Welcome to episode 3 of page 94 the privateite podcast now officially with more episodes than David Cameron has ever won general elections

Specifically three more episodes than David Cameron has ever won general elections.

Later on I'll be talking to Jane Mackenzie about the crisis in higher education and to Ian Hislop about the crisis in Piers Morgan.

But before all that it's election time.

The Queen has dissolved Parliament using a special

button she keeps about her person at all times. David Dimbleby has been summoned from the

ether by a circle of BBC executive standing around an old swing orbiter and chanting the shipping

forecast backwards. In just five incredibly long weeks we will sort of probably not

quite have another government and in spite of all the excitement a huge aura of tedium hangs over the entire campaign so far,

because we know that at the end of the 90 minutes of the Westminster Cup Final 2015, neither team will have won.

In fact, one of the teams will probably have to patch up a coalition

with a smaller team in order to desperately claim victory. Add to that the fact that a small but sizable proportion

of the crowd would like to break away and form their own stadium a little further north and you have a recipe for tedium and excitement all at the same time.

It will all be covered in the pages of the magazine and on this podcast. This week's magazine features the first of our election ball

series all the gaffs howlars and bloopers that candidates have made so far.

Already we've received some examples of candidates who've managed to misspell the

name of their own constituency in their election

literature. We haven't yet found anyone spelling their own name wrong yet, but it can only be a matter of time.

This week we also heard about the constituency of Eddisbury in Cheshire, in which three out of five candidates used to belong to a different party than the one they're now standing for.

The UKIP candidate, unsurprisingly, used to be in the Conservative Party until 2010 when he defected. The Green

candidate was in the Liberal Democrats until 2011 when he defected and the Lib Dem

candidate used to be in the SDP apart from a brief spell in 1992 when he signed a press release urging people

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