Hello and happy polling day. Welcome to this political party polling day special with Martin

Angus, who's one of the funniest guests in the history of the show. He was brilliant

during a 2019 general election specials that's getting back for this polling day local election,

Pollywood, Sen. London, Merrill, PCC, all the other types of elections we're having today.

And to give those of you that work in politics a bit of like relief and perhaps a bit of therapy

and because what you're going through today is can be very stressful or so very exciting.

And for those of you that haven't been activists or aren't activists yet or haven't worked for

political parties, this is again another hilarious insight into what polling day actually

involves if you are an activist or a member of party staff. And this Martin covers everything

here from taking numbers on polling stations to being at the count of campaigning in different parts

of the country in every corner of Britain that today has elections. He's got stories from everywhere

and just the madness of political campaigning, the eccentricity of it that sometimes isn't

covered elsewhere. The chaos of it is gloriously represented here today. So firstly,

happy and polling day. If you haven't voted yet, please go out and vote. If you had a postal vote,

if you have a postal vote, you didn't send it back in time, you can walk it down to your polling

station today. So hopefully everyone will be out there voting. You'll all be enjoying it. I just

wanted to put out a, we Martin, his Labour used to work for the Labour Party, works for Labour,

works for the LGA, the local government association on the Labour side. If you've not heard his previous

episode, him and Samish, he's got some great stories of work for John Prescott. Martin was with him

on that fateful day 2001 when he got in a fight in the streets. So he has so many great stories,

Martin, he's worked all over Britain for Labour, campaigning in all sorts of different seats,

all sorts of different times with all sorts of different outcomes. So this is just a collection of

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