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		<title>Ditch Labour's government-by-fear. Vote with your hopes.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/ditch-labours-government-by-fear-vote-with-your-hopes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 18:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Edwards</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few weeks we have seen the true Labour come out -&nbsp;campaigning by fear, whether founded, misrepresented or (sadly, more&nbsp;often than not) just downright false.
Fear of going even  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The saddest part of the campaign…</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-saddest-part-of-the-campaign.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This time tomorrow I&rsquo;ll be running around like mad working for a Conservative victory, locally and nationally.
And hopefully the result will reflect the months and years of hard work the Conserv [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Nick, you’re a big state, centralising, nanny-knows-best, social democrat.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/nick-youre-a-big-state-centralising-nanny-knows-best-social-democrat.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Conservative my automatic response to a tax cut is to put on a big smile, look the proposer in the eye and say; &ldquo;yes, please.&rdquo;  Tax cuts are good things. Tax cuts give control to ordi [...]]]></description>

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		<title>1992 Presidential Debate - Lies, Damn Lies and Opinion Polls</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/1992-presedential-debate--lies-damn-lies-and-opinion-polls.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/1992-presedential-debate--lies-damn-lies-and-opinion-polls.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Woods (@cleethorpesrock)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Con Home regular Matt Woods (aka Cleethorpes Rock) unearths an account of the 1992 Presidential Debate between George Bush, 
Bill Cinton and third party challenger, Ross Perot, and notes some interest [...]]]></description>

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		<title>It’s the Labour Party’s fault – don’t blame Ellie Gellard</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/its-the-labour-partys-fault-dont-blame-ellie-gellard.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/its-the-labour-partys-fault-dont-blame-ellie-gellard.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[She&rsquo;s just a silly girl, over-enthusiatic, opinionated, tribal, confrontational and judgmental. Other than the girl bit, I was like that at twenty-one &ndash; some might say I&rsquo;ve only move [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Semi-detached thoughts on the opening election salvos</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/semi-detached-thoughts-on-the-opening-election-salvos.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/semi-detached-thoughts-on-the-opening-election-salvos.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As you, dear reader, will know, I am not a heavy consumer of news media at the best of times. Nor do I think that occasional verbal boo-boos or particular individual peccadillos are matters of any con [...]]]></description>

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		<title>David Cameron should now move against the phantom nastiness with substance</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/david-cameron-should-now-move-against-the-phantom-nastiness-with-substance.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/david-cameron-should-now-move-against-the-phantom-nastiness-with-substance.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Archibald (@benarchibald)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody in their right mind believes David Cameron is a homophobe, or a man comfortable with homophobia.  He is a straight down the middle 'modern', a man with a concept of right and wrong and a zero-t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Just like the banks, the education industry thinks it knows what's good for you</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/just-like-the-banks-the-education-industry-thinks-it-knows-whats-good-for-you.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&rsquo;ve got rather used to talking about bankers and banks in negative terms. About how their oligopoly, controlling instinct and &lsquo;we know better&rsquo; attitude has damaged our economy almo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Unlike tabloid coverage, drugs policy is supposed to be evidence led</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/unlike-tabloid-coverage-drugs-policy-is-supposed-to-be-evidence-led.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/unlike-tabloid-coverage-drugs-policy-is-supposed-to-be-evidence-led.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Taylor (@MTPT)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It's all but certain that by this evening it will be the policy of the UK government to prohibit the synthetic cathinone mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) as a Class B substance under the Miuse of Dr [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Conservatives must embrace the politics of trust</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/conservatives-must-embrace-the-politics-of-trust.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/conservatives-must-embrace-the-politics-of-trust.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you will have watched Anthony Seldon&rsquo;s programme, &ldquo;Trust Politics&rdquo; yesterday evening on BBC2.  It served as a gentle starter before the red meat of Dispatches and MPs literal [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Barnsley East or How we get the wrong sort of politicians</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/barnsley-east-or-how-we-get-the-wrong-sort-of-politicians.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/barnsley-east-or-how-we-get-the-wrong-sort-of-politicians.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the selection for the safe labour seat of Barnsley East reminds me of sitting on the kitchen floor, head in my hands, distraught and wondering why I bothered. To be shoved aside by the lo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Defence: Part 4 of 4 - Conclusion</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-4-of-4--conclusion.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-4-of-4--conclusion.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Taylor (@MTPT)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[We need armed forces which are capable of performing a variety of missions, and we need to be able to deploy them in a broader range of capabilities. Other policies which I have not focused on are als [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Defence: Part 3 of 4 - Cancelling Trident</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-3-of-4--cancelling-trident.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-3-of-4--cancelling-trident.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Taylor (@MTPT)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the UK's &pound;36Bn annual defense budget, around 5% (about &pound;2Bn) is spent on the UK's nuclear deterrent - a fleet of 4 Vanguard class ballistic missile submarines. Those submarines require  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Defence: Part 2 of 4 - Recruit more troops, Building U(C)AVS</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-2-of-4--recruit-more-troops-building-ucavs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-2-of-4--recruit-more-troops-building-ucavs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Taylor (@MTPT)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recruit more troops
Sounds obvious, doesn't it?  
The regular Army is now around one third of the size it was in the mid-1950s (after the Korean War), less than half the size it was in 1939 (immed [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Defence: Part 1 of 4</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-1-of-4.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--defence-part-1-of-4.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Taylor (@MTPT)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now British troops have withdrawn from Iraq, and we are reinforcing Afghanistan, with territorial dispute over the Falkland Islands again in the news, and with crucial elements of the UK's military fo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Education: What Labour did wrong &amp; What Tories can do right</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-lost-generation-labours-monumental-fail-on-education.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-lost-generation-labours-monumental-fail-on-education.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Catey Maxx (@cateymaxx)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I began my teaching career under a Tory government, and was forced to end it under the fag end of a Labour one.
As a fledgling student at university, I remember being asked by one of my Labour support [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - The Lords Question: Reforming the House of Lords</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--the-lords-question-reforming-the-house-of-lords.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--the-lords-question-reforming-the-house-of-lords.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane McMurray (@HMSEnterprise)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a fan of our ancient and, at times, curious system of government when I was asked to choose any area of policy and write about it I knew almost immediately it would be on constitutional reform,  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Cuts and the need for a smaller state</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cuts-and-the-need-for-a-smaller-state.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cuts-and-the-need-for-a-smaller-state.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Felix Bungay (@FelixBungay)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[3 year ago no one would have made the claim that both Labour and the Conservatives would enter the next election promising the largest cuts to the public sector in the history of the British state. Ho [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Localism</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--localism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--localism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Declan Lyons (@DeclanLyons)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that I am glad to see becoming associated with the Conservative Party is the localist agenda. For those that may not know what it is the belief in re-igniting local government, making it mor [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Foreign Policy - The Known Unknowns?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--foreign-policy--the-known-unknowns.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--foreign-policy--the-known-unknowns.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Burdett (@jamesburdett)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the truisms of politics is that that there is a big difference between what a party plans to do in opposition and what they end up doing in government. This isn&rsquo;t deliberate or malicious  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Immigration:  Strengthening British Interests</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--immigration-strengthening-british-interests.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--immigration-strengthening-british-interests.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beta Politics (@betapolitics)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&rsquo;s talk about it
Over 40% of people say that immigration is one of their top three political priorities. The immigration debate needs to be decontaminated from reactional racist accusations.  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - Tax, tax, tax</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--tax-tax-tax.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--tax-tax-tax.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T Breaker (@DavidTBreaker)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the government deficit well into treble figures, the overall National Debt set to double within a few years, and the economy showing no real intentions of entering into a sustainable recovery, it [...]]]></description>

