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The Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the weekly podcast with me, Steve Richards,

but this is the second of the week.

It's the electoral reform special, The sequel.

As promised, it's question time following the electoral reform special. I got so many questions.

I decided that we needed to have a sequel.

This is kind of, for those of you who share my weariness, I think is perhaps the word for my

feelings about electoral reform as an issue of passionate interest.

Don't worry, this is going to be fun.

Yeah, yeah.

It's going to be like a pantomime, electoral reform, the pantomime.

And for those of you who are passionate, yeah, it's going to be hopefully illuminating and reflecting your passionate views.

So this is the context, by the way, for those of you who are new to rock and roll politics and our growing cooperative, you might be saying, oh, why, I've just tuned into this,

because I want a deep kind of reflective, behind the scenes, look at the autumn statement, the Hunt-Soonak statement. For that, please tune in to the previous podcast, which came out on Tuesday of this week, because that's where you'll get it and you'll get more early next week when

we all get together again for our regular weekly podcast. But this is a special generated by

I've got many hundreds of questions. Now if it's okay with all of you, obviously I can't

read them all out. I'm only going to read a few out because I've kind of

designed them through themes, really, which hopefully will develop during the podcast and a couple

of questions that illustrates each theme of your absolutely brilliant responses. And before we come to them, I thought I would reflect for a

second, if it's okay with all of you, on my kind of thoughts about the electoral reform special.

To be honest, and I think some of you probably know this and guess this, on this one, I felt a bit

like a kind of preacher to a congregation where the

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