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	<description>Change we can&#039;t believe in...</description>
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		<title>What the Tories say &#8211; and what they really mean</title>
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“We all know that the easiest thing in the world is for an opposition party to blithely talk about all the efficiency savings we will make in government: how we will streamline public spending […] with a few well-chosen cuts that miraculously deliver substantial savings without harming public service delivery at all.” – David Cameron, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/05/what-the-tories-say-and-what-they-really-mean/</link>
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		<title>If you only read one thing today&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; read this article by Johann Hari in today&#8217;s Independent. Here are some excerpts:
In 2006, a group of rebranded &#8220;compassionate Conservatives&#8221; beat Labour for control of Hammersmith and Fulham Council, a long stretch of west London. George Osborne says the work they have done since then will be a &#8220;model&#8221; for a new Conservative government, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/05/if-you-only-read-one-thing-today/</link>
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		<title>Worth watching: Cameron vs Tory MEPs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This video uses a series of clips to show that on the environment, the NHS, bank levies and gay rights, Cameron says one thing to the British press whilst high-level representatives of his party say the opposite:

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		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/04/worth-watching-cameron-vs-tory-meps/</link>
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		<title>Cameron’s campaign tour, aka The Labour Achievements Roadshow</title>
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Last Friday David Cameron visited SPEAR, a youth charity in Hammersmith. A slick and media-savvy event, the visit formed the backdrop to his party’s Big Society plan, which, so its manifesto claims, envisions the state taking action to &#8220;agitate for, catalyse and galvanise social renewal&#8221;.
Yet rather than speaking of Cameron’s nebulous aspirations to ‘mend our broken society’, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/04/cameron%e2%80%99s-labour-achievements-roadshow/</link>
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		<title>Same Old Tories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Compass has officially launched www.sameoldtories.co.uk &#8211; a new interactive website to highlight the gap between the rhetoric and reality of the Conservative Party. This website is co-launched with a new pamphlet entitled Blue Dawn Fades - a critical analysis of the philosophy of &#8216;Compassionate Conservatism.&#8217;
As part of the Same Old Tories launch, the site includes a new web [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/04/same-old-tories/</link>
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		<title>From airbrushed to photoshopped &#8211; how Tories responded to claims of &#8216;pandering to prejudice&#8217;</title>
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Tory Stories has obtained details of the Conservative response to the claims that ethnic minority candidates were &#8216;airbrushed out&#8217; of electoral material. The Observer reported that, on being confronted with the allegations, the party appeared to make a rushed attempt to cover up its dubious electoral practices:
&#8220;The Tories said it was &#8220;fiction&#8221; to suggest that non-white candidates [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/03/from-airbrushed-to-photoshopped-how-tories-responded-to-claims-of-pandering-to-prejudice/</link>
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		<title>Did Ashcroft pay for the calendars, Mr Cameron?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was reported yesterday that campaign calendars distributed by Dagenham and Rainham Conservatives ‘airbrushed out’ ethnic minority candidates from photos. The founder of Operation Black Vote has alleged that the calendars, which also feature a large image of David Cameron, ‘pander’ to race hatred.
And the significance of this apparent reluctance to promote non-white candidates goes beyond the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/03/did-ashcroft-pay-for-the-calendars-mr-cameron/</link>
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		<title>Cameron pictured on controversial ‘airbrushed’ calendars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Observer has reported on electoral material distributed by Dagenham and Rainham Conservatives that ‘airbrushed out’ ethnic minority candidates. The campaign calendars list the names and contact details of Wale Oguntona, Emran Uddin and Samson Omosule but only include photos of the party’s white candidates. Simon Wolley, the founder of Operation Black Vote, slammed the Tories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/03/cameron-pictured-on-controversial-%e2%80%98airbrushed%e2%80%99-calendars/</link>
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		<title>Extreme views of Tory council candidate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Tory Stories reported on Osman Dervish, the Conservative council candidate thought to be behind the inflammatory, anti-migrant leaflet recently distributed by Romford Conservatives.

Today Tory Stories has been made aware of further cause for concern at the attitudes harboured in today&#8217;s Conservative Party. Dervish, who is also listed as working for the Conservative MP for Romford, Andrew Rosindell, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/03/extreme-views-of-tory-council-candidate/</link>
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		<title>Tory council silences voluntary sector, slashes funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What they say&#8230;
“The time has come for us to think of the voluntary sector as the first sector [...] No matter how difficult the problems facing our society, there is none so difficult that someone, somewhere, isn’t already solving it through voluntary action. The  question is not whether the sector can do it, but what government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.torystories.com/2010/03/tory-council-silences-voluntary-sector-slashes-funding/</link>
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