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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Bureaucracy</title>
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		<title>Wycombe Hospital consultation meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2012/01/wycombe-hospital-consultation-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crucial public consultation on the future of Wycombe Hospital began on 16 January. It is being run by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs Wycombe Hospital. This is our chance to have our say on proposals to change how NHS services are provided in High Wycombe. The exercise runs until 16 April and there are consultation meetings scheduled throughout ]]></description>
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		<title>Did I have a Freudian slip when asking about the EU at PMQs?</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/12/a-freudian-slip-at-pmqs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Daily Mail, Quentin Letts reports that I called for the UK to quit the EU altogether at PMQs yesterday. Some colleagues also thought I said &#8220;leave&#8221; not &#8220;lead&#8221;.  Hansard reports my intended words: Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con): Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is time for this country to lead Europe into the ]]></description>
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		<title>British Bikers Protest Planned EU Motorbike Laws</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/british-bikers-protest-planned-eu-motorbike-laws/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/british-bikers-protest-planned-eu-motorbike-laws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bikes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great stuff from Mike Weatherley ]]></description>
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		<title>The Government&#8217;s business strategy</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/11/business-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Corporatism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[interventionism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government recently announced a number of policies to help British businesses. They have launched the updated and overhauled businesslink.gov.uk website. This is now the primary gateway for businesses, of whatever scale, seeking support and information from the Government. It’s backed by a new telephone contact centre and many thousands of new business mentors. They ]]></description>
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		<title>The Infrastructure Delusion &#124; The Freeman &#124; Ideas On Liberty</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/the-infrastructure-delusion-the-freeman-ideas-on-liberty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/the-infrastructure-delusion-the-freeman-ideas-on-liberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[High Speed Rail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Infrastructure does not an economy make. Highways and railroads, airports and seaports, communications towers and fiber optics cables are essential for the flow of commerce, but it is the people, goods, and information moving over and through this infrastructure that are the heart of an economy. Overinvestment in roads, bridges, and airports means underinvestment in ]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Minister: Sir Humphrey has all the solutions &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/10/yes-minister-sir-humphrey-has-all-the-solutions-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/10/yes-minister-sir-humphrey-has-all-the-solutions-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 07:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil Service]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sir Humphrey Appleby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophistry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via the Telegraph, Yes, Minister: Sir Humphrey has all the solutions provides a series of memos from Sir Humphrey Appleby to Bernard Woolley on electoral reform, guiding ministers, Brussels and transparency. The entire article is a must-read, but I think the following is my favourite passage: Brussels provides a model for modern government. Legislation can be ]]></description>
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		<title>It pleases HMRC to jest</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/it-pleases-hmrc-to-jest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/it-pleases-hmrc-to-jest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authoritarianism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HMRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incompetence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[PAYE]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via CentreRight: The Revenue’s power grab: what’s yours is mine first. Just as taxpayers finally lose confidence in the ability of the Revenue to calculate PAYE correctly, HMRC offers to take the matter out of our hands and present us with a fait accompli. The power grab implicit in the latest HMRC proposals – currently under ]]></description>
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		<title>Quangos: the more we pay, the less we get &#8211; Telegraph</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/quangos-the-more-we-pay-the-less-we-get-telegraph/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/quangos-the-more-we-pay-the-less-we-get-telegraph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An understandable wave of shock ran through Britain last week when our new Government revealed the explosion in recent years of the pay given to our top public officials, 170 of whom now allegedly earn more than the Prime Minister. But the other side to this grotesque inflation in salaries is that it has been ]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: The bureaucratisation of elder care</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/elder-care/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/elder-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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		<title>Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/ofgem-urges-a-shake-up-of-the-energy-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/02/ofgem-urges-a-shake-up-of-the-energy-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared at cobdencentre.org. Via FT.com, Ofgem urges a shake-up of the energy market, Sweeping reforms of the UK’s energy market must be brought in urgently to protect energy supplies, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver the £200bn investment needed in the power sector, the energy regulator said on Wednesday. Ofgem said options ]]></description>
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