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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;re All Thatcherites Now&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/were-all-thatcherites-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Cameron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re all Thatcherites now&#8221; said David Cameron, just before the massive state-funded party political broadcast that was Thatcher&#8217;s funeral. Nick Clegg tried to distance himself from that sentiment, citing apartheid and gay rights as crucial differences. Cameron has led the call &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/were-all-thatcherites-now/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9856&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fourth Plinth Statue for Thatcher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fourth plinth Trafalgar Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, has suggested that the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square could be used for a statue of the recently deceased Margaret Thatcher. Personally, I think this is a bad idea. She was extremely divisive, and any statue &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/fourth-plinth-statue-for-thatcher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9764&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ding Dong! Thatcher&#8217;s Dead!</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/ding-dong-thatchers-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is no such thing as society.&#8221; Thatcher, 1988 &#8220;There is no such thing as Thatcher.&#8221; Society, 2013<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9738&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yet Another Daily Mail Assault on the Disabled</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/yet-another-daily-mail-assault-on-the-disabled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disabled parking permit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liz Jones]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that Facebook campaign against disabled people, attacking their &#8220;privilege&#8221; of having parking spaces reserved for them? Well now the Daily Mail has stepped up that campaign. After the Chancer of the Exchequer (and no, that&#8217;s not a typo) was photographed &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/yet-another-daily-mail-assault-on-the-disabled/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9716&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Forget the #wowpetition!</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/dont-forget-the-wowpetition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iain Duncan Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Petition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an astounding response to the petition demanding that Iain Duncan Smith back up his claim that he could live on £53 a week if he had to. It&#8217;s a semi-jocular petition, but it has already had an impact. &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/dont-forget-the-wowpetition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9685&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Mail Bigots Reach New Low</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/9670/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daily Mail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How stupid are the idiots at the Daily Mail? Their front page today branded everyone on benefits as murderers, suggesting that welfare makes the crime inevitable. Even if their readership is gullible enough to believe that (and I dare say &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/9670/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9670&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Loadsabastards!</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/loadsabastards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 23:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iain Duncan Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the Tory led coalition, aided and abetted by the Liberal Democrats, has brought in changes to the welfare state, putting lives at risk, either from the effects of poverty, as people on benefits (including many in work) see their &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/04/02/loadsabastards/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9642&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Slavery?</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/voluntary-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iain Duncan Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salvation Army]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really thought that the Salvation Army in the UK did a lot of good, on balance, despite my antipathy to religion and religious organisations. Their involvement with workfare has finished off any residual respect I had for them. The &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/voluntary-slavery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9588&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thin Skin of the Coalition Government</title>
		<link>http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/the-thin-skin-of-the-coalition-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned the other day that Mark Hoban had refused to meet a delegation from the Spartacus group, a loose affiliation of disabled people and supporters, and even refused to talk to Michael Meacher MP about it when he asked why &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/the-thin-skin-of-the-coalition-government/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9467&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Name May Change, But Disdain for the Poor Remains the Same</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DaveD</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, Iain Duncan Smith brought in a bill designed to deny illegally sanctioned jobseekers redress, by retrospectively changing the law. Picking on people who are barely able to afford to eat is bad enough, but legislating to declare your &#8230; <a href="http://neitshade.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/the-name-may-change-but-disdain-for-the-poor-remains-the-same/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neitshade.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15103250&#038;post=9456&#038;subd=neitshade&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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