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	<description>Liberal Democrat campaigner for the St Mary&#039;s ward of Bury Council</description>
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		<title>Hello and goodbye</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been several months since I last posted, and in that time a number of people have asked why I stopped. So I thought I’d write one more post for now, just explaining why that was. It’s quite simple really – Since I’m no longer an elected Councillor, I know far less about what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Blog for Bury Council Leader</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/06/10/new-blog-for-bury-council-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new leadership of Bury Council continue to do positive things and reverse the trends of their Tory predecessors in some of the exact ways I&#8217;d have done if I&#8217;d have been running the place. The latest innovation coming from the Town Hall is the Leader&#8217;s Blog, written by Cllr Mike Connolly and available to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour future standing on flimsy foundations</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/06/05/labour-future-standing-on-flimsy-foundations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local MP and Shadow Culture Secretary Ivan Lewis has written an article in The Observer today setting out his latest thinking on Labour&#8217;s response to government policy. Unfortunately, despite clearly opposing much of what the government is doing, again there is no sign about what Ivan or Labour will actually do differently. It&#8217;s an article which, if party names were removed, could&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politicians can&#8217;t just do what they like</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/28/politicians-cant-just-do-what-they-like/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/28/politicians-cant-just-do-what-they-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict in the latest round of Sharon Shoesmith&#8217;s legal battle against her sacking has shown the dangerous path we sometimes find ourselves on when politicians pander to the mob&#8217;s mentality. The death of Baby P was a tragedy for so many reasons, of which maladministration at the Council concerned was certainly one. If, after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good things from local Labour?</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/19/good-things-from-local-labour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 22:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, it&#8217;s official, Labour run Bury again. Bob Bibby isn&#8217;t Council Leader any more (nor is he Bury Conservative Leader, replaced in that role by Cllr Roger Brown &#8211; the Tories replacing with a barrister someone who was pleasant enough in private but who often struggled to string a sentence together in public, and let [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour response to rape comments is a tragic waste of opportunity for debate</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/18/labour-response-to-rape-comments-is-a-tragic-waste-of-opportunity-for-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/18/labour-response-to-rape-comments-is-a-tragic-waste-of-opportunity-for-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 12:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government&#8217;s attitude to rape has been called into question today after Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke revealed plans to give offenders credit for an early guilty plea. During a radio discussion on the matter, he also said the following: &#8220;Rape includes date rape and 17 year-olds having intercourse with 15 year olds. Serious rape, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The swing of things</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/15/the-swing-of-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to organisers of the Prestwich Clough Day, which was a great success today despite the weather doing its utmost to try and ruin things. I went down fairly late on, hoping that the longer I left it the more chance there would be that the rain would stop. It didn&#8217;t, so I got wet. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bury Labour need a plan, and quickly</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/11/bury-labour-need-a-plan-and-quickly/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/11/bury-labour-need-a-plan-and-quickly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour took overall control of Bury Council last week when they achieved the final seat they needed by drawing straws after a dead heat. Now that the cheers have subsided, they need to come up with a plan to fill Bury&#8217;s budget hole, and they need to do it quickly. Since Labour&#8217;s victory, their Leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Coalition</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/11/happy-birthday-coalition/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/11/happy-birthday-coalition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coalition is one today. In the wake of last week&#8217;s cataclysmic election results, and if one listened to the doom-mongers in the media who are predicting that by 2015 I&#8217;ll be the only Lib Dem left alive, celebrating its birthday would feel a bit like celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of the flu strain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shifting down the gears</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/08/shifting-down-the-gears/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.4mp.org.uk/2011/05/08/shifting-down-the-gears/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the post-election weekend in Brecon, south Wales. It&#8217;s a place about as far from the suburban political madness of last week in Bury as it is possible to be, but I was helping out at a friend&#8217;s wedding there and sharing a barn with about six families-worth of screaming toddlers, so a rural rest [...]]]></description>
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