailing what he will put into his Government's first Queen's speech! While this is indicative of an [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Flocking Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 18:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I received a piece of Election toilet paper, in the form of a shiny leaflet from the BNP, not ideal but there's only one place it is going - I wouldn't want to contaminate my recycling bin.  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The joy and value of campaigning for Labour (with or without Peppa Pig)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-joy-and-value-of-campaigning-for-labour-with-or-without-peppa-pig.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week has been difficult for Labour &ndash; but personally, I have had some of the best campaigning experiences of my life, where I have seen just how well we can engage with people when we a [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why I Support Labour's Cancer Guarantee</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-i-support-labours-cancer-guarantee.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-i-support-labours-cancer-guarantee.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may know, I owe my life to the NHS - without the speedy intervention, surgery and chemotherapy I received, I would not be here now, my children would be without their mother and my husband woul [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Whatever happened to the Big Society?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/whatever-happened-to-the-big-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/whatever-happened-to-the-big-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cameron has gone awfully quiet on his Big Idea, hasn&rsquo;t he? Perhaps he&rsquo;s not so keen on society getting big when its people are increasingly disinclined to vote Conservative. Of course, the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Pre-election Boost for Labour - The Job Figures That Really Count</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-pre-election-boost-for-labour--the-job-figures-that-really-count.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Critics will undoubtedly be focusing on the overall figure of those who are &ldquo;workless&rdquo; following today's announcement of the latest unemployment figures by the Office of National Statistic [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Far Left and the 2010 UK General Election</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-far-left-and-the-2010-uk-general-election.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-far-left-and-the-2010-uk-general-election.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's the list of candidates everyone hasn't been talking about: the combined electoral intervention of the far left in Britain. Just a few things need mentioning before you feast your eyes on what w [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Three Men in a Vote: The Leaders' Debate. General Election 2010 Ch. 3</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/three-men-in-a-vote-the-leaders-debate-general-election-2010-ch-3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Leaders' Debate was always Cameron's to lose. Expectations of Brown were low, even within his own party - but Cameron was supposed to come out and show everyone that he could be statesmanlike, pre [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Labour candidate's perspective on Sure Start</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-labour-candidates-perspective-on-sure-start.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-labour-candidates-perspective-on-sure-start.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Lovell (@greglovelluk)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt there is a candidate in the land who for a brief moment, faced with an abusive comment or a personal attack, hasn&rsquo;t questioned their reasons for standing. Fighting in a difficult seat wi [...]]]></description>

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		<title>By Your Friends Shall You Be Judged. General Election 2010, Chapter 2.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/by-your-friends-shall-you-be-judged-general-election-2010-chapter-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/by-your-friends-shall-you-be-judged-general-election-2010-chapter-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, David Cameron proudly showed off his new BFF and Conservative Celeb backer Sir Michael Caine again. It has always been a case of one-upmanship between parties when unveiling their latest ce [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brown vs. Cameron, General Election 2010, Chapter One</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/brown-vs-cameron-general-election-2010-chapter-one.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/brown-vs-cameron-general-election-2010-chapter-one.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'll bet that none of you were expecting that now, were you? The General Election will be held on May 6th &ndash; the same day as the local elections, that many of us have been working towards for som [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Fighting the short-term battles to win the long-term war</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/fighting-the-short-term-battles-to-win-the-long-term-war.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/fighting-the-short-term-battles-to-win-the-long-term-war.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Lovell (@greglovelluk)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first general election campaign. In fact, it&rsquo;s really my first election campaign of any kind. Although technically it hasn&rsquo;t yet begun, to all intents and purposes it&rsquo;s fu [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Stoke Central Long List</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/stoke-central-long-list.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/stoke-central-long-list.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow 11 people still in the race to be Stoke Central's Labour MP after the general election will be interviewed in London. According to Peter Kenyon they will be grilled by Keith Vaz, Cllr Ann Luc [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Sparse Crowd for Cameron’s Online Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-sparse-crowd-for-camerons-online-budget.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-sparse-crowd-for-camerons-online-budget.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Lovell (@greglovelluk)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[A little lost in David Cameron&rsquo;s press conference today was a promise to &ldquo;crowd-source&rdquo; the budget. To the uninitiated, crowd-sourcing is the idea that the knowledge of a large numbe [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Clean politics: state funding of political parties</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/clean-politics-state-funding-of-political-parties.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/clean-politics-state-funding-of-political-parties.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I've long said that the only way to clean up politics is to end all interference from outside interests is to stop MPs taking second jobs and stop outside donations to political parties.That means sta [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Parachute Over the Potteries!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/parachute-over-the-potteries.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/parachute-over-the-potteries.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was tickled to read this piece in the FT this morning. Jim Packard writes;
I&rsquo;ve now heard that another Blairite figure, the historian Tristram Hunt, could soon be parachuted into Stoke Central [...]]]></description>

