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		<title>The other significant American election news</title>
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		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/the-other-significant-american-election-news-2698.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the coverage in the UK of American elections in the last couple of days has focused on Hillary Clinton&#8217;s latest primary victory and then John Edwards&#8217;s endorsement of Barack Obama.
However, also of significance is the special election (by-election) win chalked up by the Democrats in a formerly solidly Republican Mississipi congressional seat. George [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative councillor joins the Liberal Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/conservative-councillor-joins-the-liberal-democrats-2697.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 22:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Focus on the Ladden-Frome area reports:
Councillor Sarah Turley (Boyd Valley) has left South Gloucestershire’s ruling Conservative group and joined the Liberal Democrats.
Sarah says, “When I stood for election last year I was determined to stand up for my local community. Unfortunately, over the last year I have found that my work has been undermined by members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More London election errors: the results have the wrong number of wards</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/more-london-election-errors-the-results-have-the-wrong-number-of-wards-2695.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/more-london-election-errors-the-results-have-the-wrong-number-of-wards-2695.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve already blogged about how London Elects admitted to failing to count all the votes in the London Mayor election. Now looking through the detailed figures I see that Lambeth has sprouted two extra wards.
What seems to have happened is that some, but only some, of the ballot boxes in Brixton Hill and Thornton wards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whitehall gossip</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/whitehall-gossip-2694.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/whitehall-gossip-2694.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 13:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Voice</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles Clarke speaking into mobile phone, central London, today:
I trust him, but I am not sure about her
Who could he have been talking about?
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		<title>Conservative by-election campaign runs into a spot of legal bother</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/crewe-and-nantwich-byelection-2699.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/crewe-and-nantwich-byelection-2699.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 09:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crewe and Nantwich]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opposition watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah happy memories. Remember the glories of last summer and the Ealing Southall by-election when the Conservatives sanctimoniously threatened the Liberal Democrats with legal action over use of an image in a leaflet, saying that this was an outrageous breach of the law, would result in a huge financial penalty, the end of the world etc [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An audience with Nick Clegg</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/an-audience-with-nick-clegg-2693.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/an-audience-with-nick-clegg-2693.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laurence Boyce</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Good evening Mr Haw!” I said cheerily as I wandered past the assorted tents and placards still disfiguring the east side of Parliament Square; but the legendary peace campaigner studiously ignored my outstretched hand. I thought this just a touch rude, but reasoned afterwards that he must have taken me for a member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberal Lords a-blogging</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/liberal-lords-ablogging-2689.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/liberal-lords-ablogging-2689.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 06:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake Holland</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[e-campaigning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords have launched a new eNewsletter.
Every month you can be updated on what’s happening in the House of Lords, what the members of our group in the House of Lords have been up to and read a short Op-Ed from one of the Lib Dems in the Lords.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One statistic to remember about today&#8217;s 10p tax rate announcements</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/one-statistic-to-remember-about-todays-10p-tax-rate-announcements-2692.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/one-statistic-to-remember-about-todays-10p-tax-rate-announcements-2692.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s announced tax changes, designed to deal with the fallout from the abolition of the 10p tax rate, will cost £2.7 billion (to be funded by extra borrowing).
Of that, only £630 million will go to people who lost out in the first place due to the abolition of the 10p rate.
In other words - more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vince on Labour&#8217;s 10p tax-con U-turn</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/vince-on-labours-10p-taxcon-uturn-2691.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/vince-on-labours-10p-taxcon-uturn-2691.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, it was Lib Dem shadow chancellor Vince Cable who asked the hard questions of Alastair Darling today, as Labour&#8217;s Chancellor attempted to put right his boss&#8217;s blunder in penalising 5.3 million of the nation&#8217;s poorest by doubling their tax rate.
Vince&#8217;s Commons&#8217; response is reprinted from the Hansard transcript below. Particularly telling, however, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How you can back Lib Dem David Howarth&#8217;s campaign for Fixed Term Parliaments</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-you-can-back-lib-dem-david-howarths-campaign-for-fixed-term-parliaments-2690.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/how-you-can-back-lib-dem-david-howarths-campaign-for-fixed-term-parliaments-2690.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tall</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cast your minds back to last September… 
Gordon Brown was riding high in the polls, the Tories were in disarray and the Lib Dems were polling at 13%. Gordon toyed with exploiting his momentary advantage by calling a snap election. He dithered and dithered and dithered until the polls turned and the choice was taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the winner is…</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/and-the-winner-is-3-2688.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/and-the-winner-is-3-2688.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Book previews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to those Lib Dem Voice readers who submitted entries for yesterday’s competition to win a copy Susan George’s book, Hijacking America – by providing a suitable epitaph for George W. Bush’s presidency.
