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	<title>Richard Baum</title>
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		<title>Post-election message to the local party</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/05/04/post-election-message-to-the-local-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 10:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night&#8217;s election results were bad for the Lib Dems in Bury. We lost another 3 Councillors. I am Chair of the local party, and here is a message I am sending to our members and supporters later today with my thoughts on the results: Dear friends, Election night in Bury was a bad night [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRB disclosures and &#8220;other relevant information&#8221;: Anyone with any interest in civil liberties should read this</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/30/crb-disclosures-and-other-relevant-information-anyone-with-any-interest-in-civil-liberties-should-read-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is an email I was copied into out of the blue from someone. These come in to me from time to time, normally as pleas for help, as I wrote some blogs a couple of years ago about unsubstantiated information being included on CRB forms, and the damage that this could do. Basically, anyone accused of anything, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NHS competition &#8211; Less fun than shouting at Tories, but more important</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/nhs-competition-less-fun-than-shouting-at-tories-but-more-important/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/nhs-competition-less-fun-than-shouting-at-tories-but-more-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The debate over the Health and Social Care Bill was the most divisive since tuition fees, and the most difficult for me as a Lib Dem since the coalition was formed. Labour’s bluster over some aspects of it was plain ridiculous. They honed their already ample skills in scare stories and plain lies, but here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Lordy words</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/some-lordy-words/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/some-lordy-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ House of Lords reform is about as exciting to the man on the street as a four hour lecture on gutter-cleaning, but it doesn’t half get political people worked up. And I am slightly shame-faced to admit that I am one such person. And the debate about reform has got me hot under my geeky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/back-2/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2012/04/25/back-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! After several months without blogging, I have decided to write a couple of posts, for a couple of reasons. I suspect that this last period of quiet has meant that whatever readership I had has trickled away to nothing, but I hope there’s someone out there, and I can do nothing but apologise for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello and goodbye</title>
		<link>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2011/11/24/hello-and-goodbye/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2011/11/24/hello-and-goodbye/#comments</comments>
		<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.mycouncillor.net/2011/06/10/new-blog-for-bury-council-leader/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2011/06/10/new-blog-for-bury-council-leader/#comments</comments>
		<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.mycouncillor.net/2011/06/05/labour-future-standing-on-flimsy-foundations/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2011/06/05/labour-future-standing-on-flimsy-foundations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 10:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardbaum</dc:creator>
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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.mycouncillor.net/2011/05/28/politicians-cant-just-do-what-they-like/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/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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				<category><![CDATA[Musings]]></category>

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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.mycouncillor.net/2011/05/19/good-things-from-local-labour/</link>
		<comments>http://richardbaum.mycouncillor.net/2011/05/19/good-things-from-local-labour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 22:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richardbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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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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