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		<title>Labour must create a rupture with the past 30 years to win in 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was elected to Leeds city council during the miners&#8217; strike, perhaps the defining domestic event in her period of office and I became leader in 1989. I was there when she left office having tackled head-on her assault on local government and communities, most notably the poll tax. All who were politically aware, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=245&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tories are leading a government of wasteful spending and inefficient policies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the General election the Conservatives have attempted to brand Labour as the party which is known for wasteful expenditure. Similarly they have sought to represent their own party and the coalition government more generally as a highly efficient operation which is not wasting public money. This has been one of the central tenets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=242&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concerns raised over proposed HS2 route</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a positive development that the HS2 proposals show that there will be links through Yorkshire that will bring economic growth in the area and jobs to local people. However, I do have grave reservations about the exact alignment and route of the proposals. The plans show that the proposed rail link alignment is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=238&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s hiring and firing of  civil servants is wasteful, inefficient and ineffective</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The coalition government have broken their promise to deliver a more efficient and effective government. At a time when the government is introducing a strivers’ tax on hard working families it is absolutely astounding that they are continuing to spend millions on recruitment agencies whilst simultaneously paying out millions in redundancy pay to civil servants. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=227&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tories&#8217; systematic cuts have left the Big Society in tatters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labour’s historical and intellectual roots lie in the values of mutualism and reciprocity as a means of building social justice and strong communities.  It is self-evident in a complex society like ours that public services will be provided by a wide range of organisations from the central state in some instances, and in others local [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=223&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The reshuffle will lead to a record number of special advisers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Tory-led Government is not doing what it promised it would. The number of special advisers, or “SpAds”, has risen to a staggering 85 and it now looks like this number will increase even further. As a result of the Government reshuffle last week, it is clear that there will be more politicians in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=215&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Francis Maude&#8217;s &#8216;clampdown&#8217; on Quangos is not what it seems</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has today claimed that the Government has reduced the number of quangos, or non-government public bodies. Responding to the claims, Jon Trickett MP, Labour&#8217;s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, said: &#8220;This so-called clampdown is not what it seems. The true picture of David Cameron’s government is of a failed economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=210&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tory-led Government&#8217;s failures are costing this country dear</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon Trickett MP, Labour&#8217;s Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, responding to the Government&#8217;s claim to be cutting the cost of government said: &#8220;For all their talk of savings, this Tory-led Government&#8217;s failures are costing this country dear. David Cameron and George Osborne have delivered a double-dip recession made in Downing Street, and they are already having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=208&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tories sink deeper into the mire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arrogance, incompetence and now infighting; this is what has defined the Conservative-led government. Brutally honest debates on the ConservativeHome blog give fascinating insights into just how badly things are going for the Tories.   David Cameron is battling for the survival of his administration as a purposeful government with a clear political agenda. But more importantly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=203&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tories know the price of everything and the value of nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a copy of my speech at ResPublica’s event on the importance of social mobility in public service procurement. “I want to start by thanking both ResPublica and Chris White MP not only for hosting the event here but also inviting me to speak on such an important matter. If I may so, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontrickettblog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=35510491&#038;post=185&#038;subd=jontrickettblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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