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journalism. Hello, welcome to the new European podcast. My name is Richard Porre and I'm joined by

Steve Anglesey. Hello, snowflakes. What a week? We say that every week now, don't we? Every week is madder than the last, isn't it?

I was chatting to a colleague earlier about when politics went bonkers.

Yes.

And there's any number of points, isn't there in time?

But we came to the conclusion that it was when Gordon Brown accidentally called that woman a bigot.

Gordon Brown, texture like son.

Yes, it could have been, although, you know, the frenzy of when May lost a majority,

I think that was the moment.

That pushed it right over the edge.

That's when it went right over the edge, I think.

All of this, it would be fairly frantic, but if they were operating on a, you know, on a majority,

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