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		<title>'Positive Policy' - A convenient convergence for the Conservatives and Europe</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--a-convenient-convergence-for-the-conservatives-and-europe.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/positive-policy--a-convenient-convergence-for-the-conservatives-and-europe.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ali Bulger (@AliBulger)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[For at least as long as I remember the Conservative party could be characterised as a party divided by Europe. Prospective leaders have always had to make their positions clear: party orthodoxy has be [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The 'Positive Policy' Series - An Introduction: Let's talk about what matters</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-positive-policy-series--an-introduction-lets-talk-about-what-matters.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-positive-policy-series--an-introduction-lets-talk-about-what-matters.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Conyers (@oxfordspring)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I tried a little experiment - I went out onto the street and asked a lady carrying her Sainbury's shopping, the first person I saw,&nbsp;if she had heard the furor about Conservative Party p [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Living the nightmare - a future history of the Right</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/living-the-nightmare--a-future-history-of-the-right.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/living-the-nightmare--a-future-history-of-the-right.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/living-the-nightmare--a-future-history-of-the-right.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I argued recently that libertarians who plan to vote Labour (so as to allow for a new party of the right to rise phoenix-like from the ashes of a defeated conservative party) may not get what they wan [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Can we worry a bit about the economy please?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/can-we-worry-a-bit-about-the-economy-please.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/can-we-worry-a-bit-about-the-economy-please.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/can-we-worry-a-bit-about-the-economy-please.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&rsquo;t know about the rest of you but I&rsquo;m getting a bit worried.  About the economy, I mean not about how many economists can be lined up behind any given position.

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		<title>A Conservative blogger's visit to a Sure Start Centre - Part II: AFTER</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-conservative-bloggers-visit-to-a-sure-start-centre--part-ii-after.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-conservative-bloggers-visit-to-a-sure-start-centre--part-ii-after.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Conyers (@oxfordspring)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote an article that was critical of the running of the Sure Start program. It was based on reports, statistics and evaluations of the programs from independent third-party organisations  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Hung parliament: be careful what you wish for...</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/hung-parliament-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/hung-parliament-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[On 23rd March 1977, the Liberal Party &ndash; then led by David Steel &ndash; entered into an agreement with the minority Labour government of Jim Callaghan.  The agreement &ndash; a staggering sell-o [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The psychology of Labour</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-psychology-of-labour.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-psychology-of-labour.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Archibald (@benarchibald)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[John Prescott's latest wheeze to stir up some fighting spirit within the Labour ranks on his pisspoor Go4th website (looks too close to Goatse to me, and Labour coming 4th would be something to celebr [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Defending First Past The Post</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/defending-first-past-the-post.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/defending-first-past-the-post.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown&rsquo;s deathbed conversion to electoral reform has certainly stirred up some interest in our electoral system. And not a little cynicism about why, despite having a commitment to elector [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Conservative blogger's visit to a Sure Start Centre - Part I: Before</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-conservative-bloggers-visit-to-a-sure-start-centre--part-i--before.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-conservative-bloggers-visit-to-a-sure-start-centre--part-i--before.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Conyers (@oxfordspring)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday Oxford Spring, a Conservative blogger, is visting a Sure Start centre with his local Labour councillor. A critic of the Sure Start program, he will here explain, before the visit, his ex [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Real Tories, Real Words by Tracey Cheetham (fisked)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/real-tories-real-words-fisked-simon-cooke.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/real-tories-real-words-fisked-simon-cooke.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tracey Cheetham has some terrible quotes from Tory MEPs. Personally I can&rsquo;t see what&rsquo;s so bad about all but one of them. Here&rsquo;s a comment or two by way of explanation.
&ldquo;It is q [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Labour’s future defence cuts – inevitable and shameful</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-future-defence-cuts-inevitable-and-shameful.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-future-defence-cuts-inevitable-and-shameful.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-future-defence-cuts-inevitable-and-shameful.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning&rsquo;s Telegraph carries a story about a Centre for Policy Studies report warning that Labour&rsquo;s wasteful record on defence spending risks denting public support for defence in the  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Blair’s tainted legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/blairs-tainted-legacy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/blairs-tainted-legacy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Tony Blair give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry it&rsquo;s hard to not imagine that he feels he isn&rsquo;t just defending his actions over the Iraq War, but defending his entire legacy.
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		<title>Dear Sky/BBC: some cynicism and scepticism during this election please</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/dear-skybbc-some-cynicism-and-scepticism-during-this-election-please.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/dear-skybbc-some-cynicism-and-scepticism-during-this-election-please.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sky/BBC,

