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		<title>David Laws &amp; Benefit Fraud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google &#8216;DWP benefit fraud&#8217; and see what happens to ordinary mortals who fail to notify the DWP of their sexual and house-sharing arrangements. Or are named in an anonymous Stasi-style tip-off. The internet is awash with horror stories. The DWP is implacable. They dump people in court on the flimsiest evidence. They pursue them like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reformparliament.co.uk/?p=39</link>
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		<title>The 55 percent rule &amp; packing the House of Lords</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top People are mucking about with the British Constitution. They seek to pack the House of Lords with Tories and Liberals, and make it more difficult, via the proposed 55 percent rule, to remove an unpopular government. &#8220;Oh, but we don&#8217;t have a Constitution!&#8221; is a standard response, implying there&#8217;s nothing for Top People, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reformparliament.co.uk/?p=28</link>
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		<title>Letter from America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking to a friend from the US recently in an internet chat room, we had the following exchange. I&#8217;ve tied it up slightly &#8211; typos and unpacked abbreviations &#8211; but it&#8217;s pretty much the original text. BRIT: Our new government&#8217;s decided to &#8220;pack&#8221; the House of Lords. But Labour did it before them so it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reformparliament.co.uk/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Reform Parliament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Houses of Parliament are Britain&#8217;s premier public institution. They make the law. They take the country to war. They raise taxes, run the economy and spend billions. Yet Parliament is rotten. A discredited electoral system ensures MPs fail to represent the political will of the people. The House of Lords is unelected and contains [...]]]></description>
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