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

Thank you so much for tuning in wherever you are in the UK and indeed around the rest of the world.

And today, well, it's the electoral reform special.

I've pledged an electoral reform special for many months and here it is.

Now, I know some of you will be really excited at the announcement,

but in case some of you think, oh, bloody L, lecture reform, boring, snoring, boring, just to

reassure you, I kind of will be your guide as someone who is, or has been skeptical on this theme, partly because I've always seen it as quite

boring. You know, this thing, I mean, isn't it fascinating? If you choose STV rather than AV,

oh, bloody hell. So don't worry. It's actually interesting, very interesting, and will become

so, I promise you. And the rest of you,

I know, will be really excited by the electoral reform special. So that's coming up in a minute.

Brilliant questions as ever. I'll rush through the notices because I know how excited some of

you will be at the electoral reform special and how tentative others of you will feel at this announcement.

Thank you those of you subscribing to Patreon. Hopefully you will now have episode two of our new

series of bonus podcasts looking at apparent calamitous government errors. Episode one for October was Margaret Thatcher and the Poltax. The episode for

November is Tony Blair and Iraq. And there's going to be a couple more of these in this series

over December and January. So yeah, thank you for that. And just very quickly, a reminder that

the Christmas specials are coming up,

one live at King's Place on December the 5th, and then live at the old market theatre for the first time in Brighton on Monday, December the 12th.

And these Christmas specials are great because we can look back at the whole

year. And I think this is the wackiest year since 1945. Three prime ministers, four chancellors,

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