Welcome to another sparkling edition of Plank of the Week. And this week with a bit of a difference because somebody very wisely has actually sent me a plank. So we're going to be able to award it at the end to whoever does win this particular edition of Plank of the Week. Now, I should be able to remember who sent it to me, but unfortunately I opened it and the person's name and address were on the envelope, but there was no note inside. So I'm sorry. whoever did send it. Thank you very much indeed. We'll get to that later. I'm delighted to say that today I'm joined by Dawn Niesom, a woman of many parts who's been in this very studio loads of times, as has Maya Tusi, who's here with us as well. Both veterans of Plank of the Week. Both of them have been doing this for the whole year. You were probably two of the very first people that we did it on. Surprisingly. So thank you very much for sticking with it. And it's been a hell of a week for Plank's, you'd have to say. Let's start Mya with you. Before we do that, though, let me just tell you, if you haven't done it, make sure that you subscribe to the YouTube channel and follow us on YouTube as well well and we'll get all the different videos that we put out every single day.

So, Maya, what have you been thinking this week, Plankwise?

Yeah, so the first one, it's actually two people into one.

Tony Blair and John Major, our favourite former Prime Ministers who still think they're relevant.

They wrote an article together during the weekend against Boris Johnson's new Brexit bill,

which is kind of the internal market bill about changing the withdrawal agreements, potentially.

And so their plan was to write that to start a momentum in Parliament and outside to stop this bill and they haven't realized

that since 2016 every time they tried to do something it backfires people actually

decided to like because of that article Boris got more support in Parliament

I hate Tony Blair you know I mean I which I think actually is a little bit unfair

because I thought Tony Blair actually until I like to get a face on it right see until but until he broke international law yes and illegally

invaded Iraq which seems to be his problem with this particular Brexit bill I thought he had been

a pretty good prime minister I mean he's blotted his copy book no to question right and now I

understand why people hate him because of Iraq.

But up until that moment, he was all right, wasn't he? It's just all the hypocrisy. There always were a lot of hypocrisy around him I always felt. Well, I suppose so, but there's a lot of hypocrisy around all of them. I mean, because they were later joined by David Cameron, the bloke who got us into the mess of Brexit in the first place by being a complete plank.

Gordon Brown, who wasn't even ever elected, who claims to have been Prime Minister of this country, and had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, because he was literally willing to do a deal with anyone to stay in Downing Street. And Theresa May, he was useless. Theresa who? But that's the biggest problem. So you got John Major, well, first you've got Tony Blair talking about Boris Johnson breaking international law. And as you just said, he's not the best person talking about international law. John Major himself, he's the guy who prorogued Parliament. Then when Boris tried to do it, said, no, that's a bad idea. What is wrong with these people? It's got hypocrisy, isn't it? It's straightforward hypocrisy.

It really is. I mean, you can't be any more hypocritical, I don't think, also, than a man like Tony Blair, who now makes his fortune. I don't know he's doing in terms of, you know, the old sun lamps or whatever it is that he's doing to make his face permanently kind of orange, right? Nobody takes the piss out of that for some reason.

They do it with Trump, but they don't do it with Blair.

Isn't he one of the highest paid speakers in doing to make his face permanently kind of orange, right? Nobody takes the piss out of that for some reason.

They do it with Trump, but they don't do it with Blair.

Isn't he one of the highest paid speakers in the world? Well, do you remember what he got? He got hired to be the Middle East peace envoy, didn't he? Yeah. He then got a job with, I think it was either Morgan Stanley or J.P. Morgan, one of the big financial houses. And I mean he literally coins it in at a rate of knots. And his wife,

of course, Sheree, the human rights lawyer who makes about a million pounds a minute whenever she represents people that should be thrown out of the country, but we get to keep them because of her. I mean, you know, these are not people that we should be listening to. But we should be grateful that Gary Lillick was looking after all those people for us. Yeah. He still doesn't seem to seem to have found himself a refugee yet. He's been living for five years

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