Hello my name is David Runtzeman and this is Talking Politics.

And delighted to say this week we have the original panel with us we're going to

podcast like it's 2015. I built a wardrobe.

Did you? I did.

Helen Thompson, Finn Bylöfsy Chris Brook.

Yesterday afternoon I went to be talked by Antonio Negli, the legendary and now 83 year-old

Italian Lausse.

We were first gathered around this table the first time we did this to talk about the previous

general election and we're going to talk about this general election. We're not going

to talk about France today. Luckily last week on the panel we had a real expert Robert

Tunes who got the final two right. The rest of us were half right. I think we're assuming

that Macron is going to be the next president of France but we shouldn't take anything

we're granted but we will have our local Macronists Hugo Droschon back to tell us about

what it's like inside Macron world in a couple of weeks after the result of the second

round when we will know for sure. So we won't speculate. Instead we'll speculate about

UK politics. I have heard people say that this is a boring general election because it's

predictable because we know who's going to win. Maybe we do. We'll see about that. We probably

have a fair idea of who's going to be prime minister when it's all over but again let's see.

But I don't think it's predictable at all. I think it's completely fascinating because so

much of it is unpredictable even if we know the headline result. I've lived through one

the rest of us have two. I think one genuinely predictable general election which was 2001

the world's most boring election ever where Tony Blair against William Hague when

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