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	<title>Anna Raccoon &#187; taxpayers</title>
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	<description>A jaundiced view of the mainstream media.</description>
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		<title>Virtual Insanity.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/virtual-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/virtual-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Council Rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local councils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ratepayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[second life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tameside Council.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the United Kingdom 2010. ‘Walking the dog’ is no longer the low-tech activity it used to be. If you are lucky enough to avoid the marauding transvestites intent on introducing your Pekinese pooch to the finer details of alternative sexuality, then your next task is to find a suitable lamp post. Assuming you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Would that we could learn from THESE Americans &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/a-new-libertarian-society/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/a-new-libertarian-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 06:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thaddeus J. Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=8238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read things like this, my soul blossoms just a little: &#8220;Fantastic,&#8221; says Sean Paige of the financial crunch that is slowly throttling public services in Colorado Springs. &#8220;I welcome it.&#8221; Never mind that a third of the street lights have been dark since February and the citizenry may soon be asked to take [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What every young McBride should know before marriage&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-every-young-mcbride-should-know-before-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/what-every-young-mcbride-should-know-before-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Damian McBride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Perks and Privileges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Mandelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Mandelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=1714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It won&#8217;t make a vas deferens now, but perhaps someone should have warned the young McBride that &#8216;cooking up&#8217; stories with &#8216;tough as old boot leather&#8217;  Balls, he was liable to get his fingers burnt. The Sunday Times today is printing &#8216;heavily denied&#8217; allegations that Ed Balls was the mastermind behind the  “dark arts” operation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Taking the p*ss out of Taxpayers</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/taking-the-pss-out-of-taxpayers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/taking-the-pss-out-of-taxpayers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoholics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disability Living Allowance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incapacity Benefit.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=1416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[More than 4,000 alcoholics are claiming full-time disability benefits in Greater Manchester &#8211; landing taxpayers with a £10m annual bill. Just in Manchester alone! They show a total of 4,220 people were claiming Incapacity Benefit (IB) or Severe Disablement Allowance (SDA), where alcoholism was listed as the main `disabling condition&#8217;. The weekly bill to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Charitable assumption&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/a-charitable-assumption/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/a-charitable-assumption/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Four Square]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lloyds TSB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Enterprise New Futures Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supporting People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=1220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Idly watching the parliament channel after Andrew Neil had finished today, I found myself engrossed in a sub titled programme covering the difficulties faced by migrants in Europe. Eventually the discussion moved to Scotland and the heartbreaking plight of migrants there who were &#8216;forced to rely on charity&#8217; &#8211; to avoid starvation, death and a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fat is not a political issue.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/fat-is-not-a-political-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/fat-is-not-a-political-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fat camps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Select Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NICE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slimming Classes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slimming World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stomach stapling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weight Watchers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=1182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The news this week that the state was handing over £3million a year to Weight Watchers, and Slimmers World, to persuade the &#8216;deserving poor&#8217; to shed some of their lard, incensed me. It came hard on the heels of a government report lambasting ministers for spending vast sums of money on &#8220;ineffective and possibly damaging&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Quiescent Cadavers&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-quiescent-cadavers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-quiescent-cadavers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dodgy statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Way back in the murky past, I did an inordinate amount of research for a paper entitled The Quiescent Cadaver. Bless them, I was shocked to discover they have no legal rights at all. Surprisingly, they live lives pretty much like the rest of us; they get married, they have sex, they have babies. Today [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Skeletons in the cupboard.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/skeletons-in-the-cupboard/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/skeletons-in-the-cupboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Kebab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday 9 March 2009, the Channel 4 Dispatches programme broadcast How They Squander Our Billions, a documentary on government projects including the NHS’s National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NPfIT had an initial announced cost of £2.3bn which rose to £6.2bn and later £12.7bn. A key objective of the NPfIT is the introduction of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Judge and Jury</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/judge-and-jury/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/judge-and-jury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jade Goody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jury Team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Max Clifford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Taylor MP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Paul Judge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sir Paul Judge, a millionaire Conservative donor, is setting up his own political movement called &#8216;Jury Team&#8217; that aims to get more independent MPs elected. My initial response was &#8216;why&#8217;? Why would a Conservative donor become so disillusioned that he wishes to finance an entire new political system? In an article in yesterday&#8217;s Telegraph, he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Laddie&#8217;s not for turning&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-laddies-not-for-turning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-laddies-not-for-turning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chancellor of the Exchequer.