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	<title>Mustafa Arif &#124; مصطفی عارف &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Flashride tomorrow (Friday) 0830am: Why we need to draw a line in the sand over Blackfriars</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/337</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 17:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blackfriars bridge is a watershed. Despite the hositle environment, there are more bicycles on it in rush hour than any other form of transport and there&#8217;s a major opportunity to improve conditions as part of the Crossrail work in the area. Yet unbelievably instead TfL decide to make things even worse for cycling! If not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixed term parliaments: whether 4 years or 5 we need a single political cycle</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/334</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening, I caught the end of the debate on the third reading of the Fixed Term Parliaments Bill in the House of Commons, on BBC Parliament. Whilst the government carried the vote Clegg did seem to fumble on the issue of periodic clashes between future elections to the UK parliament and elections to devolved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uninspiring, nebulous drivel &#8211; Barnet&#8217;s &#8220;Sustainable Community Strategy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/316</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[elected mayors]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Rams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I attended a Barnet Civic Network event at North London Business Park. It was new to me but many of those present (generally greying men) complained about the participation being dominated by the &#8220;usual suspects&#8221;. The agenda was a consultation of the &#8220;Vision&#8221;, &#8220;Values&#8221;, and &#8220;Priorities&#8221; of Barnet&#8217;s Sustainable Community Strategy for 2010-2020. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why scrapping the M4 bus lane is bad for motorists</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/312</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[john prescott]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[phil hammond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no stranger to the M4 and the bottleneck around the bus lane at Junction 3, getting back into London is infuriating. The news been somewhat drowned out by benefit changes but Phil Hammond&#8217;s shamelessly populist announcement that the M4 bus lane will be scrapped is going to make things worse, not better. The rationale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barnet Council party leaders&#8217; hustings &#8211; video</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/259</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 23:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barnet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mosque]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following parliamentary hustings for Hendon and Finchley &#038; Golders Green, the Barnet Muslim Forum organised a question time for the party group leaders on Barnet Council at Hendon Mosque last Tuesday (27 April 2010). The video is now available online&#8230; just in time to give you a chance to review the party positions before going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Hustings at Finchley Mosque – video</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/252</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 07:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mike]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[north]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saqeb]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following our lively hustings at Hendon Mosque the Barnet Muslim Forum held a follow-up event at Finchley Mosque for the Finchley &#38; Golders Green constituency on 7 April 2010. There were no earth-shattering revelations (that I recall) but a marked difference in approach and tone on the Middle East and other foreign policy issues between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parliamentary Hustings at Hendon Mosque &#8211; video</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/245</link>
		<comments>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/245#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, on behalf of the Barnet Muslim Forum, I organised a parliamentary election hustings at Hendon mosque for the Hendon constituency. Present were the candidates from the three main parties: Andrew Dismore MP (Labour), Matthew Offord (Conservative) and Matthew Harris (Lib Dem). No major gaffe&#8217;s from any of them, that I recall&#8230;. but a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The BNP leaker &#8211; the magistrate&#8217;s verdict</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/236</link>
		<comments>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perusing through news I came across the article on the fining of the &#8220;BNP leaker&#8221;. The whole affair has been somewhat surreal with members of an organisation associated with thuggery claiming fear of reprisal attacks. (This is not to say that BNP members are not entitled to data protection rights as citizens &#8211; of course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Parliament: Independent candidates for London</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/226</link>
		<comments>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/226#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[candidates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Parliament]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MEP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s relatively easy to find information on political parties for this election, but somewhat harder for independents. So I thought I&#8217;d do a round-up. Gene Alcantara Steven Cheung Jan Jananayagam Sohale Rahman Haroon Saad Normally, in a first-past-the-post election, I would vote tactically based on the two main candidates in a constituency. However, these elections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brussels: Hannan sticks some home truths in Brown&#8217;s face</title>
		<link>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/222</link>
		<comments>http://mustafa.arif.me.uk/node/222#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mustafa Arif</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crunch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[european]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[parliament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[uk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Hannan has been a colourful MEP – successfully managing to get himself expelled from the EPP [Source: BBC News]. I&#8217;ve not paid much attention to him before but shall be doing so in future after a memorable, and scorching performance today in the European Parliament, speaking in reply to Gordon Brown. Hannan succinctly, yet [...]]]></description>
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