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Welcome to another sparkling edition of Plank of the Week.

We're getting very, very close now to the end of the year.

So Plank of the Year, the special, is coming very soon. And I'm delighted to say that we've now got, as well as a plank, a little plaque on the plank, which says Plank of the

week, which was sent in by a fan up in Rotherham last week. So that's very nice. I'm delighted so to say that we've got two stalwarts with us. Dawn Nieson, the most popular woman ever

for Plank of the Week. You've been here now more times than anybody else. Mark Dolan,

not far behind in the stakes. So we're working on this sort of ensemble edition that we're going

to do for the top 20 planks of the year. So keep yourselves at least one or two dates free towards

Christmas. When of course we'll be out of the lockdown.

Won't we?

Said no one ever.

Speaking of which, Dawn, why don't we start off with you?

Who's going to be your first plank of the week?

I am going to go for the most obvious plank of this entire pandemic, probably.

Boris Johnson.

Yep.

It's hard to argue.

This week in particular, he has excelled himself. You know,

just grow a pair. Yeah. Seriously, please. Just all we want in this country now is a strong

leader. A leader. Any sort of leader will do. Making decisions and actually giving us confidence on what have we got we have

got a pile of piffle to use his words a jellyfish a jellyfish who who I oh I just I just

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