For reasons of convalescence I have been stuck at home and have &ndash; as one does &ndash; found time to watch your rolling news services. Can&rsquo;t say I&rsquo;m all that impressed. [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Lies, damned lies and recession statistics</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lies-damned-lies-and-recession-statistics.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lies-damned-lies-and-recession-statistics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T Breaker (@DavidTBreaker)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lies-damned-lies-and-recession-statistics.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The balloons are out in 10 Downing Street, the angel delight setting in the fridge, and Harriet Harman is already going hyper after scoffing a big wobbly red jelly in the shape of Gordon Brown whilst  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Gordon's Governance by Polling</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordons-governance-by-polling.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordons-governance-by-polling.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Archibald (@benarchibald)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted my first missive on House of Twits to be amusing.  Followers of my blog may consider that to have been a long shot, but it was my aim in any case.  Unfortunately, there is very little amusing [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Society - those denying there’s a problem are condemning young people to poverty</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/society--those-denying-theres-a-problem-are-condemning-young-people-to-poverty.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/society--those-denying-theres-a-problem-are-condemning-young-people-to-poverty.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/society--those-denying-theres-a-problem-are-condemning-young-people-to-poverty.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last two days the Conservative Party has launched two key planks of its proposed platform for government &ndash; a set of policies on education and a response to the challenge presented by the  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Theory of Competitive Government</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-theory-of-competitive-government.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-theory-of-competitive-government.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of his more that usually stupid comments our Prime Minister said this:
&quot;We're the Government doing the most for the people of this country.&quot;
Unlike all the other Governments in the co [...]]]></description>

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		<title>One-Term Barry</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/one-term-barry.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/one-term-barry.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Barrett (@matthewrbarrett)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I notice nobody on here has yet commented on the Republican win in Massachusetts last night.
Well, when Liberal Democrat supporters, the socialists, and half the modern Conservative party's members su [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Defending CCTV</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/defending-cctv.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/defending-cctv.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s becoming increasingly fashionable to knock the use of CCTV as if it is inherently evil. Bizarrely &ndash; since I would consider myself to be a strong supporter of civil liberties &ndash; I [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why Labour supporters should examine their conscience</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-labour-supporters-should-examine-their-conscience.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-labour-supporters-should-examine-their-conscience.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that many good and worthy people beating the drum for New Labour ahead of the election must be doing so even though their hearts are not in it. Maybe you can forgive and forget about taking th [...]]]></description>

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		<title>How Labour failed working people (the short version)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/how-labour-failed-working-people-the-short-version.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/how-labour-failed-working-people-the-short-version.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I&rsquo;ve argued that our approach to regeneration and social change amounts to little more than sending middle class folk into poor communities to say: &ldquo;there, there&rdquo; and to gi [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Welcome to Will Hutton's cuddly fascism - his Brave New World</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/welcome-to-will-huttons-cuddly-fascism--his-brave-new-world.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/welcome-to-will-huttons-cuddly-fascism--his-brave-new-world.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Hutton wrote an article in last Sunday&rsquo;s Observer arguing in his inimitable, terribly reasonable way that &ldquo;class&rdquo; still matters. And what a piece!
Dear old Uncle Will (pictured) [...]]]></description>

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		<title>This is why I vote Conservative</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/this-is-why-i-vote-conservative.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/this-is-why-i-vote-conservative.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Conyers (@oxfordspring)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I heard some very exciting news.
It appeared last night here on the BBC news website, and this morning was announced as official party policy on the Conservative Party website.&nbsp;Yes &nda [...]]]></description>

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		<title>If Only We Had Sonic Screwdrivers</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/if-only-we-had-sonic-screwdrivers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/if-only-we-had-sonic-screwdrivers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Barrett (@matthewrbarrett)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading through my fellow House of Twits frontbench blogs, I noticed Liberal Democrat frontbencher, Caron Lindsay wrote:
&quot;Clearly, the Labour Party is not without some issues right now and  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brown’s great expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/browns-great-expectations.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/browns-great-expectations.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/browns-great-expectations.html</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I doubt it has escaped anyone&rsquo;s attention that 2010 is going to be an election year. In London we are faced with the prospect of a double header, with people electing their MPs and their council [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why is it that private monopolies are bad whereas public monopolies are good?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-is-it-that-private-monopolies-are-bad-whereas-public-monopolies-are-good.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-is-it-that-private-monopolies-are-bad-whereas-public-monopolies-are-good.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[While standing in a queue at the railway station recently I pondered a little on the contradiction of monopoly (the useless station operator had just three tills open at the busiest time of the year f [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Social media can't win an election for anyone - get out and knock on doors!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/social-media-cant-win-an-election-for-anyone--get-out-and-knock-on-doors.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/social-media-cant-win-an-election-for-anyone--get-out-and-knock-on-doors.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[They&rsquo;re at it again swallowing the &ldquo;social media are changing political campaigning&rdquo; line put out by the blogosphere&rsquo;s elite.

