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Q&A podcast from the two mats brought to you by the subscribers of the new European. So Neil Townsend

writes in, hang on, two million people want an

election referendum because Labour told lies, duh, Brexit. Keep at it, boys, Neil says encouragingly.

And we've got another one on similar lines. Peter Lobb says, has there ever been a hypocrite to

compare with Nigel fartage calling for a general election five months

after the last one, but the Brexit vote on one distant day in history must be sacrosanct

for generations to come. It's a good point, isn't it? Yeah, it is. I mean, I'm, I think the petition

system, you know, whereby, you reach a million, they have to, is that right? Is it, I think it's only a hundred thousand. MPs have to is that right is it a hundred

thousand that MPs have to go through the wearisome task of discussing it in Westminster Hall right

so actually if you look at some of them they really are very funny you know where did this

come from this now I think it goes back I think it goes back to deep Blair era where it was

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