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My name is Steve Anglesey and I had the strangest dream last night, you know.

Tim Martin from Weatherspoons was asking for more EU migrants to come in over

here and work behind his bars and hand out his Brexit beer mats. And then Pretty Patel came in

with a statement saying, it is vital that we take action to stamp out corruption. And then a bloke who's

been divorced twice and unfaithful several times, ended up getting married in a Catholic

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