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I had to listen back the other day to something I'd said at the beginning of a previous general

election and to my horror, I found myself listening to the political editor of the BBC telling

me how historic and unpredictable and groundbreaking that particular election would be. We do kind

of say it every time and yet there is one reason this election is different. We simply don't

know whether we are at the birth of what some people see as the new politics or in another

election when the stranglehold of the two big parties will be reasserted again. In other

words we don't know whether we're in the sort of politics we saw in the European election

this year when the two big parties got less than a quarter of the votes or the general election

two years before that when they got more than eight votes out of every ten. That in many ways

will determine what happens on December the 13th. And this week being a political thinking

with a difference during an election campaign not one but two guests who agree on almost nothing

say for their hope that the new politics really is beginning. Our job is not to help the

conservatives. Our job is to get some Brexit party MPs into the House of Commons so that we can

help ensure that Brexit happens. Richard Tice chairman of the Brexit party who's replaced Aaron

Banks as one of the new bad boys of Brexit working alongside Nigel Farage. And my second guess this

week the politician formerly known as the next leader of the Labour Party then known as

leading light of Change UK now known as the new face of the Liberal Democrats. Chukra Amuna.

If you are looking for the perfect party to vote for in this general election you ain't going

to find it. Not for the first time this week it wasn't the common area that captured what was

happening in politics best. It was Matt the pocket cartoonist who raises a smile every day on

the front page of the telegraph. In one cartoon this week he showed a man putting up a closed side

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