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		<title>Cuts AND Reform.  Not Cuts Or Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/cuts-and-reform-not-cuts-or-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/08/cuts-and-reform-not-cuts-or-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tackling poverty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening, Iain Martin from the Wall Street Journal broke the news that the Chancellor and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions were close to agreeing a compromise on welfare reform.
“Under the proposals, If IDS can deliver the multi-billion savings that the Treasury demands, close to £3 billion of the savings will then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamenting The Decline Of Working Men&#8217;s Clubs</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/lamenting-the-decline-of-working-mens-clubs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/07/lamenting-the-decline-of-working-mens-clubs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Localism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As The Times (within the paywall) reported this morning, Trimdon Labour Club has poured its last pint.  The club where Tony Blair repeatedly popped along to when he wanted to connect with traditional working class voters closed yesterday.  It is a shame that Mr Blair couldn&#8217;t put his hand in his pockets to help the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Incentivisation Is Much More Effective Than Compulsion</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/why-incentivisation-is-much-more-effective-than-compulsion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/06/why-incentivisation-is-much-more-effective-than-compulsion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 07:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Localism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizen centric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of turning this into a site with a slightly peculiar focus on bin emptying policies, I have to take the equal risk of disagreeing with my Platform 10 comrade Fiona Melville, who wrote on the subject last week.
I understand Fiona’s point about local autonomy.  However, we shouldn’t miss the fundamental point that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Judiciary Should Only Be Neutral Arbiters In Industrial Relations</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/05/the-judiciary-should-only-be-neutral-arbiters-in-industrial-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/05/the-judiciary-should-only-be-neutral-arbiters-in-industrial-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 19:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[History is littered with examples of the judiciary almost arbitrarily ruling against trade unions.  Taff Vale and the Astbury Judgement during the General Strike are two of the numerous examples.  To that list can be added the High Court’s judgement against Unite on Monday.
This is not about the rights or wrongs of the BA strike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Conservative to save our constitution</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/vote-conservative-to-save-our-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/vote-conservative-to-save-our-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Byrne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parliament]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LORD NORTON OF LOUTH “I spend half of each week in Hull teaching about the British constitution and the other half in Westminster trying to save it.” 
The Conservative Party, despite myths to the contrary, has always been a driver of constitutional reform. In 1979, the departmental select committee system was one of the measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primrose Day, Progress, and Enduring Toryism</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/primrose-day-progress-and-enduring-toryism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/primrose-day-progress-and-enduring-toryism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Progressive Conservatism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was Primrose Day, a date singled out by Conservatives in the late-nineteen-century to honour the achievements of Benjamin Disraeli and to inspire the party by his example.
19th April is, incidentally, the day Disraeli died in 1881:  a controversial figure in his own time, he has become for many the exemplar of the Conservative party, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy of the Day: National Citizens Service</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/policy-of-the-day-national-citizens-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/04/policy-of-the-day-national-citizens-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fiona Melville</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Mobility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it was yesterday (again) but the firming up of the idea that was first suggested during the Conservative Leadership Campaign in 2005 is excellent.
First of all, Michael Caine, how exciting! I wish I&#8217;d been in CCHQ for that press conference.
After I left school, I had, I think, four months before I started university. Apart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PBAge: Why Brown doesn&#8217;t &#8211; cannot &#8211; get it</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/pbage-why-brown-doesnt-cannot-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/pbage-why-brown-doesnt-cannot-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betapolitics</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cameron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making a Difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-Bureaucratic Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reengaging Voters]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Post-bureaucratic age (PBAge) is not a technological innovation. It is a philosophy for government. It is about trusting people to know what solutions best fit their daily lives. The PBAge is about state institutions opening up resources so that individuals and communities can choose how they use them. The relationship between government and governed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education reform, not kneejerk populism, addresses fears about immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/education-reform-not-kneejerk-populism-addresses-fears-about-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/03/education-reform-not-kneejerk-populism-addresses-fears-about-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Byrne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Governments are under enormous pressure especially in Britain where both main political parties are pressing for immigration to be an issue at the next general election with a race to the bottom of who can impose the strictest controls. They face conflicting pressures: significant levels of resistance to increased immigration in public opinion on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lamenting Purnell&#8217;s Departure.  Can Radical Ideas Still Flourish Within Parliament?</title>
		<link>http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/lamenting-purnells-departure-is-radical-thinking-incompatible-with-parliament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/lamenting-purnells-departure-is-radical-thinking-incompatible-with-parliament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Skelton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Future building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Living in Britain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.platform10.org/?p=941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[James Purnell’s announcement last week that he is stepping down from Parliament is a great shame to anybody who wants politics to achieve progressive ends.  I have written before about how Purnell underestimates the ideas put forward as part of the ‘progressive Conservative’ umbrella.   Having said that, his contributions, particularly since leaving the Cabinet, have [...]]]></description>
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