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		<title>These three former ministers aren't liked, the impact will be on the doorstep</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/these-three-former-ministers-arent-liked-the-impact-will-be-on-the-doorstep.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/these-three-former-ministers-arent-liked-the-impact-will-be-on-the-doorstep.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Byers, Geoff Hoon and Patricia Hewitt look rather silly today after being caught on camera boasting about how they could influence government policy for money.
Lobbying has happened for a long [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Imagining Broken Britain</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/imagining-broken-britain.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/imagining-broken-britain.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book &lsquo;Modern Social Imaginaries&rsquo;, the social scientist Charles Taylor notes that &ldquo;the human capacity for order is at the foundation of society itself.&rdquo; But even as socia [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Stoke Central Shenanigans</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/stoke-central-shenanigans.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/stoke-central-shenanigans.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time you would be hard pressed to find a more solid Labour stronghold than Stoke-on-Trent. The potteries, the mines, and the steel works gave birth to a close-knit working class that produ [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Mark Fisher to Step Down</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/mark-fisher-to-step-down.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/mark-fisher-to-step-down.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The faction fight is damaging the campaign to make sure Mark's seat stays Labour...
I've just heard that Stoke Central MP, Mark Fisher (pictured) will be standing down at the general election. Mark ha [...]]]></description>

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		<title>12 Months of Tweeting - helpful? bewildering? pointless?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/12-months-of-tweeting--helpful-bewildering-pointless.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/12-months-of-tweeting--helpful-bewildering-pointless.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it hard to believe I've been knocking about/wasting time on Twitter for a year. To mark the occasion here are a collection of posts written over the last year to try and make sense of it:
1)&nb [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Michael Foot - A Politician of our Time</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/michael-foot--a-politician-of-our-time.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/michael-foot--a-politician-of-our-time.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Foot has today been described by the leaders of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties as principled, idealistic and of great integrity. Tributes have come from across the polit [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Could the Ashcroft furore speed up positive reform?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/could-the-ashcroft-furore-speed-up-positive-reform.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/could-the-ashcroft-furore-speed-up-positive-reform.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Living in the UK, reaping the benefits of doing so, and not paying its taxes is wrong, regardless of who you are and what party you support.
Perhaps there is a marvellous system out there that isn&rsq [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The rise of tribalism diminishes us all</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-rise-of-tribalism-diminishes-us-all.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-rise-of-tribalism-diminishes-us-all.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, personal conduct has been at the forefront of people&rsquo;s minds, thanks to the loose lips of Christine Pratt and creative interpretation of the word &ldquo;allegation&rdquo; by Andrew Ra [...]]]></description>

