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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 03:52:50 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Leave York alone please</title>
           
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  Leave York Alone Please! I loved Richard Catton's article “Cars are here to stay, Mr Merrett” in The Press on Friday 3rd May. He makes a clear argument against spending £170,000 on an idiotic (my word) experiment to solve traffic problems by closing Lendal Bridge to private cars between 10:30 and 17:00.
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           <title>Happy Saint George's Day</title>
           
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  The Sun is shining and England looks as though Spring has arrived. York City are only one point from staying in the Football League. George Osborne must surely be getting the message that investment in one fast train in the future in one part of the country is barmy. Better to invest now in the prevention of inland flooding and coastal erosion! It would be a lot of jobs all around the country. It would benefit everyone and would give the economy a boost and it would save our government money in the long (and short) run. How, I hear you ask? Simple, well we wouldn't have to pay for all those inevitable disasters and face the emotional traumas that come with them. I'm also tempted to remind both George and David that setting up an English Parliament to represent the English on the United Kingdom would create jobs and at the same time make me very happy. So come on George and David, do something for everyone and make it all positives today. Happy Saint George's Day.
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           <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:23:01 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>&quot;We will remember them.&quot;</title>
           
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  I was pleased to see that people are starting to think about the 100th anniversary of the First World War that began on 28th July 1914. I visited battle sites and war graves in France and Belgium with my children as I believe we should all be aware of what war really means.
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           <title>Absolute Rubbish</title>
           
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  So what kind of idiots are we suppose to be York? If the City of York Council agree an additional charge for emptying Green Bins to get of green waste, then that is an increase in our Council Tax.
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           <title>Smile You're English</title>
           
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  I was surprised to see so little comment on the start of the Scottish Independence Referendum process, leading to voting in 2014.
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           <pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 09:58:58 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Not Another Budget</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Budget time again, yippee, I wonder what “new” ideas we will see. Fascinating that there are as many ways of slicing up taxation and spending as there are people in the UK.]]></description>
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           <title>Well Done David!</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  Well done David, don't listen to anyone who talks about boats or failure to make alliances. Sometimes when you are right you are the only one! 
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           <pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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           <title>Haka Mocker Stopper Shocker!</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  I am shocked that the French Rugby Team was was fined £10,000 because they chose to walk in a V formation towards the New Zealand Team as they performed their war dance “The Haka”. ]]></description>
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           <title>Time for a New &quot;Marshall Plan&quot;</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  I must admit I am disappointed that there doesn't seem to be one politician capable of breaking the mould by suggesting an alternative to cutting everything in sight.]]></description>
           <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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           <title>Car Park Disgrace Cost Labour York!</title>
           
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           <description><![CDATA[  As the Union Terrace Car Park fiasco continues. Will it lead to the loss of the York Constituency for Hugh Bailey? ]]></description>
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           <title>Is Labour Parking Democracy?</title>
           
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  The Press is reporting that the deal to sell Union Terrace Car Park to the University of York St John looks set for approval.
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           <title>Human Rights for the English Students?</title>
           
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  Non Scottish students in the UK only will have to pay up to 5 times what the Scottish students pay. Other EU students attend for free.
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