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		<title>Media firestorms &amp; the Girvan sea-monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media firestorms, like extreme weather, seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity. From Lord Macalpine, George Entwistle, Huhne and Rennard among others, the last few months seem at times, like one long storm. Globalization, the online world and the 24 hour news cycle have greatly increased the number of reporters that can swarm onto [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first campaign &#8211; supports 1971 Commons vote to join</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faced with adverse opinion in parliament and amongst voters the Government decided that a campaign was necessary to prepare public opinion for entry and through the public to bring pressure to bear on MPs. The campaign lasted nearly two years was timed to peak just as the Commons voted &#8216;in principle&#8217; to join at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1979 Wales strongly rejects Assembly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[80% NO on 58% turnout. The comparison with the result in 1997 shows a big swing in public opinion to the idea of an assembly.]]></description>
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		<title>1973 N. Ireland border poll destroyed by boycott</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[99% say YES to stay in NI on turnout 59%. March 8. An effective abstention campaign by nationalist and catholic voters destroyed the validity of this referendum. It remains the best example in the UK of how a referendum can exarcebate division. David Trimble revived the idea with for another Border poll in 2003 alonside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The second campaign &#8211; the renegotiation referendum of 1975</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In February 1974, the new Labour Government was still faced with hostile public opinion on the EU and was itself split on the issue. Towards the end of February, NOP polls establish, for the first time, that there was a public appetite for renegotiation. (This is fifteen months before the referendum actually happens and almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Jobs for the boys &#8216; anger a Scots Tory &#8211; in 1957</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[from the Bulletin, Saturday, April 13th 1957 Mr Derek Smith, a former Girvan provost, and twice unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for South Ayrshire, was called to order at the annual conference of the Scottish Unionist Association in Ayr yesterday when he talked about &#8221; jobs for the boys&#8221;. He claimed there was an invisible and impenetrable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independence: ‘Scots could see second referendum’ &#8211; and a third</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Scotsman report that Gordon Wilson is proposing a second referendum on the euro and other matters, reminds me there is yet another issue requiring a referendum. The Scottish Government recently proposed that after a YES vote, a Scottish Constitutional Convention would draft a new constitution for Scotland. At some point this would have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Swiss referendum backs executive pay curbs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[68% YES  32% NO  with 71% turnout. All 26 Cantons voted YES. on Sunday March 3 2013 BBC News &#8211; Swiss referendum backs executive pay curbs.]]></description>
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