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		<title>James Purnell's resignation</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/james-purnells-resignation.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/james-purnells-resignation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam White (@theday2day)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be an understatement to say I was shocked this morning when awoken by a phone call telling me my MP James Purnell was to stand down at the coming election. Everyone in our CLP has been workin [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Dave &amp; the Dinosaur - The New Old Tories</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/dave-the-dinosaur--the-new-old-tories.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/dave-the-dinosaur--the-new-old-tories.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn't it amazing how, just when David Cameron thinks he's making progress and actually convincing a few people that his Conservative Party has changed, along comes one of the old boys to mess things u [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Democracy and the Monarchy</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/democracy-and-the-monarchy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/democracy-and-the-monarchy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam White (@theday2day)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the light of the Twitter debate, and the House of Twits vote, I ask, Is Britain a democracy?
This may seem like a very odd question, but upon closer consideration of our constitutional arrangement  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A culture of cordial disagreement #iwish</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-culture-of-cordial-disagreement-iwish.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-culture-of-cordial-disagreement-iwish.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-culture-of-cordial-disagreement-iwish.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when I do not like politics. There are occasions when I think we really are all going to hell in a hand-cart and am completely unsurprised at the total lack of respect and interest the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why I Resigned from the Socialist Party</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-i-resigned-from-the-socialist-party.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-i-resigned-from-the-socialist-party.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-i-resigned-from-the-socialist-party.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not an easy post to write. After four years and one month of being an active member of the Socialist Party, I resigned a week last Thursday. I had been turning it over in my mind for a long ti [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why Brown Feeling Blue Shouldn't Make Us See Red</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-brown-feeling-blue-shouldnt-make-us-see-red.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/why-brown-feeling-blue-shouldnt-make-us-see-red.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The opinion on whether Gordon Brown was right to give the interview with Piers Morgan is divided. I personally think it was a good idea, and here's why...
It seems that much of the media and consequen [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Can Labour win back women voters?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/can-labour-win-back-women-voters.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/can-labour-win-back-women-voters.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I chaired an excellent meeting of the Birmingham Fabian Society &ndash; we had invited Seema Malhotra (pictured), director of the Fabian Women&rsquo;s Network and former Chair of the Fabian [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Do Cameron’s Councils really belie the Tory agenda?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/do-camerons-councils-really-belie-the-tory-agenda.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/do-camerons-councils-really-belie-the-tory-agenda.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I got some bad news on Thursday &ndash; a local Grade II listed church, St. Mary&rsquo;s, applied for planning permission for a photovoltaic array. The electricity generated per year would have been a [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Response to Simon Cooke's fisk of 'Real Tories, Real Words'</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/reponse-to-simon-cookes-fisk-of-real-tories-real-words.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/reponse-to-simon-cookes-fisk-of-real-tories-real-words.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, that is some comment! Thanks. I must say that I never put these forward as &quot;the worst&quot; quotes, merely as a taste of some of the things Conservative MEPs say during the course of their t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Real Tories, Real Words</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/real-tories-real-words.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/real-tories-real-words.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Parliamentary Labour Party has put together a brilliant collection of quotes from their Conservative Counterparts in the European Parliament. I was given a copy this week and thought it w [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cause for concern and cause for celebration</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cause-for-concern-and-cause-for-celebration.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cause-for-concern-and-cause-for-celebration.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam White (@theday2day)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Figures released yesterday by the Office of National Statistics show that Britain is finally out of the deepest recession since the 1930's after 6 quarters of contraction. The numbers tell us that the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Changing for ourselves, changing for one another</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/changing-for-ourselves-changing-for-one-another.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/changing-for-ourselves-changing-for-one-another.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Ed Miliband posted an article on Twitter from the New York Times Magazine, entitled &lsquo;Are Your Friends Making You Fat?&rsquo; Not, as it sounds, a quiz from Sugar, but a fascinating insigh [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brown's Britain - Bruised But Not Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/browns-britain--bruised-but-not-broken.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/browns-britain--bruised-but-not-broken.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/browns-britain--bruised-but-not-broken.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do the British shy away from optimism? We seem much more comfortable in being miserable and bemoaning our lot in life. When Obama appeared with his message of hope, the people of the US embraced t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cameron's Pledge for SureStop</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/camerons-pledge-for-surestop.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/camerons-pledge-for-surestop.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Matthew Woods, AKA @cleethorpesrock, someone with whom I have discussed and debated often, made this comment on Twitter:

It irked me immediately. On first examination, this seemed an ill-thoug [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Social recession?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/social-recession.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/social-recession.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has claimed that Labour has caused a &quot;social recession.&quot; Perhaps he is pointing this out as he aims to deepen it?
His timing is ill thought. Figures released today show overall [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Socialist Party Anti-EDL Leaflet</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/socialist-party-anti-edl-leaflet.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/socialist-party-anti-edl-leaflet.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the numbers due this Saturday at the anti-English Defence League demonstration in Stoke, Stoke Socialist Party (assisted by comrades from all over the country) will be making the case for a soci [...]]]></description>

