Hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome to the final midweek for the many

podcast of this election campaign. We'll be reverting to a weekend edition from this weekend.

Jackie, I sat there in your negligee because it's quarter past eight on Wednesday morning.

I am actually sat here in my flowery dressing gown, yes, in my day coat.

And just to reassure our listeners, although it's quarter past eight in the morning, I have no toast, no porridge, no bacon roll, no nothing that I'm

going to be chomping on and disgusting people during the course of this podcast.

Because we did have complaints about the last one.

When you were chomping through your ginger cake, it was disgusting, according to one listener.

I do think the problem might have been not the ginger cake,

but the Nougar

because that was a little bit...

That was a little bit chewy,

you know,

and so it makes your mouth water

whilst you're chewing it.

So I'm really, really sorry.

Not.

I'm sorry, so sorry. Do you remember that from Nick Clegg oh yes oh dreadful I actually

played that on the show the day before yesterday because we were doing a section on Joe Swinson's

gender thing the non-binary whatever which I saw don't really get and the liberal

democrats wouldn't put anyone up.

So at the end of the clip of Joe Swinson that we played, I just said,

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