The standard was extremely high - I heartily commend the comments thread to those who missed it - which has made judging the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>London Elects admits: we failed to add up all the votes</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/london-mayor-election-2687.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/london-mayor-election-2687.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[London Mayor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A letter has gone out today from Anthony Meyer, the Greater London Returning Officer, providing further details of the London election results. In it he admits that the Mayor result as declared at the time was inaccurate, as not all the valid votes were included in it:
The Mayoral 1st and 2nd preference figures for two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative MP uses Parliamentary expenses to promote by-election candidate</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/stephen-obrien-2686.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/stephen-obrien-2686.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crewe and Nantwich]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Trouble brewing for Conservative MP Stephen O&#8217;Brien, who has been promoting Edward Timpson - Conservative candidate in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election - on his website. The problem? The website is paid for by the Parliamentary funds. And that&#8217;d be funds for which the rules expressly forbid such campaigning. Tsk tsk.
A formal complaint has now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour Party splits into two in Doncaster</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/labour-party-splits-into-two-in-doncaster-2685.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/labour-party-splits-into-two-in-doncaster-2685.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Opposition watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as if the impending self-imposed term limit for the Labour Mayor of Doncaster has helped trigger a split in the Labour Group. The current Labour Mayor, Martin Winter, has twice been elected as Mayor but Labour&#8217;s internal rules don&#8217;t allow someone to run for a third time. However,
Doncaster&#8217;s mayor, Martin Winter, has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A New Deal for the City: Liberal Democrat Proposals&#8221; reviewed</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/a-new-deal-for-the-city-liberal-democrat-proposals-reviewed-2684.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/a-new-deal-for-the-city-liberal-democrat-proposals-reviewed-2684.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 07:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Leunig</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Op-eds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Clegg&#8217;s speech to the LibDem City Forum was sufficiently interesting to make the BBC news homepage. Nick acknowledged that Vince wrote it - a deserved tribute to Vince&#8217;s credibility. Nick highlighted David Laws, Chris Huhne, and Susan Kramer as evidence that we have &#8220;the strongest team of economic expertise in British politics today&#8221;. True, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour election leaflet unveils anti-foreigner shift in ID cards policy</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/id-cards-in-crewe-and-nantwich-2683.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/id-cards-in-crewe-and-nantwich-2683.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 23:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crewe and Nantwich]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opposition watch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I blogged about a few days ago, the Labour Party in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election is attacking the Conservative candidate for opposing &#8220;making foreign nationals carry an ID card&#8221;. As I said then,
The use of the word “foreign” there seems to come with some rather unpleasant overtones in this context, the implication being that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top of the Blogs: The Golden Dozen #64</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-dozen-64-2682.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-golden-dozen-64-2682.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 18:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Best of the blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 64th of our weekly round-ups from the Lib Dem blogosphere, featuring the seven most popular stories according to click-throughs from the Aggregator (4th-10th May), together with a hand-picked quintet you might otherwise have missed.
Let’s get straight down to it, in descending order of popularity: 

1. Don&#8217;t help the campaign in Crewe and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Derek Conway saga rides again</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/derek-conway-4-2681.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/derek-conway-4-2681.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 16:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Pack</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This time, it&#8217;s Conservative MEPs. Duncan Borrowman has more over on his blog.
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		<title>Do Lib Dems ask too much of our candidates?</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/do-lib-dems-ask-too-much-of-our-candidates-2680.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/do-lib-dems-ask-too-much-of-our-candidates-2680.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 13:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Tall</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Paddick’s campaign diary was published in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday (if you haven’t yet had chance to read it, you can do so here). It’s a fascinating, wry, self-deprecating, candid account of the highs and lows of running for the London mayoralty on the Lib Dem ticket. 
Brian’s conclusion, though, is pretty downbeat:
… on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compose Dubya&#8217;s epitaph, and win a book!</title>
		<link>http://www.libdemvoice.org/compose-dubyas-epitaph-and-win-a-book-2679.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.libdemvoice.org/compose-dubyas-epitaph-and-win-a-book-2679.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Voice</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[LDVUSA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lib Dem Voice has an advance copy of a new book, Hijacking America, to give away to one lucky reader (courtesy of its publishers, Polity Press). 
Written by Susan George, a well-known political scientist who used to work for Greenpeace, Hijacking America is billed as “fascinating, thorough and often chilling account of the decades-long transformation [...]]]></description>
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