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		<title>I now declare you Man &amp; Wife, you may kiss the Taxman.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/i-now-declare-you-man-wife-you-may-kiss-the-taxman.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/i-now-declare-you-man-wife-you-may-kiss-the-taxman.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/i-now-declare-you-man-wife-you-may-kiss-the-taxman.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle lines for the forthcoming General Election are being clearly drawn with Labour launching their policy plans regarding the family. This is one concept that the Conservatives have really gone [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cameron hasn’t changed his party... how can he change the country?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-hasnt-changed-his-party-how-can-he-change-the-country.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-hasnt-changed-his-party-how-can-he-change-the-country.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrell Goodliffe</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron has promised Britain 2010 will be a &lsquo;year of change&rsquo; if the Conservatives are elected. A powerful rallying cry against a Labour government seeking its fourth term in office.  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Fabian Society – crystallising our causes to fight for – Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-fabian-society-crystallising-our-causes-to-fight-for-part-i.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-fabian-society-crystallising-our-causes-to-fight-for-part-i.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-fabian-society-crystallising-our-causes-to-fight-for-part-i.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first called Richard Angell to get his advice on how I could become more involved with the Labour Party, one of his first pieces of advice was to join the Fabian Society.

Eight months in, and  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Who loves Mandy?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/who-loves-mandy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/who-loves-mandy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam White (@theday2day)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I certainly don&rsquo;t.&nbsp;His politics (as opposed to his rhetoric) seldom show any correlation to my own, from his acceptance of ballooning wealth to his refusal to support workers in dispute. Ma [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cameron: Poverty matters less than a hug</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-poverty-matters-less-than-a-hug.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-poverty-matters-less-than-a-hug.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[So Cameron has convinced himself, and is now trying to kid the rest of us, that one of the basic tenets of socialism is irrelevant when it comes to child poverty.  He has deliberately interpreted rese [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Klass in Krime</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-klass-in-krime.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/a-klass-in-krime.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I did it! Today, I took the biggest sharpest knife I could find and brandished it, &ldquo;offensive weapon&rdquo; style. I waved it around dangerously and admit that I must have looked quite threateni [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Is Britain missing the boat for Green Jobs?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/is-britain-missing-the-boat-for-green-jobs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/is-britain-missing-the-boat-for-green-jobs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam White (@theday2day)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/is-britain-missing-the-boat-for-green-jobs.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was announced this week that Gordon Brown will be launching a &pound;100bn project to build Wind Turbines as a part of Britain&rsquo;s plan to meet its renewable energy targets. The Crown Estate (t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>It's time for the end of playground politics</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/its-time-for-the-end-of-playground-politics.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/its-time-for-the-end-of-playground-politics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:53:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/its-time-for-the-end-of-playground-politics.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What exactly do Hewitt &amp; Hoon think they will achieve by calling for their colleagues to support a secret ballot on Gordon Brown's leadership?
We are in a General Election year. Let's face facts,  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Who loves the NHS? Is it true?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/who-loves-the-nhs-is-it-true.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/who-loves-the-nhs-is-it-true.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nils Boray</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry but I just can not resist posting this about David Cameron&rsquo;s reported meeting with the radical nursing group Nurses for Reform
It is reported in the Telegraph: David Cameron meets NHS priv [...]]]></description>

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		<title>China: A History of Human Wrongs</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/china-a-history-of-human-wrongs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/china-a-history-of-human-wrongs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The long-standing issue of China's appalling record in human rights is finally getting the attention it has required for many years. Why? - Because for the first time in over fifty years, China has ex [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Food waste – don’t let the supermarkets waste on our behalf</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/food-waste-dont-let-the-supermarkets-waste-on-our-behalf.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/food-waste-dont-let-the-supermarkets-waste-on-our-behalf.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Summits like Copenhagen can be frustrating because, by necessity, they place all the cards for positive (and negative) change in the hands of world leaders and delegates. The rest of us can only watch [...]]]></description>

