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Electioncast: Folder Fillers

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BBC

Politics, News

4.46.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto in a North London nightclub and Boris Johnson says he wants to change National Insurance rules. Producers: Emma Close and Nick Rotherham Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0

BBC sounds, music, radio, podcast.

0:03.8

Hello everyone, now last night during the leader's debate,

0:06.4

you may have heard me trying to coin the term

0:08.8

Bo Joe Bort when some people suggested Boris Johnson

0:12.0

was a bit repetitive.

0:13.6

Now it turns out in a cupboard here at ElectionCast HQ,

0:16.8

we have a highly intelligent supercomputer,

0:19.4

which I tasked with coming up with other robot names

0:23.0

for party leaders.

0:24.6

She agreed with me on the Boris Johnson one.

0:26.8

DJ Bort.

0:28.4

Computer.

0:29.4

What could you call a cybernetic Jeremy Corbyn?

0:32.0

Q2, D2.

0:34.0

What about a robotic Joe Swinson?

0:36.2

C3, P, Joe.

0:38.4

How about Scottish National Party leader, Nicholas Dirigen?

0:42.0

The term in Natal.

0:43.8

Nigel Farage?

0:45.2

Seven of Nige.

0:46.8

That's a Star Trek reference, I think.

0:48.6

And what about co-leader of the Greens, Jonathan Bartley?

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