Today Toby Helm in the Observer is peddling this  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>For heaven's sake Gordon, foxes are not the country's priority...really!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/for-heavens-sake-gordon-foxes-are-not-the-countrys-priorityreally.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/for-heavens-sake-gordon-foxes-are-not-the-countrys-priorityreally.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are with an economy mired deeply in recession, public finances in crisis, our troops dying in Afghanistan, folk losing their houses, jobs and savings and the highest levels of violent crime fo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why the arguments for &quot;the great leaders debate&quot; are wrong and dangerous</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-the-arguments-for-the-great-leaders-debate-are-wrong-and-dangerous.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-the-arguments-for-the-great-leaders-debate-are-wrong-and-dangerous.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave ten reasons why the &ldquo;great leaders debate&rdquo; is a bad idea some while back &ndash; non-one has challenged any of those reasons. All I get is the &lsquo;bestseller syndrome&rsquo; &nda [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Let's forget about Copenhagen and just get on with the job</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lets-forget-about-copenhagen-and-just-get-on-with-the-job.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lets-forget-about-copenhagen-and-just-get-on-with-the-job.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had promised myself that I wouldn&rsquo;t write about climate change, Copenhagen and the futility of boondoggles but it appears I lied. So let&rsquo;s start with the heart of the debate at the momen [...]]]></description>

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		<title>CCTV. Revisited.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cctv-revisited.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cctv-revisited.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the issue of CCTV has raised it&rsquo;s head. This time it is as a result of a &lsquo;Big Brother Watch&rsquo; press release that, I believe, totally misses the real point.
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		<title>The pointless exercise of stop and search</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-pointless-exercise-of-stop-and-search.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-pointless-exercise-of-stop-and-search.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve touched on police powers to stop and search a couple of times in the past. Once when I was subject to a stop &ndash; but not a search - and&nbsp;I&rsquo;ve been sat on the last statistical  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Labour’s military shame – defence cuts and incompetence</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-military-shame-defence-cuts-and-incompetence.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-military-shame-defence-cuts-and-incompetence.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As I correctly pointed out last week, the Forces have received a very raw deal from the Government.
First there was Alistair Darling&rsquo;s concealed &pound;2.2bn cut in the Pre-Budget Report.  Now L [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why we need to understand cheese (not to mention beer, bread and football)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-we-need-to-understand-cheese-not-to-mention-beer-bread-and-football.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-we-need-to-understand-cheese-not-to-mention-beer-bread-and-football.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&hellip;or for that matter twenty different names for a teacake, hundreds of different beers and around 200 professional football teams.
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		<title>Poor by-election results - why the Conservatives should worry but not panic</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/poor-by-election-results--why-the-conservatives-should-worry-but-not-panic.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/poor-by-election-results--why-the-conservatives-should-worry-but-not-panic.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Various folk are getting excited over the rather poor showing of the Conservatives in recent local by-elections. Even leaving aside the arrant nonsense from twits like Gerald Warner (what is it about  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Darling’s last pre-Budget report</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/darlings-last-pre-budget-report.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/darlings-last-pre-budget-report.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 2008 blog on the benefits of low taxation, I suggested that the temporary VAT cut probably wasn&rsquo;t that good a measure, and that efficient and effective government was a much better way of p [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Pre-budget report 2009 – two predictions</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pre-budget-report-2009-two-predictions.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pre-budget-report-2009-two-predictions.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m no expert on economics, but since that doesn&rsquo;t seem to matter when it comes to leading the Treasury, I see no reason why I shouldn&rsquo;t offer two, probably terribly illiterate, pred [...]]]></description>

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		<title>More people watch a football match than march on Westminster - says it all...</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/more-people-watch-a-football-match-than-march-on-westminster--says-it-all-reall.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/more-people-watch-a-football-match-than-march-on-westminster--says-it-all-reall.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arsenal vs Stoke: 60,048
West Ham vs Stoke: 34,980
So that's a shade below 100,000 people going to a premier league football game in London. So what you ask? Well...
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		<title>Confessions of a Speaker's Wife</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/confessions-of-a-speakers-wife.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/confessions-of-a-speakers-wife.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some shocking confessions there from a would-be MP&hellip;she confesses to being both a member of the Young Conservatives AND an advertising executive. Either one of those should pretty much disqualif [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Tough on crime, sensitive to the data protection and human rights of criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/tough-on-crime-sensitive-to-the-data-protection-and-human-rights-of-criminals.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/tough-on-crime-sensitive-to-the-data-protection-and-human-rights-of-criminals.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&ldquo;It is vital people know that criminals will not escape the consequences of their crimes.&rdquo; Is the hard hitting and no-nonsense conclusion from Justice Secretary Jack Straw to a BBC report  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Ken Clarke and the Kings of the Jungle - where are Labour's Big Beasts?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle--where-are-labours-big-beasts.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/ken-clarke-and-the-kings-of-the-jungle--where-are-labours-big-beasts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Wandsworth Conservatives hosted Ken Clarke for their annual fundraising dinner last night. Those that follow me on Twitter will know I was a little, shall I say, cynical of the motives behind these di [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Making innocent people homeless doesn't solve our housing problems, Mr Denham</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/making-innocent-people-homeless-doesnt-solve-our-housing-problems-mr-denham.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/making-innocent-people-homeless-doesnt-solve-our-housing-problems-mr-denham.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes things just make me cross as they are so pointless, so obviously about ministerial willy wagging rather than addressing any real problem. The announcement by John Denham, Secretary of State  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Prisoners’ votes – ECHR wrong about rights</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/prisoners-votes-echr-wrong-about-rights.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/prisoners-votes-echr-wrong-about-rights.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Grauniad&rsquo;s Comment is Free (CiF &ndash; sterilises all debates), Jack Straw is &ldquo;dragging his feet&rdquo; over the idea that all prisoners should be given the right to vote [...]]]></description>