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		<title>UK uses its brightest minds to solve problems other developed nations don't have</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/uk-uses-its-brightest-minds-to-solve-problems-other-developed-nations-dont-have.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/uk-uses-its-brightest-minds-to-solve-problems-other-developed-nations-dont-have.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Worth</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The upgrade of the West Coast Main Line cost between &pound;8 and &pound;10 billion and trains have a maximum speed of 200km/h, and it&rsquo;s a fiendishly complex mixed traffic railway. France&rsquo; [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Consume, waste, dispose. Does the UK need to take more responsibility?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/consume-waste-dispose-does-the-uk-need-to-take-more-responsibility.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/consume-waste-dispose-does-the-uk-need-to-take-more-responsibility.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As UK consumers have become more affluent, they have become increasingly able to buy more products, dispose of them or parts of them where necessary/desirable, and replace them more quickly &ndash; th [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Vote blue get blue – Tories and climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/vote-blue-get-blue-tories-and-climate-change.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/vote-blue-get-blue-tories-and-climate-change.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[With Copenhagen looming, I took a trip to London on Tuesday to celebrate the launch of a new pamphlet (party!) from SERA &ndash; a Labour-affiliated group that seeks to find solutions that bridge the  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Bercow Vs Dorries Vs Bercow</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/bercow-vs-dorries-vs-bercow.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/bercow-vs-dorries-vs-bercow.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[My husband, (Cllr Tim Cheetham, @CllrTim) and I have many differences, some of them, such as religion, are quite fundamental. We often disagree on policy and other political matters - we discuss and d [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Class politics are dead. Welcome to the politics of wealth.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/class-politics-are-dead-welcome-to-the-politics-of-wealth.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/class-politics-are-dead-welcome-to-the-politics-of-wealth.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone really taken in by David Cameron's &quot;man-of-the-people&quot; act? For as surely as a fat man in a red suit will be hanging around every shopping mall over the next few weeks, it is an ac [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Tories Put Balance-Sheets Before Bed-Sheets</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/tories-put-balance-sheets-before-bed-sheets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/tories-put-balance-sheets-before-bed-sheets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Hammond, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, has outlined what the Conservatives will do to improve efficiency in the public sector. He has reiterated the pledges made by George Osborne at  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>EU flood aid money for Cumbria (let’s avoid the errors from last time)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/eu-flood-aid-money-for-cumbria-lets-avoid-the-errors-from-last-time.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/eu-flood-aid-money-for-cumbria-lets-avoid-the-errors-from-last-time.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Worth</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In June and July 2007 parts of the UK were hit be severe floods. The EU has a Solidarity Fund to help its Member States deal with natural disasters, yet in the months after the floods wrangling contin [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Where we could have been this evening – Lamy/Freiberga/Miliband</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/where-we-could-have-been-this-evening-lamyfreibergamiliband.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/where-we-could-have-been-this-evening-lamyfreibergamiliband.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Worth</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;
I try to see the positives where I can, but I am really struggling this evening. Who actually wanted Barroso, Van Rompuy and Ashton to be running the European Union? It all strikes me as the lo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Rely on the NHS</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/rely-on-the-nhs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/rely-on-the-nhs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I responded to an email from the Labour Party, asking for members to share their cancer stories. As you may know, I owe my life to the NHS - without the speedy intervention, surgery and c [...]]]></description>

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		<title>In defence of 'Against the Odds'</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/in-defence-of-against-the-odds.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/in-defence-of-against-the-odds.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a Twitter regular, you would have to have had been living under a rock to have missed @BevaniteEllie&rsquo;s&nbsp;(pictured) successful campaign to have Against the Odds used as a Party Pol [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Poverty: better or worse under Labour?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/poverty-better-or-worse-under-labour.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/poverty-better-or-worse-under-labour.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to David Cameron it has got worse and that because of Labour's reliance on the &quot;big state&quot;. He proposes that charities and community groups should step in and boost social mobility [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Tories will spend our political capital on frivolities. We must stop them.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-tories-will-spend-our-political-capital-on-frivolities-we-must-stop-them.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-tories-will-spend-our-political-capital-on-frivolities-we-must-stop-them.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking to the Fabian Society this weekend, David Miliband described the latest offering from David Cameron on Europe as &ldquo;either a meaningless or dangerous policy&rdquo;.

Meaningless because c [...]]]></description>

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		<title>PMQs - Through the eyes of a 10 year old</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/pmqs--through-the-eyes-of-a-10-year-old.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/pmqs--through-the-eyes-of-a-10-year-old.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I watched PMQs. This is not an unusual event but due to an outbreak of swine flu, (which thankfully, we are coming to the end of) I had company today. Joining me was my ten-year-old son Harry.
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		<title>It’s The Sun Wot bottled It</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/its-the-sun-wot-bottled-it.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/its-the-sun-wot-bottled-it.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Fraser</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember this?

