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Hello, welcome to the new European podcast. My name's Richard Porre and I'm joined by Steve Anglesey.

Hello, Snowflakes. Hello, Richard. Hello, Steve. How are you?

I'm very well, I'm happy to say.

But obviously, our thoughts are with people who are not well, including the Prime Minister.

Yes, of course.

I'm just writing a piece, actually, about how encouraged I was by the sort of good wishes that were sent to the Prime Minister because, you know,

it's one of my things that I bang on about all the time, you know, that this country seems to

have forgotten how to agree, to disagree. But, you know, there was the odd outlying

nincompoop wasn't there on social media who said some pretty bad stuff, but I think by and

large, people sort of said, yeah, you know, might not agree with him,

but don't want him to be in hospital either.

Well, including the mayor of Hina, which is near Nottingham.

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