Hello and welcome to the midweek edition of the Four The Many podcast.

If you've missed the last couple, you won't know that we're doing two podcasts a week over the next few weeks until the general election.

How are you doing, Ms. Smith?

I'm doing very well, thank you.

Enjoying the election?

Well, I do think it's reached a peak today, so to speak.

Be like yourself.

When we have the prime minister calling the leader of the opposition a wanker.

So the whole thing is, well, he has because of course he's making a speech either today or he made it yesterday in which he's using the expression.

We don't want more years of political oninism.

And as every classically educated person knows, that means wanking.

Oh my God.

It adds even more to my book on public discourse, doesn't it?

So, yes, the level has raised itself to a hitherto unforeseen standard of shithness.

It is.

I kind of get the point, though, because that's what Parliament's been indulging in for the last year, isn't it, really?

No, I think Parliament's been engaging in legitimate foreplay, myself.

In order to make sure the final outcome is as good as it can be.

You know, I thought the Wednesday podcast would be a lot more serious and worthy than the Sunday ones, but obviously, obviously not. Now, before we start,

we've got to, I don't know how many of you've heard my little two-minute edition of the

four-the-many podcast that was posted a little bit earlier. But we have a serious announcement

to make. And don't panic everyone before I make it, because it's about the future of the

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