What about this?

Remember the Sun&rsquo; petition?

And who signed it?

After William Hague&rsquo;s declaration that &ldquo;it is no longer possible to have a referendum on the Lisbon [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Christmas and Climate - How Boris Can be an Even Bigger Hero Next Year</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/christmas-and-climate--how-boris-can-be-an-even-bigger-hero-next-year.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/christmas-and-climate--how-boris-can-be-an-even-bigger-hero-next-year.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to come out right now and say that I LOVE Christmas. Mainly because I see the joy that it brings to our three children.  Everything from the annual trip to the farm to buy our tree and see t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Next on Bravo, “When MPs Go Nad”.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/next-on-bravo-when-mps-go-nad.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/next-on-bravo-when-mps-go-nad.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Fraser</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after a day of phone canvassing in my constituency I returned home sat down at my computer and launched my twitter app; yes I am THAT interesting. I read through a couple of tweets, found ou [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Search &amp; Seize Powers for Councils, DWP &amp; Royal Mail (Yes, Really!)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/search-seize-powers-for-councils-dwp-royal-mail-yes-really.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/search-seize-powers-for-councils-dwp-royal-mail-yes-really.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the Proceeds of Crime Act, from next week, local councils, DWP, Trading Standards and HM Customs will have the right to seize the assets of petty criminals and minor offenders. This extension of [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Spending out of a recession – it’s not party political, it’s common sense</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/spending-out-of-a-recession-its-not-party-political-its-common-sense.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/spending-out-of-a-recession-its-not-party-political-its-common-sense.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[No-one is (or should be) particularly thrilled that the UK is still in recession, regardless of their political affiliation.

Looking at the figures, I am still hopeful of recovery in the final quarte [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Delivering the Goods</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/delivering-the-goods.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/delivering-the-goods.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Today I received several emails from companies I have previously ordered from.  This is a typical example:
Dear Mrs Cheetham
Postal Strikes? Yes? No? Who knows?
First thing - don't worry. We don't us [...]]]></description>

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		<title>No-Platform? No Contest.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/no-platform-no-contest.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/no-platform-no-contest.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to propose a motion to establish a new governing body that will oversee the proliferation of political information. Within the motion there will also be a requirement to close every libra [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Sustainable living minus climate change</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/sustainable-living-minus-climate-change.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/sustainable-living-minus-climate-change.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[When you care about something so much that it lights a fire inside you, it can be difficult to remain objective when you&rsquo;re fighting for it. Nowhere is this clearer than with climate change, bec [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Are our S&amp;D allies really as unsavoury as those in the ECR?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/are-our-sd-allies-really-as-unsavoury-as-those-in-the-ecr.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/are-our-sd-allies-really-as-unsavoury-as-those-in-the-ecr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[My views on some of the other parties belonging to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) grouping have been crystallised in recent weeks as the debate has heated up. No party has an untainte [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cameron = New Labour?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-new-labour.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/cameron-new-labour.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven't got the time for a more detailed post now, but my initial thoughts about Cameron's speech today are that:
Poverty: &quot;Don't you dare lecture us about poverty. You have failed and it falls [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Never Has Anyone Said So Little, About So Much, For So Long</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/never-has-anyone-said-so-little-about-so-much-for-so-long.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/never-has-anyone-said-so-little-about-so-much-for-so-long.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[How can someone speak for so long without actually saying anything? Amazing isn't it, but today, David Cameron spoke just under six-thousand-four-hundred words, orated for about an hour and said preci [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Honesty on cuts or honesty on Tory motives?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/honesty-on-cuts-or-honesty-on-tory-motives.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/honesty-on-cuts-or-honesty-on-tory-motives.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't expect to but it would be good to hear something from the Tories this week admitting that Gordon Brown's fiscal stimulus was necessary to keep the economy going. They are more interested in hi [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The return of Birmingham Hope not Hate</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-return-of-birmingham-hope-not-hate.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-return-of-birmingham-hope-not-hate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 22:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first things I volunteered to do after joining the Labour Party was to deliver Hope not Hate flyers in Halesowen and Pensnett in the run-up to the European elections &ndash; an experience t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Day I Agreed With George Osborne</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-day-i-agreed-with-george-osborne.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-day-i-agreed-with-george-osborne.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was a strange day for me. It was a day when I discovered that I knew less about physics than I thought I did, a day when it seemed there was a conspiracy against me getting to work on time and m [...]]]></description>