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		<title>How the NHS should clean up its act</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/how-the-nhs-should-clean-up-its-act.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/how-the-nhs-should-clean-up-its-act.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellee Seymour</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s alarming report on the Dr Foster Hospital Guide about our under performing NHS trusts &ndash; based on a range of indicators including death rates, infection rates and staffing levels &n [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Prime Minister’s Questions – Hizb ut Tahrir and Balls’s balls-up</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/prime-ministers-questions-hizb-ut-tahrir-and-ballss-balls-up.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/prime-ministers-questions-hizb-ut-tahrir-and-ballss-balls-up.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s PMQs were probably the most fascinating &ndash; and telling &ndash; for some weeks.  After the traditional litany of the fallen and a solemn statement about the flooding in Cumbria, the  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Suffolk swedes and apples</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/suffolk-swedes-and-apples.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/suffolk-swedes-and-apples.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellee Seymour</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[First our Norfolk folk were insultingly dubbed the &ldquo;Turnip Taliban&rdquo;. And now Conservatives in the neighbouring county of Suffolk who are selecting a parliamentary candidate this Friday hav [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Jedward and the Conservatives, Majorities, polls and the election</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/jedward-and-the-conservatives-majorities-polls-and-the-election.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/jedward-and-the-conservatives-majorities-polls-and-the-election.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Conservatives are using their digital media sites to display a poster capitalising on the end of Jedward. (Actually, they are probably also astutely aware that they will get far more coverage usin [...]]]></description>

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		<title>BNP strongest in places with large muslim populations? Er...nope.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/bnp-strongest-in-places-with-large-muslim-populations-ernope.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/bnp-strongest-in-places-with-large-muslim-populations-ernope.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Various folk have been going on about how the BNP are strongest in Muslim areas. The very lovely Al Jahom quotes Melanie Philips saying that these racist prats are strongest...
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		<title>Robert Sturdy accuses EU of “a classic fudge” over top two new jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/robert-sturdy-accuses-eu-of-a-classic-fudge-over-top-two-new-jobs.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/robert-sturdy-accuses-eu-of-a-classic-fudge-over-top-two-new-jobs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellee Seymour</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Eastern Region MEP Robert Sturdy has accused the EU of &ldquo;a classic fudge&rdquo; over the appointment of its first president and foreign minister, the two top jobs in Europe.
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		<title>Copyright, patents and bloody lawyers</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/copyright-patents-and-bloody-lawyers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/copyright-patents-and-bloody-lawyers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a fan of copyright and the protection of intellectual property - given that I'm sitting in a house paid for from earnings in publishing, advertising and marketing it's hard not to take such a view [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Reasons to Vote Tory No. 1: Ed Balls, education and free schools</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/reasons-to-vote-tory-no-1-ed-balls-education-and-free-schools.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/reasons-to-vote-tory-no-1-ed-balls-education-and-free-schools.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been an adult customer of our state education system (I attended a state grammar school myself but the nutcases running education scrapped them) - we took a little peek at it back around  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Queen’s Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-queens-speech.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-queens-speech.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s Queen&rsquo;s Speech is breathtaking for a two reasons.  First, for its dreamlike surreality &ndash; a packed progamme with barely enough time to get in even cursory readings of the vari [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The political insult (and me)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-political-insult-and-me.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-political-insult-and-me.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[My earlier post about chugging made me think that I have been attracting a few insults lately. I&rsquo;m not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. As Wilde said &ldquo;the only thing worse than being [...]]]></description>

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		<title>It's an election we want Nick...and we want it now!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/its-an-election-we-want-nickand-we-want-it-now.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/its-an-election-we-want-nickand-we-want-it-now.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clegg clambered up onto the limited soap box provided by the Independent to get all radical and angry about the Queen's Speech.

...and what does he want?
1. Fixed term parliaments - so MPs get a [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Sunday Times and Belle de Jour</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-sunday-times-and-belle-de-jour.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-sunday-times-and-belle-de-jour.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellee Seymour</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As intrigued as I was to learn the true identify of blogger Belle de Jour and her Diary of a London Call Girl &ndash; she is revealed as a research scientist by the name of Dr Brooke Magnanti &ndash;  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why barring people without a degree from nursing is wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-barring-people-without-a-degree-from-nursing-is-wrong.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-barring-people-without-a-degree-from-nursing-is-wrong.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Family Story #1
My Uncle was a judge. OK, I hear you - &quot;Tory has judge for uncle, surprise, surprise&quot;. But my uncle - Ray Palmer - was one of the first solicitors to join the circuit.
So wha [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The never-ending recession</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-never-ending-recession.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-never-ending-recession.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[We are now in the longest recession this country has suffered.
No political points. The recession continues, unemployment goes up.
Last month we saw a small drop in Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) claims,  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Government has no idea how many people are dying from hospital infections</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/government-has-no-idea-how-many-people-are-dying-from-hospital-infections.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/government-has-no-idea-how-many-people-are-dying-from-hospital-infections.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellee Seymour</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I find it quite shocking that the government has no idea how many people are dying from hospital infections. The publication today of a report on hospital infections highlights how the NHS&rsquo;s &po [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Remembrance Day</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/remembrance-day.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/remembrance-day.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I took my son along to the Act of Remembrance in Battersea Park this morning.
It might, at first sight, be a slightly odd thing to do. He has just turned one and I can&rsquo;t claim he showed much awa [...]]]></description>

