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Hello, Bugleers. I am Andy Zoltzman. This is issue 4133 of the Bugle. It's Friday,

the 13th of December, and I'm here in London, where the UK

is a flame with excitement after a truly extraordinary general election result.

The Pro Brexit vote down to 14.8 million devotes for remain and reference supporting parties

up to 16.6 million. The call to end the uncertainties inspired the voters to surely vote

a path to the stability of continued membership of the European Union. And now, unalguable democratic

statements, we have a Prime Minister who recently unseated his predecessor because she was so

unelectably hopeless up against one of the least popular most media-villified opposition leaders

in British history who could only splutter support for his party back up by a hardly moon-vending

1% pathetic. The Liberal Democrats added a spectacular 60% of their vote. The Greens

up by over 60% as well as a U-come climate quake shook British politics to its foundations.

Now, I must acknowledge that 16.6 million people being in favour of something or not completely

against something does not constitute an unalguable divine overwhelming mandate

when other people are spoken etc etc are done expected to be as simple as just simply not

getting Brexit not done. But, after all these cynical and manipulated divisions of recent years,

surely, this election represent a long overdue generational shift towards a more forward-looking,

inclusive open-minded Britain. Of course, none of that happened apart from the facts about how

people voted, but this is the view we're recalling in Britain where our electoral system is to be

as polite as is appropriate, unbelievably ****ing shit at maths. So I am Andy's ultimate

or at least 43% of me isn't that small enough. And joining me to provide some insight,

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