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		<title>Scottish Labour &#8211; What&#8217;s next?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What next for the Scottish Labour party? The question every member will be asking themselves up and down the land. This is a big question to ask, find the right answers and we could be on our way back to power as a party for the Scottish people, get it wrong and we could be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=91&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Labour Must Look Forward and Stop Standing Still</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 May 2011 10:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1997 a tired, stale Tory party were swept from power and crashed to earth after a charismatic, almost Presidential, party leader lead the Labour party to an outstanding landslide victory . This week, as Thursday turned to Friday, every member of Scottish Labour knew exactly how the Conservatives felt. The two vote electoral system, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=83&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glasgow City Council v McCrone Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that Scottish school teachers spend more time in their classrooms teaching than any other nation in the world, bar three. This report may firstly dispel the myth that teachers are lucky receiving long summer holidays and perhaps dent the hopes of Glasgow [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=49&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jimmy Reid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every death is a tragedy but some resonate more than others in the public conscious, the death of Jimmy Reid falls into the latter. Today the Scottish political world mourns the death of the man claimed to be &#8216;the greatest MP Scotland never had&#8217; and one of the greatest trade unionist ever seen in Britain. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=38&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Musings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[expenses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Its holiday time for politicians across the country and even those running for Labour leadership have packed up for a few weeks off. This also means its holiday time for political shows on TV, with no Question Time or similar shows being the cornerstone of Thursday night TV. However politics doesn’t stop just because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=36&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>33 is the Magic Number</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 09:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abbott]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for securing nominations was rightly extended by the NEC due to grassroots pressure from activists, bloggers and prominent politicians.  Whilst this was heralded as the right move in a long campaign I was disappointed to notice that the number of backings an MP must get from their fellow contemporaries in Westminster has not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=24&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TV Debates and the SNP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Salmond made a campaign pit stop at Sky in Livingstone the other day where he announced that he will be taking part in the Sky Scottish TV debates.  It seems that finally the SNP have realised that they have no place in the leader debates and have settled for the actual debates about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=22&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour PPC and Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the day that twittering was something done over the garden fence to the next door neighbour, perhaps that is a local Scottish or even Glaswegian phrase but it&#8217;s hard to use the word now without the social media site popping into my mind. For Stuart MacLennan however I imagine the word twitter will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=20&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speak For Yourself Or They&#8217;ll Speak For You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of this term of Parliament has seen MPs seemingly battered from pillar to post as scandal has followed scandal, from the expenses scandal, still fresh in everyone&#8217;s mind, to the sacking today of Labour PPC Stuart MacLennan for remarks made on the social media site Twitter. This doesn&#8217;t play well in the eyes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=18&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hung Parliament</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.T Smyth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was speaking to a group of people about the upcoming election the other day and one asked the question what exactly a ‘hung parliament’ was, as it is very much the topic of discussion at the moment with all polls seeming to show no party gaining an overall majority. When I answered the question [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jtsmyth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13049341&amp;post=11&amp;subd=jtsmyth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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