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Great to have Tom Wright with me again for another edition of the podcast and today we're tackling

your questions on politics on things like abortion race even critical theory some hot button issues

that we're going to be looking at today that have come in and um I mean politics in general Tom do

you an avid follower of what's going on in the political world?

Up to a certain point, one gets a bit tired with certain things.

I mean, we have over the last few years been dealing with this Brexit thing, and I think

like a lot of people, I got to the point where I just didn't want to hear another news item

about Brexit.

And I think in a sense, what happened in Britain was that the whole country just said,

oh, we're so tired of this. Just do it and get on with it. Yeah, I think that was genuinely

partly what caused the, partly behind that, that huge swing towards the Tories, was people

just wanted to get it then. And it was interesting because that functioned as the second

referendum that a lot of people were asking for, because a lot of

places where the Labour Party got in, actually if you add the Conservative vote and the Brexit Party

vote, that would have won. Which means that not only did they have the sizable majority 80 or so

seats, but there were another 40 or so seats that could have gone their way. Where the majority

people voted for Brexit, which was extraordinary. And, you know, a lot of us are still kind

of living with the fallout and what on earth does that mean? How is it going to work out and

does anybody know? Life is not dull politically in Britain at the moment. I think the part of the

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