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	<title>Peter Skinner MEP &#187; Social Rights</title>
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		<title>Euro MP backs Horsham group’s bid to end casino style food speculation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions left malnourished by bankers betting on food prices
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Big investment banks are betting on the price of staple foods like wheat, maize and soya. This is causing food prices to rise and making people go hungry.
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After a meeting with members of the Horsham group of the World Development Movement Sussex Euro MP Peter Skinner is supporting their campaign for tighter European regulation of food markets.
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Banks and hedge funds are earning huge profits from betting on food prices in unregulated financial markets. This causes drastic price swings in staple foods such ...]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Skinner MEP marks Holocaust Memorial Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To mark this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Euro MP Peter Skinner attended a special ceremony in the European Parliament and pledged to ‘speak up and speak out’ against hatred.
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27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day, which marks an opportunity to remember and learn from the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.
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The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust is asking people to come together and challenge the language of hatred which still exists in society.
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I am backing their pledge: 
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As part of my commitment to ending the language ...]]></description>
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		<title>Euro MP backs Equal Love campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Skinner’s support for the Equal Love campaign has won the backing of Brighton &#38; Hove LGBT rights activist Chris Cooke.
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The campaign seeks to end the twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships.
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The Sussex Euro MP signed a pledge to back the campaign along with all other Labour members of the European Parliament.
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After that unanimous support from Labour MEPs for the Equal Love campaign, LGBT campaigner Peter Tatchell said &#8220;Huge appreciation to Labour MEPs for supporting the Equal Love campaign.  
 
&#8220;It&#8217;s great to have all ...]]></description>
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		<title>Young people are paying the price of Tory Austerity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People like James Bacon, 22, are bearing the brunt of the Tory-led Government’s savage cuts.
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Hastings resident James left Kings College London in July but has been unable to find work:
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“It’s a real struggle. I’m applying all the time but there are so many applicants for very few positions. All my friends seem to be in the same situation and I can’t even find an unpaid internship. It seems like the Government are completely out of touch with how tough things are at the moment.”
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In Hastings long term youth unemployment has ...]]></description>
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		<title>Labour calls for action on youth unemployment in the South East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South East MEP Peter Skinner is backing Labour’s call in parliament for action to tackle youth unemployment.
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Unemployment in Britain is rising and has reached its highest level in 17 years. In the South East region, 41,100 18-24 year olds are out of work.
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&#8220;In the last nine months the UK economy has flatlined. This gives very little hope to those tens of thousands of young people in the South East who are without work. The Tory-led Government’s policies are hurting but not working.”
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He said Labour’s proposed tax on bankers’ bonuses could ...]]></description>
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		<title>Rocketing fees cause University applications from the South East to fall 8%</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>juan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UK Universities are facing their biggest fall in applications for more than 30 years.
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Official UCAS figures released yesterday show that university applications from South East students have dropped by over 8% compared to the same point last year. The majority of applications to date have been to Oxford, Cambridge and to the Medicine, Veterinary and Dentistry courses.
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It has also emerged that one in ten potential students are being put off applying to university, according  to a survey by Comres.
Peter Skinner MEP:
“These figures show that the Tory-led Government’s decision to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Euro MP Joins the Fight Against Disability Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter is joining disability campaigners in their fight against Government Cuts that could leave disabled people trapped in their homes.
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Yesterday he met with John Evans, a disability campaigner from Hampshire, to discuss the threat posed by the cuts to essential services and benefits.
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John Evans made history 25 years ago when he moved out of residential care into his own flat. He was left badly injured after an accident aged 25. He now gets financial support from both Hampshire County Council and the Independent Living Funds. He works as a consultant ...]]></description>
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		<title>HELP WHISTLEBLOWERS TO PREVENT OIL SPILLS</title>
		<link>http://www.peterskinnermep.eu/help-whistleblowers-to-prevent-oil-spills-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Price</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Action must be taken to make it easier for offshore gas and oil workers to blow the whistle on potentially unsafe working arrangements if we are to avoid accidents on offshore rigs.
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That&#8217;s the message from Peter Skinner today. The South East Euro MP has been leading Labour’s campaign to assist workers in raising their safety concerns.
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His amendments to a report on oil rig safety standards in Europe were backed by MEPs today and  will influence the direction taken by the European Commission as it prepares to make formal proposals ...]]></description>
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