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	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Democracy</title>
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		<title>EU Referendum Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/eu-referendum-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Hannan and Ruth Lea have launched the EU Referendum Campaign:
The EURC is an organisation that is determined that every adult in Britain should have the right to choose whether our country should be a politically independent self-governing country or a member of the European Union.
With the EU now making the vast majority of laws ]]></description>
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		<title>Voting System and Boundaries &#8211; a lively debate</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/voting-system-and-boundaries-a-lively-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has indeed been a lively debate today. Charles Walker&#8217;s courageous and eloquent speech at about 8 pm this evening was particularly memorable &#8211; I will link to it when it is available on Hansard (update: available here).
There is much to say, and no doubt it will be said in the committee stage, but I will make ]]></description>
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		<title>Parliament today &#8211; Voting System and Boundaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we have the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. It is proposed that the Bill should go to a committee of the whole House, as the Academies Bill did. No doubt this will be opposed. Opposition amendments have been tabled opposing the proposed boundary changes and therefore the Bill.
I look ]]></description>
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		<title>OpenEurope</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met today with the excellent think tank OpenEurope, along with other MPs of various parties:
Open Europe is an independent think tank, with offices in London and Brussels, set up by some of the UK’s leading business people to contribute bold new thinking to the debate about the direction of the EU.
While we are committed ]]></description>
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		<title>Observations on a statutory instrument committee</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/observations-on-a-statutory-instrument-committee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/observations-on-a-statutory-instrument-committee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just completed my first act of scrutiny of legislation in committee for The Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses (Amendment) Regulations 2010, which was drafted under the last government. It was an unedifying experience.
Having obtained and read the instrument beforehand, I considered that:

The Instrument was well-intentioned and thorough, or at least extensive, but imperfect.
A page ]]></description>
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		<title>OpenEurope on amendments to the Lisbon Treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/openeurope-on-amendments-to-the-lisbon-treaty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/openeurope-on-amendments-to-the-lisbon-treaty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via OpenEurope&#8217;s press pages:
National diplomats have this morning finalised changes to the Lisbon Treaty in order to allow 18 extra MEPs to take their seats. EU leaders agreed at last week’s EU summit to launch an Intergovernmental Conference to handle the required treaty change. This short IGC was dealt with at “Coreper II”, the meeting ]]></description>
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		<title>Westminster Hall Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/westminster-hall-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/westminster-hall-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Hewish is my Parliamentary Assistant. I asked him yesterday to attend a Westminster Hall debate on my behalf. In this post, he sets out what he learned.
Yesterday I was able to attend the Westminster Hall Debate on the Westmorland General Hospital obtained by Tim Farron MP who discussed the closure of the A&#38;E services ]]></description>
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		<title>A hectic start to the week</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/a-hectic-start-to-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/a-hectic-start-to-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I began getting to know Wycombe&#8217;s police team before speaking to Breathe Easy Buckinghamshire on the nature of society and social cooperation, from a Big Society and Cobden Centre perspective. I caught up with the constituency team before heading into London. I submitted an HS2 question to the Government, caught up with correspondence and finished the day listening to Sir Richard ]]></description>
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		<title>Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/rothbard-the-ethics-of-liberty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/06/rothbard-the-ethics-of-liberty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard is a difficult book to which few could subscribe in full.
It is difficult partly because it is concerned only with &#8216;that subset of the natural law that develops the concept of natural rights, and that deals with the proper sphere of “politics,” i.e., with violence and non-violence as ]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Clegg showed his hand, but MPs told him to call David Cameron’s bluff &#8211; Times Online</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/nick-clegg-showed-his-hand-but-mps-told-him-to-call-david-cameron%e2%80%99s-bluff-times-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/05/nick-clegg-showed-his-hand-but-mps-told-him-to-call-david-cameron%e2%80%99s-bluff-times-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Nick Clegg showed his hand, but MPs told him to call David Cameron’s bluff &#8211; Times Online:
The medieval timbered Westminster Hall and Victorian warren of committee rooms played host yesterday to a high-stakes poker game to decide the next occupant of No 10.
And it was a game in which Nick Clegg needed some buy-in from ]]></description>
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