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		<title>“And no more!” – triumph at my 4th weighing-in</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As reported by The Telegraph and The Spectator, I&#8217;m publicly weighed every year in High Wycombe along with the Mayor and councillors. It&#8217;s an attempt to deter us from gaining weight at taxpayer expense. In each of 2011 and 2012, the cry was &#8220;And some more!&#8221;. After playing the panto villain in 2011, enough was enough by 2012 and, thanks to MyFitnessPal, Parliament&#8217;s gym, swimming and running across the Chilterns, this year&#8217;s triumphant result was &#8220;And no more!&#8221; In shock news, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An absolute Conservative commitment to an EU referendum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence “democracy”, and the other “tyranny”. &#8212; Karl Popper Before the Lisbon Treaty, I had no interest in being an MP. That Treaty was introduced to sidestep democratic rejection of the near-identical EU Constitution: I saw democracy dying at the hands of fanatical advocates of European political integration. Previously, I thought it was enough to vote Conservative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Exporting is GREAT Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 10:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=13267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UK Trade &#38; Investment (UKTI) has launched a new pilot marketing campaign called Exporting is GREAT that will run throughout May 2013 to help small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) grow internationally. Exporting is GREAT is designed to increase understanding of the benefits of exporting and to drive awareness, and take-up, of the many sources of support and help available. The UKTI knows from research that international trade offers a significant boost to a company’s success. Yet less than 25% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An ordeal of the most grievous kind</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=13264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Evans reminded us on Radio 2 this morning that today is the anniversary of Churchill&#8217;s first speech as Prime Minister &#8212; Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A&amp;E closures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 08:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rescue plans to relieve pressure on A&#038;Es have been ordered by NHS chiefs, amid confusion over whether extra cash is available to meet spiralling demand. The move comes the day after David Prior, chair of the Care Quality Commission, said that pressure of admissions on A&#038;E departments was “out of control” and “totally unsustainable”. He said too many patients were arriving as emergencies, when they should have been dealt with by GPs, social care or other services. He urged widespread [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book review: Mises, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 19:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=13255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the issue of The Economist with a textbook of &#8220;Modern Economic Theory&#8221; melting away? And HM the Queen asking why economists didn&#8217;t see this crisis coming? She might now ask why most economists have also demonstrated their inability to predict even the general pattern of events. Ludwig von Mises&#8217; 1962 essay, The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method is never going to top the best seller lists but it does indicate why so many highly-trained professionals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polling stations open now in Bucks CC election</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Polling is in progress today across the country. In Wycombe, we have elections for Bucks County Council and a by-election for Disraeli ward of Wycombe District Council. The BFP reports that our Town Crier has made a final appeal for people to vote. So far, turnout appears to be consistent with precedent for local elections: rather low. My wife and I voted this morning in West Wycombe. I understand people were turning out at a rate of about 10 per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The appalling moral outrage of contemporary slavery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 08:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended a dramatic and distressing exhibition in the House of Commons highlighting the hidden nature of contemporary slavery. The exhibition, built by students from the Central St Martin’s College of Art, depicted the four different kinds of slavery hidden away in our society. Curtains, doors, drawers and tea chests concealed the stories and photographs of survivors. The survivors who shared their stories with the Human Trafficking Foundation to create the exhibition attended the opening. Among them was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-BFP editor Steve Cohen reflects on NHS campaigning and protests – I meet Jeremy Hunt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 10:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing on his blog, Steve Cohen reflects on his experience of health campaigning with my predecessor Paul Goodman when A&#38;E closed and more recently with me. He writes &#8220;NHS protest march would be revolting because too few people would bother&#8220;: I WOULD happily organise a protest march to call for the return of A&#38;E to Wycombe… except I believe hardly anyone would turn up to back me. Oh, I know everyone talks earnestly about how they would mass in droves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucks County Council is working hard to encourage voter turnout</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Williams, Chief Executive, Buckinghamshire County Council has said: Anyone presented with the opportunity to influence the running of an organisation with a customer base of more than half a million, and an £849 million budget, would kick themselves if they missed it. So I want to make sure every one of the 389,738 people in the county eligible to vote grasps their opportunity on Thursday 2 May to influence the way Buckinghamshire County Council is run. County Council elections happen once every four [...]]]></description>
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