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I'm Not Your Toy
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Growing Pains
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Colourless Colour
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As If By Magic
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Quicksand
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In For The Kill
La Roux
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You've Got Maelstrom
Blockhead
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Road Rage Breakdown
Blockhead
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Carnivores Unite
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Triptych Pt.2
Blockhead
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Unions should say YES to AV

Whatever we all think about politics I am sure one thing that we can all agree on is that things have not been all that peachy in respect of our relationship as ordinary people with our MPs in Westminster. Far too often our politicians seem distant from ordinary voters, preferring to listen bankers, and lobbyists in Westminster than the likes of us.

My Union is the CWU, and many CWU members who have tried to contact our MPs over the last few years about the various government wheezes to privatise

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AV Vote and destabilising the coalition.

I have heard a few Labour folks tell me that they are considering voting “No” principally because they hope to destabilise the coalition and hopefully bring forward a General Election. The view was espoused here on Labour List by Sonny Leong, and a colleague of mine David Chivers from the CWU also voiced this.

I thought it was an interesting view that was worth a full blog post riposte, I mean who wouldn’t want the Lib Dems to get a kicking and the General Election early? I know the thought of

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Why Labour and Unions must campaign for AV

I am going to make an assumption here right from the start. And that is most people reading my blog are probably coming from an instinctive left wing/liberal persuasion. And I ask readers who fit into that category to start with a thought experiment.

Strip away all your tribal loyalty to whichever party you support, strip away your preconceptions about different electoral systems and what you think about the issue of electoral reform. Do away with any personality based conclusions you have. Done that? Right now think about what is your

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Papal visit is price of Liberal society

I am not a “believer” (‘cept perhaps a misplaced faith that Plymouth Argyle will one day pay in the top flight) and in fact I describe my religion on Facebook as an “evangelical rationalist”. It is perfectly fair to say that I am an in principle secularist and I am frequently appalled by organised religion in general; and have recently been extremely appalled by the Roman Catholic church in particular.

The man who should be Pope

For my money the Churches role in covering up Child Abuse is disgraceful, the awful

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Britain, Democracy not Dictatorship

Following the TUC the right wing press has engaged in a predictable round of hysterical union bashing. “Who Governs?” is the now pretty much bog standard attack on Trade Unions any time they oppose something the Government of the day is doing.

This represents a profound misrepresentation of the kind of political system we live in. Constitutionally only the Government can pass laws (well Parliament if you want to be a stickler for accuracy) but we live in a Liberal Democratic system. That means we have something called “pluralism”, different groups

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