Welcome to the new and first ever edition of the Thought Police in 2025. It's a brand new year.

Kevin Settlement's here with me. Very good afternoon. Happy New Year, Mike. Happy New Year to all of you.

And a happy new year to all of our fucking listeners.

Wankers.

Listen, we should probably start with an apology because we got a bit crazed towards the end of the year last year and we couldn't do a sort of Christmas edition podcast

which we wanted to.

But the main reason we couldn't do it

is because we have to do all this other stuff

and all these other shit.

And then you had to go on holiday.

I have to get myself sorted out with the family and everything.

So we're back.

And there's going to be plenty to fucking talk about, by the way, because Donald Trump's going to be president in a roundabout just over a week's time, really, at the time you start listening to this. We've got Keir Stama,

still as fucking useless and unpopular as he was before Christmas. Nothing's changed. In fact,

if anything, he's probably become even more unpopular. He's made it a lot worse. He's made it

worse, isn't it? His performance this week, but his far right shit. The far right shit, branding everyone who wants, who feels the need for a new inquiry into

the grooming gang scandal, far right.

I mean, no one will ever forgive for that.

This fucker, how can he keep getting it so wrong?

This useless fucking wanker just stumbles from one avoidable catastrophe to the next.

You know, he didn't need to say that.

So there's millions of people around the country, I think probably including you and I,

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