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		<title>On Worklessness and reaching those 'Sunlit Uplands'...</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/on-worklessness-and-reaching-those-sunlit-uplands.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/on-worklessness-and-reaching-those-sunlit-uplands.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I know of almost no-one who likes the term &ldquo;worklessness&rdquo;. Not only is the word clumsy but it conjures up an impression of being powerless, even incompetent, certainly unable to undertake  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brown deserves praise, not condemnation</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/brown-deserves-praise-not-condemnation.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/brown-deserves-praise-not-condemnation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many things for which I would criticise the Prime Minister. Having bad hand-writing because he is half-blind and making some spelling mistakes are not on that list.
That he has was a story t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Gordon Brown’s letter to Jacqui Janes</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordon-browns-letter-to-jacqui-janes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordon-browns-letter-to-jacqui-janes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;ve served in Afghanistan and spoken to people there who complained about lack of equipment.  Yesterday I spoke to a child whose dad lost a leg in Afghanistan.  As an RAF officer, I shared in t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Pakistan has nuclear bombs - and 80 million illiterates</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pakistan-has-nuclear-bombs--and-80-million-illiterates.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pakistan-has-nuclear-bombs--and-80-million-illiterates.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph has produced a very worrying article about illiteracy, corruption and a failed education system in Pakistan:
&quot;About half of all the nation's adult men and two-thirds of women are il [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Now 99% opinion free</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/now-99-opinion-free.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/now-99-opinion-free.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[A series of events over the past few weeks have left me realising quite how dangerous it is to hold opinions &ndash; to the extent I&rsquo;m thinking of giving them up.
In recent weeks I&rsquo;ve had  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Why a lottery might be better than elections</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-a-lottery-might-be-better-than-elections.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/why-a-lottery-might-be-better-than-elections.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[MPs don't have a good press at the moment. In fact most folk's opinion of the typical MP isn't printable in a family-oriented blog such as this one. Suffice it to say that self-serving, greedy, opport [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Free trade, Cullingworth and the Great Schism</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/free-trade-cullingworth-and-the-great-schism.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/free-trade-cullingworth-and-the-great-schism.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[My Party has, throughout its history been bedevilled by a &ldquo;Great Schism&rdquo;. And each new generation of political activists, MPs, members and debaters has returned to a reincarnation of this  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>An Angry Tory writes...</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/an-angry-tory-writes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/an-angry-tory-writes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you get angry sometimes? In our household anger is an ever present danger &ndash; usually brought on by the reading of a broadsheet newspaper or the watching of some television news programme. It i [...]]]></description>

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		<title>I think those idiots are right: politics has got pretty boring!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/i-think-those-idiots-are-right-politics-has-got-pretty-boring.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/i-think-those-idiots-are-right-politics-has-got-pretty-boring.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been actively involved in politics since the age of 15 &ndash; as a young activist, party agent, branch chairman, councillor and parliamentary candidate. Now while some would say I should have  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brown, biscuits and decisive leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/brown-biscuits-and-decisive-leadership.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/brown-biscuits-and-decisive-leadership.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every Prime Minister has a biscuit. Thatcher was a bit of a garibaldi; a lot of people loved her, but a lot of people hated her. Major was a rich tea; honest and decent, but a bit bland and &ndash; fr [...]]]></description>

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		<title>£175,000,000,000 in debt and the Government produces glossy brochures!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/175000000000-in-debt-and-the-government-produces-glossy-brochures.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/175000000000-in-debt-and-the-government-produces-glossy-brochures.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Home from work. Cup of tea. Post (this being a non-strike day it seems). Blood pressure soars.
Why? Because this organisation - a waste of time and money if ever there was one - spent your and my mone [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Labour MP:  Mandelson is briefing against Gordon Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labour-mp-mandelson-is-briefing-against-gordon-brown.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labour-mp-mandelson-is-briefing-against-gordon-brown.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Lord Mandelson is privately briefing against the Prime Minister, according to a senior Labour MP.
The MP, who I met at Parliament last night, said Alan Johnson stands ready to fill a vacancy if necess [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Lobby your MP for public spending accountability</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lobby-your-mp-for-public-spending-accountability.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/lobby-your-mp-for-public-spending-accountability.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (Wednesday) sees an opposition day debate on &lsquo;local spending reports&rsquo;. These were introduced by the Sustainable Communities Act 2007 and were intended to detail all the public spe [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A reminder why the private sector is better than the state</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-reminder-why-the-private-sector-is-better-than-the-state.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-reminder-why-the-private-sector-is-better-than-the-state.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post Tracey Cheetham takes to task a business that wrote to her regarding the delivery of wine and the postal strikes. Now I could take her to task over the position she took - business sh [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Help, help!!! Man the barricades!! Break out the ammunition!!...</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/help-help-man-the-barricades-break-out-the-ammunition.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/help-help-man-the-barricades-break-out-the-ammunition.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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The fascists are coming! The fascists are coming!!
Rather too gleefully for my liking the newspapers are reporting an increase in the level of support for the BNP following Nick Griffin&rsquo;s train [...]]]></description>

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		<title>BBC and the BNP: what were they thinking?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/bbc-and-the-bnp-what-were-they-thinking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea what the makers of Question Time were thinking when they decided to make Nick Griffin the focus of the programme. Forget the nonsense they are bleating about the audience deciding the q [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The BNP and the lynch mob</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnp-and-the-lynch-mob.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnp-and-the-lynch-mob.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with a heavy heart I find myself having sympathy with Nick Griffin.
Today he is bemoaning his fate of having had to face a BBC organised lynch mob. No better than he deserves you might think and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Nick Griffin on Question Time – the verdict</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/nick-griffin-on-question-time-the-verdict.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that was entertaining!  Griffin, for all his bravado, was clearly terribly insecure; his trembling hands and querulous tone were symptoms of a man who knows how roundly he is despised.  The prob [...]]]></description>

