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		<title>Iraqiversary</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2010/03/iraqiversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seven years today since the illegal Iraq invasion began, with disastrous results and thousands and thousands of deaths. Labour and Bush told us there were weapons of mass destruction ready to be deployed at a moment&#8217;s notice against us. Seven years on and the mythical WMDs have yet to be found. Such a shame that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage Without Borders</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2010/01/marriage-without-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d just like to promote a new campaign by Nick Clegg and LGBT Lib Dems calling for Marriage Without Borders &#8211; removing the gender restrictions on marriages and civil partnerships, and improving international recognition of same-sex relationships.
Please sign the petition; if you&#8217;re on Facebook you can become a fan, but do make sure you sign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown is deluded on Trident</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/09/brown-is-deluded-on-trident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:22:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gordon Brown is desperately scrabbling around trying to find places to make cuts while the economy plunges deeper and deeper into debt (over £800bn of public debt at last count). He’s sensibly identified Trident as a possible place to make cuts, but he’s far too nervous to go the whole hog and scrap it, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima Day &#8211; 6th August</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/08/hiroshima-day-6th-august/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years Salford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in conjunction with Salford Pax Christi have commemorated the horror of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6th 1945 in speech, poetry and song.
This year they meet to do so beside the War Memorial on Chorley Road, Swinton from 12 p.m.
I am not a member of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give them enough rope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/07/give-them-enough-rope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Griffin, the BNP leader elected so recently as an MEP for the North West, has offered us a way to end immigration. Nick thinks that we should get the Navy to drown black people attempting to illegally enter Europe. Nice. I really hope that this isn&#8217;t a view shared by the people who voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Results</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/06/euro-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/06/euro-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevecooke.org/?p=702</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, most of the results are in. Labour have had a terrible time of it, and we held our own, though I&#8217;m disappointed not to have two Lib Dem MEPs in the North West. Instead the xenophobic conspiracy theorists in UKIP did well and we have two facists to represent Yorkshire and the Humber and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Polling Day for the European Elections</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/06/its-polling-day-for-the-european-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/06/its-polling-day-for-the-european-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevecooke.org/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember to go out and vote.
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		<title>Macclesfield EU Hustings</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/05/macclesfield-eu-hustings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/05/macclesfield-eu-hustings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 07:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevecooke.org/?p=655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to speak to a church hosted meeting on Lib Dem EU policy in Macclesfield last night (though I&#8217;m shattered today). There were candidates from UKIP, Labour, Conservatives, Christian Party &#8220;Proclaiming Christ&#8217;s Lordship&#8221; (CPA), Green and myself for the Lib Dems. All seemed personable enough, and the audience and organisers made the event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Election</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/05/euro-election/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/05/euro-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 12:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevecooke.org/?p=612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spent an enjoyable evening at the Victoria Institute in Caton near Lancaster last night. It was nice to be give the opportunity to speak positively about the European Union and the ludicrous position that somehow we&#8217;re weakened by cooperation that gets wheeled out by the Eurosceptics. I met some lovely people and got to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molyes vs Malaria</title>
		<link>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/03/molyes-vs-malaria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevecooke.org/2009/03/molyes-vs-malaria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevecooke.org/?p=563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Moyles is one of those people I normally loathe. However, I&#8217;ve been watching Comic Relief and have just seen how much money he, and the others who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, raised to fight malaria by purchasing mosquito nets &#8211; millions of them. I had malaria as a child &#8211; it&#8217;s not nice. I&#8217;ve revised [...]]]></description>
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