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		<title>George Osborne: necessary evil or nasty party incarnate?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/george-osborne-necessary-evil-or-nasty-party-incarnate.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/george-osborne-necessary-evil-or-nasty-party-incarnate.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[George Osborne today made much play of telling the truth about the country's finances, while claiming that Labour are telling &quot;lies&quot; about it. All sides of the political spectrum agree that  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>London at the Tory vanguard</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/london-at-the-tory-vanguard.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/london-at-the-tory-vanguard.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mcloughlin (@timmymc)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris Johnson's mayoralty always looked like acting as a prototype for a future Tory government.
His proposed &pound;5bn of cuts to London's budget through &quot;efficiencies&quot; looks impressive. H [...]]]></description>

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		<title>New Anti-BNP Leaflet Hits the Streets</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/new-anti-bnp-leaflet-hits-the-streets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/new-anti-bnp-leaflet-hits-the-streets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of North Staffs Against Racism and Fascism (NorSCARF) were out last weekend leafleting around Abbey Green ward in Stoke-on-Trent. For readers unfamiliar with the political topography of The Po [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Popping the Question (About Popping the Pills)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/popping-the-question-about-popping-the-pills.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/popping-the-question-about-popping-the-pills.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are those on opposite sides politically, who are in absolute agreement on the question of what counts as political fair game.  Is there a line? Where does it fall? Or, is it a dynamic measure ba [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Communist Party Split?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/communist-party-split.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/communist-party-split.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Readers will know the Communist Party of Britain has formally withdrawn from the talks around founding a successor organisation to No2EU. As opposed to being part of the coalition, at the next electio [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Joining the Front Benches</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/joining-the-front-benches.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/joining-the-front-benches.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although it feels like longer, it has only been five months since I decided that all the issues I cared about could, in one way or another, be put under the umbrella of politics. It was a bit of a Roa [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Browned Off</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/browned-off.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/browned-off.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour's in a bit of a pickle isn't it? Languishing behind the Tories in the polls, there was an extra kick in the latest from Ipsos Mori which put the LibDems a single point ahead. Chances are this i [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Policy Owners...</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/policy-owners.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I think a lot of us are forgetting that the point of a policy should be to help people - not to stick a flag on it, going MINE!&nbsp;as in: &quot;MISS! That was my idea, Gordon stole it off me!&quot;  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Tribalism</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/tribalism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/tribalism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm too logical to be tribal. Also, I was brought up to care about other people! *tips hat to parents*Well, I am tribal to the extent that I am Labour - there's a difference between that and tribalism [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Through the power of open primaries Eric Pickles gets who he wanted</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/through-the-power-of-open-primaries-eric-pickles-gets-who-he-wanted.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/through-the-power-of-open-primaries-eric-pickles-gets-who-he-wanted.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Fraser</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As predicted on this blog Julian Smith, Tory HQ&rsquo;s preferd candidate and Dave Cameron&rsquo;s mate, was selected as the Conservative PPC for Skipton and Ripon yesterday.
Democracy in action.&nbsp [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Liberal Danger</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-liberal-danger.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/the-liberal-danger.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil BC (@averyps)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clegg's pamphlet had some very interesting things to say about the economy, but are there more nuggets tucked away in The Liberal Moment's pages?
Unsurprisingly Clegg is scathing about the electo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Skipton and Ripon announce 4 candidates for open primary</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/skipton-and-ripon-announce-4-candidates-for-open-primary.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Fraser</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Skipton and Ripon Conservative Association announce that the final four candidates in the selection process for their new Parliamentary Candidate are:
Fiona Bruce, Wing Commander Greg Hammond, D [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Political Pro's: Decision Time</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/political-pros-decision-time.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/labour/political-pros-decision-time.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey Cheetham (@tchee)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Recently, I blogged about the political crossroads at which I find myself. If I visualise it, it is like a scene from that movie, with Ralph Macchio, where he meets the devil and sells his soul  [...]]]></description>

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