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	<title>Comments on: Core beliefs of the Democrats?</title>
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	<description>Thoughts of Antonia, Labour activist and feminist in Oxford</description>
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		<title>By: Antonia</title>
		<link>http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/05/30/core-beliefs-of-the-democrats/#comment-1849</link>
		<dc:creator>Antonia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the comment, Kimberley.  How did you come across this blog? 

Clause 4 of the Labour party's constitution is on the back of our membership cards: 

&lt;em&gt;‘The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.’&lt;/em&gt;

I thought that the page you linked to was interesting, and it gave a position on the important issues - to the extent that it became a shopping list.  But my question is this - what are the core beliefs and values of the Democrats? I know what you think on the issues of today, but I have no tools to work out from your values how you might react to future challenges.  Where set down are your values, as opposed to your policy priorities?  What value unites your support for abortion rights with your advocacy of fair taxation and trade union rights?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the comment, Kimberley.  How did you come across this blog? </p>
<p>Clause 4 of the Labour party&#8217;s constitution is on the back of our membership cards: </p>
<p><em>‘The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. Where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe. And where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.’</em></p>
<p>I thought that the page you linked to was interesting, and it gave a position on the important issues - to the extent that it became a shopping list.  But my question is this - what are the core beliefs and values of the Democrats? I know what you think on the issues of today, but I have no tools to work out from your values how you might react to future challenges.  Where set down are your values, as opposed to your policy priorities?  What value unites your support for abortion rights with your advocacy of fair taxation and trade union rights?</p>
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		<title>By: Kimberly Hall</title>
		<link>http://www.antoniabance.org.uk/2005/05/30/core-beliefs-of-the-democrats/#comment-1840</link>
		<dc:creator>Kimberly Hall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 21:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Check this out:
http://www.mesacountydems.com/platformcore_beliefs.htm

okay so it isn't the national democratic party but its specific. We don't have party membership cards here in the US. What's written on the back of yours?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check this out:<br />
<a href="http://www.mesacountydems.com/platformcore_beliefs.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.mesacountydems.com/platformcore_beliefs.htm</a></p>
<p>okay so it isn&#8217;t the national democratic party but its specific. We don&#8217;t have party membership cards here in the US. What&#8217;s written on the back of yours?</p>
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