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	<title>Boris Johnson &#187; in parliament</title>
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		<title>David Willetts MP responds to Boris and baby boomers</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/03/10/david-willetts-responds-to-boris-and-baby-boomers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not an attack on the baby-boomer generation;  it is instead an appeal to the better nature of the boomers – an appeal to Edmund Burke&#8217;s understanding that a nation is &#8220;a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gordon Brown and Alternative Voting</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2010/02/09/gordon-brown-and-alternative-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Downing Street has admitted &#8220;time is tight&#8221; to get laws for a referendum on scrapping Britain&#8217;s first past the post voting system through Parliament.  Gordon Brown wants to replace it with &#8220;alternative vote,&#8221; where candidates are ranked in order of preference.  The Prime Minister says this is a better way of choosing MPs but the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Queen&#8217;s Speech 2009 (The Mikado)</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/18/the-queens-speech-2009-the-mikado/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/18/the-queens-speech-2009-the-mikado/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.boris-johnson.com/?p=2286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dungeekin provides a musical rendition on the Queen&#8217;s Speech this afternoon
Many of the original words are resonant today.
In a break from Tradition, this year saw Her Majesty the Queen deliver the speech at the State Opening of Parliament not in words, but instead in song:
As each year for the Government a speech one must propound,
One&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sir Christopher Kelly Report</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/04/sir-christopher-kelly-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/11/04/sir-christopher-kelly-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our favourite satirist, Dungeekin, back in the ring with The (Grace) Kelly Report
The (Grace) Kelly Report




So, Dear Reader, today will see Doctor Kelly lance the festering boil that is the MP&#8217;s expenses scandal. In his honour, and with the enjoyable spectacle of MPs losing their gravy train ahead, I thought we should have a little [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Power of the Euro-parliament and Brussels</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/09/07/the-power-of-the-euro-parliament-and-brussels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/09/07/the-power-of-the-euro-parliament-and-brussels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a pitiful comparison with Westminster &#8230;the laws of this country are no longer determined by Parliament at Westminster
Comment from Boris:  &#8220;Cor, I thought. This is what it must be like to be in one of those films. You nod off for 10 minutes and you wake up in 200 years&#8217; time. We had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jackie Smith to step down as Home Secretary</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/06/02/jackie-smith-to-step-down-as-home-secretary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/06/02/jackie-smith-to-step-down-as-home-secretary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MPs&#8217; expenses and restoring trust in politics
Thanks to Dungeekin for his excellent satire.

See here
(Apologies to Doris Day)
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Budget April 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/04/22/the-budget-april-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/04/22/the-budget-april-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taxandspendy &#8211; with apologies to Lewis Carroll
 
Twas Budget, and the slimy toad,
Did send poor Darling out again,
From whimsy were the numbers grow&#8217;d,
That came from Number Ten.
&#8220;And use the Taxandspend, old son,
The debts that bite, the laws that catch,
Entreat the hidden tax, don&#8217;t shun,
The slightest attempt to snatch!&#8221;
He took his big red box in hand,
Longtime to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bankers&#8217; greed and civil servants sitting pretty</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/02/10/civil-servants-sitting-pretty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2009/02/10/civil-servants-sitting-pretty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bonuses? For this lot? You have to be joking. It is mind-blowing. It is outrageous. It is sick. Since I have now been officially designated by the BBC as the last politician willing to say anything in favour of the financial services industry and its practitioners, I hope my friends in the City will not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peter Mandelson: make London more competitive, not less</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/10/07/time-to-stop-the-ftse-stampede/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it time Gordon Brown stopped the FTSE stampede?
Whoa there. Hold your horses, folks. The rustle of alarm is turning into a scuttle, and the scuttle is turning into a drumming roar of feet in flight. As the economic position gets worse, it is reported that this country is starting to see some notable departures.
Is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>56</slash:comments>
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		<title>Good-natured parting</title>
		<link>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/06/05/good-natured-parting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.boris-johnson.com/2008/06/05/good-natured-parting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Boris Office</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris was in typical form as he used his &#8220;last few seconds&#8221; in the House to  highlight some achievements.  Breaking with House etiquette, the Speaker cheerfully reminded &#8220;the Mayor&#8221; that he was only allowed one supplementary question, not three, and the Prime Minister added that he was sure, &#8220;The whole House is going to miss [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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