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[market collapse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The intrepid class warfare contestants seem to be meeting themselves coming backwards over the past week. We have Billy Bragg in the Guardian telling us that: With 25 years&#8217; hindsight, Maggie&#8217;s bitter victory over the striking miners unleashed forces that led directly to this economic crisis. Apparently it was Thatcher&#8217;s achievement in giving council house [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Darien Scheme revitalised?</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-darien-scheme-revitalised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-darien-scheme-revitalised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[printing money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative easing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Assets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The original Darien Scheme was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to establish a colony on the Isthmus of Panama. Almost every Scot who had £5 to spare supported it. It came a mighty cropper. The financial loss to Scotland amounted to nearly a quarter of its liquid capital, and is believed by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>The tax man is telling fairytales&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-tax-man-is-telling-fairytales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-tax-man-is-telling-fairytales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The February edition of HMRC&#8217;s thrice-yearly &#8220;Employer Bulletin&#8221; normally contains a CD of software designed to help small firms deal with their tax obligations. There should be an employee database, tax calculators and automatic form generators. &#8220;Install Immediately&#8221;, the taxman&#8217;s packaging urges. The CD is updated and mailed out twice per year. This year &#8216;hard [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another sexed-up secret?</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/another-sexed-up-secret/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/another-sexed-up-secret/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[censorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chancellor of the Exchequer.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Assets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=721</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vince Cable has tabled a parliamentary question challenging the Treasury to reveal the contents of a Treasury dossier submitted in evidence to the Competition Appeal Tribunal last December by the Merger Action Group who were opposing the Lloyd&#8217;s &#8211; HBOS merger. The document set out the reasons why Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, and Lord Mandelson [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shredding Freddie&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/shredding-freddie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/shredding-freddie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banking Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Bank of Scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Assets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had not thought I should write in support of Sir Fred Goodwin, nor any other banker, but the sinister orchestration of media voices baying for his blood has brought out my mothering instincts.  Leave Freddie alone. No one, so far, has alleged that he has done anything criminal. He signed a contract  which seemed reasonable to those who offered it to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>131</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tenors on a fiver an hour?</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/tenors-on-a-fiver-an-hour/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/tenors-on-a-fiver-an-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dodgy statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to &#8220;raise the bar&#8221; for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in. The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tomorrow to &#8220;put British workers first&#8221; &#8211; and increase the BNP [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>The &#8216;Old Lady&#8217; splashes out on a new wardrobe&#8230;&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-old-lady-splashes-out-on-a-new-wardrobe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-old-lady-splashes-out-on-a-new-wardrobe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gloria Smudd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[printing money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative easing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.annaraccoon.com/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In The Sunday Times today (22nd February 2009) we read of Mr. Brown’s intention to rubber stamp – “as part of a blitz of initiatives designed to save the banking system” measures including “Permission for the Bank of England to begin £100 billion of “quantitative easing” — in effect printing money — to encourage banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coarse fishing for Grayling&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/coarse-fishing-for-grayling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/coarse-fishing-for-grayling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Grayling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacquie Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Perks and Privileges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partisan Politics.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Homes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxpayers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Sunday Mirror  is standing in the icy water of voter disillusionment with Nulabour governance this morning, fiddling with its flies and trying to hook a Grayling. A knee jerk reaction of partisan politics at its worst; &#8216;they&#8217;ve got our &#8216;Second Home Secrecy&#8217; Jacquie Smith, on the hook, we&#8217;ll have a go at theirs&#8217;. Back in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Banks are lending again!</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-banks-are-lending-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Banking Crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Er, no, not to you&#8230;..don&#8217;t be daft! The Times on-line is reporting that RBS, which is 68 per cent owned by taxpayers after a £20 billion government bailout, is offering its staff loans against the bonuses that they are owed but which have been deferred until 2010 under a deal with the Government. Remember how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whistle a happy tune&#8230;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/whistle-a-happy-tune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/whistle-a-happy-tune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a spectacular few weeks for that endangered species, the Whistleblower. First up was Paul Moore, who had patiently bided his time and delivered a broadside under parliamentary privilege to the Commons Treasury Committee, securing not only the scalp of his former boss, Sir James Crosby, but delivering a nasty wound to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Lying Scotsman&#8221; has a leaky undercarriage&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-lying-scotsman-has-a-leaky-undercarriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.annaraccoon.com/politics/the-lying-scotsman-has-a-leaky-undercarriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Raccoon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dodgy governments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labour Perks and Privileges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[printing money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quantitative easing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stampede of heavyweight Scots, puffing and bellowing their way down the Carlisle line to create havoc in London is creating a back lash on the Internet and the main stream  media. Alistair Darling has now been accused of &#8216;doing a Jacquie&#8217; &#8211; a phrase which is fast becoming common currency to describe the act [...]]]></description>
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