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<issued>2005-09-18T23:10:00+01:00</issued>
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<created>2005-09-18T22:12:05Z</created>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I have amended my WordPress version of this site so that it looks likes this page. Please amend any links you may have to http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/ as soon as possible. Otherwise people will be met with this page!

Visitors, please click here

Thanks, Gav</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">During conversation today it was suggested to me that to talk of an "English Parliament", "England" or to speak of the "English" may imply something to do with being white.

Let me make it quite clear, the reason that I and others in the CEP want an English Parliament is entirely political. We want equity with the Scottish, freedom from the British parliament (and so-called Scottish Raj) and</div>
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<issued>2005-09-16T23:46:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Update: Wonko has made an excellent contribution to this story and I urge you to read his post: The advance of the police state.

My concerns about government increasing its power to detain and to treat people inhumanely and to insist on branding them like cattle by imposing ID cards, have mostly been about the principle. I took it as a given that the UK's government was largely trustworthy and</div>
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<issued>2005-09-16T22:57:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Once again Justify This has found an 'oversight' of the British media: Click here.

It is a worrying that terrorist organisations may be gaining, or learning to exert, power in the Gaza strip. Ariel Sharon should not consider further withdrawals from the West Bank until it is clear how this power struggle is going to pan out in Gaza.</div>
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<issued>2005-09-16T19:33:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I've been having more and more frequent visits from people in France, Turkey and the United States. Welcome!</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Blowing your own trumpet always sounds better than listening to someone else's... Or maybe that's just me!

Anyway, I thought I'd share with you how clever the BBC's editors are and how consistent.

First they placed my response on their Action Network on the front page for a day - it pleased me a little, I have to say.

Second, today they've used my photo as the main photo of the Noticeboard:The</div>
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<issued>2005-09-15T00:20:00+01:00</issued>
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<summary mode="escaped" type="text/html" xml:base="http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/weblog" xml:space="preserve">The following picture shows another view of the planned new Frank Gehry King Alfred in Brighton &amp; Hove.

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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">SEERA is the South East England Regional Assembly. It is an assembly set up by the Labour government which is unelected but which makes decisions above the County Councils which are elected.

The Regional Assemblies of England are part of the EU's plan of creating a "Europe of Regions" with areas of size similar to the German Lander. The English need a parliament and they don't want these Regional</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">David Davis has shown, in one speech, why he is the leader the Conservatives and, indeed, England, need.

He has made an impassioned speech that talks of the very basis of his beliefs and looks to his origins. David Davis has said what everyone secretly knew but couldn't articulate - that England needs opportunity for all not limited by a welfare state but augmented by state-sponsored</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Knowing, as I do from individual research, that the Daily Mail cannot be trusted to tell the truth the whole time, I am making this post despite my reservations.

According to the Daily Mail Weekend magazine's review of Murder Blues, a BBC1 program airing as I write, London is the 3rd worst city in the world for gun shootings. When you consider that this is in 'competition' with cities like Los</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Thank goodness the application was passed: Brighton Council's article.

This is a partial success on the way to an exciting proposal that is taking a frustratingly long time to get even this far. The site confirms that there is yet more bureaucracy to get through. For more information about the design etc, try the following page: The plans.

Update: Thanks to John for his comment. The post on his</div>
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<issued>2005-09-12T23:14:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">We advocates of technological solutions to global warming are heartened by Jeremy Clarkson's public statements. I am glad, too, that he can laugh off a custard pie attack: BBC News.</div>
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<issued>2005-09-12T22:50:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The established media is reporting a surge on pumps in some locations, but I can confirm that at all times this evening there have been queues at all petrol stations in the Shoreham-by-Sea area...

I'm as guilty as the rest - I was planning on going to a petrol station shortly when I thought it would be quieter. My sources say queues are still stretching around the Holmbush roundabout.

The oil</div>
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<issued>2005-09-12T19:46:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The UK government has done something so stupid that even I, a serial criticiser of New Labour, am surprised.

They announced today that if there were to be a petrol shortage they would ration petrol. That is not to say there will be a shortage - the protesters have said that they will not seek to cause disruption as happened five years ago. Unfortunately, the people of this great nation rightly</div>
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<issued>2005-09-12T19:23:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I'm confused by my site's stats....

I have a country counter on the right of my site that is, granted, a bit newer than the 1 September, but it stores stats for my consumption on another site.

My web hosting service, however, has much more detailed stats about all sorts of things including what the visitor had for dinner the previous evening. The following is a screenshot of the most recent info</div>
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<issued>2005-09-12T19:02:00+01:00</issued>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Don't you hate it when a company uses false sincerity as a weapon against you in order to make a sale?

I was cold-called just now having used Kwik Fit for new tyres during the weekend. They asked about the service I received and, when I said it wasn't good, they said "Ah well, I've made a note of that." and then proceeded to tell me about their insurance offering...

Frankly, I don't think he</div>
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<div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">There is a petition online for an English Parliament at the following location: PetitionThem.com

I urge every one of you to sign this petition. If you are not sure of the reasons for an English Parliament, please visit the Campaign for an English Parliament's website and add a comment if you still have questions.</div>
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