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		<title>SHOCK: Mayor of Doncaster complies with Labour Government advice on translation!</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/shock-mayor-of-doncaster-complies-with-labour-government-advice-on-translation.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/shock-mayor-of-doncaster-complies-with-labour-government-advice-on-translation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge furore greeted the announcement by the newly elected Mayor of Doncaster that translation services should be scrapped. This was proof positive that said mayor was either mad, stupid or racist -  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Nick Griffin on Question Time – Unite Against Fascism’s shame</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/nick-griffin-on-question-time-unite-against-fascisms-shame.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening&rsquo;s Question Time is in the can; according to Auntie, there is anger and shouting aplenty, but the filming went smoothly.  All well and good; I hope Griffin&rsquo;s bonk-eyed lunacy i [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The BNP and tolerance</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnp-and-tolerance.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnp-and-tolerance.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The past few weeks have seen tonight&rsquo;s BBC Question Time take up a lot of people&rsquo;s time and energy because the leader of a political party is on the panel. Nothing at all controversial abo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Prime Minister’s Questions – another ‘la la la’ affair</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/prime-ministers-questions-another-la-la-la-affair.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Very dull PMQs today.  David Cameron&rsquo;s line on the Royal Mail &ndash; that the Government&rsquo;s decision to kill off the organisation&rsquo;s part privatisation was one of the contributory fac [...]]]></description>

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		<title>In praise of idiots</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/in-praise-of-idiots.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/in-praise-of-idiots.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The ancient Greeks used their word for &lsquo;private&rsquo; as a derogatory term for someone who took no part in &ldquo;public affairs&rdquo;. That word ἴ&delta;&iota;&omicron;&sigmaf; (idios) is t [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The BNP’s shameful abuse of the Armed Forces</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnps-shameful-abuse-of-the-armed-forces.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-bnps-shameful-abuse-of-the-armed-forces.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Four distinguished retired generals have put their names to a letter condemning the exploitation of military imagery by racists and political extremists. While the generals do not mention any one grou [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Party leaders’ debates – how to proceed?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/party-leaders-debates-how-to-proceed.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/party-leaders-debates-how-to-proceed.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, perhaps typically, the three parties can&rsquo;t agree on the format for the pre-election televised debates.

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		<title>Royal Mail’s strikes could be good for consumers</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/royal-mails-strikes-could-be-good-for-consumers.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/royal-mails-strikes-could-be-good-for-consumers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The CWU is angry about the Royal Mail&rsquo;s attempt to recruit 30,000 temps to put a dent in the massive backlog that will build up as Billy &lsquo;Scargill&rsquo; Hayes takes his comrades out on st [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Pitstop on the road trip to Copenhagen. Truth, lies and climate change.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pitstop-on-the-road-trip-to-copenhagen-truth-lies-and-climate-change.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/pitstop-on-the-road-trip-to-copenhagen-truth-lies-and-climate-change.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Like 99% of bloggers I ignored the call to post about climate change on the 15th October. Mostly because the whole climate change &amp; global warming &quot;debate&quot; (if it can be characterised as [...]]]></description>

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		<title>20 reasons why we get the MPs we deserve.</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/20-reasons-why-we-get-the-mps-we-deserve.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever:
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		<title>The broken society revisited (plus a little on big government)</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-broken-society-revisited-plus-a-little-on-big-government.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-broken-society-revisited-plus-a-little-on-big-government.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since Julian Dobson has smothered me with kind words and references to West Ham winning the world cup it would be churlish to return to the debate. However, I am nothing if not a churl!
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		<title>Forget the rhetoric - the fact's say we have a shattered society.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/forget-the-rhetoric--the-facts-say-we-have-a-shattered-society.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/forget-the-rhetoric--the-facts-say-we-have-a-shattered-society.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Julian Dobson looks at the manner in which the tragedy of Fiona Pilkington has been used by pundits and politicians to provide the basis of arguments in support of particular policies or positions. An [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The poor always pay in the end</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-poor-always-pay-in-the-end.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been an extraordinary amount of gibberish written about David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Conference last week. Perhaps the most common deliberate misconception put about by critics [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Last night’s Question Time seemed to highlight the choice facing the country...</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/last-nights-question-time-seemed-to-highlight-the-choice-facing-the-country.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[If council business slows down during conference season it grinds to a halt during the Conservative Party Conference. A lot of colleagues were in Manchester this week meaning, for the political side o [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama – what a joke</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-nobel-peace-prize-for-barack-obama-what-a-joke.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-nobel-peace-prize-for-barack-obama-what-a-joke.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Apparently, this is due to his good intentions; his &ldquo;extraordinary efforts&rdquo; to build strong diplomacy and to &ldquo;promote nuclear disarmamen [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Whatever Cameron says, it would be better said in Blackpool</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/whatever-cameron-says-it-would-be-better-said-in-blackpool.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[You will have spotted that I&rsquo;m not at conference which seems to have surprised many. A few years ago it would have surprised me; I used to love conference, and from 1997 until 2002 I was a regul [...]]]></description>

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		<title>My champagne shame</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/my-champagne-shame.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I owe readers and residents a confession.
At the weekend I drank champagne. I had quite a lot too. This is obviously the single biggest issue that faces Wandsworth at this time &ndash; so I thought yo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Ben Summerskill of Stonewall fails to please the Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/ben-summerskill-of-stonewall-fails-to-please-the-conservatives.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/ben-summerskill-of-stonewall-fails-to-please-the-conservatives.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just emerged from a truly fizzing fringe event (which, should the appalling Kevin Maguire be reading, does not mean &lsquo;champagne fulled&rsquo;).  Ben Summerskill of Stonewall &ndash; he of  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Conservative Conference Gay Pride</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the oddest thing about the Conference so far was Waitrose&rsquo;s &lsquo;End of the Line&rsquo; event &ndash; an undoubtedly worthy explanation of the appalling consequences of overfishing and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Mayor freezes council tax again</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/mayor-freezes-council-tax-again.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/mayor-freezes-council-tax-again.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I touched on the Labour gimmick of freezing council tax in the eight London boroughs they control and suggested that, actually, if you wanted value and quality services you were better stick [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Conservatives on Business – Ken Clarke attacks the sausage machine</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/conservatives-on-business-ken-clarke-attacks-the-sausage-machine.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather&rsquo;s pretty foul here in Manchester at the moment, so we activists were on the lookout for a bit of sunshine in this afternoon&rsquo;s Business plenary.  I think it more than did its jo [...]]]></description>

