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		<title>7/7/2005, five years on</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/07/07/772005-five-years-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest we forget&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Woes</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/06/23/budget-woes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, here it comes. Britain&#8217;s worst kept secret is out as the Coalition government starts cutting public spending. The emergency budget delivered by Chancellor George Osborne was typically downbeat. It was probably the first in a long series of fiscal cutbacks which will be felt across the country. The headline issues in the Budget include: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Labour leadership: situation desperate</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/06/09/labour-leadership-situation-desperate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At present, the contest to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour party grows even more desperate by the minute. Five candidates have put their names forward: Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, brothers Ed and David Milliband, and Diane Abbott. Five dull and uninteresting people who were responsible for the party&#8217;s problems in office (The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s latest shootings shock</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/06/02/britains-latest-shootings-shock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m shaking as I type this. A gunman went on the rampage in Cumbria earlier today. Five people were confirmed dead so far, around 25 more wounded&#8230;. the gunman then kills himself.  More of this tragic story is unfolding right now. What I cannot understand is how, a minority of people, normally sane, can then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First cabinet minister quits government</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/30/first-cabinet-minister-quits-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 15:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s taken less than three weeks for the Con-Lib coalition government to get its first scandal&#8230; except that this one was probably a hangover from the scandals of last summer. Liberal Democrat MP David Laws had been forced to quit his post as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, working with Chancellor George Osborne, for allegedly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six billion savings&#8230; and more to come</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/28/six-billion-savings-and-more-to-come/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 20:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Chancellor George Osborne this week announced immediate savings of £6billion. The figure may seem large, but when a country has a massive budget deficit it isn&#8217;t that much. Except that once again, it will be the &#8216;ordinary people&#8217; in the street who will suffer. Some of the savings include: The abolition of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miliband versus Miliband: Is THIS the best that Labour can do?</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/18/miliband-versus-miliband-is-this-the-best-that-labour-can-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Armchair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Labour party, now licking their collective wounds in opposition, is on the hunt to elect its first leader in sixteen years. However, the omens are not good for them when the likes of Jack Straw, Alan Johnson, Jon Cruddas, and even caretaker leader Harriet Harman, have all decided  not to bid for the job. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tory-Lib Dem new government heralds a new era</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/13/tory-lib-dem-new-government-heralds-a-new-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the discredited Labour party are finally removed from power, we look forward to seeing what the new Conservative/Liberal Democrat coalition government can do to reverse some the deep-rooted problems facing the UK that they have inherited. Of course, there will be some pressures within the coalition, but the Tory leader David Cameron, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Brown resigns!</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/10/gordon-brown-resigns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Armchair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s going&#8230;. but not yet. Far too late in the day, but welcome. Still no news on the talks between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems.]]></description>
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		<title>Election 2010: the aftermath</title>
		<link>http://armchairnews.co.uk/2010/05/07/election-2010-the-aftermath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Armchair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The result of the UK general election is&#8230; a hung parliament. It was a disastrous night for the Labour party, but the Conservatives failed to get an overall majority of seats in Parliament despite making over ninety gains. The Lib Dems, despite the positive performance of leader Nick Clegg, were understandably disappointed at their poor [...]]]></description>
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