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The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the May Day edition of Slate Money, Your Guide to the Business and Finance

News of the Week.

I'm Felix Hammond and Fusion, I'm joined as ever by Anna Schmansky.

Hello. Hi Anna and by Jordan Weisman of Slate.

Hello. And I have to say that up until the actual UK election, my general feeling coming into this week was,

this is the least important election of my lifetime.

It's not going to make any difference to Brexit.

There's no point in talking about it.

The only way we're ever going to talk about it

is if there's something completely insane happens.

So I thought to myself, let's talk about Spanish banking

and how like there's a huge banking crisis going on in southern Europe.

And let's talk about sexy things like the Qatari royal family paying a billion dollar ransom and these kind of things and then maybe we'll talk about activist investing or something like that

But no

British voters strike again.

We are going to talk about the UK election because the UK election was.

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