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		<title>George Osborne speech to Conservative Conference – “We’re all in this together”</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/george-osborne-speech-to-conservative-conference-were-all-in-this-together.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m not a big fan of George Osborne &ndash; usually, I find him a little&hellip; unctious.  I don&rsquo;t think I&rsquo;m alone in that, either; but I do think that today&rsquo;s speech to Confe [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A couple of thoughts from somewhere other than Manchester - on what matters...</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-couple-of-thoughts-from-somewhere-other-than-manchester--on-what-matters.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm sat in the Earl of Doncaster Hotel (a fine art deco building in Donny) and have decided - nothing better to do you see - to post a couple of comments about politics that aren't informed by the hot [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The return of politics</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-return-of-politics.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-return-of-politics.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Whisper it quietly but politics can, at times, be a little&hellip;.boring. After 12 long years of a Labour Government, you might forgive politicians and commentators alike of a little fatigue with the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Work Programme – an end to the benefits trap?</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-work-programme-an-end-to-the-benefits-trap.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-work-programme-an-end-to-the-benefits-trap.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Home for Labour's benefits army
A press release arrives from CCHQ, outlining the party&rsquo;s Work Programme &ndash; a new scheme to try to tackle the rising number of people stuck in Labour&rsquo;s  [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Thoughts following a brief glimpse of Cameron interviewed by Marr</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/thoughts-following-a-brief-glimpse-of-cameron-interviewed-by-marr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't watch big political interviews as a rule and certainly not those conducted before my usual time of rising on Sundays.  But this morning I was caught out turning on the telly and had to watch - [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Off to Manchester</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme Archer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m just packing for the trip to Manchester for Party Conference tomorrow. I had a Last Swim in the York Hall this afternoon, so I&rsquo;m redolent of eau du chlorine, which should make for a ni [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Opinion polls and the science of the dead cat bounce</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/opinion-polls-and-the-science-of-the-dead-cat-bounce.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/opinion-polls-and-the-science-of-the-dead-cat-bounce.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[There appear to be different opinions about the veracity or otherwise of claims that deceased felines rebound when dropped from a great height. The evidence of large amounts of force on animals sugges [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Cameron on Marr</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cameron-on-marr.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/cameron-on-marr.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 10:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be silly to expect fireworks from DC on the eve of the Conservative Conference, so it's hardly surprising that Marr's interview felt a bit flat.
On Europe, Cameron stuck resolutely to the lin [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Conservative Conference 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/conservative-conference-2009.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/conservative-conference-2009.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[As Conservative activists gather in Manchester for the final Conservative conference ahead of the general election, the party is under greater pressure than ever before to prove that it can be, as Ken [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Labour’s flexible, and political, approach to council tax</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-flexible-and-political-approach-to-council-tax.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/labours-flexible-and-political-approach-to-council-tax.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&rsquo;s news that all the Labour councils in London are to freeze council tax next year (I say all, they only have eight) came as something of a shock.
First of all, I don&rsquo;t think London L [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A slight change in service…</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-slight-change-in-service.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/a-slight-change-in-service.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s not even a year since I started this blog, and I have to say that I&rsquo;m incredibly pleased I did. If I have any regret it is that I didn&rsquo;t start it sooner. The response has been f [...]]]></description>

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		<title>O to be in England now that...</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/o-to-be-in-england-now-that.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;O to be in England now that...
...We DNA test black immigrants
...Lock up single mums
...Train CCTV into &quot;bad&quot; people's lives
...Arrest folk for taking snaps of coppers
...Brainwash ki [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Notes from a gulag for Dads</title>
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		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/notes-from-a-gulag-for-dads.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;My emasculation was completed this morning when I took MiniMe to Monkey Music for the first time.
It had to happen sooner or later, and while I&rsquo;m obviously a proud and doting Dad I can&rsq [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Labour conference shows politics at its best</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-labour-conference-shows-politics-at-its-best.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/the-labour-conference-shows-politics-at-its-best.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics are about hope. Or, at least, the best politics are about hope. Politics can represent a way to find freedom from tyranny, or simply highlight a future with a higher disposable income and mor [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Gordon Brown’s speech to Labour – the thieving magpie.</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordon-browns-speech-to-labour-the-thieving-magpie.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/gordon-browns-speech-to-labour-the-thieving-magpie.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tory Rascal (@toryrascal)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown has delivered his last speech to a Labour conference this side of the general election &ndash; possibly his last major political speech as the party&rsquo;s leader.  Given Lord Voldemort& [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Nick Clegg can take heart from Gordon Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/nick-clegg-can-take-heart-from-gordon-brown.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/nick-clegg-can-take-heart-from-gordon-brown.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Cousins (@jamescousins)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[The council goes into a mini-hibernation during party conference season, partly because so many councillors attend their conferences. This doesn&rsquo;t, however, apply during the Liberal Democrat con [...]]]></description>

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		<title>I want my government to be local, approachable and effective</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/i-want-my-government-to-be-local-approachable-and-effective.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/i-want-my-government-to-be-local-approachable-and-effective.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Cooke (@simonmagus)</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recall Arnold Moore, the Managing Director of Knightsbridge Furniture Productions, explaining to me about BS5750 (for young folk that's ISO9000). It was roughly like this:
&quot;You see Simon, I hav [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Three reasons why the City should fear a Chancellor Balls</title>
		<link>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/three-reasons-why-the-city-should-fear-a-chancellor-balls.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.houseoftwits.co.uk/tory/three-reasons-why-the-city-should-fear-a-chancellor-balls.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Leader Cramer</dc:creator>		
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		<description><![CDATA[If business and the City think a Chancellor Balls will be good for them, they should think again.
Heady times. Its 2006. The City credit boom is in full swing. Ed Balls is City Minister, winning frien [...]]]></description>

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