So good morning everybody and today's for the many podcast is brought to you in the spirit and in fact as part of the great get-together which is happening this weekend, supported, of course, by the Joe Cox Foundation

and all sorts of different events going on all over the country, demonstrating, as Joe said,

that we have more in common than that which divides us, although I think there'll be quite a lot

to divide us this morning, Ian, won't there? But we will do it in a friendly fashion.

We will.

I thought you were going to say, we'll do this podcast in the spirit of G.B. News.

Well, looking in the wrong direction, speaking into the wrong microphone.

Oh no, I've just proved myself to be part of the Metropolitan Elite that it's set up to address.

Quite indeed so. Well, possibly a little bit on that later. We might talk about your slurring performance on Good Morning Britain yesterday.

You big fat liar.

Shall I let the listeners into a little secret?

Go on.

Well, on Thursday evening, because Jackie and I now stay at the same hotel and stop it before any room is start.

On a Thursday night before we do Good Morning Britain.

And I obviously get there, I don't know, sort of 20 to 11 or something.

So I thought, I know, let's have a late night drink.

So I ring her up and say, are you there yet?

She goes, no, I've just been out for a drink.

And the alarm bells

started to ring, of course. So I get there about quarter to 11. And there she is,

already in the bar, on her own. Insert comments here. So we start chatting away as we do,

and I'm thinking, she's hammered.

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