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There is very strong language throughout this programme.

Leveling up. Leveling up. It's just nonsense. This utter nonsense about trying to bridge the north-south divide.

Oh, we need a northern powerhouse. Bullocks! Excuse my French. I'll tell you what, the north,

when I can buy a parking space in London for under three quarters of a million pounds,

then I will happily level up with you. But until that point, us Ponzi Southerners are having the lot,

the trains, the ringroads, the art, the tourism, the decent haircuts, the hot people, all of it.

You can keep your reasonable rents and barme cakes and the saying thank you to the bus driver and you can shove them up your ass.

Thank you, Ashwin Chowdry, reform counsellor and regular caller.

Second time this week, I think.

Always on hand with a different perspective, should we say.

You can catch him most weeknights on G.B. News with his look at the next day's newspapers,

so quite why he feels the need to continually phone into my

show, God only knows. But I'm not a GBBB myself, but he's there if you want him. Oh, I think

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