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		<title>By: Richard Blogger</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/how-to-win-back-voters-labours-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5756</link>
		<dc:creator>Richard Blogger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#4 &quot;the Tories are vulnerable on their economic policies and on public service cuts.&quot;

You only have to look at the Tories policies on the NHS to see that they are planning huge cuts in &lt;b&gt;public&lt;/b&gt; services. All of their NHS policies are based on &quot;any willing provider&quot; which is a de facto cut in funding of NHS providers (that&#039;s NHS hospitals to you and me). Furthermore, they plan a wholesale privatisation of the NHS as illustrated by this statement taken verbatim from their &lt;a href=&quot;http://torylies.blogspot.com/2010/01/conservative-public-health-green-paper_19.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;policy document on public health&lt;/a&gt;:

&quot;&lt;b&gt;we will require&lt;/b&gt; local public health directors to ensure that &lt;b&gt;an increasing proportion&lt;/b&gt; of contracts are awarded to providers from the &lt;b&gt;private and voluntary sectors&lt;/b&gt;.&quot;

A requirement that an &quot;increasing proportion&quot; of contracts are awarded to private sector providers is a forced privatisation. 

Getting the public to vote Labour is as simple as spelling out to the public the &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; health policies of the Tories.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#4 &#8220;the Tories are vulnerable on their economic policies and on public service cuts.&#8221;</p>
<p>You only have to look at the Tories policies on the NHS to see that they are planning huge cuts in <b>public</b> services. All of their NHS policies are based on &#8220;any willing provider&#8221; which is a de facto cut in funding of NHS providers (that&#8217;s NHS hospitals to you and me). Furthermore, they plan a wholesale privatisation of the NHS as illustrated by this statement taken verbatim from their <a href="http://torylies.blogspot.com/2010/01/conservative-public-health-green-paper_19.html" rel="nofollow">policy document on public health</a>:</p>
<p>&#8220;<b>we will require</b> local public health directors to ensure that <b>an increasing proportion</b> of contracts are awarded to providers from the <b>private and voluntary sectors</b>.&#8221;</p>
<p>A requirement that an &#8220;increasing proportion&#8221; of contracts are awarded to private sector providers is a forced privatisation. </p>
<p>Getting the public to vote Labour is as simple as spelling out to the public the <i>real</i> health policies of the Tories.</p>
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		<title>By: Anon E Mouse</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anon E Mouse</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;How to win back voters Labour’s lost&quot;

Why not try having a leadership debate in the Labour Party and electing a leader the UK electorate want to vote for. That might work - it has in the past...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How to win back voters Labour’s lost&#8221;</p>
<p>Why not try having a leadership debate in the Labour Party and electing a leader the UK electorate want to vote for. That might work &#8211; it has in the past&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Billy Blofeld</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/how-to-win-back-voters-labours-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-5682</link>
		<dc:creator>Billy Blofeld</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aren&#039;t most decent people repulsed by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/billy_blofeld/4349549012/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Labour&#039;s track record in government?&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aren&#8217;t most decent people repulsed by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/billy_blofeld/4349549012/" rel="nofollow">Labour&#8217;s track record in government?</a></p>
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		<title>By: amol rajan</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/how-to-win-back-voters-labours-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-8031</link>
		<dc:creator>amol rajan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_comment&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_twitter_username&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_content&quot;&gt;sharp, fascinating analysis RT @leftfootfwd How to win back voters Labour’s lost: http://is.gd/8aUe3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">sharp, fascinating analysis RT @leftfootfwd How to win back voters Labour’s lost: <a href="http://is.gd/8aUe3" rel="nofollow">http://is.gd/8aUe3</a></span></span></span></p>
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		<title>By: Tribune</title>
		<link>http://www.leftfootforward.org/2010/02/how-to-win-back-voters-labours-lost/comment-page-1/#comment-8032</link>
		<dc:creator>Tribune</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_comment&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_twitter_username&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;topsy_trackback_content&quot;&gt;RT @leftfootfwd: How to win back voters Labour’s lost: http://is.gd/8aUe3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">RT @leftfootfwd: How to win back voters Labour’s lost: <a href="http://is.gd/8aUe3" rel="nofollow">http://is.gd/8aUe3</a></span></span></span></p>
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