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		<title>When did it become beyond repair? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://theraffishdandy.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/when-did-it-become-beyond-repair-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To return briefly to a subject I discussed earlier in the month, in the Guardian today Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt highlight the aborted election as the key moment that Brown lost his way. I still believe that it was the Inheritance Tax incident that followed shortly afterwards for the reasons stated earlier.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=115&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People working with children shouldn&#8217;t need police checks say right-wing &#8216;think tank&#8217; Civitas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is putting people off working with children, knowing that they have to be checked for previous offences against children. Why can&#8217;t we be left to use our intuition?&#8221; Off the top of my head I can think of a couple of reasons. This isn&#8217;t a civil liberties issue, it isn&#8217;t &#8220;political correctness gone mad&#8221;, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=113&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write a letter to the Daily Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey kids, are you stuck for things to do when it rains during the summer holidays? Why not make like a grown up and write to the Daily Mail? It&#8217;s fun, it gets you attention and it only costs the price of a stamp. Here&#8217;s how: Take an article from the Daily Mail, it doesn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=111&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The top Tories in Britain today</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With David Davis gone, this is an opportune time to reacquaint ourselves with the top Tories in Britain today.  Here they are in all of their glory: David Cameron- Conservative Party Leader: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford. Boris Johnson- Mayor of London: educated at Magdalene College, Oxford. William Hague- Shadow Foreign Secretary: educated at Magdalene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=110&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama bringing communism to the White House by stealth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The worry is that middle America falls for nonsense such as this.  Between bloggers with a screw loose and the systemic smear campaign being waged by Fox, Obama is up against more blatant dirty tricks than I&#8217;ve seen in a Presidential campaign. Unless you count stealing Florida as a dirty trick, obviously.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=108&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When did it become beyond repair?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theraffishdandy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably early for a post-mortem, but even David Davis&#8217;s grandstanding won&#8217;t damage the Conservatives sufficiently to rescue the Gordon Brown train-wreck we&#8217;re seeing unfold.  A Labour Party that has simultaneously alienated its natural left-wing support and also the centre-ground voters it needs to secure victory and has responded with a bid to woo right-wing voters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=106&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I know the Apprentice is faked</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It suddenly occured to me reading Andrew Collins&#8217; excellent blog. The &#8220;Roulette&#8221; advert wasn&#8217;t filmed by Lee McQueen and Claire at all, it was made using the outtakes of the advertisement for Beast aftershave that Stallone does in Rocky II. Grrr!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=104&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing politics, but the ends justify the means</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[42-day detention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke earlier about the hapless political manouevering of Gordon Brown and his advisers.  Reluctantly I have to applaud the oh-so intelligent reaction of David Davis.  His motivation is clearly to undermine and destabilise the Government further, but the outcome will hopefully be the end of the misbegotten 42-day detention plan and possibly Brown himself.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=103&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Absolute conviction or bloody-minded stubbornness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way that Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith have clung to their plan for extended detention (now reduced to 42 days from 90 in a kind of political closing down sale) is perversely admirable.  Like those mad inventors who just will not be told that their combined fridge and tumble dryer will not sell, Brown has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=101&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;There is no appetite in the party for a change of leader&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 23:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless they&#8217;ve been misquoted, in the last 24 hours John Prescott, Alan Johnson and David Miliband have all used the phrase &#8216;there is no appetite&#8217; to rule out a move to oust Gordon Brown from number 10.  The day before that the Guardian used it.  Now THAT is being on-message.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theraffishdandy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3519605&amp;post=100&amp;subd=theraffishdandy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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