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	<title>The Murmurings of Barry Kirby</title>
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		<title>Carlisle Labour Road Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m late in blogging about this, but a couple of weeks ago I went and stayed in Dalston, Carlisle for a week.  It is where my parents live and near to where I grew up.  However I have never been involved in the political side up there and I really wanted to meet up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What lurks in the shadows? &#8211; Me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fire]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the new way of working on the County Council, a new initiative is the idea of Shadow Cabinet members.  So each of the Cabinet Portfolio holders has an opposite number in both Labour and Lib Dem groups.  I am now the Shadow for Fire Planning and Infrastructure which is held by Cllr Will Windsor-Clive. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you Graham Stewart MP :-) #Homeed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is one Conservative MP who a lot of Home Educators owe a great deal of gratitude and that is Graham Stewart MP.  He has championed the Home Ed cause for a long time and kept the subject a topic within Westminster while the need arises.  HE has done this again with the new Children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Month in &#8211; What have I been doing in #OurGrangeandKingsway</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloucestershire County Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grange and Kingsway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quedgeley Parish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Residents Association]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jon Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oath of Office]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/?p=5181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A month ago, yes only a month, I was elected as the member for Grange and Kingsway, and what a month it has been.  What with training, finding my feet, meeting people, getting out and about in the community, finding out more about my responsibilities, shuffling busy calendars, meeting officers, meeting residents, and keeping the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quedgeley Annual Parish Assembly &#8211; Finally on the right path</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/quedgeley-annual-parish-assembly-finally-path/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=quedgeley-annual-parish-assembly-finally-path</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 11:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Martin Surl]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quedgeley]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/?p=5171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that I have been very critical of previous Quedgeley Parish public meetings, when a Parish is supposed to represent around 16,000 people and barely 20 people feel motivated to turn up, and not even all the councillors attend is not a good thing.  But I was very enthused last night, with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lets talk &#8211; Differently!</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/lets-talk/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-talk</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grange and Kingsway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloucestershire County Council]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/?p=5163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe the biggest challenge I face as a new councillor, is engaging with my residents.  Given how many people have lost faith with the current &#8220;political machine&#8221;, as shown by the 75% of people who didn&#8217;t think it was worth going out to vote, it is clear that we have to try and do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Full Meeting of the County Council</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/full-meeting-county-council/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=full-meeting-county-council</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/full-meeting-county-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday was the Annual Council Meeting for Gloucestershire County Council, it is the meeting where the leadership, cabinet and committees are sorted out.  It was also my first council meeting, so it was a new environment to take in and new procedures to learn.  All in all it was an interesting event in itself, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My first Progress conference &#8211; #pac13</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/progress-conference-pac13/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=progress-conference-pac13</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/progress-conference-pac13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 10:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Miliband]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/?p=5140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To listen to some Labour Party members, Progress is like an antichrist organisation.  Others see it as the voice of the future of the party, so having talked to a wide range of people both inside and outside of the Progress membership, read a lot of their literature I decided that, like many organisations, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Hard Work begins</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/hard-work-begins/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hard-work-begins</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/hard-work-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a nail-biting count on Thursday night, I had the great honour of being elected as the County Council Member for Grange and Kingsway.  It was a fantastic evening, which followed 2 very hard days of campaigning, which rounded off 5 years of community activism.   However, this is obviously the start of the journey, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kingsway Litter Pick &#8211; A great Success</title>
		<link>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/kingsway-litter-pick-great-success/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kingsway-litter-pick-great-success</link>
		<comments>http://www.barrykirby.co.uk/2013/kingsway-litter-pick-great-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gloucester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingsway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Kirby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Chatterton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councillor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Residents Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday afternoon saw brilliant sunshine and a huge array of High Viz vests taking to the Streets of Kingsway to do the first Kingsway Litter Pick.  Organised by the Kingsway Residents Association, and supported by over 70 residents, I think the day was a huge success and really worked to help clean up our